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| | Alternative history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | For alternative histories which some assert to be factual rather than speculative, see conspiracy theory and historical revisionism. | | | For a variety of reasons, alternate history is generally classified as a subcategory of speculative fiction. | | | Historians also speculate in this manner; this type of speculation is known commonly as "counterfactual history" or "virtual history". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_history_(fiction)
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| | Alternative history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Such histories may tend to explain away their lack of scholarship or documentation on a conspiracy to erase such evidence. | | | For example A People's History of the United States as a view sympathetic to people indigenous to the Americas, or Herstory as a history from a female perspective. | | | A genre of speculative fiction: see Alternative history (fiction) and uchronia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history
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| | The Tony Jones Alternate History Page |
| | The FAQ of the Soc.History.What-If Newsgroup, which explains quite a lot about alternate history in general and the newsgroup in particular. | | | Alternative history is a sub-genre of science fiction that has interested me for quite some time. | | | Tellus : A history in which the Roman and Chinese Empires met in 100 AD, leading to a much earlier industrial revolution and a catastrophic world war in 1475 AD. |
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http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/alternate_history_top.html
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| | Uchronia: The Alternate History List |
| | Alternate history fiction is also often confused with "secret history" or "hidden history", in which something we think we know about the past is revealed to be incorrect. | | | Simply stated, an alternate history is the description and/or discussion of an historical "what if" with some speculation about the consequences of a different result. | | | Sometimes a novel is secret history because it describes secret events never revealed to the public. |
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http://www.uchronia.net/intro.html
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| | Histalt - Alternate History |
| | Other alternate worlds exist too, or so Metan and Hibernian scholars believed, but their locations in the timestream were unknown before 2001. | | | Because science, technology, and Christian ethics are an integral part of the scene and plot of this alternate history fiction, this can also be termed Christian science fiction. | | | The alternate worlds are only partially independent, and there is some interaction between them. |
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http://www.arjaybooks.com/Fiction/AHF
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| | Open Directory - Society: History: By Topic: Alternative History |
| | Alternative History at Suite 101 - A guide for histories that never were, including articles, original fiction, site reviews, and discussion board. | | | Polish Zioty's Alternate History Page - A fun and interesting way of looking at how history could have been. | | | Shattered World - An extremely detailed World War 2 alternate history, with its own discussion board. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Topic/Alternative_History
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| | Alternate History |
| | His first alternate histories were based in a world where Mohammed had converted to Orthodox Christianity rather than founding Islam. | | | The WorldWar saga deals with a world where World War II is interrupted by an alien invasion. | | | It is a subset of science fiction that seeks to imagine how the world would have turned out had things transpired differently. |
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http://leighkimmel.freeservers.com/reading/althist.html
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| | Rooftop Sessions: Alternate History |
| | Alternate history, also know as counterfactual history, is a fiction that imagines that the past is not the one we remember, although it's one that could have happened. | | | When last I wrote here, I had presented the steps a writer had to take to craft a well thought out re-creation of a historical period in any fiction written by that person. | | | In addition to examining such standard scenarios as the Nazis conquering the world and the failure of the American Revolution, these books also examine some little-considered situations, such as the Vikings sacking Constantinople and Nikola Tesla marrying J. Morgan’s daughter. |
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http://www.rooftopsessions.com/AltHis.htm
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| | Stephen's Alternate History Site |
| | Some critics hold such incredibly high standards for Alternate History Timelines that they forget what they are - blueprints and rough sketches. | | | Timelines are the main medium used to convey an Alternate History on the soc.hist.what-if newsgroup and on Alternate History Web sites on the internet. | | | newsgroup deals with alternate histories and alternate realities, posting ideas and timelines of the participants on which you can comment. |
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http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AH.htm
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| | Alternate History Newsletters |
| | Well, the idea is that you take so point in history and speculate on what would have happened if things had gone differently. | | | This kind of speculation has fascinated both serious historians and science fiction fans for decades, and seems to have become more popular recently. | | | Are there any other web sites about Alternate History? |
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http://members.aol.com/dalecoz/dale2.htm
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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Free eBooks, eBooks for Palm, PocketPC, PC, & Mac |
| | At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination. | | | It seems Charlie was accused of a murder a few years back and only barely escaped being sent to prison. | | | With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into submission. |
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http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/AlternateHistoryEbooks.htm
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| | Alternate History Fiction |
| | By the end of 1927 - alternate history fiction - 9/10/05 14:24 | | | Trans-Oceanic Canal - alternate history fiction - 10/10/05 22:15 | | | International Incident - by Shadow Knight - alternate history fiction - 8/10/05 20:22 |
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http://p209.ezboard.com/falternatehistoryfictoryfrm7
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| | Alternate History |
| | Still, alternate history is a fascinating area of speculative fiction that begs to be explored. | | | We can make all kinds of speculation as to where history would have gone had this one event taken place. | | | Mankind has long been plagued with the nagging question of what might have been if things had been a little different. |
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http://www.myshelf.com/beyondthewords/03/alternatehistory.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books / Subjects / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Alternate History |
| | In many decisive occasions of human history things could really turn out differently and we would live in a very, very different world now (Even, the world history itself; what if the meteor that finally killed all dinosours missed the earth). | | | A stimulating and entirely plausible insight into how Hitler and his generals might have defeated the Allies, and a convincing sideways look at the Third Reich's bid at world domination in World War II. | | | of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If? |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/278471
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| | Considerations on Alternate History |
| | Alternate History which attempts to make heavier-than-air travel impossible, wireless telegraphy unworkable, nuclear fission unthinkable, loses all claim to be Alternate History and become mere fantasy. | | | By at the very most twenty years afterwards nobody who would have been born in our reality can hope to have been created except by the most amazing of coincidences, some sort of huge body-chemistry issue if the people involved would have come into contact (e.g. | | | Nevertheless joining in such a discussion seems to be a fraud because it seems to be 'alternate fantasy' rather than history. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/business/lauder/1644/altyhist.html
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century - Harry Turtledove - Paperback |
| | Whether called alternate, alternative, or counterfactual history, fiction set in worlds in which Rome never fell or Nazi Germany won World War II long has been popular with both science fiction writers and readers. | | | In addition to his own Islands in the Sea, which postulates a world where Byzantium fell in the eighth century rather than the fifteenth, he adds classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's The Lucky Strike, in which the Enola Gay is not chosen to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. | | | He has published a translation of a ninth-century Byzantine chronicle, as well as several scholarly articles. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=a11KULYArG&isbn=0345439902&itm=1
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| | Today In Alternate History |
| | Speaking of which, the winning writers have been announced; not the ones I voted for, but you can see the one I did at http://www.marktreitel.com |
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http://althistory.blogspot.com
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| | Entertainment & Arts, Humanities, History, |
| | Sites featuring speculative fiction, reviews of novels and other works on the subject of possible alternate histories, articles, and other discussion of "what might have been" will be welcome here. | | | This Web Ring is for sites which provide sources of information for people who are interested in the history of their local area. | | | The Living History is a webring to gather all the historical websites on the net, Civil War, Military History, historical events, pictures, family history, World War(s) etc. We welcome all types of Historical Websites. |
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http://dir.webring.com/rw?d=Entertainment___Arts/Humanities/History
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| | J.T.'s Alternate History Site |
| | See how imperial Byzantium might have been involved in the Renaissance, the exploration of the New World, the Protestant Reformation, and other future events. | | | This The Alternate History Web Ring site owned by | | | Polish Zioty's Alternate History Page - Among other things, see history where the Soviets had won the Cold War. |
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http://tateville.com/althistory
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| | AlternateHistory.com |
| | Other works of alternate history range from Robert Harris' Fatherland, to scholarly "counterfactuals" which are gaining some popularity with historians, to dozens of amateur alternate history scenarios and "timelines" on the Internet. | | | This web site is your gateway to alternate history on the Internet. | | | Alternate history is a small but fairly popular literary genre that has been around for some time. |
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http://www.alternatehistory.com
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| | Examples of Alternate History Scenarios |
| | They moved the party into direct opposition to the democratic system...After 1930, it could not compete with Naziism. | | | A quick, decisive defeat of the Allies on D-Day by the Germans puts strong political pressure on the U.S. and Britain to abandon the invasion of Europe and come to terms with Germany (The premise of my timeline, "What Price Defeat?") | | | With no invasion of Gettysburg in 1863, the CSA concentrates on defending Tennessee and fights a purely defensive war. |
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http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AHscenarios.htm
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| | alternate history fiction @ www.ezboard.com |
| | This forum is for the posting of alternate history fiction or for well-developed timelines. | | | This discussion forum is for scenarios or stories which are not strictly Alternate History, relying rather on 'Alien Space Bats' intervention. | | | This forum holds the discussion archives of the board. |
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http://p209.ezboard.com/balternatehistoryfictory
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| | Alternate History |
| | Alternate history scenarios, an alternate history newsletter, book reviews, and links. | | | Annotated bibliography of alternate history books and stories. | | | Home: Arts_and_Humanities > Humanities > History > By_Topic > Alternate History |
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http://www.joeant.com/DIR/cat/11165
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| | Alternity: The Alternate History Star Trek E-mail List |
| | All of these look at the past and extrapolate how things would differ. | | | But these works all look at changing the past--World War II in the case of Harris and Dick; the Civil War in Turtledove's The Guns of the South or the Great War series, World War II and alien invasion in the World War and Colonization series. | | | Just as children in history classes today write timelines of everything from the American Civil War to the Space Age, science fiction authors were writing timelines of events that hadn't yet happened, events that might never happen. |
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http://www.allyngibson.net/altern.html
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| | Alternate History: Works |
| | Set in the period immediately preceeding World War II, the alien invasion changes forever the face of global powers. | | | And that is exactly what alternate history allows the reader to do. | | | World War is perhaps one of the most famous alternative history series. |
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http://www.corneria.org/alternate/works.html
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| | Alternate history |
| | Notice: Microsoft has no responsibility for the content featured in this group. | | | ENTER THE REALM OF HISTORY'S IMPACT ON THE WORLD AS IT IS TODAY. |
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http://groups.msn.com/Alternatehistory
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| | Alternate History List |
| | Paul Kawaski - An analyst for the CIA, who discovered how the space race had affected the Soviet economy. | | | His discovery would change the course of history. | | | But what if history had taken a different path? |
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http://4dw.net/aerden/marksbooks/althist.html
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| | Alternate History / Mythical Wars Series |
| | Check out our Empires of History Play-by-Email, web supported | | | Games such as the Trojan War, where the many Greek heroes are represented, or Pantheons with the gods of each pantheon, including such myths as the Four Horsemen and more. | | | Games based losely on mythology from our history, incorporating fantasy, religious and other myths. |
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http://www.guildofblades.com/empires/alt.html
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| | SAPL: Focus Fiction - Themes - Alternate History |
| | President Kennedy has survived the Dallas Assassination attempt. | | | While JFK is negotiating with Hitler and a victorious Germany, an important Nazi official turns up dead. | | | SAPL: Focus Fiction - Themes - Alternate History |
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http://www.sanantonio.gov/library/fiction/fic_TBL-AltHistory.asp
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| | CALL FOR AUTHORS: Alternate History Book Series |
| | Thus, these assignments involve encyclopedia-like nonfiction writing, complemented by imaginative yet factually driven fiction. | | | Using a classic example, “What if Oswald Had Missed?,” the chapter would include an intro to Kennedy, followed by the Dallas shooting as turning point, then Johnson as actual history, then a Kennedy second term as alternate history. | | | The Alternate History series uses what-if scenarios (a.k.a., counter-factual history) to attract, intrigue, and stimulate interest in all facets of historical thinking and discussion among students. |
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http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=140859
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| | Galaxy Bookshop - Alternate History |
| | Ash A Secret History (#01-#04) (A Secret History) | | | Could not build the menu javascript is turned off | | | The Dragon Waiting (Fantasy Masterworks #29) (A Mague of History) |
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http://www.galaxybooks.com.au/categories.asp?PageNo=5&id=11472
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| | The SF Site: 2000 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History |
| | Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History, (published in US as A Secret History, Carthage Ascendant, The Wild Machines, and Lost Burgundy), Victor Gollancz ; Avon/Eos | | | The awards will be presented at Millennium Philcon, the 59th World Science Fiction Convention, held from August 30 - September 3. | | | Paul J. McAuley, "A Very British History," Interzone 157 (7/00) |
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http://www.sfsite.com/06a/side105.htm
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| | IF YOU LIKE THIS page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE |
| | There have been some recent reports of purported antigravity in the laboratory, including... | | | For that time in fan history, it was an impressive effort." Some antigravity theories (in science and fiction) relate to FASTER THAN LIGHT. | | | history might have happened differently The "Alternate History" or "Allohistory" novels are those in which some one moment in time produced an event different from what we know in our history, and things went off in a different track ever since. |
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http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/thisthat.html
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| | GURPS Alternate Earths |
| | Gadgets that were never invented - but should have been! | | | GURPS Alternate Earths provides fully fleshed-out backgrounds for six worlds to be used with a GURPS Time Travel "Infinite Worlds" campaign, or in conjunction with many other GURPS worldbooks. | | | GURPS Alternate Earths Designer's Notes (from Pyramid #21) |
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http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/AltEarths
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| | Alternate History: Home |
| | Alternative history occupies a special place in fiction in that it attempts to be both history and conjecture. | | | According to Uchronia, other names that can be associated with alternate history include alternative histories, allohistories, counterfactuals, counterfeit worlds, if worlds, negative histories, and uchronias. | | | As a genre, alternate history lies in the muddled water in which fantasy, and science fiction meet. |
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http://www.corneria.org/alternate
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| | SF Citations for OED |
