= ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds. Waugh & Greenberg) (Garland 1986) = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1992) = ALTERNATIVES (eds. Adams & Adams) (Baen 1989) = ALTERNATE OUTLAWS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1994) = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1992) = ALTERNATE TYRANTS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1996, not yet published) = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed. M. Resnick) (Tor 1993) = ALTERNATE WORLDCONS (ed M. Resnick) (Axolotl 1994) = BY ANY OTHER FAME (eds. M. Resnick & Greenberg) (DAW 1994) = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds. Adams et al) (Signet 1987) = BEYOND TIME (ed. Ley) (Pocket 1976) = _The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction_ = HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (ed. Armer) (Heyne 1990) = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds. Benford & Greenberg) (Garland 86; Berkley 87) = _Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine_ = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE (ed. Squire) (Longmans, Green 1931; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 1972; St. Martin's 1974; rev vt IF: OR, HISTORY REWRITTEN, Viking 1931; Kennikat 1964) = IF I HAD BEEN... (ed. Snowman) (Rowman & Littlefield 1979) = THE IFS OF HISTORY (by Chamberlin) (Henry Altemus 1907; Atheneum 1908) = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (by Borden & Graham) (Heath 77) = SCHOENE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE (ed. Oth) (Luchterhand 1988) = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Polsby) (Lewis 1982) = WHAT IF THE MOON DIDN'T EXIST? VOYAGES TO EARTHS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (by Comins) (HarperCollins 1993, 0060168641; HarperCollins 1995, 0060925566) = THE WAY IT WASN'T: GREAT STORIES OF ALTERNATE HISTORY (ed. Greenberg) (Carol/Citadel 1996) = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds. Benford & Greenberg) (Bantam 1989-92); and incl. in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I AND II (SFBC 1990); and and incl. in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES III AND IV (SFBC 1992) = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed. Silverberg) (Thomas Nelson 1970; Dell 1974) Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ALTERNATIVES (Baen 1989, 0671698184) %C New stories by J.F. Carr & R.J. Green, R.J. Green, Shwartz, L.N. Smith, and Turtledove. Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds.), ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (NAL/Signet 1987, 0451148940) %C Reprints of Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven, and Piper. Armer, Karl Michael (ed.), HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (Heyne 1990, 3453043081) %C German translations of stories by Aldiss, Effinger, Gibson, Lansdale, Martin, K.S. Robinson, Shiner, Somtow, and Turtledove. Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II (Garland 1986, 0824086589; Berkley 1987, 0425101371) %C Reprints and new stories by Bailey, Bear, Benford, Brin, Budrys, Finch, Goldsmith, Kornbluth, Linaweaver, K. Roberts, and Shippey. Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 1: ALTERNATE EMPIRES (Bantam 1989, 0553278452); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I AND II (SFBC 1990) %C New stories by P. Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow, Niven, Pohl, K.S. Robinson, Silverberg, and Turtledove. ----------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 2: ALTERNATE HEROES (Bantam 1990, 0553282794); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES I AND II (SFBC 1990) %C New stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis by Cassutt, Finch, Harrison & Shippey, Laidlaw, Malzberg, Morrow, Rucker & Di Filippo, Shwartz, Silverberg, Tarr, Turtledove, W.J. Williams, and Zebrowski. ----------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 3: ALTERNATE WARS (Bantam 1991, 0553290088); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES III AND IV (SFBC 1992) %C New stories and a reprint exploring results of battles/wars by P. Anderson, Benford, Busby, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M. Resnick, Steele, Turtledove, and Zebrowski. ----------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS (Bantam 1992, 055329007X); included in WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, VOLUMES III AND IV (SFBC 1992) %C Semi-new stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus's first voyage by Attanasio, de Camp, Eklund, Finch, Friesner, Malzberg, Oltion, Sargent, Silverberg, Turtledove, and Zebrowski. Borden, Morton, & Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Heath 1977, 06690048X) %C 12 essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, THE IFS OF HISTORY (Henry Altemus 1907; Atheneum 1908) %C 22 essays on possible turning points in history, with speculation on possible results. Comins, Neil F., WHAT IF THE MOON DIDN'T EXIST? VOYAGES TO EARTHS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (HarperCollins 1993, 0060168641; HarperCollins 1995, 0060925566) %C 10 essays on different Earths, five of which involve an altered early solar system. Greenberg, Martin H., THE WAY IT WASN'T: GREAT STORIES OF ALTERNATE HISTORY (Carol/Citadel 1996, 0806517697) %C 14 reprints, including stories by Leiber, Niven, K.S. Robinson, Shwartz, and Waldrop Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY (George Newnes 1929) %C 20 essays on possible turning points in history, with much background but no development. (No separate entries for the essays are listed below.) Levine, Herbert M. (ed.), WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (M.E. Sharpe 1992, 1563240092, 1563240106) %C 10 essays on different US political structures, but only entries by Ferrell and Pitney are AH. Ley, Sandra (ed.), BEYOND TIME (Pocket 1976, 0671807382) %C New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J. Coulson, R. Coulson, Davidson, Eklund, A.D. Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O. Ley, Ward Moore, Orgill, Percy, D. Thompson, and Zebrowski. Oth, Rene (ed.) SCHOENE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE (Luchterhand 1988, 3630617980) %C German translations of stories by I.E. Cox, Eklund, Elgin, Lafferty, Piper, K. Roberts, and K.S. Robinson. Polsby, Nelson W. (ed.) WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (Lewis 1982, 0866160183) %C Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, C.O. Jones, R.A. Kagan, N.E. Long, Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury, Wildavsky, and P.M. Williams. Resnick, Mike (ed.), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (Tor 1992, 0812519558) %C New stories, with AH entries by Aronson, Cadigan, Effinger, Friesner, Gerrold, Katze, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, L. Resnick, M. Resnick, Rusch, Soukup, Tarr, and Von Rospach. -------------------, ALTERNATE OUTLAWS (Tor 1994, 0812533445) %C New stories, with AH entries by Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, Gerrold, King, Koja & Malzberg, McHugh, Meacham, Nimersheim, L. Resnick, F.M. Robinson, Rusch, Sheckley, Simner, Soukup, Steele, Tarr, Thomsen, and W.J. Williams. -------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (Tor 1992, 0812511921) %C New stories involving American elections by Cadigan, J. Carr, Chalker, G. Cox, Delaplace, Easton, Fawcett, Gerrold, Gilliland, Gunn, J. Kagan, King, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg (1), Malzberg (2), Moffett, Nimersheim, Nye, Person, L. Resnick, M. Resnick, R. Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz, Soukup, Thomsen, and Watt-Evans. -------------------, ALTERNATE TYRANTS (Tor 1996, not yet published) %C New stories by Bourne, DiChario, Feeley, Gormley, R.J. Green, J.C. Haldeman & Delaplace, Koja & Malzberg, K. Long, Lupoff, McHugh, Nichols, Nimersheim, L. Resnick, F.M. Robinson, Rowder, Rusch, Sagara, Schimel, Thomsen, and van Belkom. -------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS (Tor 1993, 0812523466) %C New stories by Delaplace, DiChario, Fawcett Friesner, Gerrold, J.C. Haldeman, Hernandez, King, Kube-McDowell, Lackey, A.R. Lewis, Linaweaver, Malzberg, McHugh, Meacham, L. Resnick, M. Resnick, Rusch, Sagara, Schimel, J. Sherman, Tarr, Thomsen, and M. White. Resnick, Mike (ed.), ALTERNATE WORLDCONS (Axolotl 1994, 1561464481) %C New stories by Aronson, DeWeese & R. Coulson, Gilliam, Glyer, J.C. Haldeman, Katze, A.R. Lewis (1), A.R. Lewis (2), McGarry, M. Resnick, F.M. Robinson, Rowder, Rusch, Spelman, Thomsen. (Note: the maintainer of this bibliography suspects that several of these stories are _not_ AH, but having not yet seen the book, lists them all for completeness.) -------------------, ILLEGITIMATE STEPDAUGHTER OF ALTERNATE WORLDCONS (Axolotl 1996, not yet published) %C ... Resnick, Mike, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), BY ANY OTHER FAME (DAW 1994, 0886775949) %C New stories by Daniel, Delaplace, DiChario, Effinger, J.C. Haldeman, J. Kagan, Kress, Lackey & Dixon, Malzberg (1), Malzberg (2), Meacham, Nimersheim, L. Resnick, Rusch, Simner, D.W. Smith, Tarr, and Thomsen. Resnick, Mike & Patrick Nielsen Hayden (eds.), ALTERNATE SKIFFY (Pulphouse 1996, not yet published) %C Science fiction stories which were never written. Silverberg, Robert (ed.), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION (Thomas Nelson 1970; Dell 1974); %C Reprints of P. Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster, and Niven. Snowman, Daniel (ed.), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (Rowman & Littlefield 1979, 0847661369) %C Corrections of decisions by historical figures by Allen, Blakemore, Calvert, Edwards, Morgan, Pearton, Shukman, R. Thompson, Windsor, and Wright. Squire, J.C. (ed.), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY HISTORY (Longmans, Green 1931; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 1972; St. Martin's 1974; rev vt IF: OR, HISTORY REWRITTEN, Viking 1931; Kennikat 1964) %C The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher, Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev. ed. replaces Knox with Van Loon. Exp. ed. adds Petrie and Trevelyan to the original contents. Waugh, Charles G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES: ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (Garland 1986, 0824086597) %C Reprints and new stories by P. Anderson, Benet, I.E. Cox, de Camp, Elgin, Hale, Lafferty, Piper, K. Roberts, K.S. Robinson, and Utley & Waldrop. Reference mat'l by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain. ----- Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME (Donning 1979, 0915442965; Signet 1982, 0451114744) %W Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 451. %S Tourists trapped in a remote villa are transported to a 17th-century in which the Moorish pope has declared a Crusade against England. -------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND (Signet 1985, 0451133404) %S The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the high seas and to Ireland. -------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS (NAL/Signet 1986, 0451145747) %S Abdul II may be dead, but the fight in Ireland continues. -------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS (Signet 1987, 0451151100) %S More intrigue in Ireland and England, and new fighting in N America. -------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS (Signet 1988, 0451157222) %S ... -------------, OF BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS (Signet 1989) %S ... Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE (Cape 1962; Doubleday 1963; Hutchinson 1975; Dell 1981, 1987; Red Fox 1994, 009936591X) %W The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars. %S Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess. %C Except for wolves besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH. -----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA (Doubleday 1964; Cape 1965; Dell 1969, 1981; Dell/Yearling 1987, 0440496039) %S Hanoverians plot against James III. -----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET (Doubleday 1966; Dell 1969) %S A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at St. James's Palace. -----------, THE STOLEN LAKE (Cape 1981; Delacorte 1981, 0440083176) %S A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is discovered in the Andes. -----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN (Doubleday 1969) %S The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure. -----------, THE CUCKOO TREE (Cape 1971, 0224005146; Doubleday 1971; Doubleday 1988, 0440400465) %S Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV. -----------, DIDO AND PA (Delacorte 1986, 0385294808) %S Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV. -----------, IS (Jonathan Cape 1992, 0224032968; vt IS UNDERGROUND, Delacorte 1993, 0385308981) %S The royal heir is among numerous English children stolen away as slave labor. -----------, MIDNIGHT IS A PLACE (Cape 1974, 0224009680; Viking 1974, 0670474835; Scholastic 1993, 059045496X) %S ... Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM (Ardis 1981, 0882337440, 0882337459) %T English tr. by Michael Henry Heim as THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA (Random House 1983, 0394524314; Vintage 1984, 0394727657) %W The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't. %S In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands. Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY (Cape 1976, 022401269X) %W Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids. %S ... Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (vt "Danger: Religion!"), in _Science Fantasy_ Oct 1962; THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS (Faber 1966; Gregg 1981, 0839825668); THE INNER LANDSCAPE (ed. Michael Moorcock) (Allison & Busby 1969, 0850310059); NEANDERTHAL PLANET (Avon 1969; Avon ..., 0380541971); and THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed. ... Boardman) (publ. unknown) %T German tr. by Barbara Heidkamp as "Vorsicht! Religion", in %S In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans. Aldiss, Brian W., "M.E.R.O's Sinai Project, 1957-1970" (vt "What You Get for Your Dollar"), in THE SHAPE OF FURTHER THINGS: SPECULATIONS ON CHANGE (Faber 1970, 0571094724; Doubleday 1971); and THE NEW IMPROVED SUN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF UTOPIAN SF (ed. Thomas M. Disch) (Harper & Row 1975, 006011052X; Hutchinson 1976, 0091242002) %W The UN took strong action following the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in 1956, including an internat'l reclamation project in the Sinai. %S A man from a world beset by an energy crisis visits the utopian Sinai of another and describes its history. Aldiss, Brian W., "A Tupolev Too Far", in OTHER EDENS III (eds. Christopher Evans & Robert Holdstock) (Unwin 1989); and A TUPOLEV TOO FAR (HarperCollins UK 1993, 0002240335; St. Martin's 1994, 0312105657; HarperCollins 1994, 0006476317) %W A massive explosion which flattened Berlin in July 1914 led to an internat'l relief effort and averted WW1. %S A British publisher traveling to Nicholas III's glorious imperial Russia somehow ends up in our Brezhnev's gray Moscow. Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY (Franklin Watts 1987, 0531150402; St. Martin's 1988, 0312911122) %W Churchill was killed during a visit to Finland in 1935. Later, Germany gobbled up W Europe but left the Zinoviev-led Soviet Union alone. %S A Finnish composer finds the body of a girl alongside the road, and inside her backpack is an SF thriller about a different WW2. Allen, Louis, "If I had been... Hideki Tojo in 1941", in %W The prime minister of Japan pursued a path which would maximize Japan's gains without forcing a war with the United States. %S Japan's takeover of Java and Siberia provokes a worried America to elect MacArthur in '44 and to ally with Germany. The falling Japan uses nukes. Allikas, David, "A Switch in Time!", in _Time Warp_ #4 (Apr/May 1980, DC Comics) %W AmerInds had nuclear capability. %S Time-travellers trying to prevent a nuclear war kidnap Albert Einstein and drop him off in 1782 N America. Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK: ROMAN (Nymphenburger 1979, 3485003697; Heyne 1981, 1983; Heyne 1994, 3453072499) %W Former Confederate soldiers were hired as mercenaries by Bavaria and used to subjugate Bismarck's Prussia. %S Bavaria replaces Prussia as the dominant German power and important European player. Amery, Carl, DAS KOENIGSPROJEKT (Piper 1974, 3492020747; Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 1978; Heyne 1984) %S The Vatican tries to use Leonardo da Vinci's time machine to support a Bavarian-Stuart reversal of the Reformation. Ambrose, David, THE MAN WHO TURNED INTO HIMSELF (Jonathan Cape 1993, 0224035193; St. Martin's 1994, 0312104979; Pan 1995, 0330326740; St. Martin's/Picador 1995) %W John and Robert Kennedy were not assassinated and Lloyd Bentsen was president in 1990. %S The sight of his wife's death in an auto accident shocks a man sideways into another version of himself. Ambrose, Stephen, PEGASUS BRIDGE: JUNE 6, 1944 (Simon & Schuster 1985) %W British troops did not take and hold on to Pegasus Bridge during the D-Day invasion. %C Epilog speculates that if Germans had retained control, reinforcements might have eventually rolled up the Allied invasion force. Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION (Cape 1976, 022401305X; Viking 1976, 0670115223; Panther 1978) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as DIE VERWANDLUNG (Heyne 1986) %W Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king of England upon the death of Henry VII. Later, Martin Luther became pope. %S A boy soprano in 1976 Catholic England tries to flee becoming a papal castrato. %C Winner: 1977 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Anderson, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in _Analog_ Jan 1993 %W Various famous rock stars did not die tragic deaths. %S A man visiting alternate Earths to obtain "new" music by "dead" rockers comes across an album with his name on it. ------------------, "Tide Pools", in _Analog_ Dec 1993 %S A woman searches the timelines for a cure to an "orphan" disease afflicting her husband. Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX (Bantam 1991, 0553292463) %W US nuclear weapons research was slowed down, while the Nazis accelerated theirs. %S An accident propels an anti-nuclear activist back to 1943 Los Alamos and she sets out to prevent the Trinity test. Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est", in Dec 1955; GUARDIANS OF TIME (Ballantine 1960, 0345018907; exp Pinnacle 1981); ; ANNALS OF THE TIME PATROL (Doubleday ...); ; TIME WARS (eds. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg) (Tor 1986, 0812530489, 0812530497); THE GREAT SF STORIES: 17 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1988, 0886772567); THE ETERNAL CITY (ed. David Drake) (publ. unknown); and THE TIME PATROL (Tor 1991, 0312852312; Tor 1994) %W The Scipios were killed at Ticinus, and Hannibal later captured and destroyed Rome. %S Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York"; it's up to Time Patrolman Manse Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right. --------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME (Tor 1990, 0312850883; Tor 1991, 0812510003) %S Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and Rignano (1137). %C Non-AH entries in series are "Time Patrol", "Brave to be a King", "The Only Game in Town", "Gibraltar Falls", "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks", "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth", "Star of the Sea" and "The Year of the Ransom". All may be found in the THE TIME PATROL (Tor 1991, 0312852312) and elsewhere. Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed. Harlan Ellison) (Doubleday 1967; NAL 1975); PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT: A TEXT ANTHOLOGY OF SPECULATIVE & SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Jack C. Wolf & Gregory Fitz Gerald) (Fawcett 1973); and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS (Berkley 1981) %W Alexander lived longer _or_ Christianity fell before Norse, Arab and Magyar attacks. %S A crosstime explorer from an advanced Alexandrine timeline violates a taboo while visiting a Norse-Magyar N America Anderson, Poul, "House Rule", in HOMEBREW (ed. anon.) (NESFA 1976); May 1979; and FANTASY (Pinnacle 1981) %S The Heloise and Abelard of two different worlds meet at a tavern outside time. ---------------, "Loser's Night", in Short Story Paperbacks, #1 (Pulphouse 1991) %S ... Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in %W Assyrians captured Jerusalem and the Diasporah occurred before Christianity could get started. %S Adventures of a courier from North Markland (America) in an alternate Israel/Palestine. Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST (Doubleday 1974, 0385055056; Ballantine 1975, 0345274520; Orbit/Futura 1975, 0860078574) %W Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works. %S In order to keep Charles I on England's throne, a Cavalier prince searches for Prospero's isle. %C Nominee: 1975 Nebula for best novel. Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS (Doubleday 1971, 0385005881; Lancer ...; Berkley 1978; Baen 1992, 067172102X; Severn House 1995, 0727847635); fixup of "Operation Afreet", in Sep 1956; "Operation Salamander", in Jan 1957; "Operation Incubus", in Oct 1959; and "Operation Changeling", serial in May & Jun 1969 %W Men learned to remove antimagical properties of iron and magical technology ensued. %S A werewolf and witch are involved in repeated struggles against the machinations of Hell during WW2, as the Saracens invade America. Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS (Doubleday 1961; Avon ..., 0380004120; Berkley 1978; Ace 1984, 0441808212; Baen 1993, 0671721860) %S A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him? Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand", in %W Lucien Bonaparte convinced Napoleon to consolidate the French hold on Europe rather than invade Egypt. Later, the French won at Trafalgar. %S In 1849, Sam Houston talks history with a French diplomat during the battle for New Orleans in the 2nd French-American War. Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU (Denoel 1984) %W ... %S Nazi power lasts _exactly_ 1000 years. Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "Qu'est-ce qu'il faisait, le jeune docteur Frankenstein, en mai 81? et en mai 68?", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU (Denoel 1984) %W Camus, Philipe and Vian did not die in the early 1960s. %S A descendant of Dr. Frankenstein extends the lives of Camus, Philipe and Vian to see how they would have affected later French history. Andrews, Keith William, FREEDOM'S RANGERS (Berkley 1989) ----------------------, RAIDERS OF THE REVOLUTION (Berkley 1989) ----------------------, SEARCH AND DESTROY ----------------------, TREASON IN TIME (Berkley 1990) ----------------------, SINK THE ARMADA! (Berkley 1990) ----------------------, SNOW KILL (Berkley 1991) %S Time war action in which American and Soviets try to delete each other from history. anon., THE OCCUPATION (... 1960) %W Germany won WW2. %S ... anon., "Scene and Not Herd: Failure of a Revolution", in _Harper's Bazaar_ Nov 1967 %W The 1917 Russian Revolution was bloodily suppressed. %S Post-1917 imperial governance is no better than the Communist's. Anthony, Piers, & Roberto Fuentes, DEAD MORN (Tafford 1990; Ace 1994, 0441000525) %W The Soviets managed to get the nuclear missiles in Cuba operational before the US noticed their existence _or_ the US attacked Cuba on first finding out about the missiles. %S A man from 400 years in our future travels back to 1962 Cuba to make a slight change in history, but on finding that it didn't have the desired effect he travels back to 1958 to become part of Castro's rebel forces. Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in _Analog_ Dec 1970 %W The scientific revolution started in the 15th century, the result of a man's being saved from drowning. %S Discovery of the Americas is stalled, then stifled, by too-rigid adherence to the scientific method. Anvil, Christopher, "Bugs", in _Analog_ Jun 1986 %W Henry Ford never existed to standardize the auto industry. %S A computer salesman from our world dreams of a world in which the auto industry suffers from incompatible hardware and formats. Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? MYSTERE EN TROIS JOURNEES (Gallimard 1954) %W Joan of Arc was rescued. %S God allows Joan to be rescued, much to her disillusionment. Armor, John C., "Bureaucrats and Quiche-Eaters on the Chisholm Trail", in _Journal of Irreproducible Results_ Apr/May 1985 %S ... Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG (Harrap 1943) %W Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940. %S How the invasion was defeated. Armstrong, Michael, "Everything That Rises, Must Converge", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Feb 1993 %W Flannery O'Connor became an SF writer. %S In 1962, O'Connor wins yet another Hugo while trying to get a mainstream novel published so she can earn literary immortality before dying of lupus. Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO (Andre Sabatier 1937; Plon 1964, 1968; Rombaldi 1976, 2231001918) %W Napoleon won at Waterloo. %S Despite victory, Napoleon suffers an identity crisis and abdicates. Aronson, Mark, "Gemutlichkon I", in %S ... Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect", in %W Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt, and as a result adopted a hard anti-crime stance. %S Facing Democratic rejection, RFK becomes the Republican presidential nominee as brother Teddy leads the Democrats. Nixon still becomes president. Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY (J. Curley 1981, 0893403385); rev. of "The End of Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS (Doubleday 1986, 0385197845; ROC ...) %W Enrico Fermi did not participate in atomic research and the atomic bomb was never dropped on Hiroshima. %S An organization called Eternity strives to optimize human history to bring happiness to the largest number of people. Our hero, a time-change engineer, falls in love with a woman of a further future who tries to convince him that tampering with time will make the human race lose the race to the stars. %C Marginally AH. Divergence is 1932 but all results shown are in _far_ future. Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?", in _Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine_ Fall 1978; 3 BY ASIMOV: THREE SCIENCE FICTION TALES (Targ 1981); THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES (Doubleday 1983, 0385180993) %W Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta THESPIS was not lost. %S A mental time traveler attempting to learn the score of THESPIS causes it to go into print, with personally damaging consequences. Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH: SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF OUR OWN PLANET (Doubleday 1957; Abelard-Schuman 1976, 0200723782); OUT OF THIS WORLD 3 (eds. ... Williams-Ellis & ... Owen) (Blackie & Son 1961); ; VALENCE AND VISION: A READER IN PSYCHOLOGY (eds. Bob Jones & Richard L. Roe) (Rinehart 1974, 0030084164); THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH (Doubleday 1979, 0385132697); and ISAAC ASIMOV: THE COMPLETE STORIES, VOLUME I (Doubleday 1990, 0385416067, 038541627X) %S Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2. Attanasio, A.A., IN OTHER WORLDS (Morrow 1984, 0688039901; Bantam 1985) %W WW1 led to a world gov't. %S ... Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in Nov 1992; and %W N America was discovered and settled by Chinese Buddhists. %S A scribe describes the Unified Sandalwood Autocracies, and an encounter on its eastern shores with a European explorer named Christ-bearer. Averneri, Shlomo, "What If Sadat had Come to Jerusalem Under a Labor Government? (1977)", in %W Itzhak Rabin accepted Rumania's Jan 1977 invitation for a state visit and while there was advised of Anwar Sadat's peace plans. %S Peace talks between Sadat and Rabin include King Hussein of Jordan, leading to an agreement that includes the West Bank, but not the PLO. Avice, Claude: see Barbet, Pierre Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in _New Worlds_ Jun 1964; THE BEST OF NEW WORLDS (ed. Michael Moorcock) (Compact 1965); SF12 (ed. Judith Merrill) (Delacorte 1968); THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed. Michael Moorcock) (Panther 1974); and %T German tr. by Yvonne Krampen as "Die verlorene Unschuld der Frenchy Steiner", in WELTEN DER WAHRSCHEINLICHKEITEN (ed. Ronald M. Hahn) (Ullstein 1983) %W Hitler did not invade Russia. %S Life in occupied London, 1954. Bajs, Drago, "Faktor slucajnosti" ("Coincidence Factor"), in _Sirius_ #80 %S Future temporal scientists test the great man hypothesis, dropping baby Napoleon in 14C Byzantium, and baby Alexander in 9C China. Baker, Eric T., "The Politics of Pneumatic Times", in _Science Fiction Age_ Jan 1996 %S A suffragette is released from prison in order to deliver a ransom to a terrorist threatening to blow up a transcontinental pneumatic train station. Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE (Tor 1991) %S A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where an immortal elven queen rules in France. Balthasar, AS-TU VU MONTEZUMA? (Le Monde 1980); orig. serial in _Le Monde_ Jun-Sep 1980 %S ... Bank, Aaron: see Nathanson, E.M., & Aaron Bank Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL, 2 (Fleuve Noir 1984) %W Hannibal captured Rome. %S A renegade time agent helps out Hannibal, and tries to found a Carthaginian colony in Quebec. Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS: TWO COMPLETE NOVELS (DAW 1980, 0879975833) (------------), L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET (Fleuve Noir 1972) %T English tr. by Bernard Kay as BAPHOMET'S METEOR (DAW 1972) %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as OS CRUZADORS DO ESPACO (Livros Brasil 1980) %W A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118. %S The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the Holy Land and conquer the Mongols. (------------), CROISADE STELLAIRE (Fleuve Noir 1974) %T English tr. by C.J. Cherryh as STELLAR CRUSADE (no separate publ.) %S Outer-space sequel to the above. Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES (Librairie Francais 1970) %S ... Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in _London Mercury_ Nov 1922; TRAVELERS IN TIME (ed. Philip Van Doren Stern) (Doubleday 1947); HALF A MINUTE'S SILENCE (Heinemann 1925; Doubleday 1925; Books for Libraries 1970, 0836933761); and MAURICE BARING RESTORED (Heinemann 1970, 0434347906; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1970, 0374204489) %W Napoleon's father decided that his son would get the best education possible if enlisted in the British navy. %S A sketch of historical and literary consequences from 1800 to 1850. Barnett, Lisa A.: see Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett Baron, Nick, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #2: GLORY'S END (Harper 1990, 0610601305) %S ... %C A follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE. Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME (Lancer 1971, 0447747215) %S During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into another where N America was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him. Barton, S.W.: see Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton Barton, William, "Age of Aquarius", in _Asimov's_ May 1996 %W The Cuban Missile Crisis blew up. %S Six years in the life of a boy. Barton, William, "In Saturn Time", in AMAZING STORIES: THE ANTHOLOGY (ed. Kim Mohan) (Tor 1995, 0312890486) %W Mo Udall was elected president in 1972 and reveresed Nixon's shrinkage of the space program. %S The career of a single astronaut, from the flight of _Apollo 21_ in 1974 to _Discovery_ in 2001. Barton, William, THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS (Warner 1996, 0446601675) %S Travels to other universes, with mention of one in which LBJ was re-elected in 1968 and the Apollo space program kept on going. Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE (Molden 1966) %T English tr., abr. Thomas Weyr, TWILIGHT MAN (Meredith 1968) %W Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London. %S Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle. Baudino, Gael, O GREENEST BRANCH! (Penguin/Roc 1995, 0451454499) %S A ship from the Righteous States of America brings an emissary to a mysterious kingdom in NW Africa, c. 1800. -------------, THE DOVE LOOKED IN (Penguin/Roc 1996) %S ... Baxter, Stephen, ANTI-ICE (HarperCollins UK 1993, 0246138351; HarperCollins UK 1994, 0586212965; HarperPrism 1994, 0061054216) %W An anti-ice comet struck the Antarctic in 1720, and 135 years later, a fragment was used by Britain in a super-bomb which ended the Siege of Sevastopol. %S In 1870, as the Franco-Prussian war begins, an act of sabotage against an anti-ice-powered land leviathan results in five men traveling to the moon. Baxter, Stephen, "Brigantia's Angels", in _Interzone_ #91 (Jan 1995) %W Flying machines were invented in Wales in 1895. %S How the invention came about, with concluding comments on their effect in the Boer War is much shorter and how in 1910 the British gov't is using them against striking coal miners. Baxter, Stephen, "Mittelwelt", in _Interzone_ #82 (Apr 1994) %W Petain was not replaced as commander of French troops in 1918, and Germany quickly scored a western victory then turned eastward. %S In 1940, an AMerican engineer is privileged to participate in Imperial Germany's first manned rocket test flight, and finds himself caught in the Kaiser's first strike against Japan. Baxter, Stephen, "No Longer Touch the Earth", in _Interzone_ #72 (Jun 1993) %W The universe really is a set of crystal spheres. %S Hermann Goering attempts to become the first man to fly to the Axis at the South Pole, but Eddie Rickenbacker gets there at the same time. Bayley, Barrington J., "Tommy Atkins", in _Interzone_ #27 (Jan/Feb 1989) %S The use of nerve-grafting results in soldiers being given body parts to replace those lost in combat, and WW1 drags on for 25 years. Bayley, Barrington J., "The Way into the Wendy House", in _Interzone_ #71 (May 1993) %S Barely AH tale of an encyclopedia of science fiction writers, found in a pub in another timeline, which includes no familiar names, except one. Bear, Greg, EON (Bluejay 1985, 0312941447; Tor 1995, 0812520475) %T Bulgarian tr. by Julian Stoinov as title unknown (... 1995) %W Alexander the Great established a lasting empire. %S An asteroid approaching our Earth turns out to contain artifacts from the future, but its presence inflames existing world tensions. %C AH content appears only in epilog. ----------, ETERNITY (Warner 1988, 0446514020; Warner 1994, 0446601888) %S ... Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1978, 0385124751; Popular Library 1979); THE 1979 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1979); and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN (Arkham House 1983, 0870540947; Warner/Popular Library 1990, 0445208465) %S A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes. Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in ; and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr) (publ. unknown) %S Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a gypsy woman when asking for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat. Beason, Doug: see Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason Beck, James M., "It Might Have Been", in _North American Review_ Jan 1920 %W Clemenceau and Lloyd George questioned Woodrow Wilson's ability to get the US Senate to accept the League of Nations. %S Conversations in which they realize the problem and address it to Wilson. Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea", in _Saturday Review_ 23 Jul 1904; and AROUND THEATERS (Knopf 1930) %W Edward VII closed down all British theaters for ten years on 1 Apr 04. %S How it was the best thing could have happened to British drama. Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in (all eds.) %W Louis XVI escaped Paris and was not executed. %S Following Lafayette's defeat of Republican forces, France sinks into mediocrity and Britain must contend with the mighty Austrian empire. Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls", in _Saturday Evening Post_ 5 October 1935; MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed. ... Stern) (Doubleday 1942; vt GREAT TALES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION, Pocket 1954); SELECTED WORKS, II: PROSE (Farrar & Rinehart 1942); 25 SHORT STORIES (Sun Dial 1943); THE STEPHEN VINCENT BENET POCKET BOOK (Pocket 1946); THIRTEEN O'CLOCK: STORIES OF SEVERAL WORLDS (Farrar & Rinehart 1971; Books for Libraries 1971, 0836937937; Franklin Library 1982); and %W Napoleon were born much earlier, say in 1737. %S An Englishman residing on the Mediterranean coast of France meets a retired, frustrated French artillery major. Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again", in Oct 1991; and %W Rome developed a steam-driven machine gun. %S Rome's former American colonies fight a civil war in the 19th century. Benford, Gregory, TIMESCAPE (Simon & Schuster 1980, 0671253271; Pocket 1981, 0671506323; Bantam 1992); rev. of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in _If_ Sep 1970; and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH (eds. Robert Silverberg & Roger Elwood) (Berkley/Putnam's 1975, 0399114602; Berkley 1977, 0425033155) %W JFK was not assassinated. %S A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as he tries to gain tenure. %C Explicit AH content is brief, appearing only at the end. %C Winner: 1980 Nebula for best novel, 1981 BSFA Award for best novel, 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in %S A man from a timeline where WW2 lasted til 1947, allowing completion of the Final Solution, travels back and sideways to take revenge on Hitler. Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in ; and MATTER'S END (Bantam 1994, 0553568981) %W Nixon threw the California delegation's support to Robert Taft at the 1952 GOP convention, with the stipulation that Joe McCarthy become Veep. %S After Taft's sudden death, McCarthy begins to institute a police state, and 4 years later a congressman is kidnaped. Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... (Bobbs-Merrill 1978, 0672520788; Ace 1979) %T German tr. by Irene Holicki as ZWISCHENHALT (Heyne 1984) %W Four aliens were stranded on Earth in 1908 when they barely avoided an explosive impact at Tunguska and splash-landed near San Francisco. %S To get their ship repaired, they set about accelerating technological development, but President Edison doesn't want to share with Europe. Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP (Warner 1988, 0446514535) %W The US presidential assassination attempt on 22 Nov 1963 failed. %S Hunting the conspirators, plus the elections of 1964 and 68. %C Borderline AH, as all names are changed. Bernau's CANDLE IN THE WIND similarly treats the survival of a Marilyn Monroe-like actress with false names but seems even less AH. Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO (Ace 1986, 0812531914, y N. MalzbD( ,%7 %((N13AND FIT FOR HER is THE BIOFAB WAR. %W The US never developed the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was assassinated in Jul 44. %S A war against insectoids shifts from our Earth to another, with a look at fascist Boston. -------------------, THE A.I. WAR (publ. unknown) -------------------, [THE] FINAL ASSAULT (Tor 1988, 0812531892, 0812531906) %S ... Bertin, Eddy C., "Tijdstorm", in DE ACHTJAARLIJKSE GOD (Bruno & Zoon 1971) %T English tr. by Eddy Bertin as "Timestorm", in THE 1972 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1972) %S Barely AH story of a man, caught in a timestorm, who discovers humanoid aliens tinkering with the human past, encouraging the spread of war. Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in Oct 1958; BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 8 (ed. Anthony Boucher) (Doubleday 1959); THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH (Signet 1964); THE VINTAGE ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FANTASY (ed. Christopher Cerf) (Vintage 1966); VOYAGERS IN TIME: TWELVE STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Meredith 1967); AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed. Charles W. Sullivan) (Prentice-Hall 1974, 0130500399, 0130500216); COSMIC LAUGHTER: SCIENCE FICTION FOR THE FUN OF IT (ed. Joe Haldeman) (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1974, 0030069319); STARLIGHT: THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg) (Arbor House 1983, 0877954453); and THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. David G. Hartwell) (Little, Brown 1989, 0316349410) %T German tr. by Alfred Joseph as "Die Moerder Mohammeds", in DIE FUSSANGELN DER ZEIT (eds. Karl Michael Armer & Wolfgang Jeschke) (Heyne 1984) %T Portuguese tr. by Eduardo Sals as "Os Assassinos de Maomi", in VIAJANTES NO TEMPO (ed. ...) (Panorama 1970) %S Due to his wife's infidelity, a Mad Scientist repeatedly goes back in time to prevent her existence but can only affect his "personal" timeline. %C Nominee: 1959 Hugo for best short story. Bester, Alfred, "Out of This World", in THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH (Signet 1964) %S A freak telephone line allows communication with a world in which Japan defeated the US in WW2. Betancourt, John Gregory: see Kingston, Jeremy Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON (Harcourt 1964) %W As punishment for participating in or ignoring the Holocaust, the Allies ordered that 6 million random Germans be executed. %S An exchange of letters between father and son, respectively a member of the provisional postwar gov't and a former SS officer. Bishop, Michael, "And the Marlin Spoke", in Oct 1983 %W N American colonization followed a slightly different path. %S A farmer from a different Oklahoma makes a pilgrimage to the Gulf Coast of New Castile, where a cult of sea worship has sprung up. Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE (publ. unknown); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1988, 0312018541) %W Science and technology advanced faster in portions of the world. %S [St.] Augustine of Hippo receives a visitor from Cathay who speaks of collapsing stars and other arcane heavenly topics. Bishop, Michael, THE SECRET ASCENSION; OR, PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS (St. Martin's/Tor 1987, 0312930313; Tor 1989, 0812531574, 0812531582; vt PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS, Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890028) %W In a skewed world, "Richard Milrose Nixon" was elected to four terms as US president and SF author Philip K. Dick attained more fame. %S Shortly after his death in 1982, Phil Dick visits a small town in Georgia and the moon in order to correct history. Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Arbor House 1988, 1557100144) %W With the aid of Harriet Tubman, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry (three months early) was successful, and provoked a mass black rebellion. %S 100 years later, as Pan Africa is about to land on Mars, a woman delivers to a museum papers describing the roots of the Nova African nation. Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in _Amazing Stories_ Jan 1954; BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed. T.E. Dikty) (Fredrick Fell 1955); SPACE BY THE TAIL (Ballantine 1964); and %W Numerous small things were changed; eg., Shakespeare didn't write HAMLET, the Korean War only lasted two months, etc. %S A physics experiment knocks a passerby into a similar timeline, and he must be returned to save the universe. Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in %W Allende moderated Socialist policy and took decisive action against civil disorder. %S A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a right-wing takeover. Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE (G. Bailliere 1872); included in INSTRUCTIONS POUR UNE PRISE D'ARMES, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES, HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE, ET AUTRE TEXTES (eds. Miguel Abensour & Valentin Pelosse) (Societe encyclopedique francaise 1973) %S ... Bloch, Robert, "Founding Fathers", in _Fantasic Universe_ Jul 1956; and THE BEST OF ROBERT BLOCH (publ. unknown) %S Bookies use the time-machine of a professor in their debt to travel back to 1776 to hijack a gold shipment. Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in _Fantastic_ Aug 1960 %S ... Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist...", in _Tempo_ Jun 1992 %W Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder didn't die in 1982. %S He later receives two Oscars, one for BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ starring Robert DeNiro. Boeheim, Carl von, DIE KAISERSAGA: UTOPIA AUSTRIACA (A. Kraft 1960) %W Emperor Franz Josef had a 2nd son, named Franz Stefan. %S Franz Stefan preserves the Hapsburg Empire by revolution from above. Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn, "Alternativen in der Wissenschaft", in _Zeitschrift fur Soziologie_ vol. 1 (1972), pp. 302-316 %T English tr. by E.G.H. Joffe as "Alternatives in Science", in _Internat'l Journal for Sociology_ vol. 8 (1978), pp. 70-94 %C Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at the beginning of the scientific revolution. Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun", in UNIVERS 07 (ed. Jacques Sadoul) (J'ai Lu 1976) %W The Arabs won at Tours. %S Progressive Muslim southern France later suffers emigration from the north. Boireau, Jacques, "L'ete", in FICTION (Opta 1984) %S ... Bomba, Ty, "Outgoing Mail", in _Strategy & Tactics_ Jun/Jul 89 %W Exploiting a border dispute, Mexico's improved army invaded Texas in 1846 and made for New Orleans, where a vicious siege occurred. %S Provoked by the attack, the US gov't revises the Monroe Doctrine to mean US control of all N America, resulting in an Imperial Republic. Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE POLITIQUE (Pauvert 1968) %W The May 1968 riots produced a socialist revolution rather than a conservative backlash. %S ... Bonanate, Ugo, ASCOLTA, ISRAELE (Lindau 1991, 8871800214) %W Early Christian communities were wiped out, and Judaism became the dominant Western religion. %S Modern scholars are stunned when archaelogists unearth copies of the Gospels. Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN (vol 1, Gallimard 1938; vol 2-4, Editions du Dialogue 1941-44; complete Gallimard 1949) %W The Popular Front gov't of 1936 France led to a leftist revolution. %S A detailed history text. Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?", in %W Montcalm defeated Wolfe, leading to French victory in the French and Indian War. %S The 13 colonies would still rebel against English authority, but future relations between Americans and Canadians could have followed several paths. Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?", in %W NJ delegate John Beatty was not ill when Congress debated prohibiting slavery west of the Appalachians, and his vote enabled the bill to pass. %S Analysis of possible effects on Southern economy and society, noting the sterner life blacks would have experienced, and probably no Civil War. Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?", in %W The Constitution was rejected. %S A less vilified, stronger Congress would have resulted, and the War of 1812 would never have happened. Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in %W Burr did not remain aloof while the House of Representatives was breaking the Electoral College tie, and Federalists were persuaded to vote for him. %S Burr would have become a Federalist, providing the party a charismatic leader, and Louisiana would have been conquered rather than purchased. Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?", in %W Nicholas Biddle renewed the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United States at a more opportune time. %S ... Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in %W Zachary Taylor did not die in July 1850, and blocked Clay's great compromise. %S The Civil War would have started 10 years early with Texas's invasion of New Mexico and ended in a quick southern defeat, but slavery would have continued. Bourne, Mark, "Boss", in %S ... Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH (Tor 1993, 0312853599; Tor 1994, 0812520637) %W FDR quit smoking in 1943, and two years later, Churchill ordered the assassination of Stalin in order to avert a Communist E Europe. %S When Stalin rather than FDR dies on 12 Apr 1945, the US decides to drive for Berlin, sending the 101st Airborne and Patton's Third Army after Hitler. Bowen, John, NO RETREAT (Sinclair-Stevenson 1994, 1856193985) %W Germany won WW2. %S Fifty years later, Germany, Japan, and the US go to war over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and British exiles see their chance to liberate the homeland. Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD (Warner 1986, 0445201770) %W Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 1944 to stop Allied advances on both fronts, beginning a cold war. %S A boy from that world is enmeshed into crosstime telepathic slavery and warfare. --------------, GOBLIN MARKET (Warner 1988) %S ... Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH (Weybright & Talley 1968; Berkley 1969; Penguin 1978, 0140048758) %T German tr. by Heinz Plehn as DER UBERLAUFER (Droemer Knaur 1978) %W Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to age 70. %S 2000 years later, a Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping with a Poet. Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITEXT OF SLEEP (Ace 1986, 0441029051) %W Intelligent life evolved from racoons rather than primates. %S A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world run by oversized racoons. Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (Doubleday 1953); ASPECTS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Geoffrey Donald Doherty) (Billings 1959; J. Murray 1963; Billings 1970, 0719522153); R IS FOR ROCKET (Doubleday 1962; Bantam 1965, 055307988?); SCIENCE FICTION FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1966); SCIENCE FICTION THROUGH THE AGES 2 (ed. I.O. Evans) (Panther 1966); THE STARS AND UNDER (ed. ... Crispin) (Faber 1968); ECO-FICTION (ed. John Stadler) (Washington Square 1971, 0671478451); SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Sylvia Z. Brodkin & Elizabeth J. Pearson) (McDougal, Littell 1973; Lothrop, Lee 1975, 068841723X); TRANSFORMATION (ed. ... Roselle) (Fawcett 1973); SCIENCE FACT/FICTION (eds. ... Farrell, et al) (Scott, Foresman 1974); RAY BRADBURY (ed. Anthony Adams) (Harrap 1975, 024552746X); MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Thomas Durwood & Armand Eisen) (Ariel/Ballantine 1978, 0354276205); TALES OUT OF TIME (ed. Barbara Ireson) (Faber 1979; Philomel 1981, 0399207864); THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY (Knopf 1980, 0394513355); WIDE-ANGLE LENS: STORIES OF TIME AND SPACE (ed. Phyllis R. Fenner) (Morrow 1980, 0688222412, 0688322417); BEHOLD THE MIGHTY DINOSAUR (ed. David Jablonski) (Elsevier/Nelson 1981, 0525667040); CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN DRAFT: BIOLOGY IN SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1983, 0374312281); THE GREAT SF STORIES: 14 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1986, 0886771064); and CLASSIC STORIES 1: THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN / R IS FOR ROCKET (Bantam 1990) %T Portuguese tr. by Edgar Costa Moreira as "O Reboar do Trovao", in FICCAO CIENTIFICA PARA QUEM NAO GOSTA DE FICCAO CIENTIFICA (ed. Terry Carr) (O Cruzeiro 1969) %S Accidentally stepping on a butterfly while on a T. rex hunt has its repercussions. %C A classic about the effect of a minor change on history, but not really AH since the only effect shown is presumably in our future. %C Sequels are Stephen Leigh's DINOSAUR WORLD etc. Brenner, Barbara, SAVING THE PRESIDENT (Julian Messner 1987) %S A sculptress prevents the assassination of Lincoln. Brennert, Alan, "Nostalgia Tripping", in INFINITY FIVE (ed. Robert Hoskins) (Lancer 1973) %S Crosstime adventures, including worlds where Woodrow Wilson was assassinated and John Lennon cut a record in 1949. Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR (DC Comics 1991, 1563890186) %W Oliver Cromwell lived another 10 years and consolidated the Puritan hold on Britain and its colonies. %S A young priest named Bruce Wayne becomes a costumed vigilante fighting the repressive theocracy running the American Commonwealth. Breyfogle, Norm: see Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in Jul 1986; ; and THE RIVER OF TIME (Bantam 1987, 0553262815) %W Nazi rituals resurrected the Norse pantheon, but Loki went over to the Allies. %S A captured American officer about to be sacrificed comes face-to-face with the god of battle. %C Nominee: 1987 Hugo for best novelette. Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE (Dutton 1949; Bantam 1950); orig. in _Startling Stories_ Sep 1948 %S A pulp editor finds himself in a parallel universe which matches the stories his magazine has been publishing. Brown, Walt, THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD (Carroll & Graf/Gallen 1992, 0881848697) %W Jack Ruby only wounded Oswald. %S In novel form, a study of whether Oswald could have been convicted in a Texas court of the murder of JFK based on the evidence against him. Brunet, James, "As Time Goes By", in PULPHOUSE: THE HARDBACK MAGAZINE #6 (ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch) (Pulphouse 1990) %S A man's repeated viewing of CASABLANCA alters the movie and Earth history a little each time he watches. Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor 1991, 0812554442) %C In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS. %S The Tsar of Russia dies under suspicious circumstances; six travelers tell their tales at a Krakow inn. Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER (Ace Double #... (Ace 1962); exp Ace 1969, 0441812708; Ballantine 1983, 0345306791); fixup of "Spoil of Yesterday", in _Science Fiction Adventures_ Mar 1962; "The Word Not Written", in _Science Fiction Adventures_ Jun 1962; and "The Fullness of Time", in _Science Fiction Adventures_ Jul 1962 %W The Spanish Armada conquered England. %S 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time-travel. Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in _Infinity_ Mar (?) 1958; and %S A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe, but that doesn't solve his problems. Burnier, Michel-Antoine: see Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier Bulis, Christopher, STATE OF CHANGE (Virgin 1994, 042620431X) %W The Roman and Eqgyptian empires merged as a result of the meeting of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra. %S ... Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1981, 0030539765, 0030589983; Holt/Owl 1995, 0805039554) %W Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped out by natives. %S ... Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed. ... Wilson) (Signet 1973) %S Two friends discuss how the world could be made a better place, working their way back from event to event. -----------, "Balancing Act", in 16 Feb 1981 -----------, "Wrong Number", in 21 Dec 1981 %S ... Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss", in %W Victim of a minor stroke in late 1941, FDR was unable to resist congressional and public pressure for a Japan First war policy. %S Japanese saboteurs land on Amchitka just as orders for a crucial American offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable. Butler, Ewan, WITHOUT APOLOGY (Cassell 1968, 0304931993) %W Nazi Germany successfully invaded England. %S Tale of Englishman caught between restoring order from chaos and accusations of being a Quisling. Includes timelime to 1967. Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in _Fantastic_ Oct 1955 %S Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam. Bylinski, Gene, LIFE IN DARWIN'S UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION AND THE COSMOS (Doubleday 1981, 0385170491) %C Amongst discussion of evolution in general, comments on possibilities of insects, byrds, bats or koalas as the dominant intelligent species on Earth. Byrne, Eugene: see Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL (HBJ 1977, 0151913854; Dell 1977, 0440186099) %W The 1973 agreement to dig the English Channel tunnel was not canceled. %S An American engineer embarks on the biggest project of his career, as an Irish terrorist plans to destroy it. Cadigan, Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in Jul 1991; ; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, NINTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1992, 0312078919, 0312078897, 0312078900); and DIRTY WORK (Mark V. Ziesing 1993, 0929480279) %W 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in the 1968 presidential race and Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill Robert Kennedy. %S The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the 68 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago. %C Nominee: 1992 Hugo for best novelette. Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in ; and DIRTY WORK (Mark V. Ziesing 1993, 0929480279) %W Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice entered politics. %S In 1968, former Attorney General and now Senator Eunice Kennedy is faced with the final outcome of Father Robert Kennedy's antiwar activism. Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT (Gallimard 1961) %T English tr. by Charles Lam Markmann as PONTIUS PILATE (Macmillan 1963) %W Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him. %S Christianity is aborted. Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in %W Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be executed. %S How it might have happened, but without much further development. Capek, Karel, "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi", in KNIHA APOKRYFU (Borovy 1945) %T English tr. by Dora Round as "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in APOCRYPHAL STORIES (Allen & Unwin 1949; MacMillan 1949; Penguin 1975, 0040038604) %T Esperanto tr. by Josef Vondrousek as "Pseudo-Lot au pri patriotismo", in LIBRO DE APOKRIFOJ (Ceha Esperanto-Asocio 1970) %S Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom. Card, Orson Scott, HATRACK RIVER (SFBC 1989) (---------------), SEVENTH SON (Tor 1987, 0312930194); expansion of "Hatrack River", in Aug 1986; TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed. Terry Carr) (Tor 1987, 0312930259); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FOURTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1987) %W Natural magic works. Also, the Puritan revolution succeeded, altering English history and the course of American colonization. %S Born in 1800, the seventh son of a seventh son growing up on the American frontier meets an itinerant storyteller named William Blake. %C SEVENTH SON nominee: 1988 Hugo for best novel, 1988 World Fantasy Award for best novel; "Hatrack River" nominee: 1986 Nebula for best novelette, 1987 Hugo for best novelette. (---------------), RED PROPHET (Tor 1988, 0312930437) %S Captured by Red men, young Alvin Maker and his brother become involved with Tecumseh, the Prophet and a different massacre at Tippecanoe. %C Nominee: 1988 Nebula for best novel, 1989 Hugo for best novel. (---------------), PRENTICE ALVIN (Tor 1989, 0312931417; Tor 1989, 0812502124, 0812502132); rev. of "Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow", in _Sunstone_ Aug 1989; and MAPS IN A MIRROR: THE SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD (Tor 1990, 0312850476) %S Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White "mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee. %C Nominee: 1989 Nebula for best novel, 1990 Hugo for best novel. -----------------, ALVIN JOURNEYMAN (Tor 1995, 0312850530, 0312860053) %S Alvin stands trial while his brother Calvin travels to Europe to meet Napoleon. -----------------, THE CRYSTAL CITY (Tor, not yet published) %S ... -----------------, MASTER ALVIN (projected, not yet written) %S ... Card, Orson Scott, PASTWATCH: THE REDEMPTION OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (Tor 1996, 0312850581) %S ... Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon", in LOS ARGENTINOS EN LA LUNA (ed. Eduardo Goligorsky) (Flor 1968) %S Future astronauts use a super telescope to look into Earth's history, but they see Napoleon's conquest of England, a Chinese invasion of Europe, etc. Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07", in %W When Congress broke the Electoral College tie of 1800, they made Aaron Burr president rather than Thomas Jefferson. %S Militant Burr begins the move to manifest destiny 40 years early, but he also shows no signs of leaving the White House. Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker", in %C 2nd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN. %S Styphon's House drives barbarians from the N American plains east into Kalvan's territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them. Carr, John F.: see also Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons", in _Analog_ Oct 1985 %W There was no Manhattan project, and Stevenson won the election of '52. %S How to change history so that Asimov's "Trends" (_Astounding_ Jul 1939) came true. Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES (ed. Judy-Lynn Del Rey) (Ballantine 1981, 0345294734) %W Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1968 _or_ Watergate was never discovered. %S Two people from different timelines meet at a jewelry store in a third trying to exchange different versions of the same ring. Carter, Samuel, III, "If the North Had Won the Civil War", in _Yankee Magazine_ Apr 1985 %S ... Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in %W Lincoln was assassinated while visiting a Union hospital on 4 Jul 1863. Wasn't he? %S 1980 Confederate differential engineers trying to model history explore the Great Man hypothesis. Cate, Curtis, "Preface" to THE WAR OF THE TWO EMPERORS: THE DUEL BETWEEN NAPOLEON AND ALEXANDER: RUSSIA, 1812 (Random House 1985, 0394536703) %W Napoleon did not invade Russia. %C With no anti-Napoleonic coalition, Wellington would have been forced out of Spain, and Alexander might have freed the serfs 40 years early. Chadbourne, Billie Niles: see Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in Jul 1978; ASIMOV'S CHOICE: EXTRATERRESTRIALS & ECLIPSES (ed. George Scithers) (Davis/Dial 1978; Dale 1978, 0895591073) ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed. George Scithers) (Davis/Dial 1978; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION, Davis/Dial 1978, 0803736975); THE 1979 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1979); and DANCE BAND ON THE TITANIC (publ. unknown) %T Portuguese tr. by Cisar Tozzi as "A Orquestra de Dangas do Titanic", in ASIMOV: O MELHOR DA FICCAO CIENTIFICA (ed. George Scithers) (Expressco e Cultura 1978) %S Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of Maine and Nova Scotia. Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE (Tor 1985, 0812532880; Baen 1993, 0671721704) %W Karl Marx died in 1841, causing Russia to become a weak democracy in 1917 and thus unable to fend off Germany in 1941. %S A security officer on a time travel project chases terrorists back to 1841 and gets lost in a timewar between Earthers and Offworlders. Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night", in %W James Buchanan suffered a stroke in Oct 1856 and Millard Fillmore, candidate of the American ("Know-Nothing") Party, was elected president. %S When Fillmore upholds the Fugitive Slave Laws in 1858, rioting and worse erupts in New England. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward", in %W Thomas Lincoln was made of sterner stuff and emigrated from Kentucky to Mississippi rather than to Illinois. %C A possibility that Lincoln would have been Confederate president, facing off with either Douglas or Seward. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Alexander Hamilton Had Not Written About the Hurricane", in %W Hamilton did not write the newspaper article which convinced his parents he was a prodigy and should be sent to Boston to study. %S Without him, the balance would not have been struck in writing the Constitution and the states might have flown apart. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Admiral Penn Had Persisted in Disowning His Son William", in %W Dismayed at his son's conversion to Quakerism, the admiral neither took him back into his household nor made him an heir. %S Without the Penn fortune, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia would not have been founded and the land would have been split amongst the other colonies Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Champlain Had Tarried in Plymouth Bay", in %W Champlain placed a settlement during his 1605 expedition, shifting the French emphasis in N America southward from the St. Lawrence. %S The Puritans would have been forced south to Virginia and Dutch New Holland would survive. Any Revolution would have had a different philosophy. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Charles II Had Accepted the Kingship of Virginia", in %W After defeat by Cromwell at Worcester, Charles II accepted the invitation to place his throne in Virginia and took control of British N America. %S Charles would have been a more kingly figure on his return to London, and the neglect of the colonies which provoked the Revolution would not happen. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Columbus Had Kept His Straight Course Westward", in %W Columbus did not listen to Pinzon on Oct 7, 1492, and kept sailing true west. %S Landfall would have have likely been made between Cape Canaveral and the Carolinas, and Spanish colonization would have focused on N America. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Gilbert Livingston Had Not Voted New York Into the Union", in %W Even though 10 states had already agreed, New York's convention refused to ratify the Constitution. %S Rhode Island and North Carolina would also have remained outside the Union, creating a Balkanized N America with civil and military conflict. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If James Macdonnel Had Not Closed the Gate of Hugomont Castle", in %W Two British soldiers failed to prevent Napoleon from capturing Hugomont. %S Napoleon would have split the British army and won at Waterloo. Primarily a list of events that would have not occurred. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If King Ethelred of England Had Not Married the Norman Emma", in %W William the Conqueror had no claim to the English throne. %S Not particularly AH discussion of the family connections. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Lafayette Had Held the French Reign of Terror in Check", in %W La Fayette accepted the people's call to be the French chief executive. %S With La Fayette in power, the Reign of Terror would not have happened, Napoleon would have been restrained and France would be a world power. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Orsini's Bomb Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III", in %W Felice Orsini killed Napoleon III. %S Without Napoleon, there would have been no Franco-Prussian war and 500k men would have lived longer lives. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If President James Buchanan Had Enforced the Law in November, 1860", in %W Buchanan fully enforced federal law upon S Carolina's succession, snuffing out the Civil War before it could start. %S Slavery would have been slowly dissolved, but black suffrage never extended nor white supremacy organizations created. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Queen Elizabeth Had Left a Son or Daughter", in %W Elizabeth I found a man both wise and docile enough to marry. %S With a Tudor heir, English advances in the arts would have continued, Puritanism averted, but likely no American Revolution. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Skipper Jennings Had Not Rescued Certain Shipwrecked Japanese", in %W The Auckland did not rescue several Japanese fisherman and take them to San Francisco. %S US interest in Japan would have not perked, and the island nation would have eventually ended up a Russian or British puppet. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Boy George Washington Had Become a British Midshipman", in %W Mary Washington did not change her mind, and son George entered the British navy. %S Without Washington's leadership, the revolutionary army would have fallen apart. Even supposing victory, there would have been no Constitution. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederates Had Marched on Washington After Bull Run", in %W The Confederates were more organized and followed hard on the heels of the panicked Union army to Washington. %S With Washington occupied, the border states would also have seceded and a peace negotiated, with future Balkanization and conflicts. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Confederate States Had Purchased the East India Company's Fleet in 1861", in %W The South took up the company's offer and purchased ten good steamships. %S The Confederate navy would have been capable of averting the blockade, and independence fully achieved by 1863. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Moors Had Won the Battle of Tours", in %W Abd-ar-Rahman defeated Charles Martel at Tours. %S The Moors would have pushed on to conquer the rest of the Europe, and the arts, sciences and role of women in society would have been altered. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Philharmonia Had Not Given Concerts at Vicenza", in %W Musicians did not join to form the Philharmonia in the mid 1500s. %S There would be no professional musician class today and music would not be divided between classical and popular. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Pirate Jean Lafitte Had Joined the British at New Orleans", in %W Jean Lafitte accepted a British commission as captain in the Royal Navy. %S Without him, Andrew Jackson would have lost the Battle of New Orleans and not become president, thus allowing nullification to survive. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If the Spanish Armada Had Sailed at Its Appointed Time", in %W The Armada sailed in January rather than July 1588. %C Elizabethan culture would have been stifled and Protestantism smashed, with Spanish spoken from Mexico to the St. Lawrence. Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, "If Themistocles Had Not Beaten Aristides in an Athenian Election", in %W The electoral competition between Themistocles and Aristides fell in Aristides's favor. %C Without the fleet that Themistocles advocated, Greece would have lost to Persia at Salamis and we'd all be worshipping Mithra today. Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY (... 1983; DAW 1985, 0886770661); rev. of "Kelly Country", in _Void_ ... 1976 %W Australian Ned Kelly escaped police capture in 1880 and led a successful Irish-Australian rebellion against British authority. %S A mental time traveler causes Kelly's escape and wakes up in world where Australia rather than the US is embroiled in Vietnam. Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management", in _Analog_ 5 Jan 1981 ------------, "A Second Chance", in _Analog_ 9 Nov 1981 %W Columbus returned from his first voyage to find that modern management techniques were being applied to Spain's exploration efforts. %S A series of memos showing increasingly poor relations with project managers, etc, as Columbus reports on voyage one and prepares for the next. Chaykin, Howard: see Niven, Larry, & Howard Chaykin Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR (Coward-McCann 1969) %W While Israel hoped for a diplomatic settlement, Arab forces delivered a devastating surprise attack on 5 Jun 1967. %S A day-by-day account of the 6-day fall of Israel and its repercussions in the US, USSR and the new UAR. Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots", in (all eds.); and THE COMMON MAN (Sheed & Ward 1950) %W As the title says. %C Essay on England's place in Christendom and whether it would have accepted a Scottish Catholic queen and a Spanish prince-consort. Chiang, Ted, "Tower of Babylon", in _Omni_ Nov 1990; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, EIGHTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1991, 0312060092, 0312060084); and NEBULA AWARDS 26: SFWA'S CHOICE FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed. James Morrow) (HBJ 1992, 0151649340, 0156654725) %W An older idea of cosmology were correct. %S After centuries of work, the Tower of Babylon has reached the vault of heaven and stoneworkers now attempt to break through. %C Winner: 1990 Nebula for best novelette; Nominee: 1991 Hugo for best novelette. Chilson, Robert, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sky", in %W Observing the continued success of Stanley brothers in auto racing, Henry Ford brought out the Model A steamer in 1911. %S Congress investigates internal combustion engines when a kerosene shortage arises. Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS (Popular Library 1976) %W Teddy Roosevelt was assassinated. %S ... Christopher, John, FIREBALL (Dutton 1981, 0525297383; Tempo 1984) %S Two boys are caught in a strange ball of fire, emerging in ancient Roman times where they help Christians overthrow the Roman Empire. -----------------, NEW FOUND LAND (Dutton 1983, 0525440496) %S The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers and Aztecs. -----------------, DRAGON DANCE (Dutton 1986, 0525442278) %S The boys travel on to California. Christensen, Ole C. and Niels Sondergaard, MAI MYSTERIET (Carlsen Comics 1991) %W Denmark had a communist revolution c. 1920. %S A Danish scientist discovers travel between different worlds and invites some of his "doubles" to an informal congress, at which one is murdered. Christensen, Ole C. and Niels Sondergaard, DEN ANDEN PRASIDENT (Carlsen Comics 1993, 8756260725) %W Several European states entered the USA c. 1910, making it the United States of the Free World (USFW). %S A coup d'etat is plotted against the president, traveling to his home state of Denmark to inaugurate the new, 125-meter statue of "The Great Mermaid" in Copenhagen. Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in (all eds.); and %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as "Wenn Lee die Schlacht von Gettysburg nicht gewonnen Hatte", in _Heyne Science Fiction Magazin_ #9 %W Jeb Stuart reached the battlefield in time to support Pickett's charge. Later, Lee unilaterally freed the slaves and Britain recognized the CSA. %S Some theorizing about how a Confederate defeat at Gettysburg might have prevented the formation of the English-speaking union. Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN (Popular Library 1975) %W Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire. %S A man finds himself in another world after a nuclear airplane experiment goes awry. Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED (Morrow 1969; vt THE LAST DAY OF THE OLD WORLD, Cape 1969) %W The Trinity test was a failure, due in part to Klaus Fuchs. %S An agonizing invasion of Kyushu leads to US use of rice fungus bombs, and the Soviets exploit border incidents for a drive on the English Channel. Clarke, Comer, IF THE NAZIS HAD COME (World 1962) %S ... Clarke, Gerald, "Yorktown: If the British Had Won", in _Time_ 2 Nov 1981 %S ... Coleman, Terry, EMPIRE (Sinclair-Stevenson 1994, 1856193128) %W Texas never joined the Union. %S ... Clee, Mona, BRANCH POINT (Ace 1996, 0441002919) %W The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated; Nixon, McCarthy and Humphrey were also assassinated in 1968; Yeltsin was killed in August 1991 coup; or Russians settled the American Pacific coast in 1806. %S Time-travelers from 2062 repeatedly strive to avert nuclear war, finally opting to make Russians and Americans coexist on the same continent before there were atmoic weapons. Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in _New Worlds_ May 1966; and THE TRAPS OF TIME (ed. Michael Moorcock) (Rapp & Whiting 1968) %W Napoleon won at Waterloo. %S England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French empire. Comins, Neil F., "What If the Earth Had Less Mass? Petiel", in %S ... Comins, Neil F., "What If the Earth Were Tilted Like Uranus? Urania", in ; rev. of article in _Astronomy_ Jul 1992 %W Earth's orbit had an obliquity of (near) 90 deg. %S Life would have had to evolve in the tropics, and when species moved on to land, mass migrations over vast distances would be necessary to avoid death in the alternately baking/freezing mid-latitudes. Comins, Neil F., "What If the Moon Didn't Exist? Solon", in ; rev. of article in _Astronomy_ Feb 1991 %W Earth was never struck by the huge planetismal that became the moon. %S Evolution would have progressed more slowly because of the greatly reduced tides and the faster winds. Comins, Neil F., "What If the Moon Were Closer to the Earth? Lunholm", in %W A combination of factors resulted in the modern lunar orbit having a radius of only 100000 km. %S Life would evolve more quickly, but face more difficulty making the transition to land. Comins, Neil F., "What If the Sun Were More Massive? Granstar", in ; rev. of article in _Astronomy_ May 1992 %S ... Compton, K.T., "If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used", in _Atlantic_ Dec 1946 %S ... Conner, Mike, ARCHANGEL (Tor 1995, 0312857438) %W German use of biological warfare in WW1 got out of control, resulting in a devastating plague of hemorrhagic fever afflicting only non-black humans. %S In 1930, a newspaper photographer in "Milltown", MN, tracks down a vampire-like killer while a third wave of "Hun" afflicts the city. His attention is quickly drawn to a local plague research site. Conroy, Robert, 1901 (Lyford 1995, 0891415378) %W Germany attacked the United States at the beginning of the 20th century in order to shake loose a few colonial properties. %S ... Cook, Rick, "Hackers", in _Analog_ Apr 1989 %W Space travel grew from the efforts of model rocket makers rather than nat'l programs. %S Participants in a 1989 space race encounter a man with a story about a world in which the gov't spent billions on space and achieved little. Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs", in %W Jesus of Nazareth was slain by Herod's troops before his family could flee to Egypt. %S The murder of Jesus, his family and the magi, with an epilog about Rome's British satrap "Queen" Victoria's humiliating coronation. Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN: A NOVEL BASED ON HIS PLAY FOR TELEVISION (Panther 1964) %S ... Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN (HBJ 1983, 015114978X; Charter 1984) %W A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test. %S Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan. Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief", in %W The Watergate break-in went undiscovered and Richard Nixon was president until poor health caused his resignation in 1994. %S In 1996, a plumbers unit breaks into a Hyannisport house to retrieve a tape stolen from the San Clemente archives. Cornett, Robert: see Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett Corvo, Baron: see Rolfe, Frederick William Costa, A., L'APPEL DU 17 JUIN: ROMAN (Lattes 1980) %S ... Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX (ROC 1990, 0451450418) %S A mental time traveler studying what made the Beatles so great is sidetracked into "change war" action involving Rommel's Afrika Korps. --------------------, HOUR OF THE SCORPION (ROC 1991, 0451451287) %S Our hero becomes a US infantry lieutenant as the time war shifts focus to the Tet offensive and the attack on the US embassy in Saigon. --------------------, DAY OF THE SNAKE (ROC 1992) %S More time-war action, involving Pearl Harbor. Costikyan, Greg, "The West is Red", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ May 1994 %W Marxism works and capitalism doesn't. %S An academician/computer expert from the USSR visits a Washington, DC, torn between failing capitalism and flowering Communism. Cotter, Donald R., "How World War II Really Ended", in _National Review_ 23 Aug 1985 %W The US had to invade Japan after a demonstration shot of the atomic bomb over Tokyo Bay failed to make an impression., %S The invasion bogs down due to fanatical resistance, and the Soviets intervene in 1947. Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in %S The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by Vikings and English pirates. Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!", in %W Magellan discovered the Americas. 350 years later abolitionists blocked US annexation of Texas. %S A US Customs inspector considers the disastrous possibilities on a Balkanized N America of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson. Coulson, Robert: see also DeWeese, Gene, & Robert Coulson Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in Dec 1991 %W After defeating the US in WW2, the Japanese set the AmerInds up as governors of the country. %S Decades after the war, white Americans meet secretly to enjoy relics of Euro-American culture, and argue with a man who advocates accommodation. %C May not be AH. Lack of detail leaves room for the possibility that the Japanese defeat the US in the future. Coward, Noel, PEACE IN OUR TIME: A PLAY IN TWO ACTS AND EIGHT SCENES (Doubleday 1948); included in THE COLLECTED PLAYS OF NOEL COWARD: PLAY PARADE (Heinemann 1958) %W Nazi Germany invaded and conquered England in the fall of 1940, with an Allied counter-invasion in 1945. %S How an occupied people relate to their conquerors, as demonstrated by the patrons of a pub, variously resisters and collaborators. %C A play first presented at the Theater Royale in Brighton in July 1947. Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change...", in %W Dewey defeated Truman in the election of 1948. %S How playing hardball over Communism led to Dewey's win. Cox, Irving E., Jr. "In the Circle of Nowhere", in _Universe_ Jul 1954; _Fantastic_ Jan 1960; ; and COSMIC CRITIQUES (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (Writer's Digest 1990, 0898793947) %T German tr. by Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus as "Im Kreis des Nirgendwo", in %S Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red men enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago. Cox, Richard (ed.), OPERATION SEA LION (Thornton Cox 1974, 090272617X; Presidio 1977, 0891410155) %W Nazi Germany carried out Operation Seeloewe, invading England on 22 Sep 1940. %S A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure. %C Based on a war game played out in 1974 by British and West German officers. %C Synopsis in Morton's "Introduction to Sealion". Cron, Thomas, "Tuning the Crosswhen Radio", in [Clayton Junior College] _The Clay Tablet_ 1980 %S The purchase of a radio lets its proud new owner pick up broadcasts from other timelines. Cronin, Philip M., "If Britain Had Suppressed America's War for Independence", in _Harvard Magazine_ Jul/Aug 1976 %W ... %S Three possible American histories. Crosby, Ernest, "If the South Had Been Allowed to Go", in _North American Review_ Dec 1903 %W ... %S Slavery withers away and the states re-unite. Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY (Doubleday 1990, 0385261713, 0385263473); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SEVENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1990, 0312044518, 0312044526) %W Cecil Rhodes died in 1893, and left his fortune to endow a secret society to preserve and extend the British Empire. %S Among other tasks, the Otherhood must ensure that Rhodes dies before he can rethink his will. Crumey, Andrew, MUSIC, IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (Daedalus 1994) %S An alternate Britain experiences the fall of Communism. Cunliffe, Marcus, "What If?", in _American Heritage_ Dec 1982 %C Discussion of counterfactual arguments, with examples from the American presidency. (Follow-up letters to editor appear in Feb 83 issue.) Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto) (Dark Harvest 1989, 0913165492; Avon 1990, 0380711680) %W The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle. %S Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army. %C Borderline secret history, but for reasons of personal safety, Cupp has stated it is AH. Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in _American Mercury_ Oct 1936 %W Pickett's Charge succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg were a bit more tenacious. %S A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency. Daniel, Kate, "The _Defiant_ Disaster", in %W Amelia Earhart survived the crash at Howland Island. %S Years later, as head of the Nat'l Space Exploration Administration, she must cope with the space plane accident that killed Chuck Yeager. Daniels, Tony, "The Careful Man Goes West", in Jul 1992 %W AmerInds were absorbed peacefully into a multi-cultural society. %S People have the ability to choose from a variety of possible futures, and one of them picked one in which the AmerInds were instead wiped out. Daniels, Tony, "God's Foot", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ May 1993 %W What if the Eurasian and African tectonic plates collided with the N American during the late Cretaceous. %S A Korean-Japanese tourist climbs the great Appalachian peak Cheaha and becomes embroiled in a conflict between strange Western gods. Dann, Jack, THE MEMORY CATHEDRAL (Bantam 1995, 0553096370); expansion of "Da Vinci Rising", in _Asimov's_ May 1995 %W Leonardo Da Vinci developed his flying machine with the help of Niccolo Machiavelli. %S The machine is taken over by the Milanese government to use for aerial bombing to conquer the other city-states. Davidson, Avram, "O Brave New World!", in %W Offered the choice of going to hell or to America, George II's heir opted for the latter. %S The center of British power shifts to Philadelphia, leading to an English uprising in the early 1800s against American tyranny. Davidson, Avram: see also Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II/SPRING 1985 (eds. Jerry Pournelle & Jim Baen) (Baen 1985, 0671559540); and THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed. Frank McSherry, Jr.) (Baen 1991, 0671720635) %W The CSA developed a long-range rocket and fired it on Washington during Lincoln's second inauguration, 4 Mar 1865. %S An explanation of its development and how it provoked the sack of Richmond and a harsher Reconstruction. Davis, Grania, "Chroncorp", in Aug 1993 %S A time cop looks for a group of missing tourists, with brief mention of visits to AH worlds. Davis, Guy, BAKER STREET: HONOUR AMONG PUNKS (Caliber 1990) %W World War II never happened. %S ... de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in _Astounding_ Feb 1958; GUN FOR DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES (Doubleday 1963); ALPHA 3 (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Ballantine 1972); ANALOG: WRITER'S CHOICE, VOL. 1 (ed. Stanley Schmidt) (Davis/Dial 1983, 0385279132); SPACE MAIL VOL. II (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph Olander) (Fawcett 1982, 0449244814); ; and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Legend 1991; vt MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION, St. Martin's 1992, 0312072384, St. Martin's 1993, 0312088477) %T German tr. by Werner Fuchs as "Ein Yankee bei Aristoteles", in EIN YANKEE BEI ARISTOTELES (Heyne 1980) %W Aristotle abandoned the study of natural science. %S Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead overawes and sours him on scientific research. de Camp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL (Ballantine 1949; Pyramid 1963; Ballantine 1974; Ballantine 1983); rev. of "Lest Darkness Fall", in _Unknown_ Dec 1939 %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as A LUZ E AS TREVAS (Livros do Brasil 1987) %S Transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides to start up a few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages. de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarians", in _Amazing Stories_ Jan 1992; ; and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, TENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Martin's 1993, 0312094248, 031209423X; vt THE BEST NEW SCIENCE FICTION: 7TH ANNUAL COLLECTION, Robinson 1993, 1854872346) %W The Chinese discovered the Americas before Columbus. %S C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in N America, and a dispute over a Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled. de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in _Unknown_ Dec 1940; THE WHEELS OF IF (Shasta 1948); THE WHEELS OF IF AND OTHER SCIENCE-FICTION (Berkley 1970, 0425018938); THE VIRGIN AND THE WHEELS (Popular Library 1976); ; THE WHEELS OF IF & THE PUGNACIOUS PEACEMAKER (Tor SF Double #20) (Tor 1990, 0812502027); and UNKNOWN WORLDS: TALES FROM BEYOND (ed. ...) (Bristol Park 1993, 0884860779) %W Oswiu of Northumbria adopted the Celtic rather than Roman branch of Christianity. Later, the Arabs won at Tours. %S A DA from our New York finds himself residing in the body of a Celtic Christian bishop in "New Belfast". %C Sequel is Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker". Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in May 1972 %W Italy invented the first atomic bomb and won WW2. %S An Occupying Forces MP harasses the customers in an Amerian barbershop. Later, the barber discovers his straight razor has disappeared. DeBrandt, Don H., THE QUICKSILVER SCREEN (Ballantine 1992, 0345373413) %S Adventures of a professional viewer in a 21st century in which Infinite Range TV provides a look at other timelines. Dedman, Stephen, "From Whom All Blessings Flow", in Apr 1995 %W The teachings of Christ were assimilated into a Babylonian matriarchal structure rather than the Hebrew patriarchy. %S Trade talks between alternate worlds break down because of religious differences. Dedman, Stephen, "The Godfather Paradox", in _Eidolon_ #17/18 (Winter 1995) %S J. Edgar Hoover comes out to FDR as homosexual, and Alan Turing migrates to the US instead of committing suicide. Dedman, Stephen, "A Sort of Walking Miracle", in _Science Fiction Age_ Sep 1995 %S ... deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in Sept 1964; and %S ... Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 (Cape 1978, 0224016067; G.K. Hall 1979, 0816167486; Knopf 1979, 0394504097; Ballantine 1980, 0345284941; Curley 1992, 0792713249, 0792713230) %T German tr. by Kurt Wagenseil & Ursula Pommer as SS-GB (Heyne 1983) %T Portuguese tr. by Roberto Raposo as SS-GB (Civilizacao Brasileira 1980) %W Germany won the Battle of Britain. %S A Scotland Yard detective tries to raise his motherless son and investigate a murder in occupied England. %C Synopsis in Giordano's WENN HITLER DEN KRIEG GEWONNEN HATTE. Del Rey, Lester, [& Paul W. Fairlane], THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966) %S Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States. Delaplace, Barbara, "Farewell, My Buddy", in %W Humphrey Bogart became a private detective rather than an actor. %S His business about to go belly-up, Bogey broods about how unrealistic Hollywood tec movies are, particularly those starring Ray Chandler. Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice", in %W Dewey ousted Roosevelt from the White House in 1944. %S Rather than bomb Hiroshima, Dewey orders that a demonstration shot of the atomic bomb be given, but the Japanese refuse to surrender. Delaplace, Barbara, "Painted Bridges", in %W Hitler was committed to an asylum before he gained power. %S A Jewish psychiatrist tries art therapy, but in the case of patient Schickelgruber it backfires powerfully. Delaplace, Barbara, "Standing Firm", in %W Neville Chamberlain was made of sterner stuff. %S How Chamberlain made up his mind to stand up to Hitler at Munich, including a conversation with appeasement proponent Churchill. Delaplace, Barbara: see also Haldeman, Jack C. II, & Barbara Delaplace Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE (... 1791) %C A history text of France, but chapter 21 speculates on an alternate French Revolution resulting from a stronger Louis XVI. Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians", in _Christian Century_ 7-14 Jan 1976 %W In 1813, southern AmerInds joined with Tecumseh to oppose both the US and Britain in the War of 1812, earning themselves a seat at Ghent. %S Sharing N America leads to a more humane society, despite such troubles as the presidential succession crisis of 1876 and the buffalo war of 1880. Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF (Heinemann 1926) %W England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages. %S ... Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in Jul 1992; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, TENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. 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Wolfe) (Citadel 1991, 0806512350) %S In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help. DeWeese, Gene, & Robert Coulson, "Queen of the Timies", in %S ... Dexter, Lewis A., "What If Joseph McCarthy Had Not Been a U.S. Senator in 1950-55? and/or What If There Had Been a Serious, Responsible Senator with Gifts as Great as McCarthy's for Publicity Who Had Pre-Empted the Communism-in-Government Issue from Him in 1949", in %W As the title says. %C Without obvious witch-hunting, a better job of explaining the dangers of proStalinism and rooting it out would have occurred. Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in _Science Fiction Age_ Nov 1992 %W Concerned about Hitler, Otto Frank sent his daughters to America with his brothers-in-law, where they move to Hollywood. %S Excerpts from the diary of Anne Holland, from reading for a part in THE WIZARD OF OZ to her divorce from Mickey Rooney in 1951. Di Filippo, Paul, "Campbell's World", in _Amazing Stories_ Sep 1993 %W Anthropologist Joseph Campbell became editor of _Astounding_ in 1937. %S A Navajo story-writer recounts Campbell's plans to publish tales leading to world harmony and how they averted WW2. Di Filippo, Paul, "Linda and Phil", in AMAZING STORIES: THE ANTHOLOGY (ed. Kim Mohan) (Tor 1995, 0312890486) %W Philip K. Dick married Linda Ronstadt. %S ... Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in Feb 1991 %W Harry Truman became a career soldier, Robert Heinlein went into politics, and atomic and rocket research moved at a much faster pace. %S In a 1948 Heinleinian America, an SF writer meets the president and is recruited for a mission to the Moon to hunt down Axis refugees. Di Filippo, Paul, "Walt and Emily", serial in _Interzone_ #77 & #78 (Nov & Dec 1993); and THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY (Four Walls Eight Windows 1995, 1568580282) %S An encounter between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in _Interzone_ #55 (Jan 92) %W Starting with Einstein in 1918, every nuclear physicist was murdered, and nuclear weapons were never developed. %S A soldier in Kiel c 1970 for the big allied push against the Soviets meets an old reporter with a crazy tale about time travelling. Di Filippo, Paul: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo DiChario, Nicholas A., "Dao De Qing", in %S ... DiChario, Nicholas A., "Extreme Feminism", in %W The struggle for women's suffrage in America was more violent. %S Susan B. Anthony participates in a gun purchase and a demonstration gone awry, and despite her desires finds herself becoming an outlaw. DiChario, Nicholas A., "Giving Head", in %S After a head injury, Manfred von Richthofen is forced to visit Sigmund Freud, who is studying what make a man a perfect warrior. DiChario, Nicholas A., "Would He Do Woody?", in %W "Eddie" Chaplin didn't achieve on the silver screen. %S The tale of a modern silent actor named Charlie Chaplin who's just made a movie about his grandfather who didn't quite make it in show biz Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE (Ace 1966) %T Portuguese tr. Elisabeth Maria Jesus de Souza as FENDA NO ESPACO (Europa-America 1984) %W Sinanthropes rather than man's predecessors became the dominant primates. %S The future of our world tries to use this alternate world to relieve overpopulation problems. %C Synopsis in Lodi-Ribeiro's "Historias Naturais Alternativas". Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE (Putnam's 1962; Penguin 1965; Berkley 1974, 0425039080; Gollancz 1975, 0575019581; Gregg 1979, 0839824769; Vintage 1992, 0679740678; ROC UK 1993, 014017172X) %T German tr. by Heinz Nagel as DAS ORAKEL VOM BERGE (Bastei-Lubbe 1982) %T Portuguese tr. by Silvia Escorel as O HOMEM DO CASTELO ALTO (Brasiliense 1985) %W Before his 1933 inauguration, FDR was assassinated in Miami, which eventually led to the Axis winning WW2. %S Relations between Americans and their rulers, with light from the Tao and an AH novel about a world in which the Axis lost the war. %C Winner: 1963 Hugo for best novel Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH (Arbor House 1985, 0877957622; Avon 1987, 0380702886) %S ... Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER (Pantheon 1976, 0394406036; G.K. 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Dixon, Dougal, THE NEW DINOSAURS: AN ALTERNATE EVOLUTION (Grafton 1988, 0246132590; Salem House 1988, 0881623016; Fawcett 1989, 0449904423) %W The KT meteorite impacts never occurred and the Great Extinction of the dinosaurs never happened. %S Pictorial biology of the modern result of continued dinosaur evolution. Dixon, Larry: see Lackey, Mercedes, & Larry Dixon d'Ormesson, Jean, LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE (Gallimard 1971) %T English tr. by Barbara Bray as THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE (Knopf 1974, 0394481216) %W Eurasia was united under a single empire. %S ... Dorrington, Nigel, "The Court Martial", in THE DRABBLE PROJECT (eds. Rob Meades & David B. Wake) (Beccon 1988) %S ... Douay, D., LE PRINCIPE DE L'OEUF (Calmann-Levy 1980) %S ... Dowd, Maureen, "It's a Wonderful 2d Term (Apologies to Mr. Capra)", in _The New York Times_ 8 Nov 1992 %W George Bush fired two hardline advisors and refocused his presidency on domestic affairs. %S How Bush could have enjoyed a 97% approval rating by 1992 and easily embarked on a second term. Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR (NEL 1979, 0450039463; St. Martin's 1980, 0312548915) %W An Aug 1941 plane crash left Hitler lying in a coma and Goering in charge of the 3rd Reich for 6 months. %S Left to its own devices the Wehrmacht took Moscow in Oct 1941. Also, details on Pearl Harbor, Malta, Cairo, Midway, Panama and Jerusalem. Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Death Voyage", in _Saturday Evening Post_ 28 Sep 1929; _Strand_ Oct 1929; UNCOLLECTED STORIES: THE UNKNOWN CONAN DOYLE (eds. John Michael Gibson & Richard Lancelyn Green) (Secker & Warburg 1982, 0436133016; Doubleday 1982, 038519028X) %W Wilhelm II did not abdicate. %S The Kaiser travels to Kiel and convinces the sailors to give up their revolt and sail into one last grand battle against the British. Drake, David, FORTRESS (Tor 1987; Tor 1988, 0812536207, 0812536215) %W JFK escaped assassination and in 1965 announced a Star Wars-like missile defense program. %S In 1985, a former NSA agent is caught between Americans, Neo-Nazis, Jews and space aliens in a fight for control of an orbital defense platform. Drake, David, & Janet Morris, ARC RIDERS (Warner 1995, 0446601527) %S Timewar action. Dreyfuss, Richard, & Harry Turtledove, THE TWO GEORGES (Hodder & Stoughton 1995, 0340628251; Tor/Forge 1996) %W The American Revolution ended peacefully, with the colonies still part of the British crown. %S ... Droit, Jacques, MALHEUREUX ULYSSE (... 1956) %W Louis XVI escaped arrest. %S In 1870, France is ruled by Louis XIX. Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP: ROMAN (Denoel 1971, 1981) %W Constantine suppressed Christianity. %S Far future of a Egyptian-Roman-Arab world. Duncan, Dave: see Hood, Ken Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in Oct 1992 %W Nazi Germany invaded England and won at Stalingrad, thereby conquering Europe before the US could enter the war. %S In the early 1970s, the first American rock band to tour Nazi Europe tries to avoid provoking an incident, but the authorities have other plans. Dunn, J.R., "Long Knives", in L. RON HUBBARD PRESENTS WRITERS OF THE FUTURE: VOLUME III (ed. Algis Budrys) (Bridge 1987, 0884042456) %S Agents from one timeline protect hated leaders (e.g., Hitler) in others from crosstime assassins. Dunn, J.R., "Men of Good Will", in _Amazing Stories_ Mar 1993 %W Archimedes built machines to replace slaves, and the contributions of others led to an industrial revolution 1800 years early. %S A Roman agent is sent to Jerusalem to extract a Galilean rabbi who seems to be at the center of possible trouble for the empire. Dupuy, Trevor N., OPTIONS OF COMMAND (Hippocrene 1984) %C Extrapolations based on changes in command decisions during 10 WW2 battles, including the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad, and Normandy. Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY (F. Watts 1987, 0531150534) %W Hitler was killed by a Russian attack while visiting the Eastern Front in Mar 1943 and his successors made peace with the US and Britain. %S In 1988, while hunting for a Red spy in the Berlin embassy, an American agent finds that Germany hasn't reformed as much as it pretends. Dyer, S.N., "Resolve and Resistance", in _Omni_ Apr 1995 %W Napoleon invaded and conquered England. %S Lord Nelson is drawn into a plan for a dephlogisticated-air balloon assault on London to capture Napoleon. Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny", in %W Andrew Jackson outmaneuvered John Quincy Adams and was elected president in 1824, four years early. %S Jackson invested government money in biological research. 70 years later, George Washington Carver contemplates two job offers. Ede-Borrett, Stephen, "1688--The Glorious Revolution and the War that Never Was", in _Miniature Wargames_ #65 (Oct 1988) %C ... Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in %W Gladstone appointed a more progressive Cabinet at the beginning of his 2nd term as British Prime Minister. %C With his Cabinet's backing, Gladstone pushes through Parliament a Land Bill which would alleviate Irish unrest. Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA (Ace 1981) %S The US gov't, during Nixon's 4th term, sends a team back to alter the Council of Nicaea in 325 and the future course of East-West relations. %C Non-AH predecessor is THE SHIP THAT SAILED THE TIME STREAM. Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor", in %T Portuguese tr. by Icaro S. Franca as "Tudos Menos a Honra", in _Isaac Asimov Magazine de Ficcao Cientifica_ #6 %W Robert E. Lee fought for the Union and the Civil War was over before Lincoln could issue an Emancipation Proclamation. %S Thinking things would be better, a black physicist working in 1938 Imperial Germany goes back in time to make Lee follow a different path. Effinger, George Alec, "The Fifteen-Minute Falcon", in %W Gypsy Rose Lee was a private detective. %S THE MALTESE FALCON retold in 14 pages with all gender roles reversed. Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY (Axolotl 1990) %W An internat'l peacekeeping force intervened in the American Civil War. %S ... Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat", in %W The "3rd Generation" of Kennedys included some extra children, including JFK's son Patrick. %S In 2000, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy runs for president with the aid of his numerous cousins, all intent on avoiding 1990s style marketing-politics. Effinger, George Alec, RELATIVES: A NOVEL (Harper & Row 1973, 0060111496; Dell 1976); rev. of "The City on the Sand", in Apr 1973; and "Relatives", in BAD MOON RISING (ed. Thomas M. Disch) (Harper & Row 1973, 0060110465) %S One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in which Germany won WW1. Effinger, George Alec, "Schroedinger's Kitten", in _Omni_ Sep 1989 THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1989, 0312030096, 0312030088); THE 1989 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1989); NEBULA AWARDS 24: SFWA'S CHOICE FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR 1988 (ed. Michael Bishop) (Arbor House 1989); and THE NEW HUGO AWARDS: VOLUME III (ed. Connie Willis & Martin H. Greenberg) (Baen 1994, 067187604X; SFBC 1994) %S An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist. Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory). %C Winner: 1988 Nebula for best novelette, 1989 Hugo for best novelette Effinger, George Alec, "Shootout at Gower Gulch", in %W Frank James prevented Bob Ford from killing his brother Jesse. %S James eventually becomes a famous Hollywood actor, but Ford has a relative who also ended up in Hollywood. Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Harper & Row 1976, 0060138645); and %T German tr. by Juergen Langowski as "Ziel: Berlin!", in %W In a fit of sanity, world leaders decided to postpone WW2. %S Excerpts from Effinger's book on how the WW2 of the 1970s was fought with automobiles instead of aircraft in order to conserve fuel. Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH (Dell 1979) %S A female student from our world is stuck in a chauvinist Midwest of a world where the Spanish Armada triumphed. Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE (DAW 1974) %S A man from a timeline where the US went fascist after FDR's murder sets out to change the past and becomes dictator of Red America. Eklund, Gordon, "The Karamazov Caper", in %W Pope Innocent VIII was assassinated in 1486 and his successor suppressed knowledge of Columbus's voyage. Later, Bering "discovered" the Americas. %S 400 years later, tsarist agent Leon Trotsky investigates the ritualistic murder of a babe near Seattle. Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in Jan 1981 %W The Americas were discovered in 1219 by a Moslem, but not seriously colonized until Europeans showed up c. 1700. %S 100 years after AmerInds banded together to handle the immigration problem, Nazi Germany threatens war if scientist-refugees are not returned. Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun", in %T German tr. by Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus as "Die Sonne geht auf", in %W Europe fell to the Moslems and was discovered by the Incas in 1600. %S In 1899, a renegade Arab inventor detonates an atomic weapon over Cuzco just as the city falls to the Aztecs. Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME (Laser 1975, 0373720068) %W George Washington was killed in New York in August 1776, and the US did not become independent until after a second rebellion in 1796. %S A boy from 2169 is forced into the Time Service and discovers that he must fix American history. Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", in %T German tr. by Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus as "Schweig stille, Mund!", in %W The North refused to enlist black soldiers during the Civil War, and blacks ejected whites from the South after devastating epidemics. %S Blacks have found that their only common language is the oppressor's English. Some refuse to speak until a better tongue is found. Elliot, Jeffrey M.: see Reginald, Robert, & Jeffrey M. Elliot Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH (Simon & Schuster 1973, 0671214748) %W Jack Golsen did not bail out the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone in 1970, thus provoking the worst Wall Street crash in history. %S Description of the financial aftermath, plus Senate hearings revealing Wall Street's many excesses and consequent legislation. Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK (Poseidon 1989, 0671649213; Avon 1990, 0380709449) %W Germany did not invade the Soviet Union in 1941, but did invade England in 1942, and Mexico sometime later. %S ... Eriksson, James S., AMERICA VICHINGA (Frasinelli 1984) %S ... Etienne, Gerard, UN AMBASSADEUR-MACOUTE A MONTREAL (Nouvelle-Optique 1979, 289017008X) %W Quebec seceded from Canada in 1970. %S Interaction between the Duvalier dictatorship of Haiti and Quebecois separatists. Evans, Christopher, AZTEC CENTURY (Gollancz 1993, 0575055405, 0575055383; Gollancz 1994, 0575057122) %W The Aztecs were not defeated. %S The Aztecs rule 20th century Britain. %C Winner: 1994 BSFA Award for best novel Falconer, Stuart, "Fugue and Variations", in _Interzone_ #85 (Jul 1994) %W Franz Sussmayr was felled by rheumatic fever in 1791 rather than Wolfgang Mozart. %S A modern man explores his grandfather's odd library, reading about Mozart's life until 1825, including his meeting with Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the origin of Wagner's opera _Frankenstein_. Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in Aug 1980 %S A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral strength from talking to her counterpart in another. Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in _Startling Stories_ Dec 1952; A CENTURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Damon Knight) (Simon & Schuster 1962); ; DECADE: THE 1950'S (eds. Brian Aldiss & Harry Harrison) (Macmillan 1976, 0333190017; St. Martin's 1978, 0312189850?; St. Martin's 1980, 03121898707); SF: AUTHOR'S CHOICE (ed. Harry Harrison) (Berkley 1968, 1976); THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3: FROM HEINLEIN TO HERE (ed. James Gunn) (NAL/Mentor 1979, 0451617843); A TREASURY OF MODERN FANTASY (eds. Terry Carr & Martin H. Greenberg) (Avon 1981, 0380771152); THE CLASSIC PHILIP JOSE FARMER, 1952-1964 (ed. Martin H Greenberg) (Crown 1984, 0517551934); THE GREAT SF STORIES: 14 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1986, 0886771064); and MASTERS OF FANTASY (eds. Terry Carr & Martin H. Greenberg) (Galahad 1992; Bristol Park 1994, 0884860949) %T German tr. by Ronald M. Hahn as "Weitersegeln! Weitersegeln!", in DAS LACHELM DER GIOCONDA (ed. Rene Oth) (Luchterhand 1985) %W The world was flat, and Bacon developed a radio from theological principles. %S Columbus sails off the edge of Earth. Farmer, Philip Jose TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH (Ace 1979, 0441833659); rev. of THE GATE OF TIME (Belmont 1970, 050502016?) %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as UNIVERSOS PARALELOS (Livros do Brasil 1986) %S American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is still at war. %C Synopsis in Lodi-Ribeiro's "Historias Naturais Alternativas". Farren, Mick, NECROM (Ballantine 1991, 0345361857) %S Crosstime adventurer visits an Aztec-dominated modern Earth. Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge", in %W Stephen Douglas won the election of 1860, but the Republican-controlled Senate still provoked Southern secession. %S In 1863, with the Union facing imminent disaster, General Abe Lincoln and his Illinois militia must lead an attack at Carrolton, Indiana. Fawcett, Bill, "Zealot", in %W Moses led his people into guerrilla warfare. %S After three years of fighting, the Hebrews occupy pharaoh's Gizan palace, but find themselves beseiged by an overwhelming force. Feeley, Gregory, "The Crab Lice", in %S ... Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in _Analog_ Dec 1961; ANALOG 1 (ed. John W. Campbell) (Doubleday 1963); POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION: AN INTRODUCTORY READER (eds. Martin H. Greenberg & Patricia Warrick) (Prentice-Hall 1974, 0136554044, 013685396X); TRANSFORMATION II (ed. ... Roselle) (Fawcett 1974); ; and THE GREAT SF STORIES: 23 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1991, 0886774780) %W Napoleon conquered Britain. %S A Britisher from our (?) timeline goes back in time to the Alamo, but its defenders behave like 20th-century liberals. Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR (Tor 1990, 0812537955); rev. of "The World Next Door", in Sep 1987; and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr) (Tor 1989, 0812549651) %W Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s. %S In up-state NY, 1990s survivors of the war have strange dreams of a world full of home computers, cable television, etc. Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine", in _Interzone_ #6; and INTERZONE: THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY: NEW SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITING (eds. John Clute, Colin Greenland & David Pringle) (J.M. Dent 1985, 0460022946; St Martin's 1985, 031242535X) %W Marilyn Monroe was elected president. %S When the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Marilyn tries a little personal diplomacy on Leonid Brezhnev. Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal System?", in WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed. Herbert M. Levine) (M.E. Sharpe 1992, 1563240092, 1563240106) %W The Constitution of 1787 was rejected, but after civil unrest, a more centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797. %C Description of US government and political parties under a system in which states are little more than geographic regions. Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause", in _Amazing Stories_ Feb 1992; and %W Sir Francis Drake planted the seed of Protestantism among AmerInds of the Pacific Coast. %S 200 years later, religious war breaks out when the Spanish begin their colonization of California. Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB (Bantam 1985, 0553252518) %S Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics, Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime. Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in _Amazing Stories_ Nov 1989; and %W A Swiss patent office employee quit his job to become a professional musician. %S As the USA drops a new type of bomb in Korea, a 75-year-old Albert Einstein frets about whether he's wasted his life as a violin teacher. Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace", in ; and WOMEN OF WONDER: THE CONTEMPORARY YEARS: SCIENCE FICTION BY WOMEN FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1990S (ed. Pamela Sargent) (Harcourt Brace/Harvest 1995, 0156000334) %W Rudolf Hess's flight was successful and a Pan-European federation began a 1000-year peace. %S An attempt to use telepathy to rescue Hitler's adoptive son after an accident on the Moon. Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME (Simon & Schuster 1968); rev. of "The Other Wife" (vt "The Coin Collector"), in _Saturday Evening Post_ Jan 1960; THE 5TH ANNUAL OF THE WORLD'S BEST S-F (ed. Judith Merrill) (Simon & Schuster 1960); I LOVE GALESBURG IN THE SPRING (Simon & Schuster 1963) (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1975); ABOUT TIME: TWELVE STORIES (Simon & Schuster 1986, 0671628879); and THREE BY FINNEY (Simon & Schuster 1987, 0671640488)) %T French tr. by Nathalie Serval as LA PIECE D'A C™TE (Denoel 1994, 220730552X) %S Adventures in various timelines with minor differences. Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in _Scribner's_ Jan 1931; (all eds.); and PAGES FROM THE PAST (Clarendon 1939; Books for Libraries 1969, 0836912608) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as "Wenn Napoleon nach Amerika entkommen ware", in _Heyne Science Fiction Magazin_ #12 %W Napoleon did not surrender after Waterloo but fled to Boston. %S L'empereur looks for new lands to conquer and focuses on S America, but will it be enough? Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1940, AN ACOOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES (Simon & Schuster 1957; Ace ...; Greenwood 1977, 0837194296; vt INVASION 1940: AN ACOOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES, Hart-Davis 1957; Pan 1975) %W Germany occupied England in 1940 _or_ made no invasion preparations at all. %C Mostly background mat'l but chapter 20 discusses events which could not have occurred if either supposition were true. Flynn, John L., "Paradox Lost", in ... %W The Library of Alexandria was not burned. %S ... Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in _Analog_ Jun 1987 %W The US never united, resulting in a collection of independent States fighting constant border wars. %S A crosstime traveler is stranded in a Wyoming Valley where Pennsylvania is fighting for control vs Virginia and New York. Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in _Analog_ Mar 1989 %W Pizarro's 2nd expedition met with greater success. %S A member of the Shining Path goes back to ensure that Pizarro encounters the Inca Empire before civil war broke out. Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY (Simon & Schuster 1983, 0671475525; Avon 1985) %W Byzantine emperor Julian mandated religious tolerance in the empire and Justinian had time to consolidate his gains. Also, magic works. %S A Welsh mage, Florentine doctor, German vampire and Greek mercenary become involved in England's Richard III's struggle for power. %C Winner: 1984 World Fantasy Award for best novel Ford, John M., "Fugue State", in Tor SF Double #25 (Tor 1990) %W A European superstate arose from WW1. %S ... Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in October 1979; ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed. George Scithers) (Davis/Dial 1980; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION, Davis/Dial 1980, 0803741928) %S Crosstime travelers are stranded in a tunnel lined with hatches leading to all sorts of parallel worlds; they search for the "Homeline". -------------, "Out of Service", in Jul 1980 %S An Alternities guide is stranded after the "Fracture" and tries to convince the local gate operative that it will lead to the correct Homeline. -------------, "Slowly By, Lorena", in Nov 1980; and THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed. Frank McSherry, Jr.) (Baen 1991, 0671720635) %S A doctor on a vacation offered by the Alternities Corporation is stranded in an 1867 where British intervention is prolonging the Civil War. -------------, "Intersections", in 26 October 1981 %S An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2. Forester, C.S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in _London Daily Mail_ ...; _Saturday Evening Post_ 16-30 Apr 1960; and GOLD FROM CRETE: TEN STORIES (Little Brown 1970; Joseph 1971, 0718108426; Pinnacle 1976) %W Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40. %S ... Fortier, Ron, _The Boston Bombers_ #1-3, comic book series (Caliber Comics 1990) %W "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church. %S 20th-century aventures of League of Nation operatives in a conflict against a Roman African airship. Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in ; and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... (Ballantine 1977, 0345257014) %W Poland became an important player on the world stage, capable of putting down Hitler in six months. %S A secret Polish space project to impose world peace in an age of nuclear proliferation. Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in _Interzone_ #29 (May/Jun 1989); ; INTERZONE, THE FIFTH ANTHOLOGY (eds. John Clute et al) (publ. unknown); and WOMEN OF WONDER: THE CONTEMPORARY YEARS: SCIENCE FICTION BY WOMEN FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1990S (ed. Pamela Sargent) (Harcourt Brace/Harvest 1995, 0156000334) %W The war between the sexes took a violent turn in 1872 when American women began to fight back against degradation. %S A woman betrayed by her boyfriend meets a traveler who says she can take her to a more equable world. Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER (Ballantine 1986, 0345327624) ---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT (Ballantine 1989, 0345327632) ---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD (Ballantine 1989, 0345327659) ---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR (Ballantine 1989, 0345327640) ---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY (Ballantine 1990, 0345368495) %S An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to defeat the coming Mongol invasion. Foxxe, Ellen, SEASON OF SHADOWS (DAW 1995, 0886776201) %W European explorers found the Americas populated by non-humans. %S Albinic Royalists settle in the New World after flee the Puritan takeover at home. Franzel, Emil: see Boeheim, Carl von Freireich, Valerie J., "Measure for Measure", in _Aboriginal_ Dec 1991 %W Wat Tyler was not killed at Smithfield but became an advisor to Richard II, prolonging that king's reign and leading to an English enlightenment. %S Two time travelers from our future and another meet outside Geoffrey Chaucer's home and fight to retain the histories they remember. Fried, Robert C., "What If Hitler Got the Bomb? (1944)", in %W After Heisenberg produced a laboratory chain reaction, Germany went on to produce A-bombs in early 1944, dropping them on London and Leningrad in May. %C An essay arguing how unlikely such a course of events was, and how the Nazis would still have lost the war due to superior Allied air power. Friesner, Esther, CHILD OF THE EAGLE: A MYTH OF ROME (Baen 1996, 0671877259, not yet published) %W Venus appeared to Brutus on March 14 and convinces him not to kill Caesar %S S Caesar becomes more tyrannical, Brutus again plots to kill him, and Venus offers him a hundred years of youth to save Caesar Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD (NAL/Signet 1988, 0451154088) %W During the reign of Claudius in Rome, a druid magically isolated Britain from the rest of the world. %S Mage-queen Victoria employs a Holmesian detective to find a stolen grimoire on which rests her authority. Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships", in %W Napoleon invaded and conquered England in 1798. %S In 1811, Jane Austen meets Davey Crockett and finds that they have much in common, including a distaste for l'empereur's ambitions. Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in Jan 1992; and %W Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus's voyage of discovery was instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant. %S As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus's ships return from meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold. Friesner, Esther M., "Told You So", in %W Magic works. Also, after saving a leprechaun, John Kennedy was granted the power of making anything true merely by saying so. %S JFK begins to change the world for the better, but a misstatement in Berlin has disastrous effects. Garnett, David, "Brute Skill", in _Interzone_ #93 (Mar 1995) %W The South won the Civil War. %S ... Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in _Astounding_ Oct 1955; TAKEOFF! (eds. Polly Freas & Kelly Freas) (Donning 1979, 1986, 0915442841) %W Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study. %S A series of letters showing how Newton became disillusioned and came to write the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA. Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY (SFBC 1983) (--------------), MURDER AND MAGIC (Ace 1979, 0441545416) ((------------)), "The Eyes Have It", in _Analog_ Jan 1964; RULERS OF MEN (ed. ... Santesson) (Pocket 1965); and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT (Pocket 1982) %W Richard Couer de Lion survived Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo-French kingdom to nephew Arthur. Also, magic was codified c. 1300. %S A lecherous count is killed and the best clue is the last thing he saw. ((------------)), "A Case of Identity", in _Analog_ Sep 1964; and ANALOG 4 (ed. John W. Campbell) (Doubleday 1966) %S The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks like him is found dead near the harbor. ((------------)), "The Muddle of the Woad", in _Analog_ Jun 1965; and SPECIAL WONDER: THE ANTHONY BOUCHER MEMORIAL ANTHOLOGY OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (ed. J. Francis McComas) (Random House 1970) %S The Duke of Kent's coffin is found occupied by the body of the chief investigator for the duchy. ((------------)), "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE BY WEST COAST AUTHORS (ed. Dean Dickinsheet) (Doubleday 1973, 0385027796) %S A publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day. (--------------), TOO MANY MAGICIANS (Doubleday 1967; Gregg 1978, 0839824971; Ace ..., 0441816967); orig. serial in _Analog_ Aug-Nov 1966 %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as TERRA DA MAGIA (Livros do Brasil 1980) %S Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a sorcerers' convention in London. (--------------), LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES (Ace 1981, 0441491413) ((------------)), "A Matter of Gravity", in _Analog_ Oct 1974; and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed. Elana Lore) (Davis/Dial 1983, 0385279140) %S A materialist count is killed when he is flung from his laboratory window. ((------------)), "The Sixteen Keys", in _Fantastic Stories_ May 1976 %S Lord Vauxhall dies after apparently aging 50 years in an hour, and the papers he was carrying have disappeared in his 16-room mansion. ((------------)), "The Ipswich Phial", in _Analog_ Dec 1976; and THE 13 CRIMES OF SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) (Doubleday 1979, 0385152205) %S During the search for a stolen magical weapon, a royal secret agent is found dead on an undisturbed beach in Normandy. ((------------)), "The Napoli Express", in Apr 1979; and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed. George Scithers) (Davis/Dial 1979); %S A copy of a treaty between the Angevin Empire and Byzantium secretly travels to Athens via the Napoli Express for signing. ----------------, "The Bitter End", in Sep-Oct 1978; ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed. George Scithers) (Davis/Dial 1980; vt ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION, Davis/Dial 1980, 0803741928); and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed. Cathleen Jordan) (Davis/Dial 1982) %S Rat poison is used to murder a man in a bar, but magic is required to explain how the murderer disguised its bitter taste. ----------------, "The Spell of War", in THE FUTURE AT WAR I: THOR'S HAMMER (ed. Reginald Bretnor) (Ace 1979, 0441358691); and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT (Pocket 1982) %S The first meeting of Lord Darcy and Master Sean, on a battlefield. %C See also Kurland's STUDY IN SORCERY, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS and THE UNICORN GIRL. Gaspar, Laszlo, "Mi, I. Adolf", in ... %S Nightmare post-WW2 world in which fascists exert power through terror. Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee", in %S Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence of Henry Ford. Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL (Vantage 1954) %W George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still rule. %S ... Gentle, Mary, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESIRE (Bantam UK 1991, 0593019520; ROC 1993, 0451452348; ROC 1994, 0451453530) %S Story of a mage in a Britain divided between Queen Carola and Lord-Protector Olivia Cromwell, with hints of a different religious structure. %C Non-AH predecessor is RATS & GARGOYLES. Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-1823: HISTOIRE DE LA MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE (Dellaye 1836; J. Bry 1851; Tallandier 1983, 2235015301; vt NAPOLEON APOCRYPHE, Paulin 1841; Librairie Illustree 1896) %W Napoleon sought out and destroyed the Russian army rather than freeze in Moscow. %S Napoleon keeps on going. %C Apparently _the_ first AH written in novel length. Extensive synopsis in Alkon's "From Utopia to Uchronia". Gerrold, David, "The Firebringers", in %W Various Hollywood stars were in real life the types of men they played in the movies. %S Commanding a bomber carrying a nuclear device to Berlin, Col. Gregory Peck has second thoughts, and argues with Reagan, Bogart, et al. Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in %W Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson winning the election of 1952. %S A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on how six years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar. Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise", in %W After divorcing Rose, Joe Kennedy moved to Hollywood, where he married Gloria Swanson and his sons went into the movie business. %S Second-rate actor Jack Kennedy enjoys his greatest successes in sci-fi features, and ends up the captain of Gene Roddenberry's Enterprise. Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF (Random House 1973, 039447922X; Faber 1973, 0571104770; Popular Library 974; Aeonian 1976, 0884111911; rev Bantam 1991, 0553290061) %S A man inherits a time-travel belt and explores the nature of paradox. Mentions some change-the-past incidents but without much follow through. %C Nominee: 1973 Nebula for best novel, 1974 Hugo for best novel. Gerrold, David, "What Goes Around", in %W Charles Manson and his "family" became rock musicians rather than murderers. %S The slaughter of the third-rate Manson family provokes commentary on modern society and culture. Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1981; Zebra 1981, 0821711431); BURNING CHROME (Arbor House 1986, 0877957800; Ace 1987, 0441089348); MIRRORSHADES: THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY (Arbor House 1986, 0877958688; Ace 1988, 0441533825); and THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1990 (eds. Ursula K. LeGuin & Brian Attebery) (Norton 1993, 0393034568) %T German tr. by Reinhard Heinz as "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der amerikanische Traum", in %T Portuguese tr. by Eduardo Salo as "O Continuo de Gernsback", in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO (ed. Bruce Sterling) (Livros do Brasil 1989) %S A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport, etc., are all out of 1930s pulp SF. Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE (Bantam 1991, 0553070282; Gollancz 199x, 057505297X) %W Byron led the Industrial Radicals to English power, and Babbage perfected his analytical engine so that the Information Age began a century early. %S A paleontologist accidentally acquires a set of punch cards from Ada Byron, dropping him right in the middle of a circle of mayhem and murder. %C Nominee: 1991 Nebula for best novel. Gilbert, Adrian, BRITAIN INVADED (Century 1990) %W British forces were wiped out at Dunkirk, and England was invaded by Nazi Germany. But...the war still ends in Axis defeat in late 1945. %S Time-Life style documentation of the occupation of Britain, 1940-1945. Gilliam, Richard, "Jeremiah Phipps: Vampire Hunter", in %S ... Gillies, John, "A Sending Parable: What Might Have Been the Result Had St. Paul Traveled East to the Orient Instead of West", in _Christian Century_ 24 Feb 1971 %W As the title says. %S The difficulties faced by the Tokyo Christian Ministry in Arizona, particularly its competition with American Christian missions. Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran", in %W Gerald Ford gave Nixon a specific, rather than general, pardon, thus keeping his popularity high enough that he beat Carter in 1976. %S On his masseur's advice, Ford threatens to break relations with Iran after the embassy seizure, just like Austria did with Serbia in 1914. Gingrich, Newt, & William R. Forstchen, 1945 (Baen 1995, 0671876767; SFBC 1995) %W Hitler was lying in a coma in December 1941, and Germany did not declare war on the US after Pearl Harbor. %S In early 1946, Germany has won the war in Europe and the U.S. the war in the Pacific. The final showdown must happen soon, but Germany cannot precipitate the fight until it does something about the American lead in nuclear weapons research. --------------------------------------, FORTRESS EUROPA (Baen 1996, Simon & Schuster UK 1996, not yet published) %S ... Gjaerevold, Einar, "Isens veg", in EVIGSKOGEN (Bok og Magasinforlaget 1990) %W A new Ice Age came in the 19th century. %S An unorthodox woman's struggle to keep alive beside the ice-covered North Sea. Glyer, Mike, "The Men Who Corflued Mohammed", in %S ... Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR (Black Heron 1991, 0930773136, 0930773144) %S ... Goldring, Maurice, LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU FRANCE, 1949-1981: DE L'ASSASSINAT DU GENERAL DE GAULLE (12 JUIN 1949) AU COUP D'ETAT DU GENERAL MASSU (10 MAI 1981) (Belfond 1984, 2714416454) %S ... Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?", in %W Germany won WW2. %S An American couple rents a house in Munich and find it haunted by the previous occupant's Dachau experiments. Goldstein, Lisa, "Split Light", in TRAVELLERS IN MAGIC (Tor 1994, 031285790X); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, TWELFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1995, 0312132220, 0312132212; SFBC 1995) %W Shabbetai Zevi did not convert from Judaism to Islam in order to save his life. %S After recalling how he came to be imprisoned in Constantinople, Zevi foresees both futures that could arise from his decision. Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in Aug 1970; and LAUGHING SPACE: FUNNY SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Isaac Asimov & J.O. Jeppson) (Houghton Mifflin 1982, 0395305195) %W The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay. %S A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company. Goodman, Arthur, IF BOOTH HAD MISSED: A DRAMA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD (Samuel French 1932) %W A black employee of Ford's theater prevented John Wilkes Booth from killing Abraham Lincoln. %S Lincoln rather than Johnson is impeached and tried for trying to fire Secretary of War Stanton, with more dramatic results. %C A three-act play first presented by the Morningside Players in New York City in 1932. Gordon, Deborah, RUNAWAY TIME (Avon 1995, 0380777592) %S Historical romance involving an altered Civil War. Gormley, Adrienne, "Children of Tears", in %S ... Gorodischer, Angelica, "De navegantes", in TRAFALGAR (Hyspamerica 1988) %W Spain pursued an even more aggressive colonial policy. %S An Argentine space traveler finds a planet exactly like Earth c. 1492, and he speeds up the "Spanish" conquest of all the "Americas". Gorodischer, Angelica, "El oro de Tiresias", in _Axxon_ #22 (Jul 1991) %W Peron never became president, and Argentina remained under the control of the military. %S Peron is imprisoned as he begins to become popular and dies in jail. 100 years later, a student speculates about what might have been. Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars", in %W Napoleon was not defeated at Waterloo. %S Assassination attempts are constant in 1958 New Orleans, capital of New France and home of the Emperor-in-exile of Eurasia Graeme, Bruce: see Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?", in %W ... %C ... Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained Neutral?", in %W The United States was not drawn into WW1. %C ... Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without Franklin Roosevelt?", in %W FDR was either not nominated for president in 1932 _or_ died at the hands of Zangara the next spring. %C ... Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War--What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?", in %W FDR enjoyed better health. %C ... Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?", in %C ... Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO (Basic 1977, 0465017631; Sphere 1979) %W King Antonio defeated the Portuguese invading the Kongo at Mbwila in 1665. %S Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle, one with the Congo at the heart of Christianity and one like ours but post-nuclear war. Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting", in MICROCOSMIC TALES: 100 WONDROUS SCIENCE FICTION SHORT-SHORT STORIES (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander) (Taplinger 1980, 0800852389; DAW 1992, 0886775329) %W The American Revolution failed. %S HMS Bellerophon prepares to transport a defeated enemy leader to exile on St. Helena, but is he Napoleon? Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in %W Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was able to consolidate his hold on the crown of France. %S A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power in France. Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR (Ace 1985, 0441302009) %C 1st sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN. %S In their first attack on Lord (now King) Kalvan, Styphon's House hits him with three forces, but is defeated in all cases. --------------------------------, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos", in THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr) (publ. unknown) %C 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN. %S Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House. Green, Roland J., "The King of Poland's Foot Cavalry", in %S ... Green, Roland J.: see also Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green Greenland, Colin, HARM'S WAY (HarperCollins UK 1993, 0002239167; Avon 1993, 0380768836; SFBC 1993; HarperCollins UK 1994) %S ... Griffin, Peni, "Books", in Nov 1991 %S A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers. Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS (Hill & Wang 1980, 0809073773) %W The US and Britain invaded France a year earlier. %C Discussion of Allied errors in WW2. Final chapter speculates that invading a year earlier would have given a postwar advantage to the West. Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY (Arbor House 1986, 0877957819; Thorndike 1986, 0896218058; Berkley 1988; Ace 1992, 0441715923) %T German tr. by Norbert Stoebe as DAS ZWEITE SPIEL (Heyne 1994, 3453075250) %S At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and again and again. In one life, he finds altered Hollywood history. %C Winner: 1988 World Fantasy Award for best novel Grousset, Rene, FIGURES DE PROUE (Plon 1949) %S ... Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in (all eds.) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as "Wenn die Mauren in Spaneen geseigt hatten", in DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR (ed. ...) (Heyne 1987) %W Ferdinand and Isabella's army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491. %S An overview of the history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of Granada. Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans", in Dec 1991; and %W Hardball mud-slinging brought disgrace to LBJ in 1964, leading to the election of Barry Goldwater as president. %S Vignettes of 1991, when Bush is president and Quayle is veep, but Tricky Dick has a popular TV talk show that's been on the air for 20 years. Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II (T-K Graphics 1973); orig. in Int'l Federation of Wargamers newsletter %W The Axis adopted a coherent grand strategy, resulting in a quick victory at Stalingrad. %S Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of Europe and Africa. Haffner, Sebastian, ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER (Kindler 1978, 3463007193) %T English tr. by Ewald Osers as THE MEANING OF HITLER (Macmillan 1979, 0025472909; Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979, 0297775723; Harvard Univ 1983, 0674557751) %C Biography of Hitler includes discussion of the Nazis making a peace after the fall of France. Hahn, Ronald M., "Hey, Mr. Spaceman", in EIN DUTZEND H-BOMBEN (Ullstein 1983) %S ... Hahn, Ronald M., & Harald Pusch, DIE TEMPONAUTEN: SCIENCE FICTION-ROMAN (Corian 1983) %W The first atomic bomb was used in 1943 on Berlin. %S An amnesiac time traveller is hunted by a competing time travel agency in the Klondike of 1896-97, where he meets Jack London, among others. Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS (Ballantine 1971; Doubleday 1981, 0385171374) %T German tr. by Ingrid Herrmann as DER ZADIK DER SIEBUN WUNDER (Heyne 1994, 3453072669) %S Alternate events in Judaic history. Haldeman, Jack C., II, "The Case of the Snuffed Simian", in %S ... Haldeman, Jack C., II, "Death of a Dream", in %W J. Egar Hoover decided to smear Martin Luther King, Jr. just before he gave the "I Have a Dream" speech, and the civil rights movement fell apart. %S A decade later, MLK prepares to assassinate law-n-order President Richard J. Dailey and weeps over the race war which has been consuming the country. Haldeman, Jack C., II, "South of Eden, Somewhere Near Salinas", in %W James Dean became a race driver, Natalie Wood a reporter, and Sal Mineo a mechanic. %S Dean and Wood come together at the Indy 500, but she frets about the dangers of his profession. Haldeman, Jack C., II, & Barbara Delaplace, "That'll Be The Day", in %S ... Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX (William Morrow 1990, 0688090249; Avon 1991, 0380708000); rev. of "The Hemingway Hoax", in Apr 1990; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, EIGHTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1991, 0312060092, 0312060084); NEBULA AWARDS 26: SFWA'S CHOICE FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed. James Morrow) (HBJ 1992, 0151649340, 0156654725); and THE NEW HUGO AWARDS: VOLUME III (ed. Connie Willis & Martin H. Greenberg) (Baen 1994, 067187604X; SFBC 1994) %S A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector and awakes as another timeline's version of himself. %C "The Hemingway Hoax" winner: 1990 Nebula for best novella, 1991 Hugo for best novella Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in _Omni_ Apr 1979; THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Ben Bova) (Omni 1980); and DEALING IN FUTURES: STORIES (Viking 1985, 0670806358; ROC 1993, 0451452585) %S In a bar discussion, a man claims to have traveled back in time and invested in all the right scientific inventions, but it didn't work. Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in _Harper's_ Mar 1881; HANDS OFF (J.S. Smith 1895); OUR CHRISTMAS IN A PALACE (publ. unknown); WORKS, VOL. 2 (publ. unknown); ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE BEST FANTASY OF THE 19TH CENTURY (eds. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg) (Beufort 1982, 0825300991); and %W Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt. %S A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he watches the Phoenicians take over the Mediterranean. Hamilton, Franklin, "What If--?", in 1066 (Dial 1964) %W William the Conqueror was beaten at Hastings and the Norman Conquest was averted. %S Two possibilities; either fragmented England was later occupied by France or Harold united the land, but it spent the next millenium in isolation. Hammura Ryo, SENGOKU JIEITAI (Hayakawa Shobo 1971; Kadokawa Shoten 1978, 1979) %S ... %C Basis of the 1981 Kadokawa movie SENGOKU JIETAI. Harness, Charles L., "1894", in _Analog_ Aug 1994 %W Prince Albert died of typhus two weeks early, and without his softening words, H.M. gov't sent an insulting message to the U.S. over the TRENT affair. %S An H.G. Wells from a world where Britain intervened in the U.S. Civil War invents a time travelling machine and is sent back in time to save Albert. Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS (Avon 1990, 0380757613) %W Gambling debts did not force Edgar Allen Poe to quit the Univ Virginia, and he later lived to serve as a Confederate general at Gettysburg. %S Via astral travel, a 21st-century man searches for when/where Edgar Allen Poe's life turned to literature. Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in _Amazing Stories_ May 1985 %S ... Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN (Ace 1990, 0441753981) %W Cleopatra's son Kaisarion escaped the Romans _or_ Cleopatra murdered Octavian. %S Through cyber-simulation a man visits Cleopatra's Egypt and tries to save her son Kaisarion. He awakes in a slightly altered present. Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND (Random House 1992, 0679412735; Hutchinson 1992; Thorndike 1992, 1560545569, 1560548959; Arrow 1993, 0099263815) %T Portuguese tr. A.B. Pinheiro de Lemos as PATRIA AMADA (Record 1993) %W Nazi Germany met greater success invading Russia, and after discovering that Britain had broken the Enigma code, forced a peace in the west. %S A cop in 1964 Nazi Berlin investigates an apparent suicide and finds himself unwrapping a 20-year-old cover-up of what happened to the Jews. %C Basis of the 1994 HBO movie FATHERLAND (see Campbell's "The shrinking of FATHERLAND"). Harrison, Harry, "Down to Earth", in PRIME NUMBER (Sphere 1975) %S An accident apparently sends two astronauts sideways to an Earth where WW2 is still dragging on in 1971. Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME (Tor 1983, 0523485549) %T German tr. by Bodo Baumann as IM SUDEN NICHTS NEUES (Bastei-Lubbe 1984) %S A racist army officer goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War; a black soldier follows in order to defeat him. Harrison, Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds. Robert Silverberg & Roger Elwood) (Berkley/Putnam's 1975, 0399114602; Berkley 1977, 0425033155); CATASTROPHES (eds. Isaac Asimov et al.) (Fawcett 1981); and TIME WARS (eds. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg) (Tor 1986, 0812530489, 0812530497) %S A man from our world aids others in timelines where the sun is about to go nova, including one where Europe is feudal and Iriquois run N America. Harrison, Harry, THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT SAVES THE WORLD (Putnam 1972, 039911047X) %T Spanish tr. by ... as EL INVASOR DEL TIEMPO (publ. unknown) %W Napoleon conquered England. %S Our hero goes back to fix time about to unravel. Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! (Faber 1972, 0571099963; NEL 1976; Berkley 1974; Pinnacle/Tor 1981, 0523485050; Tor 1991, 0812515919; vt TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS, Putnam's 1972, 0399109188; Berkley 1974, 0425025659); orig. serial in _Analog_ Apr-Jun 1972 %T German tr. by Tony Westermayr as DER GROSSE TUNNEL (Goldmann 1979) %W Spain remained Islamic after Christian defeat at Navas de Tolosa in 1212, and the War of the Roses fizzled after the early death of Louis XI. %S A descendant of executed British-American rebel George Washington is in charge of building the ultimate tunnel. %C See also the reference mat'l entry for Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds". Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN (Bantam 1984, 0553050656, 0553249355; Bantam 1985) %T Portuguese tr. by Ana Maria Falcao as A OESTE DO EDEN (Gradiva 1986) ---------------, WINTER IN EDEN (Bantam 1986, 0553051636; Bantam 1987, 0553266284) ---------------, RETURN TO EDEN (Bantam 1988, 0553053159; Bantam 1989, 0553277006) %W Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence. %S Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans. %C Synopsis of trilogy in Lodi-Ribeiro's "Historias Naturais Alternativas". Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Doubleday 1971; Avon 1973); BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR (1971) (ed. Lester Del Rey) (Dutton 1972); and THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON (Signet 1976) %S A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows. Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, WARRIORS OF THE WAY (SFBC 1995, 1568651465) (----------------------------), THE HAMMER AND THE CROSS (Legend 1993; Tor 1993, 0312854390; Legend 1994, 0099868202; Tor 1994, 0812523482) %W King Aella of Northumbria provoked a massive Viking invasion of England by executing a noted Viking leader. %S An half-English, half-Danish bastard thrall falls in and out with the invaders, finally becoming king of a religously-tolerant northern England. (----------------------------), ONE KING'S WAY (Legend 1995, 009930306X; Tor 1995, 0312856911) %S King Shef decides to take the war against the Vikings to their homeland, with conflict and adventures throughout Scandinavia. ------------------------------, KING AND EMPEROR (Legend 1996; Tor 1996, not yet published) %S ... Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in %W The last Christian king in England broke with the church. %S In 878, Alfred receives the letter from the pope that pushes him over the edge. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, "P.'s Correspondence", in _United States Magazine and Democratic Review_ Apr 1845; MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE (Wiley & Putnam 1846; Putnam's 1851; Ticknor & Fields 1854, 1865; Fields, Osgood 1871; Houghton, Osgood 1880; Houghton, Mifflin 1883, 1893; H. Altemus 1893; T.Y. Crowell 1903); and COMPLETE WORKS, VOL. 2 (Houghton-Mifflin 1882) %W Byron, Burns and Shelley lived longer lives, but Dickens died early. %S A letter describes encounters with various literary and politcal figures during the 1840s. Heinlein, Robert A. JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE (Ballantine 1984, 0345313577, 0345320603) %S A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity has it in for them. %C Nominee: 1984 Nebula for best novel, 1985 Hugo for best novel. Heinlein, Robert A., TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET: THE LIFES AND LOVES OF MAUREEN JOHNSON (BEING THE MEMOIRS OF A SOMEWHAT IRREGULAR LADY) (Putnam's 1987, 0399132678) %W The 1940 US election went another way. %S Memoirs of an immortal woman. %C A short discussion of alternate _universes_ is primarily a retroactive rationale to the Heinlein canon, but includes a few historical details. Herloev Petersen, Arne, "En plads i historien", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 1991) %W Egyptians never built tbe pyramids. %S A time traveller performs a match trick for pharaoh and inspires him to build the pyramids. Herloev Petersen, Arne, "En flue paa vaeggen", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 1991) %W The Swedish rebellion of 1521 was put down. %S A time traveller changes history to its main course by sneezing. Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Haabet er groent", in HAABET ER GROENT (Klim 1991) %W The Turks conquered Vienna in 1583 %S A Turkish immigrant in Denmark suffers from racist attacks and changes history to live in a Muslim Europe. Herloev Petersen, Arne, "Soefaerden til Cipangu", in _Information_ Oct 1992 %W Columbus sails to Japan %S A Jewish translator on the Santa Maria saves Columbus from mutiny by magically transporting the ship to Japan, thereby destroying the Americas. Hermansen, Sjur, "Alternativ naatid", in _Algernon_ Jan 1992 %W Germany won WW2, with a "Nazi-style Glasnost" in the 1990s. %S Two friends contemplate founding a new party, "The Environmental Fascists". Hernandez, Lea, "Al Einstein--Nazi Smasher!", in %W Albert Einstein became a professional musician, and later a spy. %S On a mission to Peenemunde, Al meets temptress Eva Braun and the evil alzbD(%,%7 %((N13 FIT FOR HER, WHITE LOTUS (Knopf 1965; Bantam 1966; Vintage 1990, 0679727509) %W Warlord-run China conquered the US in an undescribed war in the mid 1900s. %S Story of an Arizona girl who is taken into slavery in China. Hertel, Francois, "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique", in JEREMIE ET BARABBAS (Le Jour 1966) %W Montcalm defeated Wolfe, leading to French victory in the French and Indian War. %S 1940s Canada as a prosperous, ultra-Catholic nation. Hirose Tadashi, EROSU (Hayakawa Shobu 1971) %S ... Hiyama Yoshiaki, ""THE BIG REVERSAL"" (trans. of Japanese title) (publ. unknown) %W The battleship Yamato was not sunk. %S ... Hiyama Yoshiaki, ""THE DECISIVE BATTLE ON THE AMERICAN MAINLAND"" (trans. of Japanese title) (Kobunsha ...) %W Japan attacked Seattle on May 7, 1942. %S ... %C A translated excerpt accompanies Pollack's "Japanese refight the war, and win, in pulp fiction". Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in _Weird Tales_ Winter 1991/92 %S A woman is visited by her future self, telling her to commit suicide because everything gets worse, but she has been visited before. Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION (Bantam 1985, 0553050958) %W The Nazis remained an obscure political party _or_ Churchill did not return to the British cabinet after the 1939 German invasion of Poland. %S Beleaguered Americans from 1975 go back in time to prevent Nazi victory in WW2 and promote US atomic weapons research. Unfortunately it's not their own past. Hohlbein, Wolfgang E., "Im Namen der Menschlichkeit", in JUPITER (ed. Thomas Le Blanc) (Goldmann 1985) %W A peaceful revolution overthrew Rome and Jesus became the new "Caesar". %S Travelers from a peaceful Empire are sent back in time to undermine the Toltecs, but their time machine crashes near Jerusalem, 30 AD. Holford, Castello, ARISTOPIA. A ROMANCE-HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD (Arena 1895) %W The first settlers in Virginia discovered a reef of pure gold and set up a Utopian colony. %S History of the land of Aristopia, from its founding to its final takeover of N America 300 years later. Holm, John: see Shippey, Tom Holt, Tom, YE GODS (...) %S Includes visits to alternate worlds based on Greek mythology. Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS (Morrow 1982, 0688007767) %W Aliens disrupted the execution of Conradin Hohenstaufen in 1268 Naples. %S Trying to fix things without technological interference, the aliens become involved in the conflict over who should be Holy Roman emperor. Hood, Ken, DEMON SWORD (HarperPrism 1995, 0061054100) %S Alternate Scottish highlands where Christianity is a minor sect and England pays tribute to Tartar overlords. Hoyle, Trevor, THE GODS LOOK DOWN (Panther 1978; Ace 1982, 0441294979) %S During an attempt to travel into a potential future, a man finds himself retrieved from a red ocean by a slave ship traveling to New Amerika. -------------, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE (Panther 1977; Ace 1982) -------------, THROUGH THE EYE OF TIME (Panther 1977; Ace 1982) %S ... Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed. Groff Conklin) (Vanguard 1953); and ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed. Groff Conklin) (Grayson 1955) %S A man from a world in which Germany won WW2 comes back to a flight that had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost. Hunt, Stephen, FOR THE CROWN & THE DRAGON (Green Nebula 1994, 0952288508) %S ... Ing, Dean: see Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing Iverson, Eric G.: see Turtledove, Harry Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in Aug 1987; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1988, 0312018541); and THE BREATH OF SUSPENSION (Arkham House 1994, 0870541676) %S An art critic of Shadow worlds is haunted by marital trouble and assassins as he visits various worlds. Jablokov, Alexander, "Beneath the Shadow of Her Smile", in THE BREATH OF SUSPENSION (Arkham House 1994, 0870541676) %S ... Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION OF 1807 (Tickner & Fields 1983, 0899191983) %W The American expedition to explore the Arkansas River was not canceled. %S The trip to Pike's Peak and sidetrip to Santa Fe, as seen by a young physician/naturalist. Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PEAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST SEASON" (Crown 1983, 0517549913) %S Extraordinary efforts are made to keep "Leave It to Beaver" on television for one more year. Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER: A NOVEL (Bloomsbury 1992, 0747512582; Macmillan Atheneum 1993, 0684196603; Sceptre 1993, 0340594952) %W There was no Jewish revolt against Rome, and Judaism rather than Christianity became the dominant religion of Europe. %S C. 1400, an old Jewish man recalls the part he played as a youth in the persecution of a Christer girl for witchcraft. Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME (Paperback Library 1970) %S ... Jeanne, Rene: see Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne Jenkins, Will F.: see Leinster, Murray Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in _Amazing Stories_ Jul 1991 %S Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside down. Jensen, Reidar, "Brev til min venn Wolfgang Wegener, februar 1924", in HISTORIEN SOM IKKE VILLE SLUTTE (Gyldendal Norsk 1978) %W WW1 never took place, and Lenin died in Switzerland in 1924. %S A letter-writer tells his friend about this strange Russian exile. Jeschke, Wolfgang, DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOEPFUNG (Nymphenburger 1981; Heyne 1985) %T English tr. by Gertrud Mander as THE LAST DAY OF CREATION (St. Martin's 1982, 0312470614; Century 1982, 0712600426) %W Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela _or_ the Axis enjoyed greater success in WW2. %S A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into trouble vs. people from other timelines. Johnson, James B., "Conestoga History", in _Analog_ May 1987 %W ... Johnson, Peter, GORDON OF KHARTOUM (Patrick Stephens 1985, 0850597916) %W Gordon was rescued from Khartoum in 1885. %S ... Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR, THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK (Tuttle 1966) %C ... Jones, Charles O., "What If There Had Been a Nixon Presidency Without Watergate? (1973)", in %W The Watergate break-in never happened or was never discovered. %C Hostile relations between Nixon and Congress still existed, causing the Democrats to reorganize Congress in defense. Jones, Diana Wynne, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT (Greenwillow 1988, 0688078060; Knopf/Bullseye 1988) %W Magical laws were codified in the early 1300s, replacing scientific technology. %S After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the great mage Chrestomanci. ------------------, CHARMED LIFE (Greenwillow 1977, 0688801382; Macmillan 1977, 0333214269; Knopf/Bullseye 1989, 0394820320; Mammoth 1993, 0749714735) %S Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci. ------------------, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA (Greenwillow 1980, 0688802834, 0688842836) %S Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter. ------------------, WITCH WEEK (Greenwillow 1982, 0688015344; Knopf/Bullseye 1989, 039480600X; Mammoth 1993, 0749701749) %S Chrestomanci visit a timeline where Guy Fawkes blew up Parliament, somehow disrupting magic in other timelines, including ours. Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER (Scribner's 1976, 0684147386; Warner 1977) %W Custer was the sole survivor among elements of the 7th Cavalry wiped out at the Little Bighorn. %S Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for disobeying orders and negligence. Jones, Gerard: see Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones Joergensen, Per C., "Neste aar i Jerusalem", in _Algernon_ Jan 1992 %W Chaos elsewhere made imperial Russia the sole superpower, and about to start a war with the Baghdad Califate in a different '91. %S A Jewish refugee tries to get out of Jerusalem. Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in %W Minor candidate Belva Ann Lockwood was elected US president in 1888. %S During the election of 1892, Lockwood personally leads the way to universal suffrage. Kagan, Janet, "Space Cadet", in %W Dan Quayle became president, or an actor, or a soldier, or an astronaut. %S Pres. Quayle tries out the 'Things As They Should Be' machine, seeing other rolls he might have filled, but makes a mistake while visiting Mars. Kagan, Robert A., "What If Abe Fortas Had Been More Discreet? (1969)", in %W Supreme Court Justice Fortas was less eager to supplement his income and was less cozy with LBJ's White House. %C Speculation that the effect of a more liberal court in the 1970's would have most noticeable in four cases, particularly one involving busing. Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR (Bantam 1961); rev. of "If the South had Won the Civil War", in _Look_ 22 Nov 1960 %W Grant was killed on 12 May 1863 and Sherman died in the Vicksburg debacle. Also, occupation of Culp's Hill led to rebel victory at Gettysburg. %S Vicksburg, Gettysburg and the end of the war, followed by a review of US, CS and Texas history until reunification in the 1960s. %C Synopsis in Fadness's "What If the South Had Won the Civil War?". Katze, Rick, "Bobbygate", in %W JFK did not die in 1963 and ran for reelection the next year. %S A reporter stumbles onto links between Robert Kennedy and a break-in at the Republican national headquarters, and Joe Kennedy has to take charge. Katze, Rick, "Worldcon Blues", in %S ... Kaye, Lenny, "If Elvis Had Lived", in THE COMPLETE ELVIS (ed. Martin Torgoff) (Delilah 1982) %W Elvis Presley was rushed to the hospital in time to prevent his death in 1977. %S Elvis shapes up, goes back to his musical roots and receives a medal from President Reagan. Kazantzakis, Nikos, TELEUTAOIS PEIRASMOS (publ. unknown) %T English tr. by P.A. Bien as THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (Simon & Schuster 1960) %W Jesus fled his doom. %S Jesus dreams of the possible result. %C Basis for the 1988 Martin Scorsese movie THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Keen, Tony, "Napoleon's Airship", in _Visions_ ... 1990 (4:3) %W Napoleon had a dirigible to supply aerial intelligence at Waterloo. %S A British time traveler seeking to reverse his country's subjugation finds he isn't the only meddler at Waterloo, and he won't be the last. Kessel, John, "The Franchise", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Aug 1993; and NEBULA AWARDS 29: SFWA'S CHOICE FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed. Pamela Sargent) (Harcourt Brace 1995, 0151001073, 015600195) %W After meeting Babe Ruth, George Bush decided to become a professional baseball player, and later that year Fidel Castro did likewise. %S The 1959 World Series becomes a personal battle between the Giants' ace pitcher Castro and the rookie Senator first baseman. %C Nominee: 1994 Hugo for best novelette. Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC (Ballantine 1987, 0345342739) %S Mental Trainables of 1998 use information gained from the future of a similar timeline to speed up the end of an American Emergency. ----------------, ROGUE EMPEROR (Ballantine 1988, 0345350782) %S Intemporal Agent Jerry Pierce investigates the assassination of the Roman emperor Domitian in another timeline by means of an antitank weapon. ----------------, THE EMPIRE OF TIME (Ballantine 1987, 0345325381) %S Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting alternate Earths along the way. King, Tappan, "The Crimson Rose", in %S Mary Tudor's false pregnancy was true, and Spain's grip on the English throne held. %W Mary's son falls hostage to pirates while in the New World and there meets his Aunt Elizabeth. King, Tappan, "The Mark of the Angel", in %W Wounded while on a mission from Rome to Paris in 1943, amnesiac Angelo Roncalli became a member of the Fench underground. %S In 1961, Pope John Paul XXIII is reminded of his days in the Resistance. King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream", in %W Leila Morse accepted Samuel Tilden's proposal, putting backbone into his effort to be president during the Electoral College debate of 1877. %S In 1896, Sam and Leila Tilden tell a reporter how it all happened, and how Tilden became the Great Reformer and head of the Liberal Party. Kingston, Jeremy, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #6: CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS (Harper 1991) %S ... %C Follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE. Klein, Edward: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in Feb 1959; BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 9 (ed. Robert P. Mills) (Doubleday 1958; Ace 1959; vt FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AND OTHER STORIES, publ. unknown); and OFF CENTER (Gollancz 1969; Award/Tandem ...) %S A man from Novo Russie has the mental power to fix things by altering the events that caused them. Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in (1931, 1972, 1974 eds. only) %W The 1926 British general strike succeeded. %S An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike. Koja, Kathe, & Barry N. Malzberg, "In The Last Chamber", in %S ... Koja, Kathe, & Barry N. Malzberg, "Literary Lives", in %S Two possible relationships between Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker. Komatsu Sakyo, "Chi ni wa heiwa o", in _SF Magajin_ ... 1961; and CHI NI WA HEIWA O (Hayakawa Shobo 1963) %W The US invaded Japan at the end of WW2. %S ... Koning, Hans, "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur", in _Harper's_ May 1990 %S Short descriptions of numerous ifs: e.g., delaying the Nazi invasion of Poland to 1941, making William III a heterosexual, etc. Koontz, Dean, LIGHTNING (Putnam's 1988, 0399133194; Thorndike 1988, 089621222X); included in THREE COMPLETE NOVELS (Putnam's 1993, 0399138439) %W The US and Great Britain attacked the Soviet Union after defeating the Nazis. %S After falling in love with a 1980s woman, a time traveler from 1944 Berlin reshapes her life, and inadvertently changes history. %C Explicit AH content is brief, appearing only at the end. Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in _Venture Science Fiction_ Jul 1958; A MILE BEYOND THE MOON (Doubleday 1958); GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Ballantine 1970); THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH (Doubleday 1976, 0345254619; Taplinger 1977, 0800807235); WHAT IF? VOLUME 1: STORIES THAT SHOULD HAVE WON THE HUGO (ed. ... Lupoff) (Pocket 1980); ; THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. David G. Hartwell) (Little, Brown 1989, 0316349410); THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed. Frank McSherry, Jr) (Baen 1990, 0671698818); and THE GREAT SF STORIES: 20 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1990, 0886774055) %W The US did not develop the atomic bomb. %S A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the bomb is given a glimpse of the Axis partition of America. Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in Jul 1991; ; MODERN CLASSIC SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1994, 0312105045); and WOMEN OF WONDER: THE CONTEMPORARY YEARS: SCIENCE FICTION BY WOMEN FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1990S (ed. Pamela Sargent) (Harcourt Brace/Harvest 1995, 0156000334) %S 22nd-century people trying to prevent past mass bloodshed kidnap four historical figures, one of whom is an angry Anne Boleyn. %C Nominee: 1992 Hugo for best novella. Kress, Nancy, "Ars Longa", in %W Walt Disney was convinced by one his teachers to turn away from the vile commerce of cartoons to the higher calling of true art. %S An interview with that teacher in preparation for an article about Disney's first exhibition, at age 49 in a public library. Kress, Nancy, "The Battle for Long Island", in _Omni_ Feb/Mar 1993; and THE ALIENS OF EARTH (Arkham House 1993, 0870541668) %S In 2001 Long Island, a Hole opens up and occasionally emits wounded soldiers from different Battles of Long Island. Krohn, Wolfgang: see Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference", in _Analog_ May 1988 %W Albert Einstein accepted an invitation to visit CalTech in 1925 and while in transit was arrested after delivering a lecture in Louisville, KY. %S Clarence Darrow humiliates William Jennings Bryant at a trial to decide whether Einstein violated a law against contradicting the Bible. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., ALTERNITIES (Ace 1988, 0441017746) %W Different timelines spun off a cosmic bubble in late 1950, with US and Soviet gov'ts of varying degrees of liberalism/repression. %S A right-wing US seeks a crosstime bolthole for its leaders as nuclear war grows closer. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "Because Thou Lovest the Burning-Ground", in %W After failing several university exams, Mohandas Gandhi met a Thuggee cultist along the road and became his disciple. %S Gandhi's new education and the violent movement he starts years later after the massacre at Jallianwalla. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory", in %W Barred from the presidency in 1877 by subterfuge, Samuel Tilden turned the tables on James Garfield in 1880. %S With Charles Guiteau at his side, Garfield vainly attempts to convince Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system. Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "The Inga-Binga Affair", in %W It was revealed during WW2 that Navy officer John F. Kennedy was having an affair with a suspected Nazi spy. %S Alerted that the FBI is taping his trysts, JFK plots to get out from under his father's control. Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE (Signet 1989, 0451157656) %W Columbus's first voyage had a fourth ship _or_ the Americas were invaded by Europeans c 1000 BC _or_ Germany won an early WW1. %S An apprentice from Philadelphia meets an amnesiac girl who can blip between timelines, and a lot of people are hunting for her. Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY (Ace 1989, 0441790925) ----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS (Ace 1988, 0441800572) %S More stories about Garrett's LORD DARCY. Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL (Pyramid 1969, 051503391X) %S Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's LORD DARCY world. Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR (DAW 1975) %S Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US Constitution. Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT (Morrow 1980, 0688036104; Lorevan/Critic's Choice 1985, 0931773091) %W The Watergate break-ins went undetected. %S Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement camps, canceled elections, etc) provoke a military coup. %C Borderline AH, as names have been changed. Kuttner, Henry: see Padgett, Lewis Lackey, Mercedes, "Jihad", in %W After Deraa, T.E. Lawrence experienced a revelation and preached holy war. %S Led by the now-Muslim Lawrence, the Arabs capture Damascus without British help. Lackey, Mercedes, & Larry Dixon, "Dance Track", in %W Isadora Duncan drove an ambulance in WW2 Italy, met Ettoire Bugatti and after he offered her a job, pushed her way to becoming a race car driver. %S In the late 1950s, Duncan has retired from driving but works as chief mechanic for a hot young driver out of Hollywood. Lafferty, R.A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in %W The state of Franklin resisted suppression by N Carolina and became independent Appalachia. %S Backwater USers constantly complain about the wealth of Appalachia. Lafferty, R.A., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed. Damon Knight) (Putnam's 1970; Berkley 1970); STRANGE DOINGS: STORIES BY R.A. LAFFERTY (Scribner's 1972, 0684125307); and THE GOLDEN ROAD: GREAT TALES OF FANTASY AND THE SUPERNATURAL (ed. Damon Knight) (Simon & Schuster 1974, 067121554X) %S A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes's world-map goes sailing and lands on the Africa of our world. Lafferty, R.A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed. Damon Knight) (Putnam's 1970; Berkley 1971, 0425019705); SURVIVAL PRINTOUT (eds. Leonard Allison, Leonard Jenkin & Robert Perrault) (Vintage 1973, 0394718577); LOOKING AHEAD: THE VISION OF SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Dick Allen & Lori Allen) (HBJ 1975, 015551184X); CAR SINISTER (eds. Robert Silverberg et al) (Avon 1979, 0380453932); RINGING CHANGES (Ace 1984); and %W Trolleys took the place of the automobile in America's growth. %S An older man reminisces about when he had to choose between investing in trolleys or autos, and then helps hunt down an auto outlaw. Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird", in _Galaxy_ Dec 1961; THE SEVENTH GALAXY READER (ed. Frederick Pohl) (Doubleday 1964); STRANGE DOINGS: STORIES BY R.A. LAFFERTY (Scribner's 1972, 0684125307); BEYOND TOMORROW: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Lee Harding) (Wren 1976, 0858851695); AGAINST TOMORROW (ed. ... Hoskins) (Fawcett 1979); and THE GREAT SF STORIES: 23 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1991, 0886774780) %S An 18th-century inventor grows old, then uses a time machine to go back to give himself advice. His younger self repeats the process, etc. Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1978, 0385124751; Popular Library 1978) %W Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different principles. %S A review of an early television series. Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES (Pinnacle 1977, 0523401485) %S In a world in which the World Wars were never fought, a man produces comic operas based on events in our world, thereby corrupting his own. Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in _Galaxy_ Feb 1967; WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1968 (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr) (Ace 1968); ALPHA 1 (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Ballantine 1970); NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS (Ace 1970, 0441580505, 0441580513); TRANSFORMATION (ed. ... Roselle) (Fawcett 1973); and AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed. Charles W. Sullivan) (Prentice-Hall 1974, 0130500399, 0130500216) %T German tr. by Karl H. Kosmehl as "Karl der Grosse, frustriert", in %T German tr. by Gisela Stege as "So frustrieren wir Karl den Grossen", in DIE FUSSANGELN DER ZEIT (eds. Karl Michael Armer & Wolfgang Jeschke) (Heyne 1984) %S Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering their past without realizing it. Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in _Omni_ Sep 1989; ; and OMNI VISIONS ONE (ed. Ellen Datlow) (Omni 1993) %W After Benedict Arnold's betrayal of West Point, George Washington was captured, tortured and executed. %S 200 years later, an art curator stumbles upon AmerInds who regret their part in Washington's torture and have elevated him to a Christ figure. Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in _Last Wave_ #5; and BY BIZARRE HANDS (Avon 1989, 0380712059) %T German tr. by Nobert Stresau as "Brief aus dem Suden, zwei Monde, westlich von Nacogdoches", in %W Jesus was run over by a donkey cart and John the Baptist became the Messiah. %S A letter from one AmerInd to another reveals the divisions in a N America controlled by Japanese, Aztecs and various tribes. Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in _RE:AL_ ...; and BY BIZARRE HANDS (Avon 1989, 0380712059) %W Japan colonized the western part of N America and Europe the east, leaving no major frontier. %S James Hickock meets Bill Cody on a train in the Dakotas, and both lament their uninteresting lives as businessmen. Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived", in _The Nation_ 13 Apr 1946 %W Roosevelt did not die in 1945. %S Ponderings on changes in America's place in the world, including control of the bomb and the start of the Cold War. Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT (Cresset 1948) %W Conservatives won the 1945 British elections. %S A class-ridden utopia. Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE (Tallandier 1929) %W Robespierre escaped the guillotine. %S ... Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM (Ace Double #... (Ace 1962); Berkley 1977; exp Tor 1983, 0523485425; Tor 1986, 0812543790, 0812543807); orig. serial in _Fantastic Stories_ Feb-Apr 1961 %S A man from our world becomes an agent for a world run by an Anglo-German imperium, and visits another where civilization fell after Germany won WW1. -------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM (Pinnacle/Tor 1981, 0523485131; Tor 1986, 0812543815, 0812543823) (-----------), THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME (Berkley 1965; Walker 1971; Signet 1972); orig. serial in _Fantastic Stories_ Apr-Jun 1965 %S Our hero is trapped in a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at Brussels in 1814. (-----------), ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE (Berkley 1968; Dobson 1972, 0234776323) %S The last Plantagenet visits a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age. -------------, ZONE YELLOW (Baen 1990, 0671720287) %S Concluding with conflict versus a crosstime invasion of rat-like creatures. Lavrek, Andrija, "Nemacka 1942" ("Germany 1942"), in _Sirius 91_ %W Hitler was assassinated shortly after the Austrian Anschluss. %S A crosttime traveller needs repairs to his machine. Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF ENGLAND (The Author 1899) %W The French invaded England in 1805. %S Once ashore, Napoleon has trouble deciding what to do next. Lawson, Mark, IDLEWILD, OR EVERYTHING IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE (Picador 1995, 0330341111) %W Marilyn Monroe and JFK both survived the 1960s. %S Both attempt comebacks in 1993. Lazarchuk, Andrei, "Inoye Nebo", in SVYASHCHENNY MESYATS RIN' (Terra Fantastica 1993) %W Hitler was killed in 1943, and as a result Germany won WW2. %S In 1991, the Third Reich begins to disintegrate. Le Brun, Claire, "Les chansons de geste: la tentation de l'uchronie au moyen age", in _imagine..._ #14 (Autumn 1982) %C ... Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES (John Lane/Bodley Head/S.B. Gundy 1919) %W Kaiser Wilhelm and family members were exiled to America after WW1. %S Their voyage across the Atlantic, in 3rd-class steerage, and the Kaiser's final days as a street pedlar. Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES (John Lane/Bodley Head/S.B. Gundy 1919) %W Germany won WW1. %S Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925. Lee, Rand B., "Knight of Shallows", in _Amazing Stories_ Jul 1983; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Bluejay 1984, 0312944837, 0312944829); and THE 1984 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1984) %W Margaret Thatcher was assassinated and the Falklands crisis went nuclear. %S Barely AH tale in which a man hunts a murderous version of himself through different Key Wests. Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME (Ace 1961; Gregg 1976, 0839823347; Collier/Macmillan 1991, 0020698410); orig. serial in _Galaxy_ Mar & Apr 1958 %T Portuguese tr. by Josi Sanz as A HISTORIA I OUTRA (Expressco e Cultura 1973) %S At a Snake enclave somewhere outside space and time, a soldier preaches ChangePeace as the enclave maintainer disappears. %C Winner: 1958 Hugo for best novel -------------, "No Great Magic", in _Galaxy_ Dec 1963; THE SECRET SONGS (Rupert Hart-Davis 1968); THE CHANGE WAR (Gregg 1978, 0839824939); THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES: STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE SERIES FROM 1944 TO 1980 BY TWENTY ALL-TIME FAVORITE WRITERS (eds. Frederick Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander) (Harper & Row 1980, 0060133821); and CHANGEWAR (Ace 1983, 044110259X) %S The Snake vs. Spider battlefield moves to an anachronistic performance of MACBETH before Elizabeth I. -------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in Mar 1975; THE WORLDS OF FRITZ LEIBER (Ace 1976; Gregg 1979, 0839824777); THE 1976 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1976); SHIP OF SHADOWS (Gollancz 1979); NEBULA WINNERS ELEVEN (ed. Ursula K. Le Guin) (Harper & Row 1977; Bantam 1978, 0553117424); THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed. Isaac Asimov) (Doubleday 1985, 0385189346); THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed. Ben Bova) (Tor 1989, 0312931751); and %S The son of Marie Sklodowska and Thomas Edison invented an electric cell which lead to pollution-free automobiles, and a change in the outcome of WW1 created a more humane and scientifically advanced Germany. %S Caught by the Change Winds, the author finds himself in an 1937 New York, meeting his historian son for lunch and discussing points when history might have turned for the worse. %C Winner: 1976 Hugo for best novella %C Non-AH entries in series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change the Past" (_Astounding_ Mar 1958, and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER). Leiber, Fritz, "Business of Killing", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed. Groff Conklin) (Vanguard 1953) %S A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business ventures. Leiber, Fritz, "Destiny Times Three", in _Astounding_ Mar 1945; FIVE SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS (ed. Martin Greenberg) (Gnome 1952); and BINARY STAR #1 (ed. ...) (Dell 1978, 0440105641) %S In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets him make real all the possible outcomes from various choices. Leigh, Stephen, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR WORLD (Avon 1992, 0380762773) --------------, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR PLANET (Avon 1993, 0380762781) --------------, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR WARRIORS (Avon 1994, 0380762803) --------------, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR CONQUEST (Avon 1995, 0380762838) %S Three teen-agers are enmeshed in chaotic time-storms, etc., unleashed by a time-travelling hunter and guide. %C Somewhat-more-AH sequels to Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder". Third volume in series is Leigh & Miller's DINOSAUR SAMURAI; fifth is Leigh & Miller's DINOSAUR EMPIRE. Leigh, Stephen, & John J. Miller, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR SAMURAI (Avon 1993, 038076279X) --------------------------------, RAY BRADBURY PRESENTS DINOSAUR EMPIRE (Avon 1995) %C In same series as Leigh's DINOSAUR WORLD. Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Groff Conklin) (Dell 1954); and %S Ancient Egyptian priests discovered a parallel uninhabited world and sustain themselves by looting ours, for merchandise and slaves. Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time", in _Astounding_ Jun 1934; SIDEWAYS IN TIME (Shasta 1950) ; BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY OF THE 1930S (ed. Isaac Asimov) (Doubleday 1974, 0385024193); THE BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER (ed. J.J. Pierce) (Ballantine 1978; Garland 1983, 0824042107); and THE TIME TRAVELERS: A SCIENCE FICTION QUARTET (eds. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg) (Donald I. Fine 1985, 0917657349) %S On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it. Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL (Pyramid 1964) %W Napoleon established a permanent dynasty. %S Men from our world use a time tunnel to investigate odd historical memories and a mysterious scientist in 1804. %C Not to be confused with Leinster's THE TIME TUNNEL or TIMESLIP! A TIME TUNNEL ADVENTURE. Lesage, Alain-Rene LES AVENTURES DE MONSIEUR ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE BEAUCHENE, CAPITAINE DE FILIBUSTIERS DANS LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE (Ganeau 1732; Dufour & Roux 1780) %W AmerInds discovered Europe before vice versa. %C Explicitly AH content seems limited to part 4. Lethem, Jonathan, & Carter Scholz, "Receding Horizon", in _CRANK!_ #5 (Summer 1995) %W Franz Kafka did not die of tuberculosis in 1924, and moved to Hollywood. %S His career working with Frank Capra. Lewis, Anthony R., "...But the Sword!", in %W Francis Bernardone of Assisi became a Crusader rather than a priest, but quit in disgust after witnessing the sack of Constaninople. %S Francis is drafted by the pope to lead a new militant order and leads the crusade that recaptures Jerusalem in 1221, causing his later canonization. Lewis, Anthony R., "In the Beginning...", in %S ... Lewis, Anthony R., "Keep Watching the Skies", in %S ... Lewis, Lloyd, "If Lincoln Had Lived", in ABRAHAM LINCOLN: HIS LIFE, WORK AND CHARACTER (ed. E. von Wagenknecht) (Creative Age 1947) %C ... Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY (Knopf 1951); included in A TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 2 (ed. Anthony Boucher) (Doubleday 1959) %W Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt and suffered an unpopular second term trying to implement a humane Reconstruction. %S Diary and newspaper excerpts about the last month of Lincoln's presidency and his vacation in California during the summer of 1869. Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves", in %W Kerensky had Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin arrested in Jul 1917 and shipped back to Switzerland. %S How it was done, with an afterword promoting tourism in the 1975 Russian republic. Linaweaver, Brad, "The Bison Riders", in TALES FROM THE GREAT TURTLE (ed. Piers Anthony & Richard Gilliam) (Tor 1994, 0312856288; Tor 1995, 0812534905) %W The Aztecs did not fall to the Spanish. %S An AmerInd from our timeline visits during his dreamquest a N America where the Aztecs war against the N American tribes. Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE (Arbor House 1988, 0877959455; Tor 1993, 0812520203); rev. of "Moon of Ice", in _Amazing Stories_ Mar 1982; and %W FDR was impeached in 1942, and Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 44 to win the war in Europe. %S The diaries of Joseph Goebbels and his daughter describe the victory, and an SS plot 20 years later to kill all non-Aryans via biological warfare. ----------------, "Under an Appalling Sky", in GRAILS: QUESTS, VISITATIONS, AND OTHER OCCURRENCES (eds. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer) (Unnameable 1992; Penguin 1994); and GRAILS: VISITATIONS OF THE NIGHT (eds. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer) (ROC 1994, 0451453042) %S A int'l expedition, dominated by Nazis trying to discredit Judaism, hunts for the Holy Grail and finds...yeti. %C Also in series is Linaweaver & Ritch's "The Littlest Stormbringer". Linaweaver, Brad, "The Other Scabbard", in EXCALIBUR (ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, & Edward E. Kramer) (Warner 1995, 0446670847, not yet published) %S ... Linaweaver, Brad, "Unmerited Favor", in %W Jesus preached a more militant line. %S He hands out weapons and takes his new followers out into the desert to confront Satan. Several are angered they're not attacking the Romans. %C Conceivably, this might be secret history. Linaweaver, Brad, & William Alan Ritch, "The Littlest Stormbringer", in MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S ELRIC: TALES OF THE WHITE WOLF (eds. Edward E. Kramer & Richard Gilliam) (White Wolf 1994, 1565041755) %W In same timeline as MOON OF ICE. %S Boys attending a Hitler Youth camp in SS-run Burgundy perform a ritual which summons Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion, Elric of Melnibone. Littell, Robert: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA %T English tr. by B.O. Foster as AB URBE CONDITA (Harvard Univ/Heinemann 1926, 1948, 1957, 1963, 1975, 1982, 0674992105, 0439991910) %W Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans. %S A digression in book IX, 17-19, of this history of Rome patriotically suggests that the Romans would have beaten him. %C Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31 BC-14 AD). Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in _Astounding_ Sep 1952; and PRIZE SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Donald A. Wollheim) (McBride 1953; vt PRIZE STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME, ...) %W Hitler was killed during an Allied bombing raid. %S Change the past tale. Lodi-Ribeiro, Gerson, "A Etica da Traicao", in _Isaac Asimov Magazine de Ficcao Cientifica_ #25; and O ATLANTICO TEM DUAS MARGENS (ed. Jose Manuel Morais) (Caminho 1993) %T French tr. by Jean-Pierre Moumon as "L'Ethique d'une Trahison", in _Antares_ #41/42 %W After the Brazilian Navy defeat at Riachuelo, intervention by the USA, et al. led to Paraguayan victory in the Triple Alliance War, followed by the fall of Brazil. %S A modern Brazilian temporal physicist destroys his life's work and flees to Paraguay to prevent his timeline from being altered into ours. Long, Karawynn, "And Make Death Proud to Take Us", in %S ... Long, Norton E., "What If Napoleon Had Not Sold Louisiana? (1803)", in %W Napoleon did not sell Louisiana to the US, and it was captured by the British during the Napoleanic wars. %C Speculation that Lousiana would have remained British/Canadian territory, and Texas and California Mexican, thus aborting US superpowerdom. Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN (BBC/Hutchinson 1972, 0563122269; Stein & Day 1974, 0812816692; Arrow 1975, 0099099004) %W Nazi Germany invaded England. %S After a narrative scenario of Operation Seeloewe, some speculative essays discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken. %C Originally presented as a BBC TV program. %C Synopsis in Morton's "Introduction to Sealion". Longyear, Barry B., "Collector's Item", in _Analog_ 27 Apr 1981; and IT CAME FROM SCHENECTADY (Warner 1986) %S A man finds a silver 1978 quarter and essays by his father's students about visits by a mysterious friend urging them to higher goals. Longyear, Barry B., "The Dreyfuss Affair", in _Amazing Stories_ Nov 1993 %W Booth did not shoot Lincoln. %S An agent from the 22nd century is sent back to 1865 to fix a renegade time traveller's murder of John Wilkes Booth. Three possibilities are shown. Louvish, Simon, THE RESURRECTIONS (Four Walls Eight Windows 1994, 1568580142); rev. of RESURRECTIONS FROM THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY: A POLITICAL FANTASY (Bloomsbury 1992, 0747511918) %W Rosa Luxemburg lived to lead the Communist takeover of Germany in 1923, forcing the National Socialists to flee to America, and in 1924, the struggle for power in the Soviet Union was won by Trotsky rather than Stalin. %S In the late 1960s, while the deaths of Mussolini and Trotsky bring turmoil to the rest of the world, Joseph Goebbels strives to put Adolf Hitler's other son in the White House. Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in (all eds.) %W Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and his reign as Kaiser lasted longer than 91 days. %S Overview of Bismarck's construct of a network of peace treaties while Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene. Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War", in THE PEOPLE'S ALMANAC #2 (eds. David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace) (Morrow 1978, 0688033725; Bantam 1978, 0553011375) %W Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the midst of the Dunkirk chaos. %S The later history of Europe and how Hitler's successors tempered his worst excesses. %C Accompanies Fadness's "What if...?" synopses of other AHs. Lund, Gerald N., THE FREEDOM FACTOR (Deseret 1987, 0875799612) %W The Constitution was not ratified. %S ... Lundwall, Sam J., MORKRETS FURSTE (Delta Forlags AB 1975, 9172280522) %S Anarchists plot to destory civilization in a 1916 in which the US is a monarchy. Lupoff, Richard A., "At Vega's Taqueria", in _Amazing Stories_ Sept 1990 %S A mural showing an Aztec wearing a football helmet leads a man to doubt his sanity until he discovers he is shifting from one timeline to another. Lupoff, Richard A., CIRCUMPOLAR! (Simon & Schuster 1984, 0671499416; Berkley 1985, 0425081931) %W The Earth were disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center. %S Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side. ------------------, COUNTERSOLAR! (Arbor House 1987, 0877958580; Ace 1989, 0441117910) %S Albert Einstein races the Perons to counter-Earth. Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER (Dell 1970, 0440038308) %W Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000. %S Adventures on a space-faring galleon. Lupoff, Richard A., "Jubilee", in %S ... MacCreigh, James: see Pohl, Frederick Macdonald, James D., & Debra Doyle ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #3: TIMECRIME, INC. (Harper 1991) %S ... %C Follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE. MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in _Analog_ Mar 1970; and ANALOG'S LIGHTER SIDE (ed. Stanley Schmidt) (Davis/Dial 1982, 038527775X; Davis/Dial 1983) --------------, "Meet a Crazy Lady Week", in _Analog_ Aug 1970 --------------, "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants", in _Analog_ Apr 1971 --------------, "One-Generation New World", in _If_ Mar 1971 --------------, "Country of the Mind", in _Analog_ May 1975 %S A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really coherent reason). Mackay, Scott, "The Sages of Cassiopeia", in Dec 1994 %W Tycho Brahe's twin brother was born alive, but an idiot. %S ... Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940 (Macmillan 1980, 025780301; Arms & Armour 1980, 0853683247; Greenhill 1990) %W Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain. %S A campaign history of July 1940, when Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded England and forced HM gov't to flee across the Atlantic. %C Synopsis in Morton's "Introduction to Sealion". MacLeod, Ian R., "Snodgrass", in IN DREAMS (Morrow 1992); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, TENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1993, 0312094248, 031209423X; vt THE BEST NEW SCIENCE FICTION: 7TH ANNUAL COLLECTION, Robinson 1993, 1854872346) %W Upset by a studio exec during a 1962 recording session, John Lennon walked out on the Beatles and nobody asked him to come back. %S 30 years later, chronically unemployed Lennon is living in Birmingham when the Beatles pass through during their "Greatest Hits" tour. Mahr, Kurt, MENSCHEN ZWISCHEN DER ZEIT (Terra 1961) %S Hunt for a man who is trying to destroy the world financial system with dollars from a timeline suffering high inflation. Mahr, Kurt, 2 X PROFESSOR MANSTEIN (Terra 1961) %S A scientist from our world is transported to another to fight an alien invasion. Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins", in %W Nixon was elected president in 1960 and Johnson in 1964 and 1968. %S In 1972, "the senator" runs again. Upset by his change of heart on the Vietnam war, "Lee" decides to shoot him and his running-mate in Dallas. Malzberg, Barry N., "Allegro Marcato", in %W Arturo Toscanini was uninterested in music as a child, and after immigrating to America, worked the San Francisco docks and learned baseball. %S "Art Tosca" manages the NY Yankees during four straight World Series championships, despite violent arguments with a slumping Babe Ruth in 1927. Malzberg, Barry N., "Andante Lugubre", in _Science Fiction Age_ May 1993 %W Tchaikovsky lived much, much longer than 53 years and eventually emigrated to Hollywood. %S At age 99, Tchaikovsky attends a meeting of Jewish composers protesting Hitler's policies. Malzberg, Barry N., "Another Goddamned Showboat", in %W Ernest Hemingway became a hack science fiction writer. %S In 1941, Hemingway is still struggling to get published when the latest issue of _Amazing_ arrives, featuring a story by a kid named Asimov. Malzberg, Barry N., CHORALE (Doubleday 1978, 0385131380) %S ... Malzberg, Barry N., "Fugato", in %W Leonard Bernstein was drafted by the US Army and classified 1A. %S Trapped in an Ardennes farmhouse two years later, infantryman Bernstein contemplates the path that led him there. Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal", in %W JFK argued with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the presidential election campaign of 1960. %S A look at the losing campaign, as Bob Kennedy tries to cure his brother's self-destructive activities. Malzberg, Barry N., "Hitler at Nuremburg", in ; and _Pulphouse_ #17 %W Hitler did not commit suicide as the Russians swept into Berlin. %S Maunderings as Hitler insists the Final Solution was Eichmann's idea, but other war crime defendants all claim they were just following his orders. Malzberg, Barry N., "In the Stone House", in %W Joe Kennedy, Jr., survived WW2 and was elected US president in 1952. %S Joe Kennedy's presidency collapses after the firing of SecState McCarthy and in 1963, Joe decided to end his brother's for betraying the family. %C Nominee: 1993 Hugo for best novelette. Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in _Analog_ Jan 1975; DOWN HERE IN THE DREAM QUARTER (Doubleday 1976, 0385122683); and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIE (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander) (Doubleday 1978, 0385130449; Avon 1978, 0380507730) %W Nixon was elected president in 1960. %S A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected. Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish", in %W Huey Long survived the assassination attempt in 1935 and became president in 1936 by stealing away FDR's vice-president. %S John Nance Gardner tells how he struck a deal with the Kingfish, and then how they dealt with Hitler. Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD (Ballantine 1985); rev. of "Emily Dickinson--Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed. Roy Torgeson) (Doubleday 1980, 0385170408) %W ... %S Freud is murdered by a disappointed patient, only to be reincarnated aboard a spaceship whose crew need analysis. %C Nominee: 1985 Nebula for best novel. Malzberg, Barry N., "Ship Full of Jews", in _Omni_ Apr 92; and %W Columbus carried several hundred deported Jews along during his first voyage. %S Columbus argues with a rabbi about conditions below decks. Meanwhile, over on the _Santa Maria_, Torquemada plots. Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine", in %W Radicals who took over the UChicago campus in 1968 went looking for the campus reactors. %S The radicals make extreme demands, forgetting that LBJ is a _vengeful_ lame-duck. Malzberg, Barry N.: see also Koja, Kathe, & Barry N. Malzberg Mann, Phillip, A LAND FIT FOR HEROES: BOOK I: ESCAPE TO THE WILD WOOD (Gollancz 1993, 0575055154; Gollancz 1994, 0575057165) %W Rome never fell. %S A student, a mechanic and a servant at Britannia's Battle Dome flee into the "uncivilized" forests. -------------, A LAND FIT FOR HEROES: BOOK II: STAND ALONE STAN (Gollancz 1994; Gollancz 1995, 057505932X) %S ... -------------, A LAND FIT FOR HEROES: BOOK III: THE DRAGON WAKES (Gollancz 1995) %S ... -------------, A LAND FIT FOR HEROES: BOOK IV: THE BURNING FOREST (Gollancz 1996, not yet published) %S ... Marr, Andrew, "Without Her", in _Alternate Worlds_ #1 (Jan 1994) %W Labour defeated the Conservatives in the 1978 British elections and Margaret Thatcher did not become Prime Minister. %C An abridged transcript of Martin Davidson's BBC-TV program examining a history of the UK in the 1980s with Thatcher as a backbench MP. Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy", in _Fortnightly_ Apr 1941 %W William IV's heir was male. %S Effect of British retention of Hanover on German reunification and the world wars. Martin, George R.R., "Under Siege", in _Omni_ Oct 1985; and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, THIRD ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Bluejay 1984, 031294487X, 0312944861) %T German tr. by Barbara Heidkamp as "Belagert", in %W Fremont was elected US president in 1856. %S A mental time traveler trying to prevent the Russian capture of Sveabourg in 1808 fails, but later emigrates to America and becomes a Republican. Martin, George R.R. (ed.), WILD CARDS I (Bantam 1987, 0553261908) -------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH (Bantam 1987, 0553264648) -------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD (Bantam 1987, 0553266993) -------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD (Bantam 1988, 055327628X) -------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY (Bantam 1988, 0553274635) -------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE (Bantam ..., 0553282530) -------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS (Bantam 1990, 0553288520) -------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE (Bantam 1991, 0553291742) -------------------------, WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE (Bantam 1992) -------------------------, WILD CARDS: CARD SHARKS (Baen 1993, 0671721593) -------------------------, WILD CARDS: MARKED CARDS (Baen 1994, 0671722123) -------------------------, WILD CARDS: BLACK TRUMP (Baen 1995, not yet published) %W In 1946, a genetically-tailored virus from outer space was released in Earth's stratosphere, killing many but giving super powers to others. %S A series of "mosaic novels" explores the effect of the virus during the ensuing decades. Curiously, history isn't altered all that much. %C Though called mosaic novels, many of these volumes might be considered anthologies. However, individual entries for each story are not included in this list. %C Also in series are Martin & Miller's WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND, Snodgrass's WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE, and Milan's WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS. Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND (Bantam ..., 055328569X) %C In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I. Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE CRYSTAL SWORD (Avon 1988, 038075455X) ------------------------, THE FIRE SWORD (Avon 1985, 0380754541) ------------------------, THE RAINBOW SWORD (publ. unknown) ------------------------, THE SEA SWORD (publ. unknown) %W An alteration in the progeny of Henry II resulted in a different English royal succession. Also, magic works. %S A woman from our world visits a different olde England. Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW (Lancer 1971, 0447752170) %S Exiles from different N Americas of 1965 meet. Masters, Roger D., "What If Napoleon Had Not Invaded Russia? (1808)", in %W Appendicitis and pneumonia prevented Napoleon from invading Spain in 1808, and reading Rousseau altered his tactics. %C A more devious Napoleon leads France to world power by isolating Britain, having built up the French fleet and made alliance with Russia and America. Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in (all eds.) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as "Wenn Ludwig XVI. eine Spur von Festigkeit gezeigt hatte", in DAS SCIENCE FICTION JAHR (ed. ...) (Heyne 1986) %W Louis XVI were more stubborn, retaining Turgot as finance minister. %S An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820). Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM (Doubleday 1973, 0385042124) %W By asking the voters if they could trust Nixon for 4 more years, George McGovern was elected president in 1972. %S An administration insider describes how McGovern's strong moral compass is diverted by playing politics to get his policies enacted. Mayer, Christian: see Amery, Carl Mazarin, Jean, L'HISTOIRE DETOURNEE (Fleuve Noir 1984) %W Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons. %S WW3 in 1989 against Japan. McAllister, Bruce, "Southpaw", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Aug 1993 %W Fidel Castro accepted the contract offer from the New York Giants and became a profesional baseball player. %S While a struggling rookie pitcher in 1951, Castro's eyes are opened to the troubles at home and he arranges a meeting with countryman Desi Arnaz. McAuley, Paul J., PASQUALE'S ANGEL (Gollancz 1994, 0575054891; Morrow 1995, 0688141544; Gollancz 1995, 0575059176) %W Leonardo da Vinci, the Great Engineer, kicked off the Industrial Revolution three centuries early. %S In 1518 Florence, an engineer and reporter Niccolo Machiavegli investigate a locked tower murder and attempt to prevent a war with Spain. McCleary, Rob, "Nixon in Space", in _CRANK!_ #6 %S ... McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb", in %W Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, leading to the complete break-up of Rome and a never-ending dark age. %S C. 1700, a young man meets an old man excavating a tomb in a ruined city. McDonald, Ian, "The Best & the Rest of James Joyce", in _Interzone_ #58 (Apr 1992); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, TENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1993, 0312094248, 031209423X; vt THE BEST NEW SCIENCE FICTION: 7TH ANNUAL COLLECTION, Robinson 1993, 1854872346) %W James Joyce took up an occupation other than writing. %S In another timeline, Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he becomes a musician or a physicist. McGarry, Terry, "The Best Little Worldcon in...", in %S ... McHugh, Maureen F., "The Ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela", in %W Richie Valens got in trouble during a visit to Tijuana. %S A Hollywood film crew shoots a movie about the famous bank robber. McHugh, Maureen B., "The Lincoln Train", in Apr 1995; and %W Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt was so gravely wounded that SecState Seward ended up running the country. %S Southerners are shipped out west to starve among the Indians, but the Friends have started a new underground railroad. %C Nominee: 1996 Nebula for best short story. McHugh, Maureen F., "Tut's Wife", in %W Tutankhamen's widow sought a husband to protect her and to help spread the faith of Aten in Egypt. %S Ankhesenpaaten tries to manipulate a powerful general. McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision", in _Analog_ Oct 1992 %W Aborigines in Australia progressed much much faster, developing steam engines by 22000 BC, atomic power by 10000 BC and rockets by 800 BC. %S Worried by Europe's increasingly speedy and warlike technological progress, aborigines decide to stop Columbus's expedition. Meacham, Beth, "A Dream Can Make a Difference", in %W Marilyn Monroe survived her suicide attempt and went into politics, running against Reagan for governor of California. %S After Hinckley assassinates Pres. Monroe in 1981, a female news producer recalls the path Monroe followed to the White House. Meacham, Beth, "One by One", in %W Tecumseh turned the tide at the Battle of the Thames (Detroit) and the Northwest Territories only became a US state decades later. %S In the 20th century, conflict between whites and reds in "Indiana" constantly simmers with acts of terrorism and retaliation. Meacham, Beth, "A Spark in the Darkness", in %W Hellen Keller learned to pick locks. %S The narrative of a safe-cracker. Melo, Joco Batista, "A Moga Triste de Berlim" [The Sad Girl from Berlin], in AS BALEIAS DE SANGUENAY [The Whales of Sanguenay] (Rocco 1995) %S A terrorist act against the Brazilian dictatorship results in the destruction of the _Hindenburg_ over Rio de Janeiro. Menard, Pierre, 1938: LA DISTRUZIONE DI PARIGI (Frasinelli 1984) %W Petain led a successful French coup in 1934. %S ... Mendini, Douglas, "What If...", in _Entertainment Weekly_ 7 Aug 1992 %W Marilyn Monroe's stomach was pumped in time to prevent her death from a drug overdose. %S A series of short news blurbs about Marilyn's career through 1989. Meredith, Richard C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE (Putnam's 1973, 039911100X; Berkley 1975, 0425027309; rev Playboy 1979) %S An agent from a Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain suppressed American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders. --------------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND (Doubleday 1976, 03851111096; rev Playboy 1979, 0872165647) %S Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest. --------------------, VESTIGES OF TIME (Doubleday 1978, 0385131747; rev Playboy 1979, 0872165728) %S And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome. Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! (Ballantine 1976, 0345250664) %W Chicago did not burn in Oct 1871. %S A time-hopper, fleeing an American religious dictatorship in a history in which Nazi Germany nuked Chicago, recuperates in 1871 Chicago. Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS (Doubleday 1951; Galaxy SF Novel 12 (1952); Modern Literary Editions 1967?); rev. of "The House of Many Worlds", in _Startling Stories_ Sep 1951 %S Time guardians intervene in affairs in divergent worlds, including one where Aaron Burr conquered and reshaped the USA. -----------, "Three Faces of Time", in Ace Double #D-121 (Ace 1955); rev. of "Journey to Misenum", in _Startling Stories_ Aug 1953 %S Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient Rome. %C Not to be confused with Frank Belknap Long's novel of the same name. Mielke, Thomas R.P., GRAND ORIENTALE 3301 (Heyne 1980) %W The Arabs continued during the Middle Ages to rise in power and technology, but became divided. %S People from our world encounter Arabic nations fighting for control of powerlines from hydroelectric plants in Europe. Miesel, Sandra, SHAMAN (Baen 1989, 0671698443); rev. of DREAMRIDER (Ace 1982, 04411566797) %S A woman from the 2009 of one world dreams of historical events happening differently (without much follow through) and becomes a shaman in another. Miles, Robin, "Throwing out Time at the Red Lion", serial in _Miniature Wargames_ #91 & #92 (Dec 1990 & Jan 1991) %C ... Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS (Bantam 1993) %C In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I, etc. Miller, John J.: see Leigh, Stephen, & John J. Miller Miller, John J.: see Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in _Analog_ Nov 1991 %S A scientist discovers that time travelers cause the formation of impermanent alternate "virtual" timelines when they make changes in history. Minogue, Kenneth, "What If Karl Marx Had Drowned in a Cross-Channel Ferry Accident? (1847)", in %W As the title says. %C Essay from that timeline that revolutionaries such as Lenin lacked a fundamental theory that this obscure thinker could have provided. Mitchell, Gary, "The Wars that Never Were", in _Miniature Wargames_ #81 (Feb 1990) %W The Confederacy abolished slavery in late 1863 and was immediately recognized by Britain and France. %C Wargaming British and French intervention in the US Civil War, with a timeline describing events up to the concluding Treaty of Berlin (1865). Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN (Ace 1987, 0441569730) %S A Bret Harte descendant attempts to make his ancestor the literary giant of 1900 by arranging for Mark Twain's success in the gold fields. Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR (Ace 1984, 0441680291) --------------, NEW BARBARIANS (Ace 1986, 0441571018) --------------, CRY REPUBLIC (Ace 1989, 0441123899) %W Rome defeated Arminius in the Teutoburg Wald and the legion responsible was posted to Judea, where 20 years later, Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth. %S A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes Caesar. Mitchell, V.E., "Against the Night", serial in _Amazing Stories_ May & Jun 1992 %S WW2 in which the secret British plan to create an aircraft carrier out of a piece of the Greenland ice shelf was enacted. Mitsuse Ryu, SEITO TOTOKUFU (Hayakawa Shobo 1975) %W Japan lost the Sino-Japanese War. %S ... Modesitt, L. E., Jr., OF TANGIBLE GHOSTS (Tor 1994, 0312857209; Tor 1995, 0812548221) %S ... Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in Sept 1991; and %W Andrew Jackson's image was tarnished by a land-dealing scandal, leading to Davey Crockett becoming president in 1828. %S Just as the Confederacy wins its independence in 1853, a soldier recounts how the flight of a slave may have broken the Compromise of 1850. Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD (Manor 1977) %S Soldiers from post-nuclear war USA are thrown back to 1860, where they help create an AmerInd nation and a Free State of New Mexico. Montville, Leigh, "What If? Bubbles and the Babe", in _Sports Illustrated [Classic]_ Fall 1991 (v75, no18) %W Henry Frazee's mistress prevented him from trading Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1919. %S Reminiscing about the many men who played for the Boston Red Sox, the greatest dynasty in baseball history. Mooney, Ted, TRAFFIC AND LAUGHTER (... 1990) %W WW2 was a draw and the atomic bomb wasn't developed until much later. %S ... Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE (Allison & Busby 1978, 085031237X; Fontana 1978; Avon 1979; Warner/Popular Library 1986, 0445202718) %W Refugees from Troy founded a new empire in Britain. %S Political machinations in London, capital of Elizabethan-level Albion, which is ruled by a virgin queen. Moorcock, Michael, A NOMAD OF THE TIME STREAMS (Millenium 1993; White Wolf 1995, 1565041798; vt THE NOMAD OF TIME, SFBC 1982) (---------------), THE WARLORD OF THE AIR (NEL 1971; Ace 1971, 0441876005; rev Quartet 1978; DAW 1978; Granada 1981) %T German tr. by Sylvia Pukallus as DER HERR DER LUFTE (Heyne 1982) %S Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace has maintained European imperialism. (---------------), THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE (Doubleday 1974, 0385014732; Quartet 1974, 0704320185, 070433013X; DAW 1976; Panther 1981, 0583131026) %T German tr. by Sylvia Pukallus as DER LANDLEVIATHAN (Heyne 1982) %S Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did the world no good. (---------------), THE STEEL TSAR (DAW 1982, 0879977736) %T German tr. by Sylvia Pukallus as DER STAHLZAR (Heyne 1984) %S Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili. Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN (DC Comics 1987, 0930289234; Warner 1987, 0446386898); collection of _Watchmen_ #1-12, comic book series (DC Comics 1986-87) %W Costumed vigilantes appeared in 1939 and a real superhero with superpowers was created in 1959 by an accident in a nuclear research lab. %S In 1986, Nixon is still president, someone is killing old costumed heroes and nuclear war looks imminent. Why are the latter two related? Moore, C.L.: see Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE (Farrar, Straus & Young 1953; Ballantine 1953; Avon 1955; Avon 1972, 038002440?; Avon 1976, 0380007568; Easton 1987; Bart 1988, 1557850321); rev. of "Bring the Jubilee", in Nov 1952; and THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed. Frank McSherry, Jr) (Baen 1991, 0671720635) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as DER GROSSE SUDEN (Heyne 1980) %T Portuguese tr. by Ana Paula Gouveia as E TUDO O TEMPO LEVOU (Classica 1992) %W Confederates occupied the Round Tops during the first day of Gettysburg, leading to victory in the battle and Confederate independence. %S An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and the Germanic Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863. Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang", in %W The Sino-German alliance defeated Japan and won WW2. %S A Chinese-American history prof at UC-Monterey finds that his students are violently bigoted. Moore, William O., "Let Us Cross Over the River: A Flight of Fancy for Wargamers", in _The General_ ... 