- List of alternate history fiction
This is a list of
alternate history fiction, sorted by type.Novels
19th century
* 1845. "
P.'s Correspondence " byNathaniel Hawthorne , a New Englander is treated as a madman because of being able to perceive a different a reality in which long-dead famous people are still alive (though not necessarily well) in 1845: the poets Burns,Byron , Shelley, and Keats, the actorEdmund Kean , the British politicianGeorge Canning and even Napoleon Bonaparte.
* 1889. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court " byMark Twain , a 19th century citizen ofHartford, Connecticut awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendaryKing Arthur in AD 528.
* 1895. "Aristopia " byCastello Holford , the earliest settlers inVirginia discover a reef made of solidgold and are able to build aUtopia n society in North America.1910s
* 1913. "Der Tunnel" by
Bernhard Kellermann , an idealistic engineer, wants to build a tunnel at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean connecting America with Europe.1930s
* 1931. "
If It Had Happened Otherwise " edited byJ. C. Squire , a collection of alternate history essays.
* 1939. "Lest Darkness Fall " byL. Sprague de Camp , an American archaeologist is transported to 6th century Rome (AD535 ).1950s
* 1952. "
The Sound of His Horn " byJohn William Wall , a British naval lieutenant awakens in a Nazi controlled world 102 years on from World War II.
* 1953. "Bring the Jubilee " byWard Moore , the South was not defeated in theAmerican Civil War because it won theBattle of Gettysburg .1960s
* 1962. "
The Man in the High Castle " byPhilip K. Dick , set in a world where theAxis powers won World War II.
* 1966. "The Gate of Time " byPhilip José Farmer anIroquois combat pilot finds himself in a world where the New World is underwater and Native Americans settled in Eastern Europe.
* 1968. "The Last Starship from Earth " by John Boyd,Jesus Christ became arevolutionary agitator and assembles an army to overthrow theRoman Empire , and established atheocracy that has lasted until the twentieth century.
* 1968. "Pavane" byKeith Roberts , QueenElizabeth I of England was assassinated, and in the ensuing disorder, theSpanish Armada was successful in suppressingProtestantism .1970s
* 1972. "
The Iron Dream " byNorman Spinrad ,Adolf Hitler emigrates from Germany to America and used his modest artistical skills to become first a pulp-SF illustrator and later a science fiction writer.
* 1972. "Tunnel Through the Deeps " byHarry Harrison ,Moors won the battle ofNavas de Tolosa on July 16, 1212 on theIberian peninsula ,John Cabot discovered America, andGeorge Washington was shot as a traitor.
* 1973. "For Want of a Nail " byRobert N. Sobel , theAmerican Revolution failed and the British colonies become the Confederation of North America (CNA), while the defeated rebels go into exile in Spanish Tejas, eventually founding the United States of Mexico (USM).
* 1973. "The Ultimate Solution " byEric Norden , a world resulting from a totalNazi andImperial Japan ese victory in World War II and partition of the world between them.
* 1974. "Das Königsprojekt " byCarl Amery , theRoman Catholic church attempts to restore theHouse of Stuart to the English throne by altering history through the use of a time machine invented byLeonardo da Vinci .
* 1976. "The Alteration " byKingsley Amis ,Martin Luther , rather than beginning theProtestant Reformation , becamepope .
* 1978. "And Having Writ… " byDonald R. Bensen , four aliens arrive on Earth in 1908 and try to advance human technology so they could return home.
* 1978. "Gloriana" byMichael Moorcock , Queen Gloriana rules over "Albion", an alternativeBritish Empire that rules over America and Asia.
* 1978. "SS-GB " byLen Deighton , is a detective novel set in 1941 Britain in which the Germans have successfully occupied the country.1980s
* 1983. "" by
John M. Ford , fantasyalternate history combiningvampire s, theMedici s, and the convoluted English politics surrounding Edward IV and Richard III.
* 1983. "A Rebel in Time " byHarry Harrison , aracist colonel wants to change history by helping the CSA win theAmerican Civil War .
* 1983. "Trinity's Child " byWilliam Prochnau , depicts a nuclear war waged between theUnited States of America and the Soviet Union.
* 1984. "The Bush Soldiers " byJohn Hooker , the Japanese have successfully conquered and occupied most of the coastal fringe of Australia.
