| 1968 K. Laumer Assignment in Nowhere 51
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From that beginning grew the Imperium—the government claiming sovereignty over the entire Net of alternate worlds. Your world—which is known to us as Blight Insular Three—is but one of the uncountable parallel universes, each differing only infinitesimally from its neighbor.
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| 1975 J. Gunn Alternate Worlds 213
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Science fiction writers, from H. G. Wells through Murray Leinster and Clifford Simak to Ward Moore and Philip K. Dick, have considered the possibility that there may exist, side by side with our Earth, separated from it by time or dimension, alternate worlds split off by moments of great (or small) historic actions or decisions, and that upon occasion, by traveling in time or chancing upon some gateway or crossroads, we can pass from one world to another.
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| 1977 B. Aldiss Future & Alternative Histories in B. Ash Visual Encycl. Sci. Fiction 123/1
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The story is set in an America which has been successfully invaded by Japan and Germany and is subsequently divided into three north-south strips. The east is Nazi-occupied, the west Japan-dominated, while the middle remains neutral. In this middle state lives a science fiction writer who has written his own alternate-world novel where Germany and Japan have lost the war!
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| 1977 B. Aldiss Future & Alternative Histories in B. Ash Visual Encycl. Sci. Fiction 122/3
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The possibility that man might try to meddle with the time-tracks, as depicted in the Williamson and Asimov novels, led to a new concept in the alternate-world theme, that of policing the worlds.
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| 1979 B. Stableford Alternate World in P. Nicholls Encycl. Sci. Fiction 26/1
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An alternate world is an image of Earth as it might be, consequent upon some hypothetical alteration of history. Many sf stories use the notion of parallel worlds as a frame in which alternate worlds can be held simultaneously and may even interact with one another.
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| 1983 D. Duane So you want to be Wizard? 112
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Is this an alternate world, maybe? The next universe over?
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| 1984 B. Stableford The SF Sub-genres in D. Wingrove Sci. Fiction Source Bk. (1984) 51
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The serious attempts to describe alternate worlds which have appeared in the last forty years or so are rather narrowly confined to a handful of favorite hypotheses. The largest number by far deal with worlds in which the allies were defeated in World War II.
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| 1988 Locus Apr. 4/1
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William Gibson and Bruce Sterling sold their collaborative alternate-world Victorian novel (featuring a steam-driven computer)‥to Bantam.
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| 1989 Isaac Asimov's Sci. Fiction Mag. Dec. 176/2
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With Park, you have people called ‘men’ and ‘women’ on a planet they call ‘Earth’ who ride ‘horses’, but by the bye you learn rather casually en passant that the ‘men’ and ‘women’ have tails, and the ‘horses’ are carnivorous, and ‘Earth’ has seasons that last for decades‥. Maybe this is pure fantasy, or an alternate world setting that might as well be fantasy.
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| 1992 Waldenbooks Hailing Frequencies 13/1
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Castle Perilous has 144,000 doors, each opening on a strange and magical alternate world.
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| 1993 P. Nicholls & J. Clute Encycl. Sci. Fiction 1293/1
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Only HW would have written‥an alternate history (featuring 4 alternate worlds) with time travel from a dystopic future, Amerindian Mound Builders, Aztec Invaders, ancient Greek merchants in power-driven boats and much more.
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| 1994 Interzone Mar. 60/1
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The title story is an alternate-world fantasy too broken up by the verisimilitude of its savage premise—the nightmare world into which the protagonist falls is ours—to provide much in the way of theodicy balm, and so fails to soothe in the way we've come to expect our alternate-world tales to.
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| 2001 Locus June 13/1
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Madeleine E. Robins sold two more alternate-world ‘Regency’ thrillers to Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor.
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| 2001 Locus June 69/2
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Each intro chronicles another stage in his‥life (while providing glimpses of ‘alternate worlds’ where things might have gone otherwise).
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| 2002 K. S. Robinson in Locus Jan. 7/1,
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I thought it would be naive and something like racism in reverse to suggest that if we got rid of Europe the world would have happily put itself together. There are all kinds of double binds in writing an alternative history. Do you make the alternate world better or worse?
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