From rec.arts.sf.written Wed Jan 13 13:43:14 1993 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Path: lysator.liu.se!isy!liuida!sunic!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!spacsun.rice.edu!schmunk From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (0/5) Message-ID: Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:46:08 GMT Lines: 82 The following 5 postings comprise the 13th posting of the Alternate History List. It includes 772 published English-language stories and books, plus 7 whose publication is expected. A major restructuring of the list has been made since last posting. The division into vanilla alternate history, crosstime tales and change-the-past stories has been dropped. Also included is an appendix listing 88 Alternate Histories in non-English languages. This appendix is an experiment and will be included in future postings only if there is favorable feedback, and hopefully contributions. Added to the English-language list or published since last posting were: Aiken's DIDO AND PA Aldiss' "What You Get for Your Dollar" KJ Anderson's "Music Played on the Strings of Time" Attanasio's IN OTHER WORLDS Bohme et al's "Alternatives in Science" Borden & Graham's essays Bova's TRIUMPH (prev listed as APRIL 1945) Bowes' WARCHILD and GOBLIN MARKET Capek's "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism" Chamberlin's THE IFS OF HISTORY Demandt's HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED Di Filippo's "Mairzy Doats" Dick's THE CRACK IN SPACE Disraeli's "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened" Drake's FORTRESS Erickson's TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK Farren's NECROM Ferguson's "The Monroe Doctrine" Fleming's OPERATION SEA LION Flynn's IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND Friesner's "Jane's Fighting Ships" Gluckman & Guthridge's THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT Hamilton's "What If--?" Jackson's VALLEY MEN Jacobson's THE GOD-FEARER Jeschke's THE LAST DAY OF CREATION Koning's "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur" Levine's WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? Livy's AB URBE CONDITA Lupoff's "At Vega's Taqueria" Milan's WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS Murrin's "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual Speculations" Pierce's "On the Edge" Pignotti's THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY Reilly's "What If? Short By a Nose" Rutman's CLASH OF EAGLES Smith's BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR and TAFLAK LYSANDRA Toynbee's "If Alexander the Great had Lived On" Toynbee's "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On" Turtledove's "Down in the Bottomlands" Vanauken's "The World After the South Won" Waldron's "If Lincoln had Yielded" Wodhams' "Try Again" Womack's ELVISSEY Deleted were: Bisson's TALKING MAN Bretnor's "Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and All" Cook's A MATTER OF TIME Dick's "Jon's World" Nolan's "Death Double" Dozois and Dann's "Playing the Game" Heinlein's THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST and THE CAT WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS Reed's DOWN THE BRIGHT WAY Stevens' HEADS OF CERBERUS Thanks to Alan Beale, Thomas Cron, Beth Friedman, Evelyn Leeper, Andreas Morlok and Harry Turtledove for recent contributions. Enjoy, rbs -- Robert B. Schmunk SPAC, Rice Univ, Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [He] turned back to the window and the opaque Houston sky. "You know, there isn't anything wrong with this town that a couple of really good hurricanes couldn't fix." --Peter Gent, THE FRANCHISE From rec.arts.sf.written Wed Jan 13 13:43:20 1993 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Path: lysator.liu.se!isy!liuida!sunic!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!spacsun.rice.edu!schmunk From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (1/5) (850 lines) Message-ID: Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:47:18 GMT Lines: 857 THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST Version 13 - 12 Jan 1993 Maintained by R.B. Schmunk InterNet: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu USPS: 1648 W Alabama #4, Houston, TX 77006 "...I've come to the conclusion that the stupidest words in the language are 'What if?'" --'William Faulkner', in William Sanders' THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY "What's past is past...and cannot be changed." --'Robert E. Lee', in Harry Turtledove's THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH This is an annotated list of stories involving Alternate Histories (aka What- Ifs, Allohistory or Counterfactuals), stories in which a past event has been altered and its effect on later history described. The list is occasionally posted to the UseNet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written and most of its contents were contributed by readers of that newsgroup. Much has been extracted from: Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}; Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS {George Prior/G.K. Hall 78}; -----------------, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS 1977- 1983 {G.K. Hall 84}. Alternate history (abbrev. "AH" below) criteria are generally the same as in: Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}. Thus, alterations affect more than fictional individuals, and the story is not secret history, does not rely on events entirely futureward of when the author wrote the story, etc. Submissions for new entries are always appreciated, as are corrections to the old. Entries have been separated into three categories: Anthologies -- collections of genre short stories and/or essays, each of which is also listed separately; Alternate Histories -- what-if stories, essays and novels; Reference Materials -- discussions of the genre and/or specific stories. In the entries, please note that: The notation "W:" beginning a description stands for "What if:", and that line describes the divergence of that AH from ours. An "S:" means "Story:", and that line describes the plot. A "C:" indicates "Comments:". If none of these is present, "C:" or "S:" is assumed. If an author's name is replaced by dashes, the entry is a sequel to or in the same series as the preceding entry. If replaced by dashes within arrows, it is part of a series collected within the previous book entry. Double arrows indicate inclusion in a book collected within an omnibus volume. If you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the author to see if it was retitled or included in a larger work. References to anthologies containing a short story include an editor's name only if different from the author of the story. Not all of the available publication data about the entries is presented here, and in some cases the list of books in which a story appears has been limited. Where the latter occurs, "etc" appears at the end of the book list. If you need more publication info about a story, drop me a line at the address above. Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are: <#AW> = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds Wollheim [& Saha]) {DAW #} = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86} = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92} = ALTERNATIVES (eds Adams & Adams) {Baen 89} = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92} = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed Resnick) {Tor 93} = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds Adams et al) {NAL/Signet 87} = BEYOND TIME (ed Ley) {Pocket 76} = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed McSherry) {Baen 91} = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds Asimov & Greenberg) {DAW 86, 88-91} = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Garland 86; Berkley 87} = [Isaac] Asimov's Science Fiction [Magazine] = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed Snowman) {Rowman & Littlefield 79} = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, ver X (ed Squire); ver A {Longmans, Green 31}; ver B as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {rev Viking 31; Kennikat 64}; ver C {exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74} = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Borden & Graham) {Heath 77} = WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed Levine) {M.E. Sharpe 92} = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed Polsby) {Lewis 82} = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed Silverberg) {Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74} = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Bantam 89-92} = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois) {Blue Jay 85; St. Martin's 87-92} This list would not have been possible without the generous and continuing help of Evelyn C. Leeper. Significant contributions were also made by Will Linden and Duncan MacGregor. Many thanks to them and the numerous readers of rec.arts.sf.written who have made submissions. And now, the list: Anthologies: Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ALTERNATIVES {Baen 89} New stories by JF Carr & RJ Green, RJ Green, Shwartz, LN Smith and Turtledove. Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS {NAL/Signet 87} Reprints of by Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven and Piper. Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II {Garland 86; Berkley 87} 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 89} New stories by P Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow, Niven, Pohl, Robinson, Silverberg and Turtledove. ---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 2: ALTERNATE HEROES {Bantam 90} New stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis by Cassutt, Finch, Harrison & Shippey, Laidlaw, Malzberg, Morrow, Rucker & Di Filippo, Shwartz, Silverberg, Tarr, Turtledove, WJ Williams and Zebrowski. ---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 3: ALTERNATE WARS {Bantam 91} New stories and a reprint exploring results of battles/wars by P Anderson, Busby, Benford, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M Resnick, Steele, Turtledove and Zebrowski. ---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME 4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS {Bantam 92} Semi-new stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus' 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 77} Twelve essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham. Chamberlin, J.E., THE IFS OF HISTORY {Atheneum 08} 22 short essays. Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY {George Newnes 29} Nineteen essays. Levine, Herbert M. (ed), WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? {M.E. Sharpe 92} Essays on the effect of different US political structures (with minimal historical development) by Cohen, Esberey, Ferrell, Gentry, Jeansonne, Levine and Pitney. Ley, Sandra (ed), BEYOND TIME {Pocket 76} New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J Coulson, R Coulson, Davidson, Eklund, AD Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O Ley, W Moore, Orgill, Percy, D Thompson and Zebrowski. Polsby, Nelson W. (ed), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION {Lewis 82} Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, CO Jones, RA Kagan, Long, Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury, Wildavsky and PM Williams. Resnick, Mike (ed), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS {Tor 92} New stories. AH entries by Aronson, Cadigan, Effinger, Friesner, Gerrold, Katze, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, L Resnick, M Resnick, Rusch, Soukup, Tarr and Von Rospach. ------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS {Tor 92} New stories involving American elections by Cadigan, J Carr, Chalker, G Cox, Delaplace, Easton, Fawcett, Gerrold, Gilliland, Gunn, King, Kube- McDowell, Malzberg, Nimersheim, Nye, Person, L Resnick, M Resnick, R Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz, Thomsen and Watt-Evans. ------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS {Tor 93, not yet published} New stories. Silverberg, Robert (ed), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION {Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74} Reprints of P Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster and Niven. Snowman, Daniel (ed), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES {Rowman & Littlefield 79} Corrections of decisions by 10 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 31; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74}; rev as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {Viking 31; Kennikat 64} The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher, Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev ed swaps Knox for Van Loon. Exp ed adds Petrie and Trevelyan. Waugh, Charles, G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES: ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN {Garland 86} Reprints and new stories by P Anderson, Benet, IE Cox, de Camp, Elgin, Hale, Lafferty, Piper, K Roberts, Robinson and Utley & Waldrop. Reference material by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain. Alternate Histories: Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME {Donning 79; Signet 82} 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 85} The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the high seas and to Ireland. -------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS {Signet 86} -------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS {Signet 87} -------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS {Signet 88} S: Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE {Cape 62; Doubleday 63; Hutchinson 75; Dell 81} 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 