* 1984. "West of Eden " byHarry Harrison , the asteroid that struck Earth 65 million years ago causing the mass extinction level event which wiped-out most of the reptiloids never happened.
* 1987. "Agent of Byzantium" byHarry Turtledove Imperial Byzantine special agent Basil Argyros is sent on various missions in an alternate universe whereMuhammad became a Christian saint.
* 1988. "Alternities " byMichael P. Kube-McDowell 's [ [http://www.bsu.edu/ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/kube-mcdowell.html Review of Alternities] ]
* 1988. "A Different Flesh " byHarry Turtledove , the ancestors of the Native Americans never crossed into theNew World , only "Homo erectus ".
* 1988. "Fire on the Mountain " byTerry Bisson , John Brown succeeded in his raid onHarper's Ferry and touched off a slave rebellion in 1859
* 1988. "Gray Victory " byRobert Skimin , taking place in an alternate1866 where theConfederacy won its independence and has placedJeb Stuart on trial for losing theBattle of Gettysburg .
* 1988. "" byDougal Dixon , a book chronicling the world had the dinosaurs not died out 65 million years ago but instead had kept the mammals in smallrodent -like forms.1990s
* 1990. "
The Difference Engine " byWilliam Gibson andBruce Sterling ,Charles Babbage 'sAnalytical Engine takes on the roles of modern computers a century early.
* 1990. "The World Next Door " byBrad Ferguson , people from a world that experienced nuclear war in 1962 interacts with people from a world that did not.
* 1990. "A World of Difference" byHarry Turtledove , the 4th planet of our solar system is larger and namedMinerva instead ofMars and contains intelligent alien life.
* 1992. "Fatherland" by Robert Harris, set in the 1960s in a Germany which won World War II.
* 1992. "The Guns of the South " byHarry Turtledove , the Confederate Army is supplied withAK-47 s by early-21st century white supremacistSouth Africa n time-travelers.
* 1993. "Anti-Ice " byStephen Baxter , explosive scientific discovery made in the 1850s advances technology.
* 1993. "Aztec Century " by Christopher Evans,Cortez changed sides at the onset of theConquistador era in the early sixteenth century, leading to the repulsion of Spanish invasion and occupation ofCentral America .
* 1993. "Down in the Bottomlands " by Harry Turtledove, at the end of theMiocene period, theMediterranean Sea stays dry to the present day.
* 1993. "Elvissey byJack Womack , a dystopian 2033 where a Machiavellian multinational corporation has plans for world domination.
* 1995. "1901 (novel) " byRobert Conroy , depicts a hypothetical war between Germany and the United States at the start ofWilliam McKinley 's second term as President.
* 1995. "1945" byNewt Gingrich andWilliam R. Forstchen , Germans perfected long-rangejet aircraft by the end of World War II and conducted successful raids in North America against the US nuclear program.
* 1995. "The Two Georges " byHarry Turtledove andRichard Dreyfuss , King George III of Great Britain andGeorge Washington reached a settlement where the 13 Colonies remained within the British Empire with increased autonomy and virtually all of their grievances redressed.
* 1996. "Attentatet i Pålsjö skog " byHans Alfredson , Swedish communists blow up a German train passing through Sweden, killingEva Braun who was on board.
* 1996. "Celestial Matters " byRichard Garfinkle , the physics of this world and its surrounding cosmos are based on the physics ofAristotle and ancient ChineseTaoist alchemy .
* 1996. "" byOrson Scott Card , in which scientists from the future travel back to the 15th century to prevent the European colonization of the Americas.
* 1996. "Voyage " byStephen Baxter ,John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt on him in 1963.
* 1997. "Back in the USSA " byEugene Byrne andKim Newman , the United States experienced acommunist revolution in 1917 and became a communist superpower, where Russia did not.
* 1997. "K is for Killing " byDaniel Easterman ,Charles Lindbergh is elected president rather thanFranklin Delano Roosevelt and afascist organization calling itself the Amero-Aryan Alliance is brought to power and turns the country into a police state, complete withslavery ,concentration camp s, andghetto s.
* 1997. "Making History" byStephen Fry , set in a parallel world in whichAdolf Hitler was never conceived, let alone born.
* 1999. "Battle Royale " byKoushun Takami , Japan is a police state that terrorizes the populace by forcing children to kill each other in something called "The Program."2000s
* 2000. "
Fox on the Rhine " byDouglas Niles andMichael Dobson , Heinrich Himmler takes over as leader after Hitler is assasinated in 1944 and arranges a cease-fire with the Soviet Union to free German forces. He then appoints Erwin Rommel to command over the German forces in Europe.
** "Fox at the Front " (2003)
* 2001. "After Dachau " byDaniel Quinn , Germany wins World War II and eventually all non-whites are killed off.
* 2001. "The Children's War " byJ.N. Stroyar , in World War II Germany does not attack the Soviet Union and develops a nuclear weapons program.
** "A Change of Regime " (2004)
* 2001. "The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray " byChris Wooding , Victorian London is overrun by the wych-kin, demonic creatures that have rendered the city uninhabitable south of the river, and which stalk the streets after dark.
* 2002. "Ice " by Shane Johnson, the "Apollo 19" mission suffers a major system failure, forcing its crew to strike out on their own.
* 2002. "The Peshawar Lancers " byS. M. Stirling , in 1878 a meteor shower devastates Europe and North America forcing the European empires to relocate their population to their colonies.
* 2002. "Ruled Britannia " byHarry Turtledove , theSpanish Armada conquers England and forces Shakespeare to write a play about Philip II. At the same time he is secretly writing a play for the Englishunderground resistance .
* 2002. "The Years of Rice and Salt " byKim Stanley Robinson ,the Black Death of the 14th century kills 99% of the people in Europe and over the next seven centuries, India, China and theIslamic world come to dominate the planet.
* 2003. "Collaborator byMurray Davies , set in a Nazi occupiedGreat Britain centering around a former POW and life in occupied Britain.
* 2003. "Conquistador" byS.M. Stirling , an inter-dimensional gateway is discovered in California, which gives access to an alternate Earth in which the empire ofAlexander the Great flourishes, and where Europeans never discovered America.
* 2003. "In the Presence of Mine Enemies " byHarry Turtledove , a family of secret Jews hide in Berlin two or three generations after a Nazi victory in World War II.
* 2003. "Roma Eterna " byRobert Silverberg , theRed Sea did not part beforeMoses and as a result, theRoman Empire grew and prospered without the influence ofChristianity .
* 2004. "Airborn " byKenneth Oppel , the airplane is never invented and instead airships are used for travel.
* 2004. "The Plot Against America " byPhilip Roth ,Charles Lindbergh is electedPresident of the United States in 1940 and collaborates withNazi Germany.
* 2006. "1862 (novel) " byRobert Conroy , depicts what might have happened if England had entered theAmerican Civil War on the side of the Confederacy due to the "RMS Trent" incident.
* 2006. "Half Life" byShelley Jackson , the atomic bomb resulted in a genetic preponderance of conjoined twins, who eventually become a minority subculture.
* 2007. "1945 (Conroy novel) " byRobert Conroy , depicts what could have happened if the United States had to invade Japan in World War II.
* 2007. "Ice" byJacek Dukaj , the First World War never occurred and Poland is still under Russian rule.
* 2007. "Mainspring" byJay Lake , a young clockmaker's apprentice, who is visited by the Archangel Gabriel is told that he must take the Key Perilous and rewind the Mainspring of the Earth.
* 2007. "Russian Amerika " byStoney Compton ,Alaska is still owned by Russia.
* 2007. "The Yiddish Policemen's Union " byMichael Chabon , during World War II, a temporary Yiddish-speaking settlement forJew ishrefugees was established inAlaska in 1941.
* 2008. "The Execution Channel " byKen MacLeod ,Al Gore is elected president in 2000 and the9/11 attacks involved different targets.
* 2008. "The Man With the Iron Heart " byHarry Turtledove , a Germaninsurgency at the end of World War II.Novel series
* "
1632 series " byEric Flint , an entire modernWest Virginia town is transported in time and space to Germany during theThirty Years' War .
** "1632" (2000)
** "1633" (2002)
** " (2004)
** "" (2006)
** "" (2006)
** "" (2007)
** "" (2007)
** "The Anaconda Project " (2008)
** "" (TBA)
** "" (TBA)
** "" (TBA)
* "The Age of Unreason " byGregory Keyes ,alchemy really works thanks toIsaac Newton .
