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Welcome to the Alternate History WikiProject! Goals. Improve Wikipedia's coverage of alternate history. Create guidelines for articles about alternate history. Scope. Articles about topics closely linked with alternate history including: novels, short stories/novellas, films, games, comics, and authors. Not in scope: Fiction that merely vaguely ...
The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is an online speculative evolution and alternate history project created by artist Trevor Roberts consisting of text fiction and photomanipulation. The project revolves around the fictional "Mystery Flesh Pit National Park", said to be a United States National Park dedicated in the 1980s.
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.
Counterfactual history. Counterfactual history (also virtual history) is a form of historiography that attempts to answer the What if? questions that arise from counterfactual conditions. [ 1] Counterfactual history seeks by "conjecturing on what did not happen, or what might have happened, in order to understand what did happen." [ 2]
This series has made extensive use of alternative history, especially (but not exclusively) since its relaunch in 2005. These include Inferno, Day of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars (a brief glimpse of a dead Earth), "Father's Day", "Rise of the Cybermen", which follows into "Doomsday". 1966–2005. Star Trek.
The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191[ 1] is a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, [ 2][ 3] beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade. The period addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, up to the mid-1940s. In the series, the Confederate States ...
The Gladiator. The Disunited States of America is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. [1] It is a part of the Crosstime Traffic series, and takes place in an alternate world where the U.S. was never able to agree on a constitution and continued to govern under the Articles of Confederation. By the early 1800s, the nation dissolved ...
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman ...