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Alternate history is a genre of science fiction where the story is set in a world where some specific historical event never happened or happened differently (for example: Confederates won the US Civil War, the Germans won the Battle of Britain, etc.).

Very often (but not always) alternate history stories involve *TIME TRAVEL*, *PARALLEL WORLDS*, and/or *CROSS-TIME* travel.

Some authors who have written alternate history stories include Harry Turtledove, S. M. Stirling, L. Sprague de Camp, Eric Flint and Philip K. Dick.

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The Way It Wasn't: Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History

By Martin Harry Greenberg

Kensington Publishing Corp.
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The Way It Wasn t: Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History
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The Way It Wasn't takes an amusing, intellectually stimulating excursion into speculative history. Here are thirteen memorable stories by renowned science fiction writers, telling what things might be like if... Elvis Presley weren't the "King" but the President of the United States ("Ike at the Mike" by Howard Waldrop)... The Black Death had killed the entire population of Europe in the fourteenth century ("Lion Time in Timbuctoo" by Robert Silverberg)... John F. Kennedy had survived the 1963 shooting in Dallas ("The Winterberry" by Nicholas A. DiChario). Included, too, is fascinating short fiction by Mike Resnick, Susan Shwartz, Larry Niven, Pamela Sargent, Fritz Leiber, Greg Bear, Barry N. Malzberg, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford and Kim Stanley Robinson. After reading these stories - some of the most compelling examples of alternate history anywhere - your mind will keep spinning the question "What If...?"

An Involuntary King: A Tale of Anglo Saxon England

By Nan Hawthorne

BookSurge Publishing
Released: 2008-09-03
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An Involuntary King: A Tale of  Anglo Saxon England
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The younger son of a Saxon king unexpectedly finds himself wearing the crown when his father and older brother are slain in an attempted usurping. His is a story of a young man striving to prove himself to others and to quench his own self-doubt. He is aided by his queen, the love of his life, and his loyal friends, but finds himself beset by monumental challenges. He must overcome threat in battle, from treachery, and from setbacks that shake him. The queen is relentlessly pursued by a darkly sensual mercenary who will do anything to win her away from her husband, even cold-blooded murder. While the king wages battle in his wife's homeland she is caught behind enemy lines and joins in the fight to restore the sovereignty of the kingdom. Hard choices must be made and more conflict faced before the king, queen and their children will be together again. This novel is the story of steadfast love amid brutal battles, devastating loss, heart breaking betrayal, yet with acts of remarkable devotion and even humor along the way.

Regression

By Kathy Bell

Northern Sanctum
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Regression
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Fourteen-year-old Adya Jordan swears that before her head injury she was a forty-year-old mother of six. Is she going crazy, or did she really live through an entirely different life? 1985 is nothing like she remembers, although her first day of high school certainly is! A typical girl with atypical genes, Adya tries to recapture her old life, hiding her growing conviction that she has done this before. Memories of the man she loved and a family she adored haunt her, even though her future husband doesn't even know she exists. Accidentally discovering the secretive Three Eleven Corporation might know more about her situation than she does, she is convinced the twenty-eight men heading up the company are responsible for the changes in her world. Adya finds her way into their ranks, journeying to the tropical island headquarters to begin an orientation into their prestigious internship program. The Three Eleven Company controls the development and distribution of Twenty-first Century technology brought with them from the future. Charged with the task of preparing the world for an impending disaster, each member of the team uses his scientific background to create a solution for a problem the planet does not know it is facing. They don't have time to deal with a feisty young girl poking around. Banished to the frozen Canadian Shield for asking too many questions of CEO Abraham Fairfield, Adya finds the men in the underground city of Sanctum are interested in more than just her genes as they search for the answer to her presence in the timeline. In the end, Adya encounters a choice no mother should ever face: save her children...or everyone else.

Science Fiction And Alternate History, A Collection of Short Stories

By David Scholes

Strategic Book Publishing
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Science Fiction And Alternate History, A Collection of Short Stories
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Fans of the science fiction genre will find Science Fiction and Alternate History-A Collection of Short Stories by David Scholes an impossible to put down read. Tales that range the gamut from alien invasions to shape shifters to disquieting alternate realities-Scholes' voice, perfect paced action, believable characters and plausible plotlines are sci-fi at its finest. What if one day no single human being died? In "The Day Nobody Died" Scholes expertly tackles this theory and brilliantly captures what could happen. In Los Angles, the tables are turned and senior adults have a disquieting power in "Grey Power." Unless you're very wealthy or very old, life is dreadfully unpleasant in "Life Wasn't Meant to Be Easy." Scholes weaves tales of suspense, terror and unexplored what if's. His characters come vividly to life and you'll wonder if the alternate world you're in while reading may be lurking at the fringes of reality. Travel from the Mediterranean to black holes on the other side of the Universe, but get ready for a thrill-of-minute ride that will leave you breathless!

