LIST: Alternate History Stories, 1 of 8

[Robert Schmunk]

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THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST

Version 18 - 12 April 1994

Maintained by R.B. Schmunk
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"...there are no correct alternate histories; there are only
plausible alternate histories."
--Will Shetterly, in "The Captain's Story"

This is an annotated list of novels, stories and essays involving alternate
histories (a.k.a. what-ifs, allohistories, uchronias or counterfactuals),
writings in which a past event is altered and its effect on later history
somehow described. Alternate histories (henceforth abbrev. "AH") are a
distinct subset of parallel worlds/alternate universe stories in which some
emphasis has been put on an historical element. The criteria used to
distinguish them were best defined by:

Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE
HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86).

This list is copyright 1993, 1994 by R.B. Schmunk, except for appendix II,
which is copyright 1993, 1994 by R.B. Schmunk and Evelyn C. Leeper. License is
hereby granted to republish via electronic or other media for which no fee is
charged (except for the media used) provided that this copyright notice is
attached intact to any and all republished portion or portions. It may not be
sold for profit or incorporated in commercial documents without the written
permission of the copyright holder. Portions not exceeding 500 words may be
freely quoted provided proper citation is given.

The list is posted quarterly (Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct) to the Usenet newsgroups
rec.arts.sf.written, alt.history.what-if, rec.answers, alt.answers and
news.answers. Follow-ups are directed to rec.arts.sf.written. The most recent
version is available through the net from:

1. ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sf/alt_history/part*
2. ftp://gandalf.rutgers.edu/pub/sfl/alternate-histories.txt
3. ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/sf-texts/lists/Alternate_History_v#
4. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/sf/alt_history/top.html

(Note: The '*' in site 1 is a section number and may equal 1 to 8. The # in
site 3 is a version number; use the highest number you see in the directory.)

Most of the information in this list was contributed by netters and other AH
fans (see below), but much was also extracted from:

Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A
Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds
Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86);
Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS (George
Prior/G.K. Hall 78);
-----------------, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS 1977-
1983 (G.K. Hall 84).

Submissions for new entries are always appreciated, as are corrections to
existing entries.

Entries are separated into three categories: Anthologies--collections of
genre short stories and/or essays; Alternate Histories--stories, essays and
novels; and Reference Materials--discussions about the genre and/or specific
stories. All non-English-language AHs are grouped by language in Appendix I.

In the entries, note that:

The notation 'W:' beginning a description stands for 'What if:', and that line
describes the divergence of that AH from ours. An 'S:' means 'Story:', and that
line describes the plot. A 'C:' indicates 'Comments:', and a 'T:' line lists
publications of the story in other languages.

If an author's name is replaced by dashes, the entry is a sequel to or in the
same series as the preceding entry. If replaced by dashes within parentheses,
it is part of a series collected within the previous book entry. Double
parentheses indicate inclusion in a book collected within an omnibus volume.

If you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the author
to see if it was retitled or included in a larger work.

References to anthologies containing a short story include an editor's name
only if different from the author of the story.

Not all of the available publication data about the entries is presented here,
and in some cases the list of books in which a story appears has been limited.
Where the latter occurs, 'etc' appears at the end of the book list. If you need
more publication info about a story, drop me a line at the address above.

Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
<#AWBSF> = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds Wollheim & Saha) (DAW #)
<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 86)
<AK> = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed Resnick) (Tor 92)
<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds Adams & Adams) (Baen 89)
<AO> = ALTERNATE OUTLAWS (ed Resnick) (Tor 94, not yet published)
<AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed Resnick) (Tor 92)
<AT> = ALTERNATE TYRANTS (ed Resnick) (Tor 95, not yet published)
<AW> = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed Resnick) (Tor 93)
<BAOF> = BY ANY OTHER FAME (eds Resnick & Greenberg) (DAW 94)
<BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds Adams et al) (Signet 87)
<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed Ley) (Pocket 76)
<ESF#> = THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION, #th ed.; 1st ed. (ed Nicholls)
(Granada 79; vt THE SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA (Doubleday/Dolphin 79); 2nd
ed. (eds Clute & Nicholls) (St. Martins 93)
<f&sf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
<FCW> = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed McSherry) (Baen 91)
<GSFS#> = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds Asimov & Greenberg) (DAW 86, 88-91)
<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds Benford & Greenberg) (Garland 86; Berkley 87)
<IAsfm> = [Isaac] Asimov's Science Fiction [Magazine]
<If,#> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, ver(s) # (ed Squire); ver a (Longmans,
Green 31); ver b as IF: OR, HISTORY REWRITTEN (rev Viking 31;
Kennikat 64); ver c (exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74)
<IIHB> = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed Snowman) (Rowman &
Littlefield 79)
<IoH> = THE IFS OF HISTORY (Chamberlin) (Henry Altemus 07; Atheneum 08)
<SAH> = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Borden & Graham) (Heath 77)
<WIESSF> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed Polsby) (Lewis
82)
<WMHB#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds Benford & Greenberg) (Bantam
89-92); note <WMHB1> and <WMHB2> incl in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I
AND II (SFBC 1990) and <WMHB3> and <WMHB4> incl in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN,
VOLUMES III AND IV (SFBC 1992)
<WoM> = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed Silverberg) (Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74)
<YBSF#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois)
(Bluejay 84-86; St. Martin's 87-93); 10th collection vt BEST NEW SF 7
(Robinson 93)