| | Essays in alternate history have long been a favorite game among historians, but as respectable intellectuals the historians have been timid in their ventures. | | | Even though he writes passionately against the genre of alternate histories being included among sf subgenres, two of his most expansive ruminations are on steampunk books, Tim Powers's Anubis Gates and Gibson-Sterling's Difference Engine, which became occasions for passionate lectures on Dickens's contribution to urban fantasy. | | | A growing sub-genre of the field is the Alternate History story: what if Jesus had never lived, what if the Spanish Armada had destroyed the British fleet, what if the South had won the Civil War? |
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http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/157
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| | CNN - Cold War Experience: Technology |
| | Following World War II, the United States began to explore rocket technology using German V-2 missiles, but military leaders still believed bombers were better suited to their needs. | | | You may find some parts plausible, others absurd. | | | To begin, choose a course of action for a post-World War II United States. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/technology/life.without
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| | Alternative History as Novel |
| | This is one question followed by several responses. | | | The book as a whole is very good and offers up some very plausible alternate | | | alternate history, the reviewer noted that he thought _The Man in the |
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http://ag.arizona.edu/futures/sce/ahnovel.html
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| | David Bofinger's Alternate History Page |
| | The Dardanelles Victory Timeline, an alternate history in which the First World War landings at the Dardanelles were successful. | | | Hopefully this will some day be fodder for an alternate history. | | | This Alternate History Webring site is owned by |
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http://www.geocities.com/davidbofinger/ah.htm
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| | Boing Boing: Alternate history tubemap |
| | This tubemap with station-names translated into German is really disorienting and, as Teresa points out, evokes an alternate history of WWII. |
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http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/29/alternate_history_tu.html
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| | Shades of History |
| | A new alternate history discussion list that will focus on some of the more science fiction like aspects of counter factuals (that's another name for alternate histories). | | | Switching the votes in several states, this alternate history looks at the changes caused by having President Hubert Humphrey elected instead of Nixon in 1968. | | | This is an alternate evolution discussion list, where the worlds and animals described are visited by hunters or explorers from the Gentleman's Club, and inter-timeline organization of Victorian Hunters, Roman Werewolves, and more! |
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http://spiritualist.alternatehistory.com
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| | Peter G. Tsouras: Gettysburg: An Alternate History |
| | A more detailed analysis of the results of the Battle of Gettysburg in his alternate world would have added more depth to the work. | | | A reader who is not an expert on Gettysburg, therefore, may be induced to discover what really happened to the men who fought in Pennsylvania. | | | In the end, Tsouras explains the immediate aftermath of the battle, permitting the reader to infer the remaining century plus of American history without giving any real indication of what course North America took after the Civil War ended (there are a few clues in some of the fictitious footnotes). |
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http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/tsouras.html
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| | Alternate History |
| | This page is somewhat indirect in its approach to Alternate History as such - it is however very persuasively about the alternate approach to history that is based on the philosophy of Kant and Emerson - (and this, as detailed below, can lead us to a possible view of an Alternate History for Humanity). | | | This sort of philosophising about Human Nature and human-historical actions can lead us to pose a question that is very much in line with Alternate History as such:- | | | The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is." |
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http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/alternate_history.html
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| | Alternate History - The Paranormal Network Community |
| | Alternate History Hitler winning the war, JFK surviving and more. | | | Discussion of all things relating to alternate history are in here. | | | What if the world spent more on science then War ( |
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http://www.paranormalforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=22
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| | Main Page - Alternative History |
| | You are welcome to contribute any pages you wish, whether it be a minor sketch of an alternate history or an entire story that's fully-fleshed out. | | | While at this time we are only exhibiting pages relating to our Alternate histories, we aren't ruling out the possibilites of discussion, or description pages to help would-be alt-historians get off to a good start. | | | Conculture group, which itself is an outgrowth of the Brown University Conlang mailing list. |
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http://althistory.wikicities.com
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| | Black Shuck's Alternate History Page |
| | Alternate Fourth Crusade The Fourth Crusade attacks Venice not Constantinople | | | I first became really interested in alternate history when I started to read the World War and Great War/American Empire novels of Harry Turtledove. | | | I have found that there is an added bonus in alternate history. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/althistx
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| | Alternative History |
| | The war is over and seems to have been a success. | | | , is dedicated to the what-ifs of history. | | | To the right there are a few books that counterfactual history buffs might enjoy. |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/alternative_history
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