| 1954 Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Feb. 40
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We had thought that Mr. Reynolds had pretty well covered the subject of time travel and alternate continua in such deft exercises as The Business, As Usual (F&SF, June, 1952) and The Adventure of the Snitch in Time (F&SF, July, 1953); but here is yet another adroit variant‥with a startling footnote to the alternate history of our own Old West.
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| 1967 A. Norton Operation Time Search i. 6
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You have heard of the alternate history theory—that from each major historical decision two alternate worlds come into being.
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| 1984 B. Stableford The SF Sub-genres in D. Wingrove Sci. Fiction Source Bk. (1984) 51
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Essays in alternate history have long been a favorite game among historians, but as respectable intellectuals the historians have been timid in their ventures. SF writers, by contrast, are anything but timid—what they often lack is a sense of historical coherency.
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| 1991 Locus Nov. 21/2
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Allen Steele's ‘Goddard's People’ is more substantial as alternate history.
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| 1992 M. Resnick Alternate Presidents Introd. p. ix,
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Contrary to popular belief, science fiction does not necessarily have to look to the future to ask the question. 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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| 1992 Locus Aug. 4/1
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Alternate histories fit into the science fiction field because their history connects back to some moment of our past.
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| 1992 Locus June 58/1
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‘In the Stone House’ is by far the best, an alternate history tale in which Joe Kennedy‥survives to become President.
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| 1992 Locus Aug. 28/1
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Victorious-Nazi tales date back to the thirties, and may be the largest single subcategory of the alternate-history motif.
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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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| 1997 Sci.-Fiction Studies Mar. 145
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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.
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| 1998 Interzone Feb. 4/3
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This continuum is one of the fascinating things about alternate history: it runs from the borders of elfland fantasy to the common rooms of academia.
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| 2001 Locus June 15/1
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The story has a superficial resemblance to a Stephen Baxter alternate-space race-history story.
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| 2002 SFRA Rev. Jan.–Feb. 7/1
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I have watched SFRA grow and develop for most of its history, and I have heard and read the ideas and dreams of its members‥. In some ‘alternate history’ of SFRA, perhaps these dreams have already been fulfilled.
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| 2002 Asimov's Sci. Fiction Sept. 137/2
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As fans of alternate history have come to expect, there are a number of entertaining crossovers from our own timeline to that of the novel.
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| 2002 Asimov's Sci. Fiction Sept. 137/1
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Here's an alternate history based on the assumption that a series of comet impacts in the mid-nineteenth century forced the British empire to relocate the center of its government to India.
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| 2002 G. K. Wolfe in Locus Jan. 19/1
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Few alternate history tales really concern themselves with alternate history at all, in the sense of tracing large patterns of historical change; instead they tend to focus on alternate presents , with the evolutionary processes that lead to such presents sketched in with a few paragraphs of backstory.
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| 2002 G. K. Wolfe in Locus Jan. 19/1
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From the beginning, though, Robinson's interest in the alternate-history motif was far more complex than what the subgenre has since turned into, with alterations in history viewed as little more story machines and setting generators.
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