This list would not have been possible without the generous and continuing
help of Evelyn C. Leeper. Significant contributions were also made by Thomas
Cron, Will Linden and Duncan MacGregor. Many thanks to them and all the others
who have made submissions, including: Joe Admire, Vincent Archer, A.M.
Barbanson, Alan Beale, Chris Blakeley, Fernando Bonsembiante, Paul Boyer, Stan
Brown, Glen E. Cox, Daniel Danehy-Oakes, Meredith Dixon, Calle Dybedahl,
Richard K. Fox, Beth Friedman, Dorian Gray, Guy Harris, Joerg Helbig, Arne
Herloev Petersen, Kenneth Hite, Todd Howard, Tom Hyer, P.C. Joergensen, Bill
Johnston, Mark Krenitsky, Janet Lafler, Jim Love, Andreas Morlok, Michael J.
Morton, Susan K. O'Fearna, Michael A. Patton, Jean-Yves Peterschmitt, Mike
Resnick, Andy Sawyer, Dave Schaumann, Brian Stableford, Harry Turtledove,
William Watson, Al B. Wesolowsky, John Whitmore and Matthew Wiener.

And now... the list:

Anthologies (see also separate entries for component stories/essays):

Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ALTERNATIVES (Baen 89)
C: New stories by JF Carr & RJ Green, RJ Green, Shwartz, LN Smith and
Turtledove.
Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ROBERT
ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (NAL/Signet 87)
C: Reprints of Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven and
Piper.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II (Garland 86; Berkley 87)
C: Reprints and new stories by Bailey, Bear, Benford, Brin, Budrys, Finch,
Goldsmith, Kornbluth, Linaweaver, K Roberts and Shippey.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
1: ALTERNATE EMPIRES (Bantam 89); incl in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I
AND II (SFBC 1990)
C: New stories by P Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow,
Niven, Pohl, KS Robinson, Silverberg and Turtledove.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
2: ALTERNATE HEROES (Bantam 90); incl in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I
AND II (SFBC 1990)
C: New stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis by Cassutt, Finch,
Harrison & Shippey, Laidlaw, Malzberg, Morrow, Rucker & Di Filippo, Shwartz,
Silverberg, Tarr, Turtledove, WJ Williams and Zebrowski.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
3: ALTERNATE WARS (Bantam 91); incl in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES III
AND IV (SFBC 1992)
C: New stories and a reprint exploring results of battles/wars by P
Anderson, Busby, Benford, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M
Resnick, Steele, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS (Bantam 92); incl in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES III
AND IV (SFBC 1992)
C: Semi-new stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus's first voyage by
Attanasio, de Camp, Eklund, Finch, Friesner, Malzberg, Oltion, Sargent,
Silverberg, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
Borden, Morton, & Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY
(Heath 77)
C: 12 essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, THE IFS OF HISTORY (Henry Altemus 07; Atheneum 08)
C: 22 essays on possible turning points in history, with speculation on
possible results.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY (George Newnes 29)
C: 20 essays on possible turning points in history, with much background but
no development. (No separate entries for the essays are listed below.)
Levine, Herbert M. (ed), WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE
DIFFERENT? (M.E. Sharpe 92)
C: 10 essays on different US political structures, but only entries by
Ferrell and Pitney are AH.
Ley, Sandra (ed), BEYOND TIME (Pocket 76)
C: New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J Coulson, R Coulson, Davidson,
Eklund, AD Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O Ley, Ward Moore, Orgill,
Percy, D Thompson and Zebrowski.
Polsby, Nelson W. (ed), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION
(Lewis 82)
C: Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, CO Jones, RA Kagan, Long,
Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury, Wildavsky and
PM Williams.
Resnick, Mike (ed), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (Tor 92)
C: New stories. AH entries by Aronson, Cadigan, Effinger, Friesner, Gerrold,
Katze, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, L Resnick, M Resnick, Rusch, Soukup, Tarr
and Von Rospach.
------------------, ALTERNATE OUTLAWS (Tor 94, not yet published)
C: New stories by Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, Feeley, Gerrold, JC
Haldeman, Johnston, Kerr, King, Koja & Malzberg, Landis, McHugh, Meacham,
Nimersheim, L Resnick, FM Robinson, Rodgers & MacDonald, Rusch, Sagara,
Sheckley, Simner, DW Smith, Soukup, Steele, Tarr, Thomsen and WJ Williams.
------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (Tor 92)
C: New stories involving American elections by Cadigan, J Carr, Chalker, G
Cox, Delaplace, Easton, Fawcett, Gerrold, Gilliland, Gunn, J Kagan, King,
Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, Nimersheim, Nye, Person, L Resnick, M Resnick, R
Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz, Thomsen and Watt-Evans.
------------------, ALTERNATE TYRANTS (Tor 95, not yet published)
C: New stories.
------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS (Tor 93)
C: New stories by Delaplace, DiChario, Friesner, Gerrold, JC Haldeman,
Hernandez, King, Kube-McDowell, Lackey, AR Lewis, Linaweaver, Malzberg,
McHugh, Meacham, L Resnick, M Resnick, Rusch, Sagara, Schimel, Sherman,
Tarr, Thomsen and M White.
Resnick, Mike, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), BY ANY OTHER FAME (DAW 94)
C: New stories by Daniel, Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, JC Haldeman, Kagan,
Kress, Lackey & Dixon, Malzberg, Meacham, Nimersheim, L Resnick, Rusch,
Schimel, Simner, DW Smith, Tarr, and Thomsen.
Silverberg, Robert (ed), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION
(Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74)
C: Reprints of P Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster and Niven.
Snowman, Daniel (ed), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (Rowman &
Littlefield 79)
C: Corrections of decisions by historical figures by Allen, Blakemore,
Calvert, Edwards, Morgan, Pearton, Shukman, R Thompson, Windsor and Wright.
Squire, J.C. (ed), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
HISTORY (Longmans, Green 31; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74);
rev as IF: OR, HISTORY REWRITTEN (Viking 31; Kennikat 64)
C: The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher,
Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev ed swaps
Knox for Van Loon. Exp ed adds Petrie and Trevelyan.
Waugh, Charles, G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (Garland 86)
C: Reprints and new stories by P Anderson, Benet, IE Cox, de Camp, Elgin,
Hale, Lafferty, Piper, K Roberts, KS Robinson and Utley & Waldrop. Reference
mat'l by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain.