1989 (vol 25, no 5) %W Stonewall Jackson seemingly rose from the dead after Chancellorsville, and followed Lee to Gettysburg, occupying the Round Tops. %S Details of Jackson's resurrection and the Confederate victory at Gettysburg, plus the capture of Baltimore and the armistice in August. Morales, Alejandro, THE RAG DOLL PLAGUES: A NOVEL (Arte Publico 1992, 1558850368) %W A mysterious plague swept through Mexico City in 1788. %S Doctors fight the plague in 1788, 1970 and 2050. Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES (Bantam 1988, 0553271156); rev. of "All the Time in the World", in ... 1982 %S In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out to prevent the nuclear war of 2007. Moran, Tony, "Close Your Eyes and Stare at Your Memories", in _Amazing Stories_ Jan 1973 %S ... Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in %W Adenauer did not ignore Stalin's proposal for German re-unification. %C His five reasons for exploring the idea, plus some commentary about the all-German election of 1954. Morin, Edgar, "Le Camarade-Dieu: un conte de Noel", in _France Observateur_ 28 Dec 1961 %W Surviving death in 1953, Stalin is proclaimed a living god in 1961. %S Reactions from elsewhere. Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in _If_ Feb 1966 %W Napoleon used balloons to invade England. %S Foiling the invasion. Morris, Janet: see Drake, David, & Janet Morris Morrissette, Gabriel: see Shainblum, Mark, & Gabriel Morrissette Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in ; and THE 1990 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1990, 0886774241) %W Lincoln made peace with the Confederacy in 1863. %S Through time travel, Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009. Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman", in _Amazing Stories_ Jul 1991; and %W Upon finding out that the Trojan War was being fought over her, Helen decided she didn't need the guilt. %S Notified of Helen's desire to end the war, the leaders of both sides aren't having any of it. Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant", in ; and BIBLE STORIES FOR ADULTS (Harcourt Brace 1996) %W Moses couldn't get a replacement set for the tablets he smashed on the golden calf, and society had to be constructed without them. %S An attempt to computer-reconstruct the law of Moses from the tablet shards, which have been saved. Morselli, Guido, CONTRO-PASSATO PROSSIMO: UN'IPOTESI RETROSPETTIVA (Adelphi 1975; Adelphi 1987) %T English tr. by Hugh Shankland as PAST CONDITIONAL: A RETROSPECTIVE HYPOTHESIS (Chatto & Windus 1989, 0701129174) %W Austria-Hungary invaded Italy via a secret tunnel in May 1916, forcing it out of the war in five days. %S How lightning tactics achieved victory for the Central Powers in WW1 and led to the creation of a semi-socialist W European federation in 1917. Motta, Luigi, IL TUNNEL SOTTOMARINO (... 1927) %W A transatlantic tunnel was begun in the 1920s. %S ... Mulisch, Harry, DE TOEKOMST VAN GISTEREN: PROTOKOL VAN EEN SCHRIJVERIJ (De Bezige Bij 1972) %W Hitler was assassinated in 1944, which event was followed by an SS countercoup and German victory in WW2. %S An author in a world in which Germany lost WW2 explains why he isn't writing about a world in which Germany won, in which world is an author... 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Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE (McGraw-Hill 1969; Fawcett 1970; McGraw-Hill 1986, 070457778; Vintage 1990, 0679725229) %S ... Nathanson, E.M., & Aaron Bank, KNIGHT'S CROSS (Carol/Birch Lane 1993, 1559721685) %W Hitler was captured by the Allies in early 1945. %S ... National Lampoon, editors of, "Grand Fifth Term Inaugural Issue: JFK's First 6,000 Days", in _National Lampoon_ Feb 1977 %W Jackie Kennedy died in Dallas instead of JFK. %S A whimsical look at Kennedy's first 16 years, including his marriage to Christina Onassis and military intervention in N Ireland. Nelson, Ray, TIMEQUEST (rev Tor 1985; vt BLAKE'S PROGRESS, Laser 1975, 0373720130) %S William Blake, his wife and others travel through time changing how things turn out. In one instance, the Romans never defeat the Egyptians. Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH WON GETTYSBURG (Reliance 1980, 0937740012) %W Lee listened to Longstreet and flanked the Union on the South before the battle's third day. %S A day-by-day account of the battle, and JEB Stuart's raid on Washington. Final chapter provides outline of consequent American history to 1940. Newman, Kim, ANNO-DRACULA (Simon & Schuster UK 1992, 0671717804; Carroll & Graf 1993, 0881849677; Pocket UK 1994, 0671715917; Avon 1994, 038072345X) %W Dracula actually existed, defeated Van Helsing, and married the widowed Queen Victoria. %S A human agent of the Diogenes Club and a vampire are among those hunting for Jack the Ripper, who is killing vampire whores. -----------, THE BLOODY RED BARON (Simon & Schuster UK 1995; Carroll & Graf 1995, 0786702524) %S Thirty years later, Graf von Dracula now controls imperial Germany and has led Europe into bloody war. Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in _Interzone_ #23 (Spring 1988); THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1989, 0312030096, 0312030088); and FAMOUS MONSTERS (Pocket UK 1995, 0671853007) %W H.G. Wells's book THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was not fiction. %S A Martian gets a job in Hollywood. Newman, Kim, "The Pierce Arrow Stalled, and...", in FAMOUS MONSTERS (Pocket UK 1995, 0671853007) %W Fatty Arbuckle did not go to a particular Hollywood party. %S ... Newman, Kim, "Slow News Day", in _Interzone_ #90 (Dec 1994) %S The 50th anniversary of D-Day, the German invasion of England on June 5, 1944. Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in _Interzone_ #48 (Jun 1991); and _Aboriginal_ #27 (Jul/Aug 1991) %W Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, but was assassinated while trying to break up a Chicago labor strike before the inauguration. %S How reaction to the anti-socialist backlash, early entry in WW1 and the corrupt presidency of plutocrat Charles Foster Kane led to a socialist revolution. ---------------------------, "Tom Joad", in _Interzone_ #65 (Nov 1992) %S Ideology agents Elliott Ness and Melvyn Purvis hunt for a legendary agitator and end up confronting Chairman Capone's enforcer Frank Nitti. ---------------------------, "In the Air", in _Interzone_ #43 (Jan 1991) %S Musician Charlie Holley recounts how Howie Hughes and Jack Kerouac crashed a party in honor of George Patton's Revolutionary Fraternity Squadron. Newman, Kim, "Ubermensch", in FAMOUS MONSTERS (Pocket UK 1995, 0671853007) %S ... Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE WANDERING JEW (ed. Brian Stableford) (Daedalus 1991, 0946626715) %W Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge after his army panicked, making Christianity a laughing-stock of a religion. %S In 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew/Christian tells the story of his life, from 30 AD Jerusalem to Persian-besieged Jewish Rome. Nicholas, Herbert N., "Hail Our Britannic Bicentennial", in _Virginia Quarterly Review_ Summer 1976 %W Britain prevented troops and siege supplies from reaching Washington at Yorktown, leading to a Cornwallis victory. %S The states remain within the British Empire, but are permitted to form a unified government after a constitutional convention in 1787. Nichols, Lyn, "Mahogany Dreams", in %S ... Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in (all eds.) %W Lord Byron did not die of a fever in 1824. %S An overview of Byron's life from 1824 to 1854, including how he became king of Greece in 1831 and his wife's attempts to usurp power. Nimersheim, Jack, "A Fireside Chat", in %W Warren Harding died during the campaign of 1920, putting James Cox in the White House. But Cox died too and his Veep became president. %S In 1923, President Franklin Roosevelt meets with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who successfully pulled off the Beer Hall Putsch. Nimersheim, Jack, "#2, With a Bullet", in %S Meanderings about the fame of Jack Kennedy, the King of Krime. Nimersheim, Jack, "The Rising Sun at Dusk", in %S ... Nimersheim, Jack, "The Wages of Sin", in %W Bonnie and Clyde found a safer way of making money than bank robbery. %S B&C go into tent-revival sex therapy, but still have a fatal date with the FBI on a Louisiana highway. Nimmo, David G. "What If?...Evacuating the AfrikaKorps", in _Command_ #30 (Sep-Oct 1994) %W Hitler consented to plans to evacuate the Afrikakorps in early 1943. %S Short scenario of how it would have worked. Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in _Galaxy_ Oct 1968; ; ALL THE MYRIAD WAYS (Ballantine 1971); APPROACHES TO SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Donald L Lawler) (Houghton Mifflin 1978, 0395254965); GALAXY: THIRTY YEARS OF INNOVATIVE SCIENCE FICTION (eds. Frederick Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D Olander) (Playboy 1980, 0872235688; Worldview 1981, 0872236471); N-SPACE (Tor 1990, 0312850891; Tor 1992, 0812510011; Orbit 1992, 1857230035); and %T German tr. by ... as "Myriaden", in MYRIADEN (Bastei-Lubbe 1973) %W The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to nuclear exchange. %S A detective investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime Corporation. %C Retold in comic-book form by Niven & Chaykin. Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", Oct 1970; WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 1971 (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr) (Ace 1971); and THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE (Ballantine 1973, 0345234871) %S Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto. Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE (Ballantine 1973, 0345234871) %S Post-holocaust time-traveler creates our timeline by preventing a blow-up resulting from the Cuban missile crisis. Niven, Larry, "The Return of William Proxmire", in ; and N-SPACE (Tor 1990, 0312850891; Tor 1992, 0812510011; Orbit 1992, 1857230035) %W SF author Robert Heinlein did not resign from the navy. %S Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Heinlein from becoming a writer. %C Nominee: 1990 Hugo for best short story. Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in Jun 1971; ; and ZOO 2000: TWELVE STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY (ed. Jane Yolen) (Seabury 1973, 0816431035) %S A time traveler strays sideways to a timeline where the dominant inhabitants developed from wolves instead of hominids. Niven, Larry, & Howard Chaykin, "All the Myriad Ways", in _Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction_ #5 (... 1975, Marvel Comics) %C Comic book adaptation of the Niven short story. Nock, Albert Jay, "If Only--", in _Atlantic_ Aug 1937 %S ... Noel-Noel, VOYAGEUR DES SIECLES (publ. unknown) %S ... Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson", in _Amazing Stories_ Jul 1971; ALIEN HORIZONS (Pocket 1974, 0671779281); and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIE (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander) (Doubleday 1978, 0385130449; Avon 1978, 0380507730) %S In 1990, a NASA employee suddenly "shifts" to a timeline where Sirhan Sirhan missed Robert Kennedy and Apollo 11 met disaster. Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION (Warner 1973, 0446751545) %T Portuguese tr. Eduardo Sals as O ULTIMO JUDEU (Panorama 1973) %W FDR was assassinated in 1933. %S Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York. Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME (Ace 1956; Gregg 1978, 0839824181) %S Caught in a fight between crosstimers, a man from our world is stranded on one where the Axis attacked US coasts after England's fall. -------------, QUEST CROSSTIME (Viking 1965; Ace 1965, 0441696821; vt CROSSTIME AGENT, Gollancz 1975) %S Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in 1485 and Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME (Atheneum 1976, 0689500572; Fawcett Crest 1976, 0449235327; Tor 1992, 0812545727) %S Adventures and magic in an African empire of a world where Islam never got started. Norwood, Warren, [& Mel Odom], TIME POLICE: VANISHED (Lynx Omeiga 1988, 1558020063) %S ... -----------------------------, TIME POLICE: TRAPPED! (Lynx Omeiga 1989, 1558020071) %S Our hero visits a 1968 where Leslie King, Jr. is president and names Gov. Nixon of California his running mate. -----------------------------, TIME POLICE: STRANDED (Lynx Omeiga 1989) %S ... Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN (Paperback Library 1967) %S Attempts to transmit matter between planets opens a path to another universe, with so much damage the alternate has to destroy the transmitter. Novotny, Frantisek, DLOUHY DEN VALHALY (pul. unknown 1994) %S ... Nurse, Patricia, "One Rejection Too Many", in Jul/Aug 1978; ASIMOV'S CHOICE: EXTRATERRESTRIALS & ECLIPSES (ed. ...) (publ. unknown); INSIDE THE FUNHOUSE: 17 SF STORIES ABOUT SF (ed. Mike Resnick) (Avon 1992, 0380766434) %T Portuguese tr. by Cesar Tozzi as "Uma Recusa a Mais", in ASIMOV: O MELHOR DA FICCAO CIENTIFICA (ed. ...) (Expressao & Cultura 1980) %S A woman submitting SF stories written by a time-traveler to _IAsfm_ gets upset with their continual rejection and decides to make some changes. Nutman, Philip, WET WORK (publ. unknown) %W George Bush was re-elected. %S ... Nye, Jody Lynn, "The Father of His Country", in %W Ben Franklin was elected president in 1789 rather than Washington. %S Franklin manipulates the government by using pseudonymous newspaper writings to influence public opinion, un-nerving Veep John Adams. Oleinikov, Dmitry, & Sergei Kudryashov, "What If Hitler Had Defeated Russia?", in _History_Today_ May 1995 %S Speculation on the future if Operation Barbarossa had been successful. Olsen, Per G., "Medaljens bakside", in DOED OG VED GODT MOT I NEW YORK (Gyldendal Norsk 1979, 8205116598) %W Norway fought a bitter War of Independence against Sweden, 1905-37. %S Journalist interviews war veteran. Olsen, Per G., "I Albions tid", in ASTERVEG (Bok og Magasinforlaget 1989) %W Wat Tyler's rebellion in 14th-century England succeeded. Magic works. %S Two sailors are stranded in an "Albion" ruled by Dark Magic. Oltion, Jerry, "Red Alert", in _Analog_ Oct 1991; and %W Montezuma kicked the Spaniards out of Mexico and N AmerInds had similar success, leaving only the European colony on Manhattan Island. %S The Cuban Missile Crisis, recast in the 1800s as the Iroquois Federation inter-tribal air force vs. Manhattan. Orgill, Michael, "Many Rubicons", in %W MacArthur invaded China against orders and later set himself up as US dictator. %S MacArthur turns to psychic exploration of alternate possibilities to find out where he went wrong. O'Rourke, P.J., "The Seventies that Never Happened", in _National Lampoon_ Feb 1980 %W The counterculture took over the US. %S ... Overgard, William, THE DIVIDE (Jove 1980) %W Axis powers using jets and V-4 rockets defeated and partitioned America. %S Thirty years later, the American resistance develops the atomic bomb. Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", serial in _Astounding_ Jan & Feb 1947; TOMORROW AND TOMORROW (Consul 1951); and TOMORROW AND TOMORROW & THE FAIRY CHESSMEN (Gnome 1951) %S ... Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore, BEYOND HEAVEN'S GATES (Ace Double #D-69 (Ace 1954)); rev. of Padgett's "The Portal in the Picture", in _Startling Stories_ Sep 1949 %S A man and woman fall into a non-Christian parallel run by alchemic priests, who believe our New York is Paradise. Page, Jake, THE INVASION (Ballantine, not yet published) %S ... Palmer, Michael A., THE WAR THAT NEVER WAS (Vandamere 1994, 0918339286) %S The US and the Soviets slug it out in the 1980s. Parker, Geoffrey, "If The Armada Had Landed", in _History_ v61, pp 358-368 %C Primarily an analysis of the relative strengths of Spanish and English land forces, but includes speculation on the effect of Spanish landfall. Parnicki, Teodor, CZAS SIANIA I CZAS ZBIERANIA (publ. unknown) %S ... Parnicki, Teodor, I U MOZNYCH DZIWNY: POWIESC Z WIEKU XVII (Pax 1965, 1979, 8832110054) %S ... Parnicki, Teodor, MUZA DALEKICH PODROZY: POWIESC (Pax 1970) %W The 4th Polish Kingdom was established following the 1793 uprising. %S ... Parnicki, Teodor, SAM WYIDE BEZBRONNY: POWIESC HISTORYCZNO-FANTAZTYCZNA W TRZECH CZESCIACH (Pax 1976) %W Julian the Apostate survived the Persian campaign and lived until 383. %S ... Parnicki, Teodor, SREBRNE ORLY (Pax 1956, 1960; Czytelnik 1965) %W A Polish state was created in the 10th century. %S ... Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in %W Thiers accepted the appointment to be French Minister of War as the Franco-Prussian War began. %S Thiers's diary demonstrates how he used his position to prevent French aggressive action which would provoke a German unification. Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED (Tor 1987, 0812548981, 081254899X) %W The Ottomans invaded Russia c 1697, preventing its rise to power and leaving it helpless before Napoleon a century later. %S Cross- and vertical time travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent Napoleon's European takeover. Pellegrino, Charles, FLYING TO VALHALLA (Morrow 1993; Avon 1994, 0380718812) %W The _Titanic_ did not sink, which led to aviator Harriet Quimby living an extra 40 years. %C First-contact tale set in 2054, but a digression on pp. 178-179 reveals that it's not quite set in our future. Perello, Chris, "Mason-Dixon", in _Command_ #35 (Nov 1995) %W Grant was killed during the Vicksburg campaign, and the South won at Gettysburg as a result of Pender's Charge. All leads to Lincoln losing to McClellan in the 1864 election. %S Article component, subtitled "Could the South Have Won the Civil War?", presents likely branch point and a short bibliography. Game component, "The Second American Civil War", is more explicit, offering a timeline to c. 1900, when the two N American powers have expanded as much as they can without conflict. Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in ; and VISIONS FROM THE EDGE (ed. ... Bell) (Pottersfield 1981) %W The French won the Battle of Quebec and took over Britain's American territories at the end of the French and Indian War. %S An annotated letter from a 1975 Boston terrorist seeking Soviet aid for a British-American revolt against the Republic of New France. Person, Lawrence, "Details", in Apr 1991 %S A man tries to cope with slow but steady reality shifts. Person, Lawrence, "Huddled Masses", in %W Walter Mondale beat Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, and Nicaragua took the opportunity to export revolution. %S In 1989, while US forces intervene in the Mexican civil war, refugees overwhelm the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Houston. Pervuhin, Mikhail, ""PUGACHEV THE WINNER"" (... 1924) %W Pugachev's rebellion in Russia was not suppressed and he attacked Moscow. %S ... Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy", in _Weekly Westminster_ 30 Jan 1926; THE JACOBITE MOVEMENT: THE LAST PHASE, 1716-1807 (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1950); and (1972, 1974 eds. only) %W In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie decided at Derby to continue his advance into England and the Hanoverians fled. %S Review of the Stuart restoration and speculation on how the Hanoverians would have mucked things up, particularly in America. Pfaffe, Ivan, "Eisenhowers schwester Fehler: Wie die Tschechoslowakei fur den Westen verlorenging", in _Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung_ 23 Feb 1985 %S ... Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA SINO AL PRINCIPATO: CON DIVERSI SAGGI SULLE SCIENZE, LETTERE E ARTI (Didot 1813-14; Marchini 1821; Gaetano Ducci 1826) %T English tr. by John Browning as THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY (Black, Young & Young 1823) %W Lorenzo de Medici did not die in 1492. %S He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants. Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in _Fantastic Universe_ Jul 1959; and THE WORLDS OF H. BEAM PIPER (Ace 1983, 0441910521) %W George Washington died at Germantown. %S TV execs discuss an AH TV series, not realizing one participant is from a different timeline. Piper, H. Beam, PARATIME (Ace 1981, 0441651690) %S Tales of the Paratime Police guarding crosstime byways. %C Except for "He Walked Around the Horses", all Earths shown are exotic locales with no clear divergence from (or similarity to) ours. (------------), "He Walked Around the Horses", in _Astounding_ Apr 1948; WORLD OF WONDER (ed. Fletcher Pratt) (Twayne 1951); BEST SF 3 (ed. Edmund Crispin) (Faber 1958); ASPECTS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Geoff Doherty) (Billings 1959; J. Murray 1963; Billings 1970, 0719522153); SCIENCE FICTION THROUGH THE AGES 2 (ed. I.O. Evans) (Panther 1966); A SCIENCE FICTION ARGOSY (ed. Damon Knight) (Simon & Schuster 1972, 0671211269); SPACE MAIL (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph Olander) (Fawcett 1980); ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION TREASURY (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph Olander) (Bonanza 1980, 0517336359); THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Kingsley Amis) (Hutchinson 1981; Penguin 1983); THE GREAT SF STORIES: 10 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1983); ; and THE AMIS STORY ANTHOLOGY: A PERSONAL CHOICE OF SHORT STORIES (ed. Kingsley Amis) (Hutchinson 1992) %T German tr. by Lore Strassl as "Der Mann, der um die Pferde herumging", in %W Burgoyne won at Saratoga, forestalling American independence and the Age of Revolution. %S Germans investigate a man claiming to be a British diplomat and carrying documents regarding some nonexistent French emperor named Napoleon. (------------), "Police Operation", in _Astounding_ Jul 1948; SPACE POLICE (ed. Andre Norton) (Cleveland 1956); ANALOG: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. anon.) (publ. unknown); and THE BEST OF ASTOUNDING (ed. Tony Lewis) (Baronet 1978, 0894370243) %S ... (------------), "Last Enemy", in _Astounding_ Aug 1950; ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY (ed. John W. Campbell) (Simon & Schuster 1952); and %S ... (------------), "Temple Trouble", in _Astounding_ Apr 1951 %S ... (------------), "Time Crime", in _Astounding_ Feb-Mar 1955 %S ... --------------, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN (Ace 1965, 0441490557; Garland 1975, 082401420X; vt GUNPOWDER GOD, Sphere 1978); fixup of "Gunpowder God", in _Analog_ Nov 1964 and TIME WARS (eds. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg) (Tor 1986, 0812530489, 0812530497); and "Down Styphon", in _Analog_ November 1965 and ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF SOLDIERS (eds. Robert Adams, et al) (Signet 1988, 0451155599) %W Bronze Age Indo-Aryans crossed the Bering straight to colonize America. %S A Penn state trooper is transported to a N America where priests of Styphon exert political control through their monopoly on gunpowder. %C Lord Kalvan sequels are Green & Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR and "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos" and Carr & Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker". Pirie-Gordon, C.H.: see Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Were Three Major Parties?", in WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed. Herbert M. Levine) (M.E. Sharpe 1992, 1563240092, 1563240106) %W FDR was killed in 1933, and when Jack Garner instituted no New Deal, Huey Long ran for president in 36 as a Populist. %C The many ways in which presidential elections could get hung up in the Electoral College or Congress if there were three equi-strength parties. Pohl, Frederick, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS (Bantam 1986, 0553257862) %S In a US ruled by a militaristic regime, crosstime travel is used to steal better technology. Several versions of the same person get caught up. Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in _Galaxy_ Jun 1962; DAY MILLION (Ballantine 1970); IN THE PROBLEM PIT (Bantam 1976); 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIE (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander) (Doubleday 1978, 0385130449; Avon 1978, 0380507730) %T Portuguese tr. by Jose Sanz as "A Missao Mortal de P. Snodgrass", in DIA MILHAO (Jose Olympio 1975) %S A man travels back to 1 AD Rome and teaches modern medicine, causing a population explosion. %C Satire of de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL. Pohl, Frederick, "Let the Ants Try", in _Planet Stories_ Winter 1949; BEYOND THE END OF TIME (Doubleday 1952; PermaBooks 1952); and ALTERNATING CURRENTS (Ballantine 1956) %S Following a nuclear war, a scientist carries some mutated ants 40 Myr into the past and returns to find his present irrevocably altered. Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in _Galaxy_ Apr 1955; and ALTERNATING CURRENTS (Ballantine 1956) %S Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein. Pohl, Frederik, "The Reunion at the Mile-High", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS: STORIES IN HONOR OF ISAAC ASIMOV (ed. Martin H. Greenberg) (Tor 1989, 0312931743; Tor 1990, 0812509803); and INSIDE THE FUNHOUSE: 17 SF STORIES ABOUT SF (ed. Mike Resnick) (Avon 1992, 0380766434) %W Hearing about Einstein's letter to FDR, a biochemist wrote a similar letter proposing a crash study of biological warfare. %S Fred Pohl attends the 50th anniversary meeting of The Futurians and listens to Isaac Asimov tell a reporter about the typhus bomb. Pohl, Frederick, "Waiting for the Olympians", in Aug 1988; THE 1989 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1989) %T Portuguese tr. by Fabio Fernandes as "Esperando os Olimpianos", in _Isaac Asimov Magazine de Ficcao Cientifica_ #3 %W Jesus was not executed for sedition and Rome never fell. Two millennia later, aliens announce their imminent arrival. %S It is suggested to a sci-rom author in a rut that he try writing a "What If?" book, but he can't see the point of it. Polsby, Nelson W., "What If Robert Kennedy Had Not Been Assassinated (1968)", in %W As the title says. %C Kennedy would not have been the Democratic candidate, but as Humphrey's veep, he would have led party reform and accelerated Vietnam withdrawal. Powlesland, Aidan, "Prelude to War: Poland, pivot of history: 1st August 1939-1 November 1939", in _Miniature Wargames_ #70 (Mar 1989) %W Poland and Germany signed a non-agression pact in September 1939. %C Outline of Aug to Nov, including Britain's retreat to isolation and civil strife in France, as Germany prepares for Operation Attila in Dec. Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT (Avon 1981, 0380787334) %W Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg, leading to British recognition of the CSA and Confederate independence. %S 120 years later, both Confederacy and Underground Railroad plan to hijack a Union nuclear artillery shell being shipped past Hampton Roads. Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR (Atheneum 1979, 068911009X) %W Construction of the Chunnel started 80 years earlier. %S Germany attempts to sabotage the project in 1911. Pratt, Fletcher, THE BLUE STAR (Ballantine 1969; Ballantine 1975, 0345245377); rev. of "The Blue Star", in WITCHES THREE (Twayne 1952) %W Gunpowder was never invented. Also, magic works. %S ... Purdom, Tom, "The Redemption of August", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Mar 1993 %W Von Kluck did not modify the Schlieffen plan and attacked Paris from the front rather than behind. %S Two time travelers fight to affect the events of Aug 1914, each believing his personal timeline is better replaced by another. 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Quarrie, Bruce, HITLER: THE VICTORY THAT NEARLY WAS (David & Charles 1988, 0715392158; Guild 1989) %W Germany started a 'Manhattan Project' in 1939 and postponed Barbarossa until 1942, and the Japanese did not attack Pearl Harbor until Sep 42. %S Detailed description of WW2 from Malta to Beria's capitulation of the Soviet Union in Jun 43, with an afterword about the A-bombing of New York. Quilliet, Bernard, LA VERITABLE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE (Presses de la Renaissance 1983, 2856162754) %S ... Raine, Craig, 1953 (Faber 1990) %S An adaptation of Racine's ANDROMACHE set in a post-WWII Britain in which the Greeks become the Germans, the Trojans the British (and therefore the losers) and Mussolini's son, Vittorio, rules the country. %C A play first presented at the Citizen's Theater in Glasgow in 1992. Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO! (Charter 1988) %S ... -------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG! (Charter 1986) %S A team travels back in time to prevent a Confederate victory and the consequent Nazi victory in WW2. -------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIGHORN! (Charter 1990, 1557733309) %S A remnant of the team goes back to prevent George Armstrong Custer from being elected president in 1880. Reginald, Robert, & Jeffrey M. Elliot, IF J.F.K. HAD LIVED: A POLITICAL SCENARIO (Borgo 1982); rev. of Reginald's THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL FANTASY (Borgo 1976) %S A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s. Reich, Tova, "Mengele in Jerusalem", in _Harper's_ Jun 1986 %W Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor, hid in Jerusalem, %S The search for Mengele has an unusual conclusion. Reilly, Rick, "What If? Short By a Nose", in _Sports Illustrated [Classic]_ Fall 1992 (vol 77, no 17) %W A sneeze by Jerry Kramer resulted in the Dallas Cowboys winning the 1967 NFL championship rather than the Green Bay Packers. %S The decisive play of the game, plus comments on the futures of Kramer, the Packers and the Cowboys. Remillard, Colin, "All the Changling Worlds", in _Science Fiction Review_ Apr 1992 %S A man searches various alternate worlds for one in which a friend does not go insane, visiting one where the Vietnam War dragged on to 1989. Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE TEL QU'IL N'A PAS ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE (Bureau de la Critique Philosophique 1876; Alcan 1901; Artheme Fayard 1988); rev. of title unknown, in _Revue philosophique et religieuse_ ... 1857 %W Marcus Aurelius helped reform the Roman army, free the slaves, repress the Christians and avert the Dark Ages. %S Narrative of a 17th-century man about to be executed by the Inquisition. Resnick, Laura, "Amandla!", in %S ... Resnick, Laura, "A Fleeting Wisp of Glory", in ; and _Galaxy_ #3 (May/Jun 1994) %W The Cuban missile crisis blew up. %S Centuries after Armageddon, legends of the two Camelots become entwined. Resnick, Laura, "The Vatican Outfit", %W Mafiosi warned Pope John Paul I of his imminent assassination. %S After numerous assassination attempts, John Paul adopts a new management style to run the church. Resnick, Laura, "Saint Frankie", in %S St. Francis of Assisi heard slightly different voices, and was a bit more helpful assisting the rich renounce property and wealth. Resnick, Laura, "Under a Sky More Fiercely Blue", in %W Lucky Luciano really was sent on a secret mission to Sicily in 1943. %S A boy older than his years guides Luciano to the home of a local capo. Resnick, Laura, "We Are Not Amused", in %W Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate, was elected US president in 1872. %S Series of letters from Queen Victoria to the radical feminist president, at first expressing approval but not later. Resnick, Mike, "The Bull Moose at Bay", in Nov 1991; and %W Theodore Roosevelt was not wounded during the 1912 assassination attempt, leaving him healthy enough to successfully campaign for president. %S Four years later, as TR anticipates defeat by Woodrow Wilson, he discusses women's suffrage with various friends and allies. Resnick, Mike, "Bully!", in BULLY! (Axolotl 1990); Sep 1991; BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double #33) (Tor 1991, 0812512464); STALKING THE WILD RESNICK (NESFA ...); and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? (Tor 1992, 0312852762; Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890109) %W When told during a 1910 safari that 50 white men would join him to tame Africa, Teddy Roosevelt did not turn the offer down. %S How TR tried to create a republic of the Congo, ousting the Belgians but ultimately failing due to the non-democratic traditions of the natives. %C Nominee: 1991 Hugo for best novella, 1991 Nebula for best novella. Resnick, Mike, "How Jerry Phipps Won His Hugo", in %S ... Resnick, Mike, "Lady in Waiting", in %W Marilyn Monroe did not become an actress. %S Washington, DC, waitress Norma Jean gets picked up by the president for a one-night stand and futilely dreams of becoming first lady. Resnick, Mike, "The Light That Blinds, the Claws That Catch", in Jul 1992; and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? (Tor 1992, 0312852762; Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890109) %W Alice Roosevelt did not die on 14 Feb 1884. %S To protect his wife's fragile health, husband Teddy lives a quiet life as a naturalist, but dreams of greater accomplishments. Resnick, Mike, "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Mar 1993; , and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, ELEVENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1994; SFBC 1994; vt THE BEST NEW SCIENCE FICTION: 8TH ANNUAL COLLECTION, Robinson 1994, 1854873105) %W In order to end the Tanzania-Uganda war of 1980, Julius Nyrere accepted Idi Amin's challenge to a boxing match %S Outweighed by 200 pounds, Nyrere struggles to stay alive in the boxing ring. %C Nominee: 1994 Hugo for best short story. Resnick, Mike, "Over There", in Apr 1991; ; and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? (Tor 1992, 0312852762; Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890109) %W Under duress, Woodrow Wilson in May 1917 gave Teddy Roosevelt permission to re-form the Rough Riders and go to France. %S TR discovers that the natures of war and the enemy have changed in 20 years. Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME (Simon & Schuster 1984; Baen 1984, 0671559264) %S An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history. Reynolds, Mack: see also Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds Reynolds, Pamela, EARTH TIMES TWO (Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd 1970) %S Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the advance of technology. Richard-Bessiere, F., CROISIERE DANS LE TEMPS (Fleuve Noir 1951) %W Time travelers prevented the assassination of Henri IV in 1610. %S France unifies Europe, but world war begins a century later and civilization collapses in the 20th century. Richards, R.W., A SOUTHERN YARN (Rokarn 1990) %W Lee's Army of Northern Virginia defeated Grant's Army of the Potomac at Ox Ford in spring 1864 and later captured Washington. %S Story of Lee, Grant and a fictional sergeant during May and June 1864. %C Non-AH prequel is BROTHERS IN GRAY. Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in Dec 1965 %W John Wilkes Booth decided to leave Washington before killing Abraham Lincoln. %S A man troubled by dreams that he is Booth convinces his doctor to hypnotize him, and awakes in an unhappy world dominated by Britain. Richardson, Hal, "The Time of Fear", serial in _Melbourne Argus_ 28 Jul-6 Sep 1956 %W Japan won the Battle of the Coral Sea. %S Life in occupied Australia. Riddell, Peter, "If Tony Benn had won", in _Times of London_ 17 Aug 1992 %S Several short scenarios based on what-ifs in British politics between 1974 and 1990. Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet", in _Litterature_ #18 (Mar 1921); and PAPIERS POSTHUMES (Sans Pareil 1934) %S A time traveler poisons Jesus, does plastic surgery on Cleopatra, etc. Riker, William H., "What If Elbridge Gerry Had Been More Rational and Less Patriotic? (1787)", in %W Massachusetts delegate Gerry votes against a Constitutional proposal, causing the entire convention to collapse. %C Speculation on the Balkanization of N America, begun by armed conflict between New York and New England for Vermont. Ritch, William Alan: see Linaweaver, Brad, & Ritch, William Alan Robban, Randolph, SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU (Editions de la Tour du Guet 1950) %T German tr. by ... as WENN DEUTSCHLAND GESEIGT HATTE (Kohlhammer 1981) %W Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons. %S A diplomat imagines a world in which Germany lost. Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD (Doubleday 1983, 0385175841; Tor 1986, 0812552067, 0812552075) %W Pagan Vikings fleeing forced conversion to Christianity established strong settlements in N America, and were later joined by Saxons. %S An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern N America takes part in the Mongol conquest of Mexico. Roberts, Keith, PAVANE (Hart-Davis 1968; Doubleday 1968; Ace 1968, 0441654304; Berkley 1976; Gollancz 1984; Gollancz 1995) %T German tr. by Thomas Schluck as DIE FOLGENSCHWERE ERMORDUNG IHRER MAJESTAT ELISABETH I. (Heyne 1977; vt PAVANE, Heyne 1984) %T Portuguese tr. by ... as PAVANA (Classica 1992) %W Elizabeth I was assassinated, the Armada triumphed, and Europe and the New World languished under 500 years of Church rule. %C 1968 Hart-Davis ed. does not include "The White Boat". %C See also the reference mat'l entry for Roberts' "The Peacock Dance". (------------), "The Signaller", in _Impulse_ Mar 1966; ANOTHER WORLD: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Follett 1977, 0695806955); and THE BEST OF BRITISH SF 2 (ed. ... Ashley) (Futura 1977) (------------), "The Lady Anne" (vt "The Lady Margaret"), in _Impulse_ Apr 1966; A DAY IN THE LIFE: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Harper & Row 1972, 0060110767); ; and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Legend 1991; vt MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION, St. Martin's 1992, 0312072384; St. Martin's 1993, 0312088477) (------------), "Brother John", in _Impulse_ May 1966 (------------), "Lords and Ladies" in _Impulse_ Jun 1966 (------------), "Corfe Gate", in _Impulse_ Jul 1966 (------------), "The White Boat", in _New Worlds_ Dec 1966; THE GRAIN KINGSÊ(Hutchinson 1976); and THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON (Berkley 1976) %S Steam locomotives and heroic semaphore operators represent modern-day high-tech. Secret quasi-priesthood of scientists hunted by Inquisition. Roberts, Keith, "Weihnachtsabend", in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY NO. 4 (ed. Michael Moorcock) (Berkley 1972); THE GRAIN KINGSÊ(Hutchinson 1976); THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON (Berkley 1976); ; and THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. David G. Hartwell) (Little, Brown 1989, 0316349410) %T German tr. by Michael Nagula as "Weihnachtsabend", in %T German tr. by Tony Westermayr as "Weihnachtsabend", in DIE NEUEN GOETTER (Goldmann 1979) %W A junta overthrew George VI and Churchill in 1940, then made peace with the Axis. %S A girl disappears during the joint celebration of Christmas and the Hunt on a British estate. ”¹̉ú7NœÍI^†he, & Barry N. MalzbD( 3,( FIT FOR HERry Taylor and Millard Fillmore were killed in an accident, elevating the Senate president pro tem to the US presidency. %S David Atchison's presence in the White House provokes the abolitionist North into secession, leading to a different Civil War. Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4", in _Galaxy_ Oct 1975; THE BEST FROM GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed. Jim Baen) (Award 1976); BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Lester Del Rey) (Dutton 1976, 052506494X); and THE 1976 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1976) %S A "man" sent to fight aliens returns to Earth 300 years later but it isn't the Earth he left. The new one thinks he's the menace. Robinson, Frank M., "Causes", in %S ... Robinson, Frank M., "Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll", in %S ... Robinson, Frank M., "One Month in 1907", in %W Hugo Gernsback was screwed in a business deal by Charles Ponzi. %S The lives of the two men are swapped, with the former originating the infamous "Gernsback Scheme" and the latter sf magazines. Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1984; Tor 1986, 0812532716, 0812532724); THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR #14 (ed. Terry Carr) (Gollancz 1985, 0575037148, 0575037474; vt TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR, Tor 1985, 0812532732, 0812532740); NEBULA AWARDS 20: SFWA'S CHOICE FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR 1984 (ed. George Zebrowski) (HBJ 1985, 0151649278, 0156654776); THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SECOND ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Bluejay 1985, 0312944853, 0312944845); ; THE PLANET ON THE TABLEÊ(Tor 1987, 0812552377, 0812552385); THERE WON'T BE WAR (eds. Harry Harrison & Bruce McAllister) (Tor 1991, 0712519418); THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1990 (eds. Ursula K. LeGuin & Brian Attebery) (Norton 1993, 0393034568); REMAKING HISTORY AND OTHER STORIES (Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890125); and %T German tr. by Michael Nagula as "Der Flug de Lucky Strike", in %T German tr. by Michael Windgassen as "Lucky Strike", in %T Portuguese tr. by Paula Reis as "The Lucky Strike", in PLANETA SOBRE A MESA (Caminho 1988) %W The "Enola Gay" crashed on a practice flight. %S The "Lucky Strike" is selected to bomb Hiroshima, but its bombardier is horrified by the power of the atomic bomb. %C Nominee: 1984 Nebula for best novelette, 1985 Hugo for best novelette. ---------------------, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in _Interzone_ #49 (Jul 1991); Author's Choice Monthly #20; REMAKING HISTORY (Tor 1991, 031285126X); and REMAKING HISTORY AND OTHER STORIES (Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890125) %C An essay on quantum physics and AH, with various possible outcomes of the bombing of Hiroshima described. Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in Mar 1989; ; REMAKING HISTORY (Tor 1991, 031285126X); and REMAKING HISTORY AND OTHER STORIES (Tor/Orb 1994, 0312890125) %W The 1980 rescue of the hostages in Iran succeeded. %S A lunar film company remakes the DeNiro classic ESCAPE FROM TEHERAN and discusses Great Men and Women. Rochelle, Warren G., "A Peaceful Heart", in _Aboriginal_ May/Jun 1989 %W The Confederacy gained independence. 100 years later, civilization along the eastern seaboard has fallen apart due to biological warfare. %S In 1978, a man raising two orphan boys on a N Carolina island must cope with the eldest's desire to find out what's happening on the mainland. Rodgers, Alan, "Ruby", in FULL SPECTRUM 5 (eds. Jennifer Hershey, Tom Dupree & Janna Silverstein) (Bantam 1995, 0553374001) %W Wendell Wilkie was elected president in 1940 and delayed the US entry into WW2 until just months before the Nazi-Soviet-Japanese Axis completed the conquest of Eurasia. %S Lee Oswald rises to power in Soviet America but must always worry about ally-foe "Ruby Jack" Kennedy. Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C. (Cassell 1935; Arno 1978, 0405110057) %W Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John. %S Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to overthrow his uncle. Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE (Walker 1972, 0802755542; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 1972) %W The Qarmatian Muslims enjoyed further victories after Basra _or_ Great Britain capitulated to the Nazis. %S An astral disarmamament inspector discovers a crosstime Nazi plot to destroy his timeline, Time One. Rotsler, William, "Which Came First", in _Analog_ Dec 1995 %S A time traveler accidentally breaks a dinosaur egg and returns to discover world has changed. Rowder, Louise, "CruiseCon", in %S ... Rowder, Louise, "The Symmetry of Duty", in %S ... Roy, Archie, ALL EVIL SHED AWAY (John Long 1970; Apogee 1986) %W Churchill was assassinated in June 1940 and an armistice followed, then invasion and occupation. %S In our 1945, two officers find a manuscript written by a time traveler from occupied Britain 1970 who decided to set things right. Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF VIRGINIA (Morrow 1990, 0688094139; Avon/AvoNova 1992, 0380755351) %S In 1836, an expedition including Edgar Allen Poe set out for the S Pole to locate the entrance to the Earth's hollow interior. Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo, "Instability", in %W Members of the Beat Generation decided to disrupt an H-bomb test. %S William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and John von Neumann intersect at White Sands. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "ApocalypseCon", in %S ... Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Arrival of Truth", in %W Sojourner Truth marched through the South telling the slaves to take what is theirs. %S Slaves at a Virginia plantation await Truth's coming. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Best and the Brightest", in %W Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1964. %S A black reporter faces a personal crisis when he is given evidence that RFK ordered an assassination attempt on Martin Luther King, Jr. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Common Sense", in %W Thomas Paine did not emigrate to America. %S A highborn Englishwoman witnesses Paine's trial for treason, while Ben Franklin worries about finding a voice for the American rebels. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Faith", in %S ... Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Fighting Bob", in %W Progressive Party candidate Robert La Follette was elected US president in 1924, but died in 1925 during a stalemate with Congress. %S Six years later, family, friends and enemies of La Follette meet to argue over the Wisconsin Senate race, breaking open old wounds. Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Sinner-Saints", in May 1993; and %W Lillian Hellman joined a third party movement and ran for the US Senate, losing lover Dashiell Hammett as a consequence. %S 15 years later, in the midst of the Communist witch hunts, Sen. Hellman must decide how much to admit regarding her relationship with Hammett. Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN (Bantam 1975, 0553111752; Gregg 1977, 0839823517; Beacon 1986, 0807063134; Easton 1994); included in RADICAL UTOPIAS (Book-of-the-Month Club 1990) %T German tr. by Werner Fuchs as PLANET DER FRAUEN (Dromer Knaur 1979) %S Interaction of a woman from a future where a plague killed all men, a 1960s woman from a timeline where WW2 didn't happen, and the author. Rutman, Leo, CLASH OF EAGLES (Ballantine 1990) %W The Nazis enjoyed enough success in Europe that they could invade the US. %S ... Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic", in _Astounding_ Jul 1940 %S A time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours. Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS (Tor 1983, 0523485689, 0812553411, 081255342X) %S A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines. Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN (Ace 1979; Tor 1987, 0812553098, 0812553101, 0812513576) %W The Inca rebellion against Spanish domination succeeded. %S A man from our world gets involved in a time war between Inca and Aztec timelines, seeing action in old Cuzco. Sagara, Michelle, "For Love of God", in %W Thomas a Becket did not return after fleeing England because of his dispute with Henry II. %S Armies representing the two sides meet on a French battlefield, and Becket remembers the history of his relationship with Henry. Sagara, Michelle, "The Sword in the Stone", in %S ... Salisbury, Robert H., "What If Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John Marshall (1803)", in %W Congress impeached and removed Chief Justice Marshall from office. %C Scholarly history describing the "crippling" of the US Supreme Court, ending in impeachment of three justices who supported abortion in 1973. Salomon, Warren, "Time on My Hands", in Oct 1982 %W Alexander the Great besieged Jerusalem. %S ... Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG (Warner/Questar 198...) %W The Mongols sacked Europe from Moscow to Cordova, leaving the Moors and Chinese to discover the New World during the 16th century. %S In the late 1600s, an Irish rogue adrift in N America sets his sights on Chinese California but must first cope with a Cossack army loose in the SW. Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY (Warner/Questar 1991, 0446361429) %W With British help, the Confederacy won the Civil War. %S The sole member of the Cherokee air force is attached to a Confederate squadron fighting in France in 1916. Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN (Davies 1952; Ballantine 1960) %T Spanish tr. by Manuel Figueroa as EL CUERNO DE CAZA (Editorial Arte y Literature 1981) %S A man escapes a Nazi POW camp in 1943 and falls into the future of a world where Germany won WW2. Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in _Amazing Stories_ Jan 1992; and %W The Mongols conquered mainland Europe and crossed the Atlantic. %S Led by the son of the khan of France, the Iriquois federation moves to drive the English out of New England. Saunders, Jake, "Back to the Stone Age", in LONE STAR UNIVERSE: THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY OF TEXAS SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORS (eds. George W. Proctor & Steven Utley) (Heidelberg 1976, 0913206083); and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Dutton 1977, 0525064958; Ace 1978, 044105482X) %W Disaster at Oak Ridge scrapped the Manhattan Project, and the US decided not to invade Japan. %S In 1954, random bombers fly over the bombed-out Japanese islands, eliminating any signs of human activity they happen to find. Scanlon, Michael L., "Kansas City Kitty", in L. RON HUBBARD PRESENTS WRITERS OF THE FUTURE: VOLUME VI (ed. Algis Budrys) (Bridge 1990) %W The US intervened in the Hungarian crisis of 1956. %S ... Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices", in _Astounding_ Dec 1933 %S ... Schimel, Lawrence, "A Stable Relationship", in %S ... Schimel, Lawrence, "Taking Action", in %W Precognition of what might be, including the Rodney King beating, pushed Martin Luther King, Jr. away from the path of non-violence. %S The civil right movement follows a more violent route, leading to a duel between MLK and George Wallace. Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1977, 0385114141) %S Mental time travelers examining Beethoven's creative process drive the composer mad before he can complete the Ode to Joy. %C Nominee: 1977 Nebula for best novelette, 1978 Hugo for best novella. Scholz, Carter: see also Lethem, Jonathan, & Carter Scholz Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE (Doubleday 1972, 0385086598; Popular Library 1972, 0445005351); rev. of "Artery of Fire", in _Original Science Fiction Stories_ Mar 1960 %S An attempt to transmit "Black Field" power from Pluto to Earth has disastrous crosstime potential, heading directly for Hiroshima 1945. Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES (Baen 1986, 0671655639) %W After the conquest of Persia, Alexander of Macedon returned west to quell a rebellion of League cities. %S His return and dealings with early Rome. Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT (Baen 1988, 0671697838) %W Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived Zutphens. %S In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to protect James VI/I from magical attacks. Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", in Apr 1963 %W Lenin did not return to Russia from Switzerland. %S A time traveler destroys Lenin's train, but returns to his home time to find Washington DC occupied by Germans. Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington Had Been Captured by General Howe: Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in %W The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill was fought persuaded Howe to forget refreshment and pursue Washington. %S Memoir of an historian who discovers Mrs. Murray's diary and who shows it to Howe's biographer while at the Royal New York Historical Society Seger, Maura, FORTUNE'S TIDE (Avon 1990, 0380753391) %W The US lost their bid for independence. %S Historical romance. Seger, Maura, PERCHANCE TO DREAM (Avon 1989, 0380753383) %W The Confederacy won at Antietam and drove on to Washington, where Lincoln was captured. %S Historical romance set in an 1876 in which Confederate President Lee advocated a return to union. Sell, William, "Other Tracks", in _Astounding_ Oct 1938; and SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed. Groff Conklin) (Vanguard 1953) %S Two scientific assistants use a time machine to visit the past, and discover that they have changed the present. %C First known story to theorize that changing the past will alter the time-traveler's home time. However, little historical development. Shainblum, Mark, & Gabriel Morrissette, "The Infinite Man", in _Gene Day's Black Zeppelin_ ... (... , Renegade Comics) %W Britain and Russia fought a war in the 1880s. %S ... Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER (Random House 1986) %S To prevent his brother's death in Vietnam, a man travels back to 1963 Dallas, but an altered history may also need correction. %C Basis for the 1990 movie RUNNING AGAINST TIME. Shaw, Bob, THE TWO-TIMERS (Ace 1968, 0020080794) %T Portuguese tr. by ... as CRIME NO TEMPO B (Tecnoprint 1972) %S A man goes back in time to save his wife from a killer, creating a world in which the wife didn't die and another version of himself exists. Sheckley, Robert, "The Deaths of Ben Baxter", in _Galaxy_ Jul 1957; and STORE OF INFINITY (Bantam 1960, 0553052292) %S Scientists manipulating history are faced with three equally undesirable choices. Sheckley, Robert, "Disquisitions on the Dinosaur", in DINOSAUR FANTASTIC (eds. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1993; SFBC 1994) %S Time travelers bring dinosaurs forward to ancient Rome, and various invading (in our timeline) armies decide not to invade. Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens", in %S In 1989, on his first day as president, an alien invasion conspiracy is revealed to Michael Dukakis. His reaction requires reworking history. Sheckley, Robert, "Miranda", in %S ... Shelley, Rick, "The Worlds I Used to Know", in _Analog_ Jan 1988 %S ... Shepard, Lucius, "A Spanish Lesson", in Dec 1985; in TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR #15 (ed. Terry Carr) (Tor 1986) %S ... Sherman, Joel Henry, TRAITORS TO THE CROWN (Ballantine, not yet published) %S ... Sherman, Josepha, "Monsieur Verne and the Martian Invasion", in %S In a steampunk 19th century, the great inventor Jules Verne discovers and fights a creature from outer space. Shetterly, Will, "Hero Worship: Public Faces and Private Dreams", in _Captain Confederacy_ (vol 2) #2 (Jan 1992, Epic Comics) %W The South won the Civil War due to un-described events c. 1862. %S An autobiographical sketch of a reporter, born to Union parents but working in the CSA. ---------------, & Vince Stone, _Captain Confederacy_ (vol 1) #1-12, comic book series (Steeldragon 1986-87) %S The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s but he is unhappy being ordered about in an apartheid-ridden country. %C Letters to editor often more interesting than the story. Issues #1-2 revised and re-issued as _Captain Confederacy Special Edition_. ------------------------------, _Captain Confederacy_ (vol 2) #1-4, comic book series (Epic Comics 1991-92) %S Super-heroes from eight N America nations, Germany and Japan, meet in New Orleans, where the representative from Texas is murdered for his weaponry. Shi Jian, title unknown, in _'Strange Tales'_ May 1990 %W Germany won WW2. %S ... Shiner, Lewis, "Oz", in FULL SPECTRUM (eds. Lou Aronica & Shawna McCarthy) (Bantam 1988, 0553274821) %W Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered. %S Ozzie is acquitted and later becomes a rock star, with mention of the conspiracy trials and America's exit from Vietnam. Shiner, Lewis, "Twilight Time", in Apr 1984 %T German tr. by Michael Windgassen as "Zeit des Zwielichts", in %W Aliens secretly invaded in the 1950s, using subliminal TV, drugged food, etc, in an attempt to establish a police state. %S A political prisoner is sent back into 1961 in a time travel project to remove alien influence. Shiner, Lewis, "Voodoo Child", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Jul 1993; and GLIMPSES (Morrow 1993; Avon 1995) %W Jimi Hendrix did not accidentally overdose on sleeping pills. %S A man from 1989 tries to keep Hendrix alive so that he may produce "Last Rays of the Rising Sun". %C Seemingly AH, when taken within the context of the whole novel GLIMPSES, it is not. Shiner, Lewis, "White City", in Jun 1990; and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, EIGHTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1991, 0312060092, 0312060084) %T Portuguese tr. by Ronaldo Sirgio de Biasi as "Cidade Branca", in _Isaac Asimov Magazine de Ficcao Cientifica_ #9 %S Tesla conducts an experiment with atmospheric electricity at the Chicago World's Fair with results unanticipated by his backers. Shiner, Lewis: see also Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in %S Occult use of dreams in a 3rd Reich that succeeded, some of which are of our timeline. Shippey, Tom: see also Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in _Look_ 15 Dec 1961 %S Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer might have kept are included. Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in %W Kerensky did not stop Kornilov's occupation of Petrograd. %C Kerensky decides that Kornilov's aid is the only way to alleviate civil unrest and prevent a Bolshevik takeover. Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN (publ. unknown) --------------, THE WOMAN OF FLOWERSÊ(Warner/Popular Library 1987, 0445203587, 0445293595) --------------, QUEENSBLADE (... 1987) %W Mark Antony and Cleopatra won at Actium and moved the Roman capital to the east. Also, magic works. %S ... Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore", in %W Arthur of Britain survived the battle of Camlann. %S An old warrior reflects on the battle and its aftermath. Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon", in %W T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) survived his 1935 motorcycle accident. %S In 1940, Churchill convinces Lawrence to go back to N Africa, where he meets Rommel. %C Nominee: 1990 Nebula for best novelette. Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace...", in ; and %W Due to the increasing count of body bags returning from Vietnam, George McGovern was elected US president in 1972. %S Not waiting for the promised US withdrawal, N Vietnamese continue marching on Saigon. An Ohio family worries about its soldier son. %C Nominee: 1992 Nebula for best novelette, 1993 Hugo for best novelette. Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1967; Methuen 1980, 041704710X; Tor 1984, 081255454X, 0812554558) %T German tr. by Thomas Ziegler as AUF ZU HESPERIDEN! (Droemer Knaur 1982) %W The Black Plague of 1348 killed more than half of Europe, leaving it defenseless before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks. %S A yound man from the backwater of London seeks his fortune in 1960s Aztec N America. Silverberg, Robert, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in Oct 1990; LION TIME IN TIMBUCTOO (Axolotl 1990); and BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor 1991, 0812554442) %T French tr. by Helene Collon as "Tombouctou a l'heure du lion", in LE NEZ DE CLEOPATRE (Denoel 1994, 2207241912) %S Diplomatic intrigue is rife as the Emir of Songhay lies dying. %C See also Brunner's "At the Sign of the Rose" and Yarbro's "An Exaltation of Spiders". Silverberg, Robert, "Looking for the Fountain", in May 1992; and %W A shipload of Crusaders was blown off course and ended up in Florida. %S While looking for the Fountain of "Youth", Ponce de Leon finds a tribe of Christian AmerInds who want to sail to Palestine and free Jerusalem. Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting", in _Playboy_ Jul 1989; ; and THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOLUME I, SECRET SHARERS (Bantam 1992, 055308996X, 0553370685) %W Genghis Khan was abducted at age 11, and after being sold into slavery became a prince's guard in Constantinople. %S Modern scientists in our timeline somehow communicate with a palace guard in old Constantinople, and one reminds him of sense of destiny. Silverberg, Robert, "An Outpost of the Empire", in Nov 1991 %W The first Exodus failed on the shores of the Red Sea, preventing the rise of Christianity and its inclement effect on the Roman empire. %S 2200 years after the founding of Rome, a clash between the Western (Roman-influenced) and the declining Eastern (Greek-influenced) empires. ------------------, "Via Roma", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Apr 1994 %S A Britannic visitor to Rome finds himself among the political "jet set" and sees from the sidelines the bloody creation of the 2nd Roman Republic. ------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods", in Oct 1989; and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SEVENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1990, 0312044518, 0312044526) %T French tr. by Helene Collon as "Legendes de la foret Veniane", in LE NEZ DE CLEOPATRE (Denoel 1994, 2207241912) %S Early during the 2nd Republic, two children meet a mysterious old man hiding in a ruined imperial hunting lodge in the Teutonic provinces. ------------------, "To the Promised Land", in ; and THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOLUME I, SECRET SHARERS (Bantam 1992, 055308996X, 0553370685) %S 4000 years after the failed Exodus, the few remaining Hebrews in Egypt plan a new Exodus, to space, and recruit an historian to write their tale. Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error", in _Astounding_ Mar 1959; ; TRANSFORMATION II (ed. ... Roselle) (Fawcett 1974); and THE CUBE ROOT OF UNCERTAINTY (Macmillan 1976) %T French tr. by Helene Collon as "Le Traite de Dusseldorf", in LE NEZ DE CLEOPATRE (Denoel 1994, 2207241912) %T Portuguese tr. by Elza Martins as "Error de Leitura", in RUMO A ESTRELA NEGRA (Expressao & Cultura 1974) %S An alien returns to Earth after tampering with history in 1914, finds things are askew and decides that he has shifted onto a parallel by mistake. Silverberg, Robert, "Trips", in FINAL STAGE: THE ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY (eds. Edward Ferman & Barry N. Malzberg) (Charterhouse 1974, 0883270358; Penguin 1975); exp, THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS (Scribner's 1975, 0684139987; Berkley 1975) THE BEST OF ROBERT SILVERBERG VOLUME 2 (Gregg 1978); and LOST WORLDS, UNKNOWN HORIZONS: NONE STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION (Thomas Nelson 1978, 0840766017) %S A man visits a number of different San Franciscos, one in a timeline where Pres. Willkie maintained US neutrality in WW2. Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE (Ballantine 1969, 0345325850; Ballantine 1973, 0345234456) %T Czech tr. by ... as title unknown (Navrat 1992) %T Portuguese tr. by ... as OS CORREIOS DO TEMPO (Livros do Brasil 1993) %S A time-travel tour leader gets in trouble. %C Basically non-AH, but the result of assassinating Jesus at age 11 is briefly described. %C Follow-ups include Baron's GLORY'S END, Kingston's CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS, Macdonald & Doyle's TIMECRIME, INC., and Wu's THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH. %C Nominee: 1970 Hugo for best novel. Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN (Ballantine 1978, 0345277511) %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as A IRMANDADE DO TALISMA (Livros do Brasil 1980) %W A series of "blights" periodically prevented Europe from advancing beyond the Dark Ages. Also, magic works. %S A young man accompanies a woman and her griffin on a quest to retrieve a talisman to fight the blight. Simak, Clifford, RING AROUND THE SUN (Musson 1953; SFBC 1953; Ace 1954; World 1960; Avon 1967; Four Square 1967; NEL 1977; Carroll & Graf 1992, 0881848522) %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as MUNDOS SIMULTANEOS (Livros do Brasil 1960) %S A whole series of parallel Earths (uninhabited) can be reached by mental means. Emphasis on the mutants and androids than on crosstime aspect. Simak, Clifford, SPECIAL DELIVERANCE (Ballantine 1982, 0345298977) %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as O MUNDO DO CAOS (Livros do Brasil 1984) %S Six people from different timelines join together on a quest. Simak, Clifford, WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS (Ballantine 1982, 0345307704) %T Portuguese tr. by Eurico Fonseca as ONDE MORA O MAL (Livros do Brasil 1985) %W Dragons, fairies, etc, are real. Also, Rome did not split into two empires. %S The appearance of "The Evil" from over the river provides incentive to hold the Roman Empire together in a time of schism (c. 1400). Simmons, Mark, "The American Civil War: Another Story", in _Miniature Wargames_ #105 (Feb 1992) %W Shiloh was a one-day Confederate victory, and Grant did not rise to Union command so speedily. %C Summary of war-gamers' simulation of a complete Civil War, including the fall and recapture of Washington, and the final rebel surrender in Aug 1865. Simner, Janni Lee, ""Learning Magic", in %S Young Houdini entered a life of crime following the death of his mother. Simner, Janni Lee, "Out of Sight", in %W Helen Keller was not deaf and blind, but her little sister was. %S Actress Keller recalls the trauma of living with her sister and the awful result while she decides what to do with her illegitimate baby. Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY (St. Martin's 1988, 0312013744) %W Joe Johnston retained command at Atlanta and held Sherman off so long that McClellan won the 1864 US presidential election. %S In 1866, while Jeb Stuart is on trial for his actions at Gettysburg, John Brown's son lays plans for a black insurrection. Sladek, John T., "1937 AD!", in _New Worlds_ Jul 1967; BEST SF: 1967 (eds. Harry Harrison & Brian Aldiss) (Berkley 1968; vt THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION NO. 1, Sphere 1968); THE STEAM-DRIVEN BOY, AND OTHER STRANGERS (Panther 1973, 0586038019); and THE BEST OF JOHN SLADEK (Pocket 1981) %S An inventor from the US of Columbia in 1878 sets out for 1937, where he encounters a man who can change history with the stroke of a pen. Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA (Towarzystwo wydawnicze Ignis 1924; Czytelnik 1967) %W Time travellers seeking to prevent the nationalism of the 19th century end up in 1796 Italy, where they defeat both Napoleon and the Austrians. %S Carnot takes power in France, but is deposed by one of the time travellers, who fails in an attempt to create a benevolent society. Smeds, David, "The Eighth of December", in DAVID COPPERFIELD'S TALES OF THE IMPOSSIBLE (ed. David Copperfield & Janet Berliner) (HarperPrism 006052280) %S ... Smith, Allen J.M., "The Cab Driver from Hell in the Land of the Pieux Hawks", in L. RON HUBBARD PRESENTS WRITERS OF THE FUTURE: VOLUME VII (ed. Algis Budrys) (Bridge 1991) %S A taxi somehow travels sideways to a N America never colonized by Europeans. Smith, Dean Wesley, "A Bubble for a Minute", in %W Wallis Simpson fell in love with FDR rather than the King of England. %S A high-school kid interviewing old Mrs. Simpson at the old folks home finds reality changes as she changes the details of her life story. Smith, George Henry, "Take Me to Your Leader", in MICROCOSMIC TALES: 100 WONDROUS SCIENCE FICTION SHORT-SHORT STORIES (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander) (Taplinger 1980, 0800852389; DAW 1992, 0886775329) %W The South won the Civil War. %S A scientist from another Earth warns of Russian attack, but the narrator lives in a world where Jeff Davis VI is hereditary president of the CSA. Smith, L. Neil, CONTACT AND COMMUNE (publ. unknown) --------------, CONVERSE AND CONFLICT (publ. unknown) %W Creatures other than humans achieved sapience. %S ... Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE (Bluejay/Tor 1986, 031294070X; Tor 1989, 0812554256) %W Christendom was destroyed in 1349 when an attempt to ship plague-ridden rats to Saracen lands backfired disastrously. %S In 2042, a Helvetic N American escorts a mission from the Saracen Caliph of Rome into the secretive, mysterious Aztec empire. Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH (Ballantine 1980, 034528593X) %W The Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and the US Constitution was revoked. %S In 1987, a Denver cop investigating a scientist's murder crosses timelines and finds himself in a Libertarian utopia. --------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", in %S In 1988, Detective Bear investigates another murder involving the crosstime machine. --------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR (Ballantine 1983, 0345303822) %S In 1993, ... --------------, THE VENUS BELT (Ballantine 1981) %S In 1999, with friends and relatives mysteriously disappearing, Bear is off to the asteroid belt to investigate a crosstime Hamiltonian plot. --------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE (Ballantine 1985, 0345303830) %S In 2119, ... --------------, BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR (Avon 1988) --------------, TAFLAK LYSANDRA (Avon 1988) --------------, TOM PAINE MARU (Avon ...) %S ... Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON (Belmont 1970; Leisure 1981) %T German tr. by Michael Gorden as DER ANDERE SIEGER (Bastei-Lubbe 1984) %W N American Plains Indians banded together to stop the white man's spread, resulting in East and West USAs with an AmerInd nation in the middle. %S History of the AmerInd nation alternates with Washington intrigues during 20th-century white vs. red tensions. Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED (Warner/Popular Library 1989, 0445207671) %W Magic exists, as do forces for good and evil. %S William of Nassau works with the White Queen to defeat the evil forces in Paris, eventually invading France in 1672. Snodgrass, Melinda M., WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE (Bantam 1992, 0553294938) %C In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I. Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA (Macmillan 1973) %W Burgoyne beat Gates at Saratoga, and the American rebellion collapsed. %S Dual history text of the Confederation of N America and the US of Mexico, from 1775 to 1971. %C Synopsis in Fadness's "What If the British Had Won the Revolutionary War?". Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] (Ballantine 1983, 0345338677); fixup of "Aquila", in 18 Jan 1982 and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK SEA (Donning 1983, 0898652529) "Aquila the God", in Apr 1982; "Aquila Meets Bigfoot", in _Amazing Stories_ Jan 1983; and "Aquila: The Final Conflict", in _Amazing Stories_ May 1983 %T German tr. by of "Aquila" by Ruediger Hipp as "Aquila", in %C "Aquila" nominee: 1983 Hugo for best novelette. ------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE (Ballantine 1988, 0345338685) ------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX (Ballantine 1989, 0345347919) %W Romans discovered the steam engine and conquered the world. %S Farcical adventures of a Roman general in the Americas (Terra Novum) and his entanglements with time guardians. Somtow, S.P., "Sunsteps", in _Unearth_ Summer 1977; and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK SEA (Donning 1983, 0898652529) %S Aztecs depopulate the world in order to meet sacrificial needs. Soukup, Martha, "Good Girl, Bad Dog", in %S A Hollywood dog gets tired of being called a female name: Lassie. Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare", in %W William Jennings Bryan was elected president in 1896 and decided to serve only one term. Also, Teddy Roosevelt never became president. %S In 1915, as Bryan and his wife look back at the years, the Lusitania is sunk and war looks imminent, giving Bryan a new message to preach. Soukup, Martha, "Rosemary's Brain", in %W Instead of a lobotomy, Rosemary Kennedy received an experimental operation that turned her into a genius. %S Rosemary discusses her plans for her future with her godfather. Spelman, Dick, "The Forgotten Worldcon of '45", in %S ... Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM (Avon 1972, 0380002000; Gregg 1977, 0839823614; Jove/HBJ 1978; Pocket 1982; Bantam 1986, 0553252895) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as DER STAHLERNE TRAUM (Heyne 1983) %T Portuguese tr. by Jose Sanz as O SONHO DE FERRO (Jose Olympio 1976) %W Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1919 and after several years as a commercial artist turned to writing SF. %S The text of Hitler's Hugo Award-winning novel LORD OF THE SWASTIKA. Spruill, Steven G., "The Janus Equation", in BINARY STAR NO. 4 (ed. James R. Frenkel) (Dell 1980, 044010821X) %W JFK wasn't assassinated. %S C. 2200, a man trying to create a time machine in a world dominated by multi-nat'l corporations is over-aggressively recruited by a competitor. Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write Shakespeare" (vt "Professor Gubbin's Revolution"), in _London Mercury_ Jan 1931; (all eds.); and OUTSIDE EDEN (Heinemann 1933; Books for Libraries 1971, 0836938607) %W As the title says. %S Satirical look at the ensuing literary chaos. Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened", in OUTSIDE EDEN (Heinemann 1933; Books for Libraries 1971, 0836938607) %W Britain adopted Prohibition. %S ... Stableford, Brian, THE CARNIVAL OF DESTRUCTION (Pocket UK 1994, 0671851985; Carroll & Graf 0786701226) %W The U.S. never intervened in WW1. %S ... %C Non-AH predecessors are THE WEREWOLVES OF LONDON and THE ANGEL OF PAIN. Stableford, Brian, "Complications", in _Amazing Stories_ Feb 1992 %W Males of all vertebrate species are worm-like parasites living within female hosts. %S Tongue-in-cheek description of the present-day in that world, mentioning Pope Joan and Anna Freud. Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR (Simon & Schuster UK 1988; Carroll & Graf 1991, 0881847429; Ballantine 1993, 0345377575); expansion of "The Man who Loved the Vampire Lady", in Aug 1988; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1989, 0312030096, 0312030088); and TOMORROW SUCKS (eds. Greg Cox & T.K.F. Weisskopf) (Baen 1994, 0671876260) %T Portuguese tr. by Trindade Santos as O IMPERIO DO MEDO (Classica 1991) %W Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe and the vampires took control, creating the empires of Gaul and Walachia. %S A 17th-century scientist's search for the secret of vampire immortality takes him to central Africa, and to later confrontation with Dragulya. Stafford, Terry: see Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy", in NEW WRITINGS IN SF 25 (ed. ... Bulmer) (Sidgwick & Jackson 1975; Corgi 1976) %S With 20th-century help, a 15th-century Khmer king turns back a Thai invasion, then industrializes. Stapledon, Olaf, "East is West", in FAR FUTURE CALLING (Oswald Train 1979) %S An Englishman temporarily trades places with his counterpart in a world where England prepares to challenge Japanese world domination. Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION (Harper's Magazine 1970; Berkley 1971) %W Lincoln ordered the evacuation of Fort Sumter, and the South was allowed to go in peace. %S In 1981, the USA faces a hostile, nuclear-capable, police-state CSA and decides that assassination is the only solution. Stasheff, Christopher, HER MAJESTY'S WIZARD (Ballantine 1986, 0345274563) ---------------------, THE OATHBOUND WIZARD (Ballantine 1993, 0345385470) ---------------------, THE WITCH DOCTOR (Ballantine 1994, 034537584X; SFBC 1994; Ballantine 1995, 0345388518) ---------------------, THE SECULAR WIZARD (Ballantine 1995, 0345376005, 0345388542) %S A grad student finds a manuscript which sends him to an another Earth where magic works and N Europe and most of Britain are covered with ice. Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People", in Jul 1991; ; and RUDE ASTRONAUTS: REAL AND IMAGINED STORIES (Legend 1992; Old Earth 1993, 1882968018; Ace 1995, 044100184X); rev. of "Operation Blue Horizon", in _Worcester Monthly_ Sep 1988 %W Warned that Nazi Germany was developing a trans-Atlantic rocket, the US started a crash rocket development program headed by Robert Goddard. %S A history of Project Blue Horizon and its critical race with the Nazis; concludes with mention of the first manned mission to Mars in 1976. -------------, "John Harper Wilson", in Jun 1989; and RUDE ASTRONAUTS: REAL AND IMAGINED STORIES (Legend 1992; Old Earth 1993, 1882968018; Ace 1995, 044100184X); %S In 1969, the US gov't plans to claim the moon, but the commander of the first manned landing goes in peace for all mankind. -------------, "The Tranquillity Alternative" (Ace 1996, 0441002994) %S In 1995, the U.S. is about to decommission its nuclear missiles at Tranquillity Base and sell the installation to the Germans, but saboteurs are at work. Steele, Allen, "Riders in the Sky", in %W The dirigible was invented in 1860. %S Jesse and Frank James become infamous airship robbers, but Northfield, Minnesota, and Bob Ford still lie in their future. Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS (Futura 1979; rev Dell 1980) %S Crosstime and time-travel intrigue centered on attempts to alter Alfred's dealing with the Danes. Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades", in _Omni_ Sep 1985; MIRRORSHADES: THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY (Arbor House 1986, 0877958688; Ace 1988, 0441533825); and THE SEVENTH OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Ellen Datlow) (publ. unknown) %T Portuguese tr. by Eduardo Salo as "Mozart de Oculos Espelhados", in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO (Livros do Brasil 1989) %S Europe and America of 1775 are exploited by the future of another timeline hungry for oil, but resistance forms. Sterling, Bruce: see also Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling Stevens, Gordon, AND ALL THE KING'S MEN (Chapman 1990; Pan 1991, 033031534X) %W Germany decided in November 1939 to invade Britain the next year. %S Operation Seeloewe begins 7 Sep 1940. Scottish resistance alone stands free till British forces gain liberation in April 1942. Stevermer, Caroline: see Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stevermer Stewart, Sean, RESURRECTION MAN (Ace 1995, 0441001211; SFBC 1995) %W Magic reasserted itself with the appearance of golems in the Nazi death camps. %S ... Stirling, S.M., "Cops and Robbers", in FAR FRONTIERS, WINTER 1985 (eds. Jerry Pournelle & Jim Baen) (Baen 1986) %W Pitt led Britain on to an overwhelming victory in the Seven/Ten Years War and the American Revolution never happened. %S An FBI agent investigating a strange coin is kidnapped by a crosstime science-industrial spy. Stirling, S.M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA (Baen 1988, 0671650471) --------------, UNDER THE YOKE (Baen 1989, 0671698435) --------------, THE STONE DOGS (Baen 1990, 0671720090) %W British officer Patrick Ferguson, inventor of the breech-loading rifle, survived and prospered during the American Revolution. Also, after the Netherlands declared war, Britain captured its Cape colony and later used it to resettle Tory refugees from American. %S The Dominion of the Draka strives to take over the world (1940-2000) and only the US stands in the way. With much supplemental info in appendices. --------------, DRAKON (Baen 1996) %S A genegineered supersoldier from the Draka 24th century is accidentally transported to our 1995 New York. An American cyber-warrior is sent after her to minimize the possible damage. Stith, John E., "One Giant Step", in DINOSAUR FANTASTIC (eds. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW 1993; SFBC 1994) %S Intelligent reptiles go back 65M years, where one causes the death of the dinosaurs. Instead, insects develop intelligence and go back 65M years... Stone, Vince: see Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone Sucharitkul, Somtow: see Somtow, S.P. Sullivan, Tim, "Dinosaur on a Bicycle", in May 1987; and DINOSAURS! (eds. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois) (publ. unknown) %T Portuguese tr. by Fabio Fernandes as "Dinossauro de Bicicleta", in DINOSSAUROS! (eds. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois) (Zenith 1993) %W The dinosaurs did not die out. %S Saurian time-travelers to the past encounter travelers from futures in which various species dominate. Chaos ensues. Sumner, M.C., "In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Three, Columbus Crossed the Frozen Sea", in _Tomorrow Speculative Fiction_ Aug 1993 %W A deep ice age began in the early second millenium. %S Even after being abandoned by the Santa Maria and the Hielo, Columbus presses westward across the frozen-over Atlantic. Sussex, Lucy, "Kay & Phil", in _Alien Shores_ (eds. Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch) (Aphelion 1994, 1875346090) %S ... Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds. Lou Aronica, et al) (Doubleday 1989, 0385260199); THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SEVENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1990, 0312044518, 0312044526); and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Legend 1991; vt MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION, St. Martin's 1992, 0312072384; St. Martin's 1993, 0312088477) %W Earth has an edge. %S Three teen-agers living at an American air force base in the Middle East climb down a stairway on the edge of the world. %C Nominee: 1990 Hugo for best short story. Swanwick, Michael, "In Concert", in Sept 1992 %W Rock & roll started decades earlier, and had the power to shape history. %S An American attends the final performance of Lenin, "The Boss", hearing such standards as "The Workers Control the Means of Production". Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT (Ace 1985, 0441358691); rev. of "Mummer Kiss", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1981); and "Marrow Death", in Dec 1984 %W Three Mile Island melted down, irradiating eastern Pennsylvania. %S Life in Philadelphia and the adjacent Drift, 100 years later, and the conflict for power. %C "Mummer Kiss" nominee: 1981 Nebula for best novelette. Talbot, Bryan, THE ADVENTURES OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT (vol 1, Prout 1982; vol 2, Valkyrie 1987; vol 3, Prout 1989) %W The British monarchy was never restored and Cromwellian Puritans still rule. %S ... Tarr, Judith, "Cowards Die: A Tragicomedy in Several Fits", in %W Julius Ceasar's voicebox was permanently damaged by Sulla, and he was forced to grab power through the Roman underworld. %S Centuries later, a young man from the Alexandria "family" is involved with an ambitious Roman woman. Tarr, Judith, "Queen of Asia", in %W Dismayed by her son Darius's show of cowardice in fighting Alexander, Sisygambis had him killed and became regent for her grand-son. %S Under Sisygambis's direction, the Persians attack Alexander from behind at Tyre, and she comes up with a novel fate for her new prisoner. Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in %W Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne converted to Islam. %S Describes the event, but no follow through. Tarr, Judith, "Them Old Hyannis Blues", in %W Numerous musicians were instead politicians, and some politicians were instead musicians. %S After switching from big band to rock 'n roll, the Kennedy bros. play at President Presley's first inaugural ball, and foil an assassination attempt. ------------, "Elvis Invictus", in %S An overview of Presley's first term, a girl's visit years later to meet the King, and a much later leadership change in the Church of Elvis. Teng, Tais, AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT (Kraaikop cube-reeks 1983) (--------), "Alle namen in het zonlicht", in _SF Terra_ #73 (1985); and AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT (Kraaikop cube-reeks 1983) (--------), "Bevers voeren", in _SF Terra_ #73 (1985); and AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT (Kraaikop cube-reeks 1983) (--------), "Een dukaat voor de veerman", in BIZARRE VISIOENEN (Diram 1988); and AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT (Kraaikop cube-reeks 1983) (--------), "Hoe de wijze handelt", in _King Kong Kerstgeschenk_ (1988); _Science Fiction Festival_ (...Con 1989); and AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT (Kraaikop cube-reeks 1983) %W Elephants evolved only to a small size, and Hannibal's sea-borne attack on Rome succeeded. %S Tales of a Dutch empire. Tengbergen, Thijs van Ebberhorst: see Teng, Tais Tenn, William, "Brooklyn Project", in SHOT IN THE DARK (ed. Judith Merrill) (Bantam 1950); 17 * INFINITY (ed. Groff Conklin) (Dell 1963, 1969); VOYAGERS IN TIME: TWELVE STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Robert Silverberg) (Meredith 1967); THE WOODEN STAR (Ballantine 1968); THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3: FROM HEINLEIN TO HERE (ed. James Gunn) (NAL/Mentor 1979, 0451617843); and THE GREAT SF STORIES: 10 (eds. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg) (DAW ...) %T Portuguese tr. by Eduardo Sals as "Projeta Brooklyn", in VIAJANTES NO TEMPO (ed. ...) (Panorama 1970) %S Scientists send a sphere back in time, claiming it has no effect. Each time it comes back, things change but they just don't notice. Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND (St. Martin's 1990, 0312041489) %W Nazi Germany did not invade Russia, but geared up for an invasion of Britain on 28 May 1942. %S The American Expeditionary Force takes the brunt of the invasion and its commander violates the articles of war in order to save London. Thiry, Marcel, ECHEC AU TEMPS (Nouvelle France 1945; La Renaissance du Livre 1962; Jacques Antoine 1986, 2871320268) %W Napoleon won at Waterloo. %S Time travelers reverse the event. Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF (Macmillan 1974, 0333150422) %W Montcalm defeated Wolfe, leading to French victory in the French and Indian War. %S The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, with the Stuart restoration in Virginia following Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory at Annapolis. Thompson, Don, "Worlds Enough", in %S Stealing a timeline jumper in an accident, a man looks around for an invention, yet undiscovered in his home timeline, that will make him rich. Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5", in %W The Earl of Sherburne was placed in charge of peace negotiations with France after the 7 Year War, and then became Treasury Minister. %C The earl contemplates returning Canada to the French and avoiding taxes on the 13 colonies, actions which would prevent the American Revolution. Thompson, W.R., "The Plot to Save Hitler", in _Analog_ Sep 1993 %S Two time travelers to 1903 Linz fight over the life of Adolf Hitler, one to prevent WW2 and the other to prevent murder. Thomsen, Brian M., "Bigger Than U.S. Steel", in %S Narrative of a ghostwriter for the late Meyer Lansky, chairman of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Internal Revenue. Thomsen, Brian M., "Iguanacon, Too", in %S ... Thomsen, Brian M., "Infallibility, Obedience, and Acts of Contrition", in %S ... Thomsen, Brian M., "A Night on the Plantation", in %W Instead of script approval, David O. Selznick let Margaret Mitchell pick the lead actor for GONE WITH THE WIND. %S Mitchell doesn't like Clark Gable, and after an argument with the studio picks Groucho Marx to play Rhett Butler. Thomsen, Brian M., "Paper Trail", in %W Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were fired by the Washington Post but continued their investigation of the Watergate break-in. %S Woodward's articles in the New York Post about Watergate and the murder of Bernstein lead to McGovern's election in 1972. Thomsen, Brian M., "A Sense of Loyalty, a Sense of Betrayal", in %W Sidney Reilly, caught as he prepares to overthrow Lenin and Trotsky, was offered a deal. %S The failure of the ace of spies' plot, with an epilog in 1943. Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox", in _New Yorker_ 6 Dec 1930; THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (Harper 1935); THE THURBER CARNIVAL (Harper 1945; Harper & Row 1975, 0060904453; Franklin Library 1978-1980); Feb 1952; and VINTAGE THURBER (Hamish Hamilton 1963) %W As the title says. %S Grant gives his sword to Lee. Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace", in Oct/Nov 1991; and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, NINTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1992, 0312078919, 0312078897, 0312078900) %W Lincoln was assassinated early by Jesse and Frank James, and the South, suffering a harsher Reconstruction, never actually stopped fighting. %S The tale of a Southern boy during Reconstruction, with an afterword written in 1952 by his grandson, a member of the Nazi's RE Lee Brigade. Tilton, Lois, "Wunderwaffen", in _The 14th Alternative_ Spring 1990 %W Nazi Germany got some of Hitler's secret weapons into action. %S A worker at Peenemunde participates in the struggle to get the V-rockets, including the V-X, on-line, but the Allies have the ultimate weapon. Toyota Aritsune, MONGORU NO ZANKO (Kadokawa Shoten 1967) %W The Mongols conquered Europe during the 13th century. %S Centuries later, a Caucasian falsely accused of murder steals a time machine in order to prevent the Mongol dominance. Toyota Aritsune, TAIME SURIPPU DAISENSO (Kadokawa Shoten 1967) %S ... Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II (Oxford Univ 1934) %W The Umayyads did not press on after their defeat at the Kish-Samarkand pass in 731. %C How Nestorian Christianity could have spread into Asia, later leading to Moslem destruction at the hands of Christianized Seljuks and Mongols. Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II (Oxford Univ 1934) %W The Synod of Whitby (664) adopted the teachings of Colman, and Charles Martel lost at Tours. %C How European Christianity would have divided between the Celts of the North and the Roman-Orthodox of the South and East, with France Muslim. Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II (Oxford Univ 1934) %W The Vikings captured Constantinople in 860, established stronger colonies in N America, harassed the Muslims in the Caspian, etc. %C How more aggressive expansion would have resulted in Viking control of N America, Europe and northern Asia by 1400. Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Alexander the Great had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS IN GREEK HISTORY (Oxford Univ 1969) %W Alexander of Macedon listened to his physicians' advice in 323 BC, and later returned to the Mediterranean. %S How Alexander made the Pheonicians his Navy, conquered Carthage, allied with Rome, conquered India and Ch'in and finally died in 287 BC. %C Synopsis in Demandt's UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE. Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS IN GREEK HISTORY (Oxford Univ 1969) %W Artaxerxes III Ochus did not die in 338 BC and Philip II of Macedon did not die in 336 BC. %S Surviving an assassination attempt, Philip ends up killing son Alexander, conquers Rome and pushes Ochus's Persia back to the Euphrates. Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in _Westminster Gazette_ Jul 1907; CLIO: A MUSE (Longmans, Green 1913; Longmans, Green 1930; Books for Libraries 1968); and (1972, 1974 eds. only) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as "Wenn Napoleon die Schlacht von Waterloo gewonnen hatte", in _Heyne Science Fiction Magazin_ #10 %W Blucher's breach of faith led to Napoleon's victory at "Mont St. Jean". %S Despite the Napoleon of Peace, his former enemies maintain their standing armies, stifling all reformist movements for decades. %C Synopsis in Fadness's "What If Napoleon Had Won at Waterloo?". Tsouras, Peter, DISASTER AT D-DAY: THE GERMAN DEFEATS THE ALLIES, JUNE 1944 (Greenhill/Stackpole 1994, 1853671606) %S A slight variation in unit placement changes the course of the invasion. Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in _Foreign Affairs_ Oct 1972; NOTES FROM CHINA (Collier 1972); and PRACTICING HISTORY: SELECTED ESSAYS (Knopf 1981, 0394520866; Ballantine 1982, 0345303636) %W Ambassador Hurley relayed Mao and Chou En-lai's request for a meeting with FDR in 1945. %C Primarily a discussion of why it made no difference, but a few brief comments on how it might have averted the Korean and Vietnam wars. Turtledove, Harry, THE CASE OF THE TOXIC SPELL DUMP (Baen 1993, 0671721968) %W Magic works. %S Adventures of an inspector for the US Environmental Perfection Agency. Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds", in _Amazing Stories_ Mar 89; ; and DEPARTURES (Ballantine 1993, 0345380118) %W Xerxes led the Persians to victory over the Greeks, thereby preventing the spread of democracy. %S Several hundred years later, a Persian court eunuch is sent to Greece to learn the name of the Greek king defeated by Xerxes. Turtledove, Harry, "Departures", in Jan 1989 ; and DEPARTURES (Ballantine 1993, 0345380118) %W Mohammed became a Christian, and the lack of Moslem pressure meant Byzantium never fell but faced a technologically sophisticated Persia. %S Christian monks, including a powerful hymn writer named Mouamet, flee a Sinai monastery for Constantinople as Persian forces approach. -----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM (Congdon & Weed 1987, 0865531838; Worldwide 1988; exp Baen 1994, 0671875930) %T Portuguese tr. by ... as O AGENTE DE BIZANCIO (Livros do Brasil 1990) %C 1987 and 1988 eds. do not contain "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire". (---------------), "The Eyes of Argos" (vt "Etos Kosmou 6814"), in _Amazing Stories_ Jan 1986; and THERE WILL BE WAR 4: GUNS OF DARKNESS (eds. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr) (Tor 1987) %S In the 14th century, Byzantine agent Basil Argyros discovers that the telescope has been invented in the steppes north of the Danube. (---------------), "Strange Eruptions" (vt "Etos Kosmou 6816"), in Aug 1986 %S Argyros finds a cure for smallpox. (---------------), "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire" (vt "Etos Kosmou 6818"), in 15 Dec 1989; and DEPARTURES (Ballantine 1993, 0345380118) %S Argyros is sent to investigate the delay in the building of the new Alexandria lighthouse and discovers a labor strike. (---------------), "Unholy Trinity" (vt "Etos Kosmou 6824"), in _Amazing Stories_ Jul 1985 %S Argyros discovers the invention of dynamite. (---------------), "Archetypes" (vt "Etos Kosmou 6825"), in _Amazing Stories_ Nov 1985 %S Argyros investigates numerous identical seditious handbills appearing near the Persian frontier. (---------------), "Images" (vt "Etos Kosmou 6826"), in Mar 1987 %S Argyros is embroiled in an argument about religious icons. (---------------), "Superwine" (vt "Etos Kosmou 6829"), in Apr 1987; and HIGH ADVENTURE: TALES OF EXPLORATION, ESCAPE, AND INTRIGUE eds. ... Manson & ... Ardai) (Barnes & Noble ...) %S Argyros is also there for the invention of brandy. Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH (Congdon & Weed 1988, 0865531986; Baen 1994, 0671876228) %W European explorers discovered Pithecanthropan "sims" instead of red-skinned men when they reached the New World. (---------------), "Vilest Beast", in _Analog_ Sep 1985 %S In 1610, sims steal a babe from a Jamestown cradle and her father ventures into the wilderness to save her. (---------------), "And So to Bed", in _Analog_ Jan 1986; TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed. Terry Carr) (Tor 1987, 0312930259); THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FOURTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1987); and KALEIDOSCOPE (Ballantine 1990, 0345364775) %S In 1661, Samuel Pepys purchases two sims to help out around the house and contemplates the origins of species. (---------------), "Around the Salt Lick", in _Analog_ Feb 1986 %S In 1691, a Virginia hunter is captured by wild sims and hopes that his sim assistant will think of rescuing him. (---------------), "The Iron Elephant", in _Analog_ May 1986 %S In 1782, steam-driven trains first appear, and a race is held with one of the mammoth-pulled trains they threaten to replace. (---------------), "Though the Heavens Fall", in _Analog_ Sep 1986 %S In 1804, a lawyer uses the existence of sims to argue that a runaway Negro slave should not be returned to his one-time owner. (---------------), "Trapping Run" %S In 1812, a trapper in the Rockies is wounded by a bear and is nursed back to health by sims. (---------------), "Freedom", in Mar 1988 %S In 1988, university students opposed to medical experiments on sims kidnap a sim carrying AIDS but do not take enough of the new HIV inhibitor. Turtledove, Harry, "Down in the Bottomlands", in _Analog_ Jan 1993 %W The Mediterranean basin never opened to the ocean. %S In modern days, a murder during a tour of the Bottomlands Trench reveals a plot to destroy the "Gibraltar" mountains with a nuclear weapon. %C Winner: 1994 Hugo for best novella. Turtledove, Harry, THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR (Ballantine 1992, 0345376757; Ballantine 1993, 0345384687); excerpt "The Long Drum Roll", in THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed. Frank McSherry, Jr.) (Baen 1991, 0671720635) %W The Confederacy obtained advanced weaponry just before the Wilderness. %S Afrikaaners from 2014 provide the CSA with AK-47s, etc, leading to Confederate victory in the U.S. Civil War, but strings are attached to the gift. -----------------, RETURN ENGAGEMENT (not yet published) %S ... Turtledove, Harry, "Hindsight", in _Analog_ mid-Dec 1984; IMPERIAL STARS I: THE STARS AT WAR (eds. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr) (publ. unknown); and KALEIDOSCOPE (Ballantine 1990, 0345364775) %S A woman from 1988 goes back 40 years and sells stories written in between (e.g., "Neutron Star") plus accounts of famous events (e.g., "Watergate"). Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", in Jan 1992; and DEPARTURES (Ballantine 1993, 0345380118) %W Isolationist America stayed out of WW2 until it was attacked by Germany and Japan a generation after the fall of Britain and Russia. %S Even in a 2010 Berlin, at the heart of a world dominated by Nazi Germany, Jews will still survive. Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea", in ; and DEPARTURES (Ballantine 1993, 0345380118) %W Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslims in the early 700s. %S Fifty years after the fall of Constantinople, the king of the Bulgars invites Muslims and Christians to decide which faith he should adopt. Turtledove, Harry, "King of All", in NEW DESTINIES VOLUME VI/WINTER 1988 (ed. Jim Baen) (Baen 1988, 067169796X) %W The mysteries of coffee were never discovered. %S A cop watches several news reports about the new drug from Columbia, caffeine, and orders a hit of "coke" at a Macdonald's the next day. Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article", in Jan 1988; THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1989, 0312030096, 0312030088); THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed. Frank McSherry, Jr.) (Baen 1990, 0671698818); ; and THERE WILL BE WAR 7: CALL TO BATTLE (eds. Jerry Pournelle & John F. Carr) (Tor 1988); %T German tr. by Michael Windgassen as "Das letzte Gebot", in %W Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India. %S Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation. Turtledove, Harry, "The Maltese Elephant", in _Analog_ Aug 1995; %S ... Turtledove, Harry, "Must and Shall", in _Asimov's_ Nov 1995; %W Lincoln was killed by a stray bullet during a visit to the front lines in 1864. %S Hannibal Hamlin becomes president and promises a Reconstruction based on revenge. Eighty years later, federal security agents visit occupied New Orleans during an investigation of gun-running. Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", in THE WHEELS OF IF & THE PUGNACIOUS PEACEMAKER (Tor SF Double #20) (Tor 1990, 0812502027) %C Sequel to de Camp's "The Wheels of If". %S Now a judge of an internat'l court, the bishop is sent to S America to adjudicate a territorial dispute between the Incas and the Moslem Amazon. Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland", in %W Hitler was shot and killed by one of his generals on 19 Feb 1943 in retaliation for an insult, and his successors made peace with the Soviets. %S In 1979 fascist Croatia, British agents meet with a Serbian partisan seeking weapons. Turtledove, Harry, "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life", in UNIVERSE 10 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1980); ; and rev. DEPARTURES (Ballantine 1993, 0345380118) %W Columbus's proposed voyage was subject to an environmental impact study. %S The text of the report, suggesting that Columbus be turned down. Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE (Ballantine 1990, 0345360761) %W The formation of Mars resulted in a larger planet, capable of sustaining a thicker atmosphere and surface water. %S After a tool-bearing lifeform destroys a Viking probe on the surface of "Minerva", competitive American and Soviet manned missions are sent out. %C Synopsis in Lodi-Ribeiro's "Historias Naturais Alternativas". Turtledove, Harry, WORLDWAR: IN THE BALANCE (Ballantine 1994, 0345382412; SFBC 1994; Hodder & Stoughton 1994, 0340624906; NEL 1994, 0340618396; Ballantine 1995, 0345388526) %W Space aliens arrived on Earth in May 1942. %S Surprised to find Earth's technology so advanced after a visit 800 years before, the aliens still invade, forcing odd alliances between enemies. -----------------, WORLDWAR: TILTING THE BALANCE (Ballantine 1995, 0345389972; SFBC 1995; Hodder & Stoughton 1995, 0340632399; NEL 1995, 0340648996; Ballantine 1996) %S The fight rages on into 1943, with beleaguered humanity pushing harder to exploit captured uranium. -----------------, WORLDWAR: UPSETTING THE BALANCE (Ballantine 1996, 0345402219) %S 1943 comes to a close with humanity slowly gaining ground after several nuclear exchanges. -----------------, WORLDWAR: FINDING THE BALANCE (Ballantine 1997, not yet published) %S ... Turtledove, Harry: see also Dreyfuss, Richard, & Harry Turtledove Tyler, Denise, "The Butterfly King", in _Pulphouse_ #18 (1995) %W Jesus was not crucified and Christians only became a small sect. %S ... Utley, Steven, "Look Away", in Feb 1992 %W Albert Sidney Johnston survived Shiloh (a Confederate victory) and carried the Civil War north to Ohio. %S After the war, former army officers debate whether the CSA should pursue its own version of "manifest destiny" in Mexico and points south. Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed. Terry Carr) (Doubleday 1976; Popular Library 1977, 0445040343); THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR #6 (ed. Terry Carr) (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1977, 0030207169); BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (Dutton 1977, 0525064958; Ace 1978, 044105482X); and SCIENCE FICTION A TO Z: A DICTIONARY OF THE GREAT SF THEMES (eds. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh) (Houghton Mifflin 1982, 039531285X); and %W Ben Franklin invented the internal combustion engine and the Civil War was fought with mechanized transport. %S Info about the airplane Crazy Horse inherited from the Confederacy and later flew at the Little Big Horn. Van Arnam, Dave: see White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam van Belkom, Edo, "The October Crisis", in %S ... van den Daele, Wolfgang: see Boehme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn Van Herck, Paul, CAROLINE OH CAROLINE (publ. unknown) %T French tr. by Michel Vedewe as CAROLINE OH CAROLINE (Champs-Elysee 1976) %W Napoleon won at Waterloo. %S Hitler leads an AmerInd-Negro army against Europe. Van Herck, Paul, OPERATION BONAPARTE (publ. unknown) %S ... Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam", in (1931 Viking, 1964 eds. only) %W After recapturing Manhattan in 1673, the Dutch decided to keep it while negotiating the Treaty of Westminster. %S Overview of the colony's history until its purchase by the United States in 1841, particularly its role as arms merchant to N America. Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER (Summit 1978, 0671400282) %W Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, but was found in the 1970s. %S An internat'l tribunal considers his fate. Vanauken, Sheldon, "The World After the South Won", in _Southern Partisan_ Spring 1984 %W Britain recognized the Confederacy in Dec 1862, and her contribution of troops tipped the scales at Gettysburg. %S The story of the intervention, and some of the later effects of the British-Confederate alliance. Veiga, Jose J., A CASCA DA SERPENTE (Bestseller 1989) %W Canudos revolt leader Ant™nio Conselheiro was not killed by the Brazilian army in 1898. %S Conselheiro and followers create a utopian village in the N Brazilian badlands, and their ideals inspire revolts elsewhere. Villard, Oswald Garrison, "Issue and Men", in _The Nation_ 22 Oct 1938 %W Germany won the Battle of the Marne. %S ... Voermans, Paul, THE WEIRD COLONIAL BOY (Gollancz 1993, 0575053259; Gollancz 1994) %S ... Von Rospach, Charles, "'Til Death Do Us Part", in %W Marilyn Monroe was caught sneaking out of the White House in the middle of a 1962 night. %S After her suicide, Monroe's ghost haunts JFK, urging him to find a way to be with her. Vonarburg, Elisabeth, LES VOYAGEURS MALGRE EUX (Quebec/Amerique 1994) rev./exp. of "Le Pont du Froid", in L'OEIL DE LA NUIT (Preamble 1980); title unknown; "La Machine lente du temps", in JANUS (Denoel 1984); and "Le Jeu des coquilles de Nautilus", in AURORES BOREALES II (Preamble 1986) %T English tr. of LES VOYAGEURS MALGRE EUX by Jane Brierley, RELUCTANT VOYAGERS (Bantam 1995); %T English tr. of "Le Pont du Froid" by Jane Breirley as "Cold Bridge", in INVISIBLE FICTION (ed. Geoff Hancock) (Anansi 1987); %T English tr. of title unknown by Aliocha Kondratiev as "The Knot", in _Amazing Stories_ Mar 1993; %T English tr. of "Le Jeu des coquilles de Nautilus" by Jane Brierley as "Chambered Nautilus", in _Amazing Stories_ Winter 1994 and TESSERACTS 4 (eds. Lorna Toolis & Michael Skeet) (Beach Holme 1992, 0888783221) %S ... Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln", in _Scribner's_ Nov 1930; and (all eds.) %T German tr. by Walter Brumm as "Wenn Booth Prasident Lincoln verfehlt hatte", in _Heyne Science Fiction Magazin_ #11 %W John Wilkes Booth's gun misfired. %S Critical review of a Lincoln biography which blamed the president's woes on the Radical Republicans rather than on his reconstruction policies. %C Synopsis in Fadness's "What If Booth's Bullet Had Missed Lincoln?". Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded", in _Century Magazine_ Jun 1926 %W Lincoln withdrew Major Anderson et al from Fort Sumter. %S In 1926, an Englishman discusses society, literature and politics with three Northerners variously happy and unhappy with the events of 1861. Waldrop, Howard, "The Effects of Alienation", in _Omni_ Jun 1992 %W On the brink of defeat, Nazi Germany employed nuclear-tipped rockets to win WW2. %S 15 years later, a Nazi secret policeman attends "The Three Stooges Space Opera" at a Zurich cafe run by the widow of Berthold Brecht. Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS: MORE NEAT STORIES (Ursus/Ziesing 1990, 0942681053; Ace 1993, 0441574734; rev vt NIGHT OF THE COOTERS: MORE NEAT STUFF, Legend 1991); and mid-Dec 1991 %W The industrial revolution took an odd twist, resulting in steam-powered stilts and multi-wheel cycles for transport. %S In 1890s Paris, Melies joins with Rousseau, Satie, Proust and Picasso to make a movie about the Dreyfus affair. %C Nominee: 1992 Hugo for best novelette. Waldrop, Howard, "Hoover's Men", in _Omni_ Oct 1988; NIGHT OF THE COOTERS: MORE NEAT STORIES (Ursus/Ziesing 1990, 0942681053; Ace 1993, 0441574734; rev vt NIGHT OF THE COOTERS: MORE NEAT STUFF, Legend 1991); and OMNI VISIONS ONE (ed. Ellen Datlow) (Omni 1993) %W Al Smith beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928. %S Afterwards, Smith asks Hoover to become head of the new Federal Radio Agency, which also gives TV an early push. Waldrop, Howard, "Household Words; or, The Powers-That-Be", in _Amazing Stories_ Winter 1994; and CHRISTMAS MAGIC (ed. ...) (publ.unknown) %W The Industrial Revolution followed a different path, with electric power widely available by the 1840s. %S Charles Dickens gives a public reading of THE CHRISTMAS GARLAND, featuring Eben Mizer, Giant Tim, et al. Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike", in _Omni_ Jun 1982; THE FIRST OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Ellen Datlow) (Zebra 1983); HOWARD WHO? TWELVE OUTSTANDING STORIES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION (Doubleday 1986, 038519708X); STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP (Legend 1990, 0099644401); and %W Dwight Eisenhower cashed in his train ticket to West Point so that he could learn to play jazz clarinet. %S In 1968, Senator Aron Presley attends Ike's final performance when President Joe Kennedy awards medals to him and Louis Armstrong. %C Nominee: 1983 Hugo for best short story. Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night", in _Omni_ Aug 1986; ALL ABOUT STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST: NEAT STORIES (Ursus 1987, 0942681002); THE 1987 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds. Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha) (DAW 1987); STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP (Legend 1990, 0099644401); STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST (Ace 1991, 0441160697); FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (eds. Mike Resnick & Gardner Dozois) (DAW 1993, 0886775442); and OMNI VISIONS TWO (ed. Ellen Datlow) (Omni 1994, 0874553083) %W Columbus found the Americas uninhabited. Later, African slaves imported to mine Peruvian gold rebelled, leading to white decline worldwide. %S In 1894, an African boy writes a play about an African king while reading a history of the fall of European power. %C Nominee: 1986 Nebula for best short story. Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto) (Dark Harvest 1989, 0913165492; Avon 1990, 0380711680); and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS: MORE NEAT STORIES (Ursus/Ziesing 1990, 0942681053; Ace 1993, 0441574734; rev. vt NIGHT OF THE COOTERS: MORE NEAT STUFF, Legend 1991) %W Taming the American West also involved bringing water to it, plus the film industry set up in Boise. %S Excerpts from books and magazine articles about Boise's one-time fascination with cloudbusters. Waldrop, Howard, THEM BONES (Ace 1984, 0441805574; Ziesing 1989, 092948004X, 0929480058; Legend 1993) %S Time travelers trying to avert WW3 end up in wrong locales: one in right time, wrong timeline; the rest vice versa. Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't", in _Shayol_ #6; HOWARD WHO? TWELVE OUTSTANDING STORIES OF SPECULATIVE FICTION (Doubleday 1986, 038519708X); STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP (Legend 1989, 0099644401); and THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1990 (eds. Ursula K. LeGuin & Brian Attebery) (Norton 1993, 0393034568) %W Phlogiston exists. %S A late 19th-century scientist attempts to isolate pure phlogiston, with apocalyptic results. Waldrop, Howard, "You _Could_ Go Home Again", in _Omni Online_ May (?) 1995 %S FDR died shortly before the 1932 Democratic convention and Huey Long became president, only to be assassinated a year later. %W In 1940, author Thomas Wolfe departs the Tokyo Olympics aboard a zeppelin, and while listening to Fats Waller, muses about how his life has changed since he almost died in 1938. Waldrop, Howard: see also Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop Walker, George S., "Granny in the Flight Path", in _Tomorrow Science Fiction_ Dec 1994 %W Barry Goldwater was elected president. %S ... Wall, John W.: see Sarban Walling, William, "Memo to the Leader", serial in _Galaxy_ Dec 1977 & Jan 1978 %W The British army at Dunkirk was lost, and Germany subsequently invaded and conquered England. %S An American historian from a Nazi-dominated 2075 goes back to 1940 to stop a neo-Nazi from 1974 who traveled back to effect the divergence. Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY (Carroll & Graf 1989, 088184523X; Carroll & Graf 1991, 0881856759) %S Hypnotized to portray Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin trip, an actor instead describes an anachronistic expedition to the Tunguska site. Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "The Murderer", in _Asimov's Science Fiction_ Apr 1993 %W Men responsible for mass deaths of the 20th century died prematurely. %S A man arrested for murder claims to be a time traveler who has prevented greater carnage. Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "New Worlds", in Dec 1991; and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC (Ballantine 1992, 0345373952) %S Crosstime traveler offers to sell the secret to parallel worlds, and finds one with faster-than-light travel. Both sides fear the other. %C Crosstimers are from world where Hitler was killed in 1923 by a thrown beer bottle, but no further development is given. Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Storm Trooper", in Jan 1992; and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC (Ballantine 1992, 0345373952) %S Reality storms occasionally swap pieces of Earth with pieces of alternates, and New York sets up a Discontinuity Control Squad. Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", in ; and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC (Ballantine 1992, 0345373952) %W Smith split the Democrats in 1932, causing Hoover to beat FDR. The US-Japan fight started earlier, and a firm response at Munich averted WW2. %S 20 years later, the Secretary of State looks for a country to which he can name a Jewish consul without offending the host government. Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers", in Jul 1987; THE NEW HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME II (ed. Isaac Asimov) (publ. unknown); CROSSTIME TRAFFIC (Ballantine 1992, 0345373952); WHY I LEFT HARRY'S ALL-NIGHT HAMBURGERS AND OTHER STORIES FROM ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE (eds. Sheila Williams & Charles Ardai) (Delacorte 1990); and HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD WINNERS FROM ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION (ed. Sheila Williams) (Random House/Wings 1996, 0517124106) %T Portuguese tr. by Ronaldo Sergio de Biasi as "Por Que Sai do Harry's 24 Horas", in _Isaac Asimov Magazine de Ficcao Cientifica_ #20 %C Winner: 1988 Hugo for best short story; Nominee: 1987 Nebula for best short story. --------------------, "A Flying Saucer with Minnesota Plates", in Aug 1991; CROSSTIME TRAFFIC (Ballantine 1992, 0345373952); and UFO'S AND ALIENS: EXTRATERRESTRIAL STORIES FROM ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION AND ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT (eds. ... Manson & Charles Ardai) (Smithmark 1993) %T Portuguese tr. by Ronaldo Sergio de Biasi as "Um Disco Voadar com Placa de Minnesota", in _Isaac Asimov Magazine de Ficcao Cientifica_ #22 %S A West Virginia diner caters to late-night customers from parallel Earths. %C Except for short comments on possibilities, neither story is particularly AH. Webb, Lucas: see Reginald, Robert Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain", in _If_ May 1968 %W Marco Polo discovered America. %S An English merchant and wives in Chinese America is mysteriously transported crosstime to the Lone Star State, where he meets a traffic cop. Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA (Chapman & Hall 1905; Univ Nebraska 1967); included in WORKS, vol. 9 (Scribner's 1925) %W The Dark Ages never happened. %S A look at a Utopian 20th century. %C Borderline AH, as the world is identical to Earth except that it is "beyond Sirius". Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted", in _Christian Century_ 23-30 Jun 1976 %W The American Revolution never occurred. %S Musings on life in idyllic, non-nationalist N America, but without any detail. West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME (Avalon 1963) %S Teen-agers try to avert WW3 by saving Julius Caesar. Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER: A NOVEL (Little Brown 1971; vt DOWNFALL, Bantam 1972) %W The atomic bomb was not used on Japan. %S A soldier's eye view of Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu. Whitbourn, John, A DANGEROUS ENERGY (Gollancz 1992, 0575053550; Gollancz 1993, 0575055766) %W Magic works. Also, the English Civil War ended in 1649 with the exile of Oliver Cromwell. %S London in a 1967 where the Protestant reformation failed. Charts the rise of Tobias Oakley as a Church magician. ---------------, TO BUILD JERUSALEM (Gollancz 1995, 0575058714, 0575058730) %S ... Whitbourn, John, POPES AND PHANTOMS (Gollancz 1993, 0575056533; Gollancz 1994, 0575057637); rev. of stories in POPES & PHANTOMS (Haunted Library 1992) %S Admiral Slovo looks back on his life fom 1486 in a world which is not quite ours. White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY (Ballantine 1991, 0345371100) %W C. 200 BC, an Irishman returned home from Alexandria with the plans for Hero's aeolipile, leading to an industrial revolution 1000 years early. %S In 1491, the Empire of Hibernia launches man's first starship, and her outspoken surgeon suspects a religious conspiracy aboard. White, Mel., "Sam Clemens and the Notable Mare", in %W Sam Clemens headed east from Nevada in 1864 and was captured by Quantrill's Raiders %S Sam's Indian horse does his part to rout the guerilla band when Union soldiers arrive. White, Ted, THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN (Belmont 1967) %S ... White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP (Pyramid 1968) %W Alien intervention averted WW2. %S Hitler ends up in America, calling for resistance against the "angels". Wildavsky, Aaron, "What If the U.S. Had Had One Law for Its Allies and Another for Its Adversaries? The Suez Crisis (1956)", in %W The US did not come down hard on France and Britain during the 1956 war. %C Scholarly speculations on alternative outcomes, including friendlier relations with France, and an Israel less threatened by Arabs. Wilder, Cherry, "Kaleidoscope", in ... %W The Aztecs were not conquered. %S ... Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG: A NOVEL (Heinemann 1980, 0434866059; Viking 1981, 0670364398; Magnum 1982) %W The British royal family was wiped out by a 1935 airship disaster, and it took 5 weeks to locate an heir. %S A 25-year-old stage actor becomes king of England and discovers the limits on royal power in the 1900s. %C Basis for the non-AH movie KING RALPH. Williams, F.P., HALLIE MARSHALL: A TRUE DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH (Abbey 1900) %W The South won at Gettysburg, and the British recognized the Confederacy and broke the Northern blockade. %S A man from our world awakens in a 1900 in which slavery still exists in a Utopian south. Williams, Philip M., "What If Hugh Gaitskell Had Become Prime Minister? (1963)", in %W The British Labour party leader did not suddenly die in Jan 1963. %C A more moderate party and movement results, with general economic success and an early end to Rhodesia's UDI plans. Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground", in Nov 1989; ; and FACETS (Tor 1990, 0312850190, 0812501810) %W Edgar Allen Poe did not die in 1849, but lived to become a Confederate general. %S After Pickett becomes ill, Poe takes command of his troops at the battle of Hanover Junction during the Forty Days. Williams, Walter Jon, "Red Elvis", in ; and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, TWELFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1995, 0312132220, 0312132212; SFBC 1995) %W Gladys Presley's boy started reading Marx, Engels, Gandhi, etc. %S The story of a rebel rocker, hated for dodging the draft but later honored by Martin Luther King, Jr. Williams, Walter Jon, "Wall, Stone, Craft", in Oct/Nov 1993; WALL, STONE, CRAFT (Pulphouse/Axolotl 1993); and THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, ELEVENTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed. Gardner Dozois) (St. Martin's 1994; SFBC 1994; vt THE BEST NEW SCIENCE FICTION: 8TH ANNUAL COLLECTION, Robinson 1994, 1854873105) %W Lord Byron was not born with a club foot and went on to be a famous cavalryman, making his name by capturing Napoleon at Waterloo. %S Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley twice meet the famous soldier. %C Nominee: 1994 Hugo for best novella, 1994 World Fantasy Award for best novella. Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME (Fantasy Press 1952; Pyramid 1967; Bluejay 1985) %S A man from 1930s is shown two possible futures which hinge on whether or not a particular event happens; future woman tries to affect what happens. Wilson, Robert Charles, GYPSIES (Doubleday 1989, 0385249330) %S ... Wilson, Robert Charles, MYSTERIUM (Bantam 1994, 055337365X; SFBC 1994; Bantam 1995, 0553569538; NEL 1995, 0450609596) %W The Roman empire was not Christianized, and gnosticism became the dominant branch of Christianity. %S An accident in a secret lab moves an entire Michigan town sideways to a world where the Anglo-French N American republic is at war with Spain. Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968", in %W Dubcek retained more control over events during Prague Spring. %C Musings on a middle course which might have averted a Soviet invasion. Wodhams, Jack, "Try Again", in _Amazing Stories_ Nov 1968 %W Germany pursued a more rational course in WW2, avoiding the invasion of Russia til 44 and tipping the US off to Japanese plans in the Pacific. %S A man is reborn as himself, with all his adult knowledge. When word spreads, he is kidnaped by the Nazis and a different WW2 results. Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion", in _Analog_ May 1973; THE BEST OF ANALOG (ed. Ben Bova) (Baronet 1978, 0894370340; Ace 1979, 0441054706); GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS (Doubleday 1981, 0385159919); and CASTLE OF DAYS (Tor 1992, 0312852096; Tor/Orb 1995, 0312890427) %W Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military conquest in the 1930s and 40s. Also, Churchill returned to journalism after WW1. %S A retired US Army officer from Abilene KS invents a game called World War, and participates in a race between German and British compact cars. %C Nominee: 1973 Nebula for best short story. Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE: A NOVEL (Tor 1990, 0812506235; HarperCollins UK 1994) %W Lincoln was murdered in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration, and Teddy Roosevelt freed the slaves in 1905. Later, Zangara killed FDR. %S Fleeing an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents somehow end up in 1939 New York of a different past. -------------, ELVISSEY (Tor 1993, 0312852029; Easton 1993; HarperCollins UK 1994, 0586213015) %T French tr. by Jean Bonnefroy as L'ELVISSEE (Denoel 1995, 2207305554) %S Two agents from that future go back to the alternate world's 1953 to kidnap the analog of their messiah, Elvis Presley. %C Co-winner: 1994 Philip K. Dick Award %C Non-AH entries in series are AMBIENT and HEATHERN. Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA (Ace 1989, 0441775594) %W Magic works, in Regency London. %S ... Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s", in %W Franklin returned to America in 1775 with evidence of a softening British attitude towards dealings with the colonies. %C Franklin contemplates the troubles, and then describes the appointment of Washington as governor of Vandalia (Ohio) and other compromises. Wu, William, ROBERT SILVERBERG'S TIME TOURS #1: THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH (Harper 1990) %S ... %C Follow-up to Silverberg's UP THE LINE. Wyndham, John, "Random Quest", in THE INFINITE MOMENT (Ballantine 1961); CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS (M. Joseph 1961, 0718100662; Penguin 1965); THE VINTAGE ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FANTASY (ed. Christopher Cerf) (Vintage 1966); and AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed. Charles W. Sullivan) (Prentice-Hall 1974, 0130500399, 0130500216) %W The League of Nations prevented WW2. %S A man searches for the analog of a woman with whom he fell in love in a parallel world. %C Basis for the movie QUEST FOR LOVE. Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE RENAISSANCE (Pocket 1980, 0671832948) %W Lorenzo de Medici did not die in 1492, but lived to unite Italy in 1515. %S In 1533, a court poet to Damiano de Medici is involved in intrigues to hold Italy together but dreams of a world where he is a famous soldier-poet. %C Nominee: 1981 World Fantasy Award for best novel. Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor 1991, 0812554442) %C In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS. %S The True Inca, seeking a solution to possible invasion by the False Inca of Brazil, sends a mission to the Maori nation. Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ON SAINT HUBERT'S THING (Cheap Street 1982, no ISBN) %W Christianity in Europe was divided into northern and southern churches. %S A prince of Poland and a metropolitan of the Northern Church strive to reach Lodz to prevent the assassination of the northern Archpatriarch. Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING: A NOVEL (St. Martin's/Marek 1984, 0312243693; Tor 1985, 0812590732, 0812590740) %W Hitler died in 1913 while still a starving artist. %S A woman is mystified by a strange book entitled the TIME-LIFE HISTORY OF WW2 and by her grandmother's murder of an obscure Viennese artist. Zebrowski, George, "The Cliometricon", in _Amazing Stories_ May 1975; ; and THE MONADIC UNIVERSE (Ace 1977, 044153540?) %S A machine lets historians study AHs, with looks at D-Day and Thermopylae. -----------------, "The Number of the Sand", in _Amazing Stories_ Aug 1991; and %S A cliometrician examines the possible lives of Hannibal and their effect on the 2nd Punic War. -----------------, "Let Time Shape", in _Amazing Stories_ Mar 1992; and %S Examines the possibilities of Columbus finding the Americas populated by the techonologically sophisticated descendants of refugees from Carthage. Zebrowski, George, "The Eichmann Variations", in LIGHT YEARS AND DARK: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF AND FOR OUR TIME (ed. Michael Bishop) (Berkley 1984, 0425072142); and NEBULA AWARDS 20: SFWA'S CHOICE FOR THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR 1984 (ed. George Zebrowski) (HBJ 1985, 0151649278, 0156654776) %W WW2 ended with Japan surrendering after the Allies dropped nuclear weapons on Germany in 1946. %S Adolf Eichmann, captured by the Israelis in 1961, is executed 6e6 times. %C Nominee: 1984 Nebula for best short story. Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in _Amazing Stories_ Mar 1990; and %W Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate. %S Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion. Zebrowski, George, STRANGER SUNS (Bantam 1991, 0553291750); rev. of "Stranger Suns", serial in _Amazing Stories_ Jan & Mar 1991 %S An alien ship found in Antarctica includes portals to alternate Earths, but those who explore them can never return to their home lines. Zelazny, Roger, "The Game of Blood and Dust", in _Galaxy_ Apr 1975; THE BEST FROM GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed. Jim Baen) (Award 1976); SCIENCE FICTION: CONTEMPORARY MYTHOLOGY (eds. Patricia Warrick, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander) (Harper & Row 1978); GALAXY: THE BEST OF MY YEARS (ed. Jim Baen) (Ace 1980); and THE LAST DEFENDER OF CAMELOT (Pocket 1980; Underwood/Miller 1981; Avon 1988) %S Two aliens play at changing events in our past to compete in achieving their individual goals (success or failure for humanity). Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS (Ballantine 1979, 0345285301; Ballantine 1994, 0345345150) %S On a strange road that reaches from past to future, a man fights assassins and attempts to prevent a Greek defeat at Marathon. Ziegler, Thomas, DIE STIMMEN DER NACHT (Ullstein 1984; Heyne 1993, 3453066286); rev. of "Die Stimmen der Nacht", in PHANTASTISCHE LITERATUR 83 (ed. Michael Goerden) (Bastei-Lubbe 1983) %W FDR didn't die in 1945, and it required use of the bomb on Berlin to force a German surrender. %S Refugees from the agrarian German state dominate S America and cause a nuclear war in 1984.