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A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternate history of the 1920s, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.. Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, [1] althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.
Fantasy with an alternate history undercurrent. History unfolded much as it did in our world, except that magic took the place of science. For example, Adolf Hitler waged a brutal war in the 20th century with magic weapons, Werner Heisenberg defined the uncertainty principle of thaumaturgy, and flying carpets take the place of automobiles ...
1961. ( 1961) If the South Had Won the Civil War is a 1961 alternate history book by MacKinlay Kantor, a writer who also wrote several novels about the American Civil War. [ 1] It was originally published in the November 22, 1960, issue of Look magazine. It generated such a response that it was published in 1961 as a book.
Process started in June 2023. American Civil War alternate histories are alternate history fiction that focuses on the Civil War ending differently or not occurring. The American Civil War is a popular point of divergence in English-language alternate history fiction. The most common variants detail the victory and survival of the Confederate ...
Like Silverberg's alternate history, Muslim civilization declines during the alternate 19th to 20th centuries, leading to the triumphs of China and India during a decades-long 20th-century global war. Unlike Silverberg's world, there is comparable technological progress to our own timeline, due to that prolonged multipolar global war.
Back in the USSA is a 1997 collection of seven short stories by English writers Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman, which was published by Mark V. Ziesing Books. [ 1] The title is a reference to the song "Back in the U.S.S.R." by The Beatles. The stories are linked through their setting, an alternate history of the twentieth century in which the ...
Bring the Jubilee is a 1953 novel of alternate history by American writer Ward Moore. [2] [3]The point of divergence occurs in July 1863 when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in a conflict referred to within the book as the "War of Southern Independence" on July 4, 1864, after the surrender of the United States of America.
Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War. The Gladiator (Turtledove novel) Going, Going, Gone (novel) Goliath (Westerfeld novel) Gray Victory. The Great War: American Front. The Great War: Breakthroughs. The Great War: Walk in Hell. The Guns of the South.