64; Cape 65; Dell 69} Hanoverians plot against James III. -----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET {Doubleday 66; Dell 69} A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at St. James' Palace. -----------, THE STOLEN LAKE {Cape 81; Delacorte 81} A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is discovered in the Andes. -----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN {Doubleday 69} The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure. -----------, THE CUCKOO TREE {Cape 71; Doubleday 71} Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV. -----------, DIDO AND PA {Delacorte 86} Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV. Aksyonov, Vassily, + Michael Henry Heim (tr), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA {Random House 83; Vintage 84}; orig OSTROV KRYM 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 76} W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids. S: Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct 62, THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS {Faber 66; Gregg 81}, NEANDERTHAL PLANET {Avon 69, xx}, THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed Boardman), etc In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans. Aldiss, Brian W., "What You Get for Your Dollar", in THE NEW IMPROVED SUN (ed Disch) {Harper & Row 75; Hutchinson 76} 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 our world, beset by an energy crisis, visits the utopian Sinai of another and describes its history. Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY {Franklin Watts 87; St. Martin's 88} 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. C: 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. Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION {Cape 76; Viking 76; Panther 78} W: Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king 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. Anderson, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in Analog Jan 93 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. Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX {Bantam 91} 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 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME {Ballantine 60; exp Pinnacle 81}, , , , THE TIME PATROL {Tor 91}, etc 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 90} 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 TIME PATROL {Tor 91} and elsewhere. Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed Ellison) {Doubleday 67; NAL 75}; PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT (eds Wolf & Fitz Gerald) {Fawcett 73} and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS {Berkley 81} 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, "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 74; Ballantine 75, Orbit/ Futura 75} 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. Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS {Doubleday 71; Lancer xx; Berkley 78; Baen xx}; rev of stories in Sep 56, Jan 57, Oct 59 and May-Jun 69 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 61; Avon xx; Berkley 78; Ace 84} 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. Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70 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. Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG {Harrap 43} W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940. S: How the invasion was defeated. 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 81}; rev of "The End of Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS {Doubleday 86; NAL/Roc xx} W: Enrico Fermi had not become involved in atomic research. S: A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a forthcoming history remake, never have existed. 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 78, 3 BY ASIMOV {Targ 81} and THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES {Doubleday 83} 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 {Doubleday 57, Abelard-Schuman 76}, , VALENCE AND VISION (eds Jones & Roe) {Rinehart 74}, THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH {Doubleday 79}, etc 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 84; Bantam 85} W: WW1 led to a world gov't. S: Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in Nov 92 and W: North 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 was Israeli PM in early 1977 and while visiting Romania was advised of Anwar Sadat's peace plans. C: Peace talks between Sadat and Rabin include King Hussein of Jordan, leading to an agreement that includes the West Bank, but not the PLO. Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in New Worlds Jun 64, THE BEST OF NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Compact 65}, SF12 (ed Merrill) {Delacorte 68}, THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Panther 74} and W: Hitler did not invade Russia. S: Life in occupied London, 1954. Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE {Tor 91} A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where an immortal elven queen rules in France. Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS {DAW 80} >------------<, + Bernard Kay (tr), BAPHOMET'S METEOR {DAW 72}; orig L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET 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. >------------<, + C.J. Cherryh (tr), STELLAR CRUSADE {only Engl.-language publ. is in omnibus volume}; orig CROISADE STELLAIRE S: Outer-space sequel to the above. Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S SILENCE {Heinemann 25; Doubleday 25; Books for Libraries 70}, MAURICE BARING RESTORED {Heinemann 70; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 70} and TRAVELERS IN TIME (ed Stern) {Doubleday 47} 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 Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME {Lancer 71} 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 Basil, Otto, + Thomas Weyr (tr, abr), TWILIGHT MAN {Meredith 68}; orig. WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSST W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London. S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle. Bear, Greg, EON {Bluejay 85} ----------, ETERNITY {Warner 88} A strange artifact comes back in time from the future, only it's a different future. Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular Library 79}, <79AW> and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN {Arkham House 83} 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 Pournelle & Carr) 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 Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in 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 Oct 35; THIRTEEN O'CLOCK {Farrar & Rinehart 71; Books for Libraries 71; Franklin Library 82}; MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed Stern) {Doubleday 42} (aka GREAT TALES