** "Newton's Cannon " (1998)
** "A Calculus of Angels " (1999)
** "Empire of Unreason " (2000)
** "The Shadows of God " (2001)
* "Anno Dracula series " byKim Newman , the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula " fail to stopCount Dracula 's conquest ofGreat Britain , resulting in a world wherevampire s are common and increasingly dominant in society.
** "Anno Dracula (novel) " (1992)
** "The Bloody Red Baron " (1995)
** "Judgment of Tears " (1998)
** "Johnny Alucard" (TBA)
* "Arabesk trilogy " byJon Courtenay Grimwood ,Woodrow Wilson brokered an earlier peace to World War I so that it never expanded outside of theBalkans .
** "Pashazade " (2001)
** "Effendi " (2002)
** "Felaheen " (2003),
* "Axis of Time series" byJohn Birmingham , an American-led UN Multinational Force arrives uptime from 2021 via a wormhole that was accidentally generated as a byproduct of a scientific experiment to the year 1942.
**"Weapons of Choice" (2004)
**"Designated Targets" (2005)
**"Final Impact" (2007)
*TheBelisarius series byDavid Drake and Eric Flint, opposing factions from the future influence early times through intermediaries for their own purposes: the 'good' side operating through the Byzantine generalBelisarius and the 'evil' side operating through the Indian state ofMalwa .
** "An Oblique Approach " (1998)
** "In the Heart of Darkness " (1998)
** "Destiny's Shield " (1999)
** "Fortune's Stroke " (2000)
** "The Tide of Victory " (2001)
** "The Dance of Time " (2006)
* "Insh'Allah series " bySteven Barnes , shows an alternate world in whichCarthage destroyed Rome, with Europe remaining tribal and anIslam ic-dominated Africa colonizing theNew World .
**"Lion's Blood " (2002)
**"Zulu Heart " (2003)
* "Civil War Series" byNewt Gingrich andWilliam R. Forstchen ,Robert E. Lee wins theBattle of Gettysburg .
** "" (2003)
** "Grant Comes East " (2004)
** "" (2005)
* "Crosstime Traffic " Series byHarry Turtledove , travel between parallel universes is possible.
** "Gunpowder Empire " (2003) - A world where the Roman Empire never fell and has technology equal to that of the age ofNapolean .
** "Curious Notions " (2004) - The Central Powers of WW1 won prior to American entry into the conflict and conquered the isolationist USA in the 1950's.
** "In High Places " (2006) - The Black Death was far more virulent across Europe, leading to a world dominated by Musiums.
** "The Disunited States of America " (2006) - The USA was unable to agree to a full constitution following victory in the War of Independence, leading to every state becoming a different country.
** "The Gladiator " (2007) - The Soviet Union was able to win the Cold War and remake the entire world in their image.
** "The Valley-Westside War " (2008) - Nuclear War in 1967 lead to the collapse of society.
*"The Domination " series byS.M. Stirling , the early entry of the Netherlands on the American side of theAmerican Revolution , causes them to lose theCape Colony to Britain, which renames it theCrown Colony of Drakia after SirFrancis Drake and settles Loyalists and British mercenaries there who absorb theBoers to set up aslavery -based empire called the Domination of theDraka .
** "Marching Through Georgia" (1988)
** "Under the Yoke" (1989)
** "The Stone Dogs " (1990)
** "Drakon " (1995)
*"The Emberverse series " byS. M. Stirling , an event called "The Change" in 1998 causeselectricity ,guns ,explosives ,internal combustion engine s andsteam power to stop working.
** "Dies the Fire " (2004)
** "The Protector's War " (2005)
** "A Meeting at Corvallis " (2006)
** "The Sunrise Lands " (2007)
** "The Scourge of God" (2008)
** "The Sword of the Lady " (2009)
** "The High King of Montival " (2010)
** "The Blood of the Sun " (TBA)
** "The Given Sacrifice " (TBA)
* "The Farthing series " by Jo Walton, the United Kingdom made peace withNazi Germany (againstWinston Churchill 's wishes).
