uchronic adj.
of or relating to uchronias
SF Criticism
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1938
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Aldous Huxley
Returning from Uchronic speculations to a consideration of actuality, we find that in Russia the original aim of the revolutionaries was the creation of a society enjoying the maximum possible amount of self-government in every field of activity.
Ends & Means x. 146
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1991 Locus May 5/2
By exporting information technology into a version of the historical past, we had a laboratory situation. We could turn it loose on a known quantity. The ‘uchronic’ novel…is a very, rigorous form.
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1995
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Greg Egan
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If Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night had only penetrated the collective subconscious more fully when it appeared, the whole course of the AIDS plague might have been radically different—and that’s a hot topic in Uchronic Studies which one of my doctoral students is currently pursuing.
Silver Fire in Interzone Dec. 11 -
2004
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Claude Lalumière
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Paul’s book Lost Pages is a collection of uchronic fiction, each story dealing with a different alternate history, a different vision of what might have been.
Paul di Filippo's Lost Pages: An Introduction in N.Y. Review of Science Fiction (#189) May 11/1
Research requirements
antedating 1938
Earliest cite
Aldous Huxley
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Simon Koppel submitted a 1938 cite from Aldous Huxley.We would like cites of any date from other sources.
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