Alternate Histories:

Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME (Donning 79; Signet 82)
W: Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 451.
S: Tourists trapped in a remote villa are transported to a 17th-century in
which the Moorish pope has declared a Crusade against England.
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND (Signet 85)
S: The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the
high seas and to Ireland.
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS (Signet 86)
S: Abdul II may be dead, but the fight in Ireland continues.
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS (Signet 87)
S: More intrigue in Ireland and England, and new fighting in N America.
-------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS (Signet 88)
-------------, OF BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS (Signet 89)
S:
Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE (Cape 62; Doubleday 63;
Hutchinson 75; Dell 81, 87)
W: The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
S: Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess.
C: Except for wolves besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH.
-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA (Doubleday 64; Cape 65; Dell 69, 81)
S: Hanoverians plot against James III.
-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET (Doubleday 66; Dell 69)
S: A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at
St. James's Palace.
-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE (Cape 81; Delacorte 81)
S: A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
discovered in the Andes.
-----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN (Doubleday 69)
S: The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE (Cape 71; Doubleday 71; Dell/Yearling 88)
S: Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
-----------, DIDO AND PA (Delacorte 86)
S: Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV.
-----------, IS (Jonathan Cape 92; vt IS UNDERGROUND, Delacorte 93)
S: The royal heir is among numerous English children stolen away as slave
labor.
-----------, MIDNIGHT IS A PLACE (Cape 74; Viking 74; Scholastic 93)
S:
Aksyonov, Vassily, + Michael Henry Heim (tr), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA (Random
House 83; Vintage 84)
W: The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against
the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't.
S: In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate
re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands.
T: Russian OSTROV KRYM
Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY (Cape 76)
W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
S:
Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (vt "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct
62, THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS (Faber 66; Gregg 81),
NEANDERTHAL PLANET (Avon 69), THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed Boardman), etc
S: In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
T: German "Vorsicht! Religion"
Aldiss, Brian W., "M.E.R.O's Sinai Project, 1957-1970" (vt "What You Get for
Your Dollar"), in THE SHAPE OF FURTHER THINGS (Faber 70; Doubleday 71) and
THE NEW IMPROVED SUN (ed Disch) (Harper & Row 75; Hutchinson 76)
W: The UN took strong action following the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in
1956, including an internat'l reclamation project in the Sinai.
S: A man from a world beset by an energy crisis visits the utopian Sinai of
another and describes its history.
Aldiss, Brian W., "A Tupolev Too Far", in OTHER EDENS III (eds Evans &
Holdstock) (Unwin 89) and A TUPOLEV TOO FAR (HarperCollins UK 93; St.
Martin's 94)
W: A massive explosion which flattened Berlin in July 1914 led to an
internat'l relief effort and averted WW1.
S: A British publisher traveling to Nicholas III's glorious imperial Russia
somehow ends up in our Brezhnev's gray Moscow.
Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY (Franklin Watts 87; St. Martin's
88)
W: Churchill was killed during a visit to Finland in 1935. Later, Germany
gobbled up W Europe but left the Zinoviev-led Soviet Union alone.
S: A Finnish composer finds the body of a girl alongside the road, and
inside her backpack is an SF thriller about a different WW2.
Allen, Louis, "If I had been... Hideki Tojo in 1941", in <IIHB>
W: The prime minister of Japan pursued a path which would maximize Japan's
gains without forcing a war with the United States.
C: Japan's takeover of Java and Siberia provokes a worried America to elect
MacArthur in 44 and to ally with Germany. The falling Japan uses nukes.
Allikas, David, "A Switch in Time!", in Time Warp #4 (Apr/May 80)
W: AmerInds had nuclear capability.
S: Time-travellers trying to prevent a nuclear war kidnap Albert Einstein
and drop him off in 1782 N America.
Ambrose, David, THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO HIMSELF (J. Cape 93; St. Martin's 94)
W: John and Robert Kennedy were not assassinated and Lloyd Bentsen was
president in 1990.
S: The sight of his wife's death in an auto accident shocks a man sideways
into another version of himself.
Ambrose, Stephen, PEGASUS BRIDGE: JUNE 6, 1944 (Simon & Schuster 85)
W: British troops did not take and hold on to Pegasus Bridge during the
D-Day invasion.
C: Epilog speculates that if Germans had retained control, reinforcements
might have eventually rolled up the Allied invasion force.
Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION (Cape 76; Viking 76; Panther 78)
W: Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king of
England upon the death of Henry VII. Later, Martin Luther became pope.
S: A boy soprano in 1976 Catholic England tries to flee becoming a papal
castrato.
T: German DIE VERWANDLUNG
Anderson, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in Analog Jan 93
W: Various famous rock stars did not die tragic deaths.
S: A man visiting alternate Earths to obtain "new" music by "dead" rockers
comes across an album with his name on it.
------------------, "Tide Pools", in Analog Dec 93
A woman searches the timelines for a cure to an "orphan" disease afflicting
her husband.
Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX (Bantam 91)
W: US nuclear weapons research was slowed down, while the Nazis accelerated
theirs.
S: An accident propels an anti-nuclear activist back to 1943 Los Alamos and
she sets out to prevent the Trinity test.
Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est", in <f&sf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME
(Ballantine 60; exp Pinnacle 81), <WoM>, <AH>, <GSFS17>, THE TIME PATROL
(Tor 91, 94), etc
W: The Scipios were killed at Ticinus and Hannibal later captured and
destroyed Rome.
S: Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York"; it's up to Time Patrolman
Manse Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME (Tor 90, 94)
S: Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
Rignano (1137).
C: Non-AH entries in series are "Time Patrol", "Brave to be a King", "The
Only Game in Town", "Gibraltar Falls", "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks", "The
Sorrow of Odin the Goth", "Star of the Sea" and "The Year of the Ransom".
All may be found in THE TIME PATROL (Tor 91) and elsewhere.
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed Ellison) (Doubleday 67;
NAL 75); PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT (eds Wolf & Fitz Gerald) (Fawcett
73) and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS (Berkley 81)
W: Alexander lived longer *or* Christianity fell before Norse, Arab and
Magyar attacks.
S: A crosstime explorer from an advanced Alexandrine timeline violates a
taboo while visiting a Norse-Magyar N America
Anderson, Poul, "House Rule", in HOMEBREW (NESFA 76), <f&sf> May 79 and
FANTASY (Pinnacle 81)
S: The Heloise and Abelard of two different worlds meet at a tavern outside
time.
--------------, "Loser's Night", in Short Story Paperbacks #1 (Pulphouse 91)
S:
Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in <WMHB1>
W: Assyrians captured Jerusalem and the Diasporah occurred before
Christianity could get started.
S: Adventures of a courier from North Markland (America) in an alternate
Israel/Palestine.
Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST (Doubleday 74; Ballantine 75, Orbit/
Futura 75)
W: Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
S: In order to keep Charles I on England's throne, a Cavalier prince
searches for Prospero's isle.
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS (Doubleday 71; Lancer ...; Berkley 78; Baen
92); rev of stories in <f&sf> Sep 56, Jan 57, Oct 59 and May-Jun 69
W: Men learned to remove antimagical properties of iron and magical
technology ensued.
S: A werewolf and witch are involved in repeated struggles against the
machinations of Hell during WW2, as the Saracens invade America.
Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS (Doubleday 61; Avon ...; Berkley
78; Ace 84; Baen 93)
S: A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the
forces of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand", in <WMHB3>
W: Lucien Bonaparte convinced Napoleon to consolidate the French hold on
Europe rather than invade Egypt. Later, the French won at Trafalgar.
S: In 1849, Sam Houston talks history with a French diplomat during the
battle for New Orleans in the 2nd French-American War.
Andrews, Keith William, FREEDOM'S RANGERS (Berkley 89)
----------------------, RAIDERS OF THE REVOLUTION (Berkley 89)
----------------------, SEARCH AND DESTROY (Berkley 90)
----------------------, TREASON IN TIME (Berkley 90)
----------------------, SINK THE ARMADA! (Berkley 90)
----------------------, SNOW KILL (Berkley 91)
S: Time war action in which American and Soviets try to delete each other
from history.
anon., THE OCCUPATION (... 60)
W: Germany won WW2.
S:
anon., "Scene and Not Herd: Failure of a Revolution", in Harper's Bazaar Nov
67
W: The 1917 Russian Revolution was bloodily suppressed.
S: Post-1917 imperial governance is no better than the Communist's.
Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70
W: The scientific revolution started in the 15th century, the result of a
man's being saved from drowning.
S: Discovery of the Americas is stalled, then stifled, by too-rigid
adherence to the scientific method.
Anvil, Christopher, "Bugs", in Analog Jun 86
W: Henry Ford existed to standardize the auto industry.
S: A computer salesman from our world dreams of a world in which the auto
industry suffers from incompatible hardware and formats.
Armor, John C., "Bureaucrats and Quiche-Eaters on the Chisholm Trail", in
Journal of Irreproducible Results Apr/May 85
S:
Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG (Harrap 43)
W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
S: How the invasion was defeated.
Armstrong, Michael, "Everything That Rises, Must Converge", in <IAsfm> Feb 93
W: Flannery O'Connor became an SF writer.
S: In 1962, O'Connor wins yet another Hugo while trying to get a mainstream
novel published so she can earn literary immortality before dying of lupus.
Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect", in <AK>
W: Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt, and as a
result adopted a hard anti-crime stance.
S: Facing Democratic rejection, RFK becomes the Republican presidential
nominee as brother Teddy leads the Democrats. Nixon still becomes president.
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY (J. Curley 81); rev of "The End of
Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS (Doubleday 86; Penguin/Roc ...)
W: Enrico Fermi did not participate in atomic research.
S: A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a
forthcoming history remake, never have existed.
C: Marginally AH. Divergence is 1932 but all results shown are in *far*
future.
Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?", in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine Fall 78,
3 BY ASIMOV (Targ 81) and THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES (Doubleday
83)
W: Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta THESPIS was not lost.
S: A mental time traveler attempting to learn the score of THESPIS causes
it to go into print, with personally damaging consequences.
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH (Doubleday 57,
Abelard-Schuman 76), <WoM>, VALENCE AND VISION (eds Jones & Roe) (Rinehart
74), THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH (Doubleday 79), etc
S: Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans
encounter similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
Attanasio, A.A., IN OTHER WORLDS (Morrow 84; Bantam 85)
W: WW1 led to a world gov't.
S:
Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in <IAsfm> Nov 92 and <WMHB4>
W: N America was discovered and settled by Chinese Buddhists.
S: A scribe describes the Unified Sandalwood Autocracies, and an encounter
on its eastern shores with a European explorer named Christ-bearer.
Averneri, Shlomo, "What If Sadat had Come to Jerusalem Under a Labor
Government? (1977)", in <WIESSF>