** "Farthing" (2006)
** "Ha'penny" (2007)
** "Half a Crown" (2008)
* "Fireball Trilogy" byJohn Christopher , two cousins are transported into analternate history Earth through a mysterious fireball where the Roman Empire never fell.
** "Fireball" (1981)
** "New Found Land " (1983)
** "Dragon Dance" (1986)
* "Germanicus trilogy " byKirk Mitchell , Rome never fell, afterPontius Pilate pardons Joshua bar-Joseph (Christ), and the Romans win a decisive victory at Teutoberg Forest and Latinize Greater Germania.
** "Procurator " (1984)
** "The New Barbarians " (1986)
** "Cry Republic " (1989)
* "The Hammer and the Cross series" byHarry Harrison ,Viking s rebel against the harsh rule of the Catholic Church.
** "The Hammer and the Cross " (1993)
** "One King's Way " (1995)
** "King and Emperor " (1997)
* "Hannibal series " byJohn Maddox Roberts , theCarthaginians won theSecond Punic War against the Romans.
**"Hannibal's Children " (2002)
**"The Seven Hills " (2005)
* "Heirs of Alexandria series " byMercedes Lackey ,Eric Flint andDave Freer , set in a renaissance Europe where theLibrary of Alexandria was not destroyed by a Christian mob and the now saintedHypatia of Alexandria andJohn Chrysostom shaped religious thought, significantly altering how the Church developed.
** "The Shadow of the Lion " (2002)
** "This Rough Magic " (2003)
** "A Mankind Witch " (2005)
* "Lord Darcy" series bbyRandall Garrett , a number of short stories and one novel ("Too Many Magicians") based on the premise that KingRichard I of England returned safely from France and thatRoger Bacon had systematized the laws of magic.
** "Too Many Magicians " (1967)
** "Murder and Magic " (1979)
** "Lord Darcy Investigates " (1981)
** "Ten Little Wizards " (1988)
** "A Study in Sorcery " (1989)
**"Lord Darcy " (2002)
* "The Lords of Creation" byS. M. Stirling , an ancient alien civilization makesMars andVenus habitable and seeds them with Earth life.
** "The Sky People " (2006)
** "In the Courts of the Crimson Kings " (2008)
* "Nantucket series" byS. M. Stirling , the island ofNantucket gets sent back in time to the Bronze Age circa 1250 BC.
** "Island in the Sea of Time " (1998)
** "Against the Tide of Years " (1999)
** "On the Oceans of Eternity " (2000)
* "A Nomad of the Time Streams " trilogy byMichael Moorcock , a series of novels featuring a grown-up version ofE. Nesbit 'sOswald Bastable (fromThe Treasure Seekers and other books) who experiences a variety of alternate realities that have diverged from his own time-line.
** "Warlord of the Air " (1971)
** "The Land Leviathan " (1974)
** "The Steel Tsar " (1977)
* "North American Confederacy series" byL. Neil Smith , One single word in theDeclaration of Independence differs and the US becomes the North American Confederation, alibertarian society.
**"The Probability Broach " (1980)
**"The Nagasaki Vector " (1983)
**"The Venus Belt " (1980)
**"Their Majestys' Bucketeers " (1981)
**"Tom Paine Maru " (1984)
**"The Gallatin Divergence " (1985)
**"Brightsuit MacBear " (1988)
**"Taflak Lysandra " (1989)
**"The American Zone " (2001)
* "Operation Otherworld " byPoul Anderson , the existence of God has been scientifically proven and magic has been harnessed for the practical needs of the adept by thedegaussing ofcold iron , while the United States is part of an alternate Second World War against theIslamic Khalif ate, which has invaded the United States.
**"Operation Chaos" (1971)
**"Operation Luna " (2000)
* "Pacific War Series" byNewt Gingrich andWilliam R. Forstchen , alternate Pacific War.
** "" (2007)
** "Days of Infamy" (2008)
* "Romanitas Trilogy" bySophia McDougall , theRoman Empire survived to contemporary times.
** ""Romanitas"" (2005)
** "Rome Burning " (2007)
** "Volume 3" (2007)
*"The Sky Crawlers " series by Hiroshi Mori, follows the journeys and tribulations of a group of youngfighter pilot s involved indogfight warfare, and is set during an alternate historical period.
