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| - "A single step can lead to a million paths." proverb alteran
- Alternate History is a genre that speculates on what would have occurred had Real World events on Earth gone differently. Alternate Universe fanfiction is closely related to Alternate History stories.
- Alternate history is a speculative fiction genre that describes a historical "what if" with some speculation about the consequences of the different result.
- Alternate history or alternative history (British English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently. These stories usually contain "what if" scenarios at crucial points in history and present outcomes other than those in the historical record. The stories are conjectural, but are sometimes based on scientific fact. Alternate history can be seen as a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, or historical fiction; alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres. Another term occasionally used for the genre is "allohistory" (literally "other history").
- Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of "our" universe by the people in another; or ordinary voyaging uptime (into the past) or downtime (into the future) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines. Cross-time, time-splitting and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another. "Alternate History" looks at "what if" scenarios from some of history's most pivotal turning points and presents a completely different version, sometimes based on science and fact, but often based on conjecture. The exploration of how the world would look today if vari
- Alternate history is a subgenre of historical fiction (and sometimes of science fiction and/or fantasy). It involves the changing of a certain historical event to produce a different outcome and traces the consequences of that alteration through historical events effected by it, comparing and contrasting them to their OTL equivalents. This altered history is often called an alternate timeline.
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| - Alternate history is a subgenre of historical fiction (and sometimes of science fiction and/or fantasy). It involves the changing of a certain historical event to produce a different outcome and traces the consequences of that alteration through historical events effected by it, comparing and contrasting them to their OTL equivalents. This altered history is often called an alternate timeline. Many of Harry Turtledove's best known and most popular works fall into this category. The Southern Victory series is an example of straight-forward historical alternate history where the Point of Divergence is a historical event (the recovery of Special Orders 191) that didn't happen in OTL. The Crosstime Traffic series is an example of the "many worlds" hypothesis of physics with the ability of a society in the "home timeline" to travel across timelines to "alternates" of differing history. The Guns of the South is a science fictional alternate history involving time travel. The Worldwar series is a science fictional alternate history involving an alien invasion of the Earth during World War II.
- Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of "our" universe by the people in another; or ordinary voyaging uptime (into the past) or downtime (into the future) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines. Cross-time, time-splitting and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another. "Alternate History" looks at "what if" scenarios from some of history's most pivotal turning points and presents a completely different version, sometimes based on science and fact, but often based on conjecture. The exploration of how the world would look today if various changes occurred and what these alternate worlds would be like forms the basis of this vast subject matter. In French, Italian, Spanish and German, the genre of alternate history is called uchronie / ucronÃa, which has given rise to the term Uchronia in English. This neologism is based on the prefix u- (as in the word Utopia, a place that does not exist) and the Greek for time, chronos. A uchronia, then, is defined as a time that does not exist, a "non-time". This term apparently also inspired the name of the alternate history book list, uchronia.net.
- "A single step can lead to a million paths." proverb alteran
- Alternate History is a genre that speculates on what would have occurred had Real World events on Earth gone differently. Alternate Universe fanfiction is closely related to Alternate History stories.
- Alternate history is a speculative fiction genre that describes a historical "what if" with some speculation about the consequences of the different result.
- Alternate history or alternative history (British English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently. These stories usually contain "what if" scenarios at crucial points in history and present outcomes other than those in the historical record. The stories are conjectural, but are sometimes based on scientific fact. Alternate history can be seen as a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, or historical fiction; alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres. Another term occasionally used for the genre is "allohistory" (literally "other history").
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