W: Itzhak Rabin accepted Rumania's Jan 1977 invitation for a state visit
and while there was advised of Anwar Sadat's peace plans.
C: Peace talks between Sadat and Rabin include King Hussein of Jordan,
leading to an agreement that includes the West Bank, but not the PLO.
Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in New Worlds Jun 64, THE BEST
OF NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) (Compact 65), SF12 (ed Merrill) (Delacorte 68),
THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) (Panther 74) and <HV>
W: Hitler did not invade Russia.
S: Life in occupied London, 1954.
T: German "Die verlorene Unschuld der Frenchy Steiner"
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE (Tor 91)
S: A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate
where an immortal elven queen rules in France.
Bank, Aaron: see Nathanson, E. M., & Aaron Bank
Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS: TWO COMPLETE NOVELS (DAW 80)
(------------), + Bernard Kay (tr), BAPHOMET'S METEOR (DAW 72)
W: A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118.
S: The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the
Holy Land and conquer the Mongols.
T: French L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET
(------------), + C.J. Cherryh (tr), STELLAR CRUSADE (no ind. publ.)
S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
T: French CROISADE STELLAIRE
Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S
SILENCE (Heinemann 25; Doubleday 25; Books for Libraries 70), MAURICE BARING
RESTORED (Heinemann 70; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 70) and TRAVELERS IN TIME
(ed Stern) (Doubleday 47)
W: Napoleon's father decided that his son would get the best education
possible if enlisted in the British navy.
S: A sketch of historical and literary consequences from 1800 to 1850.
Barnett, Lisa A.: see Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett
Baron, Nick, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #2: GLORY'S END (Harper 90)
S:
C: A follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE.
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME (Lancer 71)
S: During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into
another where N America was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
Barton, S.W.: see Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton
Basil, Otto, + Thomas Weyr (tr, abr), TWILIGHT MAN (Meredith 68)
W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
T: German WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE
Baxter, Stephen, ANTI-ICE (HarperCollins UK 93; HarperPrism 94)
S: Britain ends the Siege of Sevastopol with a bomb made from a new
material, but does not find world domination pleasant.
< Baxter, Stephen, "Mittelwelt", in Interzone #81 (Mar 94)
W: Germans won WW1 in August 1918, and Mitteleuropa was established by
1925 after turning eastwards again against the Bolsheviks.
S: It is 1940. Japan and Germany are preparing to fight the war to end
wars.
Baxter, Stephen, "No Longer Touch the Earth", in Interzone #72 (Jun 93)
W: The universe really is a set of crystal spheres.
S: Hermann Goering attempts to become the first man to fly to the Axis at
the South Pole, but Eddie Rickenbacker gets there at the same time.
Bayley, Barrington J., "Tommy Atkins", in Interzone #27 (Jan/Feb 89)
S: The use of nerve-grafting results in soldiers being given body parts to
replace those lost in combat, and WW2 drags on for 25 years.
Bayley, Barrington J., "The Way into the Wendy House", in Interzone #71 (May
93)
S: Barely AH tale of an encyclopedia of science fiction writers, found in a
pub in another timeline, which includes no familiar names, except one.
Bear, Greg, EON (Bluejay 85)
----------, ETERNITY (Warner 88)
S: A strange artifact comes back in time from the future, only it's a
different future.
Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed Carr) (Doubleday 78; Popular
Library 79), <79AWBSF> and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN (Arkham House 83)
S: A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV> and THERE WILL BE WAR 8:
ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
S: Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a gypsy woman when
asking for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
Beason, Doug: see Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason
Beck, James M., "It Might Have Been", in North American Review Jan 20
W: Clemenceau and Lloyd George questioned Woodrow Wilson's ability to get
the US Senate to accept the League of Nations.
S: Conversations in which they realize the problem and address it to Wilson.
Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea", in Saturday Review 23 Jul 04 and AROUND THEATERS
(Knopf 30)
W: Edward VII closed down all British theaters for ten years on 1 Apr 04.
S: How it was the best thing could have happened to British drama.
Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in <If,abc>
W: Louis XVI escaped Paris and was not executed.
S: Following Lafayette's defeat of Republican forces, France sinks into
mediocrity and Britain must contend with the mighty Austrian empire.
Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls", in Saturday Evening Post 5 Oct
35; THIRTEEN O'CLOCK (Farrar & Rinehart 71; Books for Libraries 71; Franklin
Library 82); MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed Stern) (Doubleday 42; vt GREAT TALES OF
FANTASY AND IMAGINATION, Pocket 54)); <AH>; etc
W: Napoleon were born much earlier, say in 1737.
S: An Englishman residing on the Mediterranean coast of France meets a
retired, frustrated French artillery major.
Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again", in <IAsfm> Oct 91 and <WMHB3>
W: Rome developed a steam-driven machine gun.
S: Rome's former American colonies fight a civil war in the 19th century.
Benford, Gregory, TIMESCAPE (Simon & Schuster 80; Pocket 81; Bantam 92); rev
of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH
(eds Silverberg & Elwood) (Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77)
W: JFK was not assassinated.
S: A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as
he tries to gain tenure.
C: Explicit AH content is brief, appearing only at the end.
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
S: A man from a timeline where WW2 lasted til 1947, allowing completion of
the Final Solution, travels back and sideways to take revenge on Hitler.
Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WMHB1>
W: Nixon threw the California delegation's support to Robert Taft at the