** "None But Air" (2004)
** "Down to Heaven" (2005)
** "Flutter into Life" (2006)
** "Cradle the Sky" (2007)
** "The Sky Crawlers" (2001)
** "Sky Eclipse" (TBA)
*The "Southern Victory" or "Timeline-191 " Series byHarry Turtledove , the South won theAmerican Civil War in 1862 due to not losing the copy of Order 191, resulting in the USA and CSA continue to exist and battle through this timeline's versions of theFranco-Prussian War , theFirst World War and theSecond World War .
**"How Few Remain " (1997)
**The "Great War"Trilogy
***"" (1998)
***"" (1999)
***"" (2000)
**The "American Empire" Trilogy
***"" (2001)
***"" (2002)
***"" (2003)
**The "Settling Accounts"Tetralogy
***"" (2004)
***"" (2005)
***"" (2006)
***"" (2007)
* "Stars and Stripes trilogy " byHarry Harrison , Prince Albert dies prematurely and Britain becomes involved in theAmerican Civil War .
** "Stars and Stripes Forever" (1998)
** "Stars and Stripes in Peril " (2000)
** "Stars and Stripes Triumphant " (2002)
* "The Tales of Alvin Maker " by Orson Scott Card, a North America where people wield magic, or knacks, and the revolution was only partly successful.
** "Seventh Son" (1987)
** "Red Prophet " (1988)
** "Prentice Alvin " (1989)
** "Alvin Journeyman " (1995)
** "Heartfire " (1998)
** "The Crystal City " (2003)
** "Master Alvin " (TBA)
* "Temeraire " series byNaomi Novik , theNapoleonic Wars are fought with an air force ofdragons .
**"His Majesty's Dragon " (2006)
**"Throne of Jade " (2006)
**"Black Powder War " (2006)
**"Empire of Ivory " (2007)
**"Victory of Eagles " (2008)
* "Trail of Glory series " byEric Flint ,Sam Houston was not injured at the beginning of the War of 1812, and substantially revises the history of theTrail of Tears .
** "" (2005)
** "" (2006)
*"Worldwar" & "Colonization" Series byHarry Turtledove , aliens with a fuedal caste system and 1990's style technology calling themselves the "Race" invade Earth in the middle of World War II, focing the Allied and Axis Forces to put aside their differences and battle this new threat.
**"Worldwar " Tetralogy
***"" (1994)
***"" (1995)
***"" (1996)
***"" (1996)
**"Colonization" Trilogy
***"" (1999)
***"" (2000)
***"" (2001)
**"Homeward Bound" (2004)hort stories and novellas
* 1934. "
Sidewise in Time " byMurray Leinster , sections of the Earth's surface begin changing places with their counterparts in alternate timelines.
* 1952. "Sail On! Sail On! " byPhilip José Farmer , the Earth "is" flat andAristotle 's axiom that objects of different weights drop with different velocities is true.
* 1960. "Delenda Est " byPoul Anderson , renegadetime travel ers meddle in the outcome of theSecond Punic War , bringing about the premature deaths ofPublius Cornelius Scipio andScipio Africanus at theBattle of Ticinus in218 BC , and thus creating a new timeline in whichHannibal destroys Rome in210 BC .
* 1987. "The Forest of Time " byMichael Flynn , the Thirteen Colonies, after getting independent of Britain, did not succeed in creating the United States but developed into separate and mutually hostile nation-states which often fight bitter wars with each other.
* 1987. "Thor Meets Captain America " byDavid Brin , the Nazis are championed by the Norse Pantheon.
* 1987. "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers " byLawrence Watt-Evans , a young man tells his story about growing up working at agreasy spoon diner to travelers from alternate versions of Earth.
* 1988. "The Last Article " byHarry Turtledove , a Nazi invasion ofIndia and the brutal reaction of the Germans to thenonviolent resistance andpacifism ofGandhi and his followers.
* 1991. "Red Reign " byKim Newman , the original short story that Anno Dracula is based off of.
* 1997. "The Undiscovered " by William Sanders,William Shakespeare lives among theCherokee and tries to produce a version of "Hamlet " for them.
* 1998. "The Twelfth Album " byStephen Baxter ,The Beatles don't split up and produce twelfth album called "God".
* 2000. "A Colder War byCharles Stross , the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness " has occurred, and inexorably fuses theCold War andCthulhu Mythos .