A Band of Roses

By Pat McDermott

Tiger Publicaitons, Inc
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Ancient Irish traditions remain strong in a world where High King Brian Boru survived the Battle of Clontarf and established a dynasty that rules Ireland to this day. When greed for oil prompts England's Regent to claim an Irish island in the North Atlantic, Irish Crown Princess Talty becomes a pawn in a murderous plot to seize the throne of England.

Alien Opportunities

By Kurt Rellians

AuthorHouse
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Alien Opportunities
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The short erotic novel, Alien Opportunities, is an alternative present fantasy about the impact of alien visitors on Earth's society, culture and economy. It tells the story of Chris who lives on Earth at a time when aliens from an ostensibly peaceful and friendly planet have arrived on Earth and set up companies to trade with us. Chris is unhappy with his nine to five job, and finds out that the alien arrival has created new opportunities for work in alien employment. He finds himself new work, working for the aliens, and comes into contact with their sexual desires. The novel is erotic, but is as much a science fiction scenario with a sociological setting. The book is not merely a simple tale of erotic behavior in ordinary scenarios. It seeks to imagine what the alien society of Starmanena, which has very different attitudes towards sex from our own, might be like, and what might happen if it came into contact with ours. Without attempting to be too descriptive of the detail of these two opposing societies, the novel follows the fortunes of Chris, raised in the sexually restricted lifestyle of Earth, as he comes into contact with Starmanenans and goes to work among them. Chris comes to appreciate the aliens, but is unable to overcome various doubts about them. Are the aliens engaged upon a mission to lure the brightest and best among us to a life of slavery or even worse depravity in the stars, as many suspect? Or are the aliens benign? Are they inevitably winning because they offer what Earth society on its own could not give, i.e. sexual liberation, paternal or maternal guidance, and freedom from the commercial imperative.

The Empress and the Professor

By Samuel, Odell Campbell

Holy Fire Publishing
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The Empress and the Professor
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A college professor follows the empress of the world and her chief aide around the world. She wants the professor to help eradicate poverty. They debate what the government should do. Laissez faire? Or some sort of socialism? If so, which? Economics and ethics are involved in a mystery of why there is so much poverty.

PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale

By Steven Rage

Outskirts Press
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PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale
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Pontius Pilate is cursed to be a vampire. Life after life after life.

PILATE is a drug lord vampire in this re-telling of Christ's final days. When given yet another chance to save the Earth's latest Christ, will the re-incarnated Pilate choose to protect Her? Or, will he wash his hands once again? Be warned: The Harbor is wicked. The violence is graphic. The sex is brutal and the terror is palpable. PILATE is not your parents' bible story....

Lists of Video Games by Theme or Setting: List of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, List of Alternate History Fiction

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Lists of Video Games by Theme or Setting: List of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, List of Alternate History Fiction
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, List of Alternate History Fiction, List of Undead-Themed Video Games, List of Games Containing Time Travel, List of Fiction Set in Chicago, List of Western Computer and Video Games, List of World War Ii Video Games, List of Video Games Set in New York City, List of World War I Video Games, List of Video Games Set in London. Excerpt: This is a list of computer and video games that are set in the Old West (or even a science fiction western ). Game: Date: Platforms: Publisher: Notes item A item Alone in the Dark 3 : May 16, 1995: DOS Mac OS Windows : Infogrames Interplay : item An American Tail: Fievel Goes West : August , 1994: SNES PC : Hudson Soft : item An American Tail: Fievel's Gold Rush : March 1, 2002 May 2, 2003: GBA : Conspiracy Entertainment Crave Entertainment : item B item Back to the Future Part III : 1991: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Amiga Amstrad CPC Atari ST Commodore 64 DOS Sega Master System ZX Spectrum : Image Works Mirrorsoft : item Badlands : 1984: Arcade : Konami : item Bakushou Yoshimoto No Shinkigeki : January 3, 1994: PC-Engine Super CD-ROM : Hudson Soft : Only 1 world has a western theme. item Bang! Howdy : December 1, 2006: All Java supported computer systems.: Three Rings Design : item Bank Panic : Arcade: 1984 ZX Spectrum

Classic and Iconoclastic Alternate History Science Fiction (Studies in Comparative Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 56.)

Edwin Mellen Press
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The essays in this volume analyse the important sub-genre of science fiction called alternate history - stories set in worlds that have been fictionalized by altering some key event in real history. It examines some of the fanous themes of this literature: the American South winning the Civil War, and the Nazis winning World War II, as well as analysing some fascinating experiments with the form, such as those by Robert Silverberg and Robert Coover. Essays are by scholars including Thomas Shippey, Steven Kagle, Robert Geary, Martha Bartter and Joe Sanders. The book moves from the origins of alternate history to discussions of early examples, and unusual experiments within it, and deals not only with printed literature but with film and graphic novels as well.

 
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