1952 GOP convention, with the stipulation that Joe McCarthy become Veep.
S: After Taft's sudden death, McCarthy begins to institute a police state,
and 4 years later a congressman is kidnaped.
Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... (Bobbs-Merrill 78; Ace 79)
W: Four aliens were stranded on Earth in 1908 when they barely avoided an
explosive impact at Tunguska and splash-landed near San Francisco.
S: To get their ship repaired, they set about accelerating technological
development, but President Edison doesn't want to share with Europe.
T: German ZWISCHENHALT
Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP (Warner 88)
W: The US presidential assassination attempt on 22 Nov 1963 failed.
S: Hunting the conspirators, plus the elections of 1964 and 68.
C: Borderline AH, as all names have been changed.
C: Bernau's CANDLE IN THE WIND similarly treats the survival from suicide of
a Marilyn Monroe-like actress with false names and seems even less AH.
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO (Ace 86)
C: Non-AH 1st volume of series is THE BIOFAB WAR.
W: The US never developed the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was
assassinated in Jul 44.
S: A war against insectoids shifts from our Earth to another, with a look at
fascist Boston.
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, [THE] FINAL ASSAULT (Tor 88)
S:
Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AWBSF>
S: Barely AH story of a man, caught in a timestorm, who discovers humanoid
aliens tinkering with the human past, encouraging the spread of war.
T: Dutch "Tijdstorm"
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <f&sf> Oct 58, THE DARK
SIDE OF THE EARTH (Signet 64), COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed Haldeman) (Holt, Rinehart
& Winston 74), THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds
Silverberg & Greenberg) (Arbor House 83), THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE
FICTION (ed Hartwell) (Little, Brown 89), etc
S: Due to his wife's infidelity, a Mad Scientist repeatedly goes back in
time to prevent her existence but can only affect his "personal" timeline.
T: German "Die Morder Mohammeds"
Bester, Alfred, "Out of This World", in THE DARK SIDE OF EARTH (Signet 64)
S: A freak telephone line allows communication with a world in which Japan
defeated the US in WW2.
Betancourt, John Gregory: see Kingston, Jeremy
Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON (Harcourt 64)
W: As punishment for participating in or ignoring the Holocaust, the Allies
ordered that 6 million random Germans be executed.
S: An exchange of letters between father and son, respectively a member of
the provisional postwar gov't and a former SS officer.
Bishop, Michael, "And the Marlin Spoke", in <f&sf> Oct 83
W: N American colonization followed a slightly different path.
S: A farmer from a different Oklahoma makes a pilgrimage to the Gulf Coast
of New Castile, where a cult of sea worship has sprung up.
Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE and
<YBSF5>
W: Science and technology advanced faster in portions of the world.
S: [St.] Augustine of Hippo receives a visitor from Cathay who speaks of
collapsing stars and other arcane heavenly topics.
Bishop, Michael, THE SECRET ASCENSION; OR, PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS (St.
Martin's 87; Tor 89; vt PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS (Tor 94)
W: In a skewed world, "Richard Milrose Nixon" was elected to four terms as
US president and SF author Philip K. Dick attained more fame.
S: Shortly after his death in 1982, Phil Dick visits a small town in Georgia
and the moon in order to correct history.
Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Arbor House 88)
W: With the aid of Harriet Tubman, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
(three months early) was successful, and provoked a mass black rebellion.
S: 100 years later, as Pan Africa is about to land on Mars, a woman delivers
to a museum papers describing the roots of the Nova African nation.
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54, BEST SCIENCE FICTION
STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed Dikty) (Fredrick Fell 55), SPACE BY THE TAIL
(Ballantine 64) and <BAW>
W: Numerous small things were changed; eg., Shakespeare didn't write HAMLET,
the Korean War only lasted two months, etc.
S: A physics experiment knocks a passerby into a similar timeline, and he
must be returned to save the universe.
Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IIHB>
W: Allende moderated Socialist policy and took decisive action against civil
disorder.
C: A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a
right-wing takeover.
Bloch, Robert, "Founding Fathers", in Fantasic Universe Jul 56
S: Bookies use the time-machine of a professor in their debt to travel back
to 1776 to hijack a gold shipment.
Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in Fantastic Aug 60
S:
Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr),
"Alternatives in Science", in Internat'l Journal for Sociology 8
C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
the beginning of the scientific revolution.
T: German "Alternativen in der Wissenschaft"
Bomba, Ty, "Outgoing Mail", in Strategy & Tactics Jun/Jul 89
W: Exploiting a border dispute, Mexico's improved army invaded Texas in 1846
and made for New Orleans, where a vicious siege occurred.
S: Provoked by the attack, the US gov't revises the Monroe Doctrine to mean
US control of all N America, resulting in an Imperial Republic.
Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?", in <SAH>
W: Montcalm defeated Wolfe, leading to French victory in the French and
Indian War.
C: The 13 colonies would still rebel against English authority, but future
relations between Americans and Canadians could have followed several paths.
Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?", in
<SAH>
W: NJ delegate John Beatty was not ill when Congress debated prohibiting
slavery west of the Appalachians, and his vote enabled the bill to pass.
C: Analysis of possible effects on Southern economy and society, noting the
sterner life blacks would have experienced, and probably no Civil War.
Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?", in
<SAH>
W: The Constitution was rejected.
C:
Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in
<SAH>
W: The House of Representatives named Burr president rather than Jefferson
when breaking the Electoral College tie.
C:
Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?", in
<SAH>
W: Nicholas Biddle renewed the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United States
at a more opportune time.
C:
Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in
<SAH>
W: Zachary Taylor lived longer, causing the Compromise of 1850 to fail and
the Civil War to start a decade earlier.
C:
Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH (Tor 93, 94)
W: FDR quit smoking in 1943, and two years later, Churchill ordered the
assassination of Stalin in order to avert a Communist E Europe.
S: When Stalin rather than FDR dies on 12 Apr 1945, the US decides to drive
for Berlin, sending the 101st Airborne and Patton's Third Army after Hitler.
Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD (Warner 86)
W: Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 1944 to stop ALlied advances on both
fronts, beginning a cold war.
S: A boy from that world is enmeshed into crosstime telepathic slavery and
warfare.
--------------, GOBLIN MARKET (Warner 88)
S:
Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH (Berkley 69; Penguin 78)
W: Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to age 70.
S: 2000 years later, a Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping
with a Poet.
T: German DER UBERLAUFER
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP (Ace 86)
W: Intelligent life evolved from racoons rather than primates.
S: A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world run by
oversized racoons.
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (Doubleday
53), R IS FOR ROCKET (Doubleday 62; Bantam 65; incl in CLASSIC STORIES 1,
Bantam 90), THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY (Knopf 80), CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN
DRAFT (eds Asimov et al) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 83) and <GSFS14>, etc
S: Accidentally stepping on a butterfly while on a T. rex hunt has its
repercussions.
C: A classic about the effect of a minor change on history, but not really
AH since only effect shown is presumably in our future..
C: Follow-ups are are Stephen Leigh's DINOSAUR PLANET, DINOSAUR WORLD and
DINOSAUR SAMURAI.
Brennert, Alan, "Nostalgia Tripping", in INFINITY FIVE (ed Hoskins) (Lancer
73)
S: Crosstime adventures, including worlds where Woodrow Wilson was
assassinated and John Lennon cut a record in 1949.
Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR (DC Comics 91)
W: Oliver Cromwell lived another 10 years and consolidated the Puritan hold
on Britain and its colonies.
S: A young priest named Bruce Wayne becomes a costumed vigilante fighting
the repressive theocracy running the American Commonwealth.
Breyfogle, Norm: see Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle
Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <f&sf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
TIME (Bantam 87) and <HV>
W: Nazi rituals resurrected the Norse pantheon, but Loki went over to the
Allies.
S: A captured American officer about to be sacrificed comes face-to-face
with the god of battle.
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE (Dutton 49; Bantam 50); in Startling
Stories Sep 48
S: A pulp editor finds himself in a parallel universe which matches the
stories his magazine has been publishing.
Brown, Walt, THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD (Carroll & Graf/Gallen 92)
W: Jack Ruby only wounded Oswald.
S: In novel form, a study of whether Oswald could have been convicted of the
murder of JFK based on the evidence against him.
Brunet, James, "As Time Goes By", in PULPHOUSE: THE HARDBACK MAGAZINE #6 (ed
Rusch) (Pulphouse 90)
S: A man's repeated viewing of CASABLANCA alters the movie and Earth history
a little each he watches.
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER (Ace 69; Ballantine 83); exp of "Times
Without Number", in Ace Double #... (Ace 62); rev of stories in Science
Fiction Adventures Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62
W: The Spanish Armada conquered England.
S: 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time-
travel.
Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor
91)
C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
S: The Tsar of Russia dies under suspicious circumstances; six travelers
tell their tales at a Krakow inn.
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
S: A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of
universe, but that doesn't solve his problems.
Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 81)
W: Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
out by natives.
S:
Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed Wilson) (Signet 73)
S: Two friends discuss how the world could be made a better place, working
their way back from event to event.
-----------, "Balancing Act", in <IAsfm> 16 Feb 81
-----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAsfm> 21 Dec 81
S:
Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss", in <WMHB3>
W: Victim of a minor stroke in late 1941, FDR was unable to resist
congressional and public pressure for a Japan First war policy.
S: Japanese saboteurs land on Amchitka just as orders for a crucial American
offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable.
Butler, Ewan, WITHOUT APOLOGY (Cassell 68)
W: Nazi Germany successfully invaded England.
S: Tale of Englishman caught between restoring order from chaos and
accusations of being a Quisling. Includes timelime to 1967.
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55
S: Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
Bylinski, Gene, LIFE IN DARWIN'S UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION AND THE COSMOS
(Doubleday 81)
C: Amongst discussion of evolution in general, comments on possibilities of
insects, byrds, bats or koalas as the dominant intelligent species on Earth.
Byrne, Eugene: see Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne
Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL (HBJ 77; Dell 77)
W: The 1973 agreement to dig the English Channel tunnel was not canceled.
S: An American engineer embarks on the biggest project of his career, as an
Irish terrorist plans to destroy it.
Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAsfm> Jul 91, <AP>,
<YBSF9> and DIRTY WORK (Mark V. Ziesing 93)
W: 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in
the 68 presidential race and Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill Robert Kennedy.
S: The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in <AK> and DIRTY WORK (Mark V. Ziesing 93)
W: Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice ended up
going into politics.
S: In 1968, former Attorney General and now Senator Eunice Kennedy is faced
with the final outcome of Father Robert Kennedy's antiwar activism.
Caillois, Roger, + Charles Lam Markmann (tr), PONTIUS PILATE (Macmillan 63)
W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
S: Christianity is aborted.
T: French PONCE PILATE: RECIT
Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in <IIHB>
W: Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be
executed.
C: How it might have happened, but without much further development.
Capek, Karel, + Dora Round (tr), "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in
APROCRYPHAL STORIES (Penguin 75)
S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
T: Czech "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
Card, Orson Scott, HATRACK RIVER (SFBC 89)
(---------------), SEVENTH SON (Tor 87); exp of "Hatrack River", in <IAsfm>
Aug 86, <YBSF4> and TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE
YEAR (ed Carr) (Tor 87)
W: Natural magic works. Also, the Puritan revolution succeeded, altering
English history and the course of American colonization.
S: Born in 1800, the seventh son of a seventh son growing up on the American
frontier meets an itinerant storyteller named William Blake.
(---------------), RED PROPHET (Tor 88)
S: Captured by Red men, young Alvin Maker and his brother become involved
with Tecumseh, the Prophet and a different massacre at Tippecanoe.
(---------------), PRENTICE ALVIN (Tor 89); rev of "Prentice Alvin and the
No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A MIRROR (Tor 90)
S: Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White
"mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee.
-----------------, JOURNEYMAN ALVIN (not yet written)
-----------------, MASTER ALVIN (not yet written)
S:
Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07", in <AP>
W: When Congress broke the Electoral College tie of 1800, they made Aaron
Burr president rather than Thomas Jefferson.
S: Militant Burr begins the move to manifest destiny 40 years early, but he
also shows no signs of leaving the White House.
Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker", in <Alt>
C: 2nd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
S: Styphon's House drives barbarians from the N American plains east into
Kalvan's territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them.
Carr, John F.: see also Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr
Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons", in Analog
Oct 85
W: What if there were no Manhattan project, and Stevenson won the election
of '52.
C: How to change history so that Asimov's "Trends" (Astounding Jul 39) came
true.
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 (ed
Del Rey) (Ballantine 81)
W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1968 *or* Watergate was never
discovered.
S: Two people from different timelines meet at a jewelry store in a third
trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
Carter, Samuel, III, "If the North Had Won the Civil War", in Yankee Magazine
Apr 85
S:
Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in <WMHB2>
W: Lincoln was assassinated while visiting a Union hospital on 4 Jul 1863.
Wasn't he?
S: 1980 Confederate differential engineers trying to model history explore
the Great Man hypothesis.
Cate, Curtis, "Preface", in THE WAR OF THE TWO EMPERORS: THE DUEL BETWEEN
NAPOLEON AND ALEXANDER: RUSSIA, 1912 (Random House 85)
W: Napoleon did not invade Russia.
C: With no anti-Napoleonic coalition, Wellington would have been forced out
of Spain, and Alexander might have freed the serfs 40 years early.
Chadbourne, Billie Niles: see Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne
Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAsfm> Jul 78, <79AWBSF>,
ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed Scithers) (Davis/Dial
78; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and DANCE BAND ON THE
TITANIC
S: Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
Maine and Nova Scotia.
Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE (Tor 85; Baen 93)
W: Karl Marx died in 1841, causing Russia to become a weak democracy in 1917
and thus unable to fend off Germany in 1941.
S: A security officer on a time travel project chases terrorists back to
1841 and gets lost in a timewar between Earthers and Offworlders.
Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night", in <AP>
W: James Buchanan suffered a stroke in Oct 1856 and Millard Fillmore,
candidate of the American ("Know-Nothing") Party, was elected president.
S: When Fillmore upholds the Fugitive Slave Laws in 1858, rioting and worse
erupts in New England.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward,
Not Northward", in <IoH>
W: Thomas Lincoln was made of sterner stuff and emigrated from Kentucky to
Mississippi rather than to Illinois.
C: A possibility that Lincoln would have been Confederate president, facing
off with either Douglas or Seward.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the
Hurricane", in <IoH>
W: Hamilton did not write the newspaper article which convinced his parents
he was a prodigy and should be sent to Boston to study.
C: Without him, the balance would not have been struck in writing the
Constitution and the states might have flown apart.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son
William", in <IoH>
W: Dismayed at his son's conversion to Quakerism, the admiral neither took
him back into his household nor made him an heir.
C: Without the Penn fortune, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia would not have
been founded and the land would have been split amongst the other colonies
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay", in
<IoH>
W: Champlain placed a settlement during his 1605 expedition, shifting
the French emphasis in N America southward from the St. Lawrence.
C: The Puritans would have been forced south to Virginia and Dutch New
Holland would survive. Any Revolution would have had a different philosophy.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of
Virginia", in <IoH>
W: After defeat by Cromwell at Worcester, Charles II accepted the invitation
to place his throne in Virginia and took control of British N America.
C: Charles would have been a more kingly figure on his return to London, and
the neglect of the colonies which provoked the Revolution would not happen.

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