* 2000. "Watching Trees Grow " byPeter F. Hamilton , the Roman Empire never fell.
* 2002. "The Daimon " byHarry Turtledove , Greek philosopher Socrates aids the Athenian general Alkibiades in defeating the Spartans.
* 2002. "Shikari in Galveston " byS. M. Stirling , set in the same background asThe Peshawar Lancers , but occurs several years earlier.
* 2003. "" byRobert L. O'Connell , the 1962Cuban missile crisis developed into war.
* 2008. "A Murder in Eddsford " byS. M. Stirling , a murder mystery set in Post-Change Britain inThe Emberverse series .
* 2008. "Something for Yew " byS. M. Stirling , another Rutherston and Bramble mystery.
* 2008. "Beatle Rhett " byWalter Rimler , The Beatles on another timelineRole-playing/board games
* 1988. "
Sky Galleons of Mars ", set in an alternateVictorian Era where the major nations of Earth are extending their colonial interests on Mars and Venus.
* 1988. "", set in an alternateVictorian Era where the major nations of Earth are extending their colonial interests on Mars and Venus.
* 1993. "Forgotten Futures ", settings inspired by Victorian andEdwardian science fiction andfantasy .
* 1998. "Crimson Skies ", the United States crumbles into many hostile nation-states following the effects of the Great War,Prohibition , andthe Great Depression .
* 1999. "Brave New World",superhero game set in afascist United States of America living in a perpetual state ofmartial law since the 1960s.
* 1999. "GURPS Alternate Earths "
* 1999. "GURPS Alternate Earths II "
* 2002. "", set in an alternate history version of World War II where people known as Talents have developed unexplained powers.
* 2005. "GURPS Infinite Worlds "Comics
* 1986. "
Captain Confederacy byWill Shetterly andVince Stone , asuperhero is created for propaganda purposes in a world in which theConfederate States of America won their independence.
* 1986. "Watchmen " byAlan Moore , the United States has costumed adventurers and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union
* 2001. "Ministry of Space " byWarren Ellis , soldiers and operatives of the United Kingdom reached the German rocket installations atPeenemünde ahead of the U.S. Army and the Soviets, and brought all the key personnel and technology to England.
* 2002. "" byBrian K. Vaughan , something (speculated to be a plague) simultaneously kills every mammal possessing aY chromosome - including embryos, fertilized eggs, and even sperm.
* 2003. "Arrowsmith " byKurt Busiek , the United States is actually the United States of Columbia, magic is real, and theFirst World War is fought with and bydragons , spells,vampires and all other kinds of magical weapons and beings.
* 2003. "The Life Eaters " byDavid Brin , comic based on Brin's novella "Thor Meets Captain America ".
* 2006. "Roswell, Texas " byL. Neil Smith andRex F. May ,Davy Crockett survived theAlamo and Santa Anna didn't, and in which an expanded Texas eventually became the "Federated States of Texas" rather than one of the United States.
* 2008. "Aetheric Mechanics " byWarren Ellis , set in 1907, during a war in the air between Britain andRuritania .Films
* 1966. "
It Happened Here ",Nazi Germany successfully invades and occupies the United Kingdom during World War II.
* 1989. "Back to the Future Part II ", time travelling teenager arrives in an altered present.
* 1994. "Fatherland", a movie based off the 1992 novel.
* 1995. "White Man's Burden", in an alternate America whereAfrican Americans and Caucasian Americans have reversed cultural roles.
* 1998. "Six-String Samurai ", Russia launched several nuclear warheads at the U.S. in 1957, reducing most of the United States to an inhospitable desert.
* 1998. "World War III ", Soviet troops opened fire on demonstrators in Berlin in the fall of 1989 and precipitated aWorld War III .
* 2001. "The One", a superhuman criminal, once a member of the organization policing interdimensional travel, travels acrossalternate universes to kill his counterparts.
* 2002. "2009 Lost Memories ", the Korean peninsula is still a part of the Japanese empire.
* 2002. "Nothing So Strange ", covers theassassination ofMicrosoft chairmanBill Gates on December 2, 1999.
* 2004. "", a British documentary being broadcast on Confederate States of America network television.
* 2004. "The Last Dragon",dragon s are real.
* 2009. "Watchmen", film adoption of the comic book of the same name.TV shows
* 1966-2005.
Star Trek , has used the theme several times. Examples include: TOS- "City on the Edge of Forever" (alternate World War II outcome); Animated Series- "Yesteryear"; NG- "Yesterday's Enterprise". "Enterprise"- "Storm Front" where Nazis seized East Coast of America. Also, the universe of "Mirror, Mirror", while in the original episode was just inplied to be a parallel universe, was in later episodes shown to be an alternate history.
* 1985. Otherworld, a family is transported to an alternate Earth while exploring theGreat Pyramid of Giza .
* 1995-2000.Sliders , gang of scientists, musician, and others as travellers who "slide" between parallel worlds by use of a wormhole referred to as an "Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge ". First episode was Soviet-ruled America after Soviets seized Americas. Other episodes were many alternate Earths asBritish America , Ancient Egyptian-ruled America, Spanish America,Druid s-controling America,Atomic Bomb never exist, and others.
* 1995. Spellbinder, in an alternate worldstatic electricity is used as a power source.
* 1997. , sequel to original TV show.
* 1997.Red Dwarf , the episode "Tikka to Ride " deals with a time line in whichJohn F Kennedy was never assasinated.
* 2004-2005. Zipang, a Japanese warship is sent back in time to World War II.
* 2006. "The Best Christmas Story Never " (American Dad! ),Martin Scorsese gives up drugs in 1970 leading to the Soviet Union conquering America.
* 2006. "Return of the King" (The Boondocks),Martin Luther King, Jr. survives his assasination.
*2006-2008.Heroes , The character, Peter Patrelli travels through time to attempt to alter future and past events and outcomes. Starting with the attempted assassination of his brother Nathan Patrelli because of his belief that Nathan will cause unwanted future results by his disclosure of his knowledge of super human powers and abilities.Plays
* 2000. "The Madagascar Plan" by
Brian Borowka . Nazi Germany resettles the Jews on Madagascar. [cite web |url=http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/000915/writer.shtml |title=Writer explores alternate history in new play |accessdate=2008-09-26 |author=Barry Cohen |date=09/15/2000 |work= |publisher=Jewish News of Greater Phoenix]
* 2006. "Picasso's Closet " byAriel Dorfman . An alternate history of Picasso's life (and possibly death) in Paris during World War II. [cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/26/AR2006062601490.html |title='Picasso's Closet': An Artist With No Place to Hide |accessdate=2008-09-26 |author=Peter Marks |date=06/27/2006 |work= |publisher=Washington Post]
* 2007. "Universal Robots " byMac Rogers . Robots take over Czechoslovakia just before World War II. [cite web |url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/rogers-mac.html |title=Plays by Mac Rogers |accessdate=2008-09-26 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=doollee.com]Video/PC games
* 1996. , a series of computer
real time strategy video games set in an alternate timeline, created whenAlbert Einstein travels back to the past and eliminatesAdolf Hitler in an attempt to prevent World War II from taking place. This plan indirectly backfires and results in an unchecked Soviet invasion of Europe byJoseph Stalin in the 1950s.
* 1999.Crimson Skies , PC game based off the originalboard game .
* 2002. Iron Storm, World War I lasts to 1943.
* 2003. , video game sequel to PC game.
* 2003. , the British passenger ship "Lusitania" was not sunk by a GermanU-boat in the First World War.
* 2006. , contains a scenario involving Soviet forces attacking Allied forces in 1945, starting World War III.
* 2006. , set in 1951 Britain as human resistance forces attempt to drive out a species of unconfirmed origin called the Chimera.
* 2007 , set in a alternate version of World War 2 in which Adolf Hitler died during the early days of the war, and a more effective leadership arose to command Germany during the conflict.
* 2008. The Crossing, a parallel universe that has theKnights Templar seizing the French throne.
* 2008 , it depicts the invasion of the United States by the Nazi Germany during the 50's.ee also
*
List of fictional British monarchs
*List of fictional timelines
*List of fictional universes
*List of science fiction novels References
External links
* [http://www.uchronia.net/ Uchronia] lists over 2000 works of alternate history.
* [http://www.librarything.com/tag/alternate+history Library Thing: Alternate History] lists books most often tabbed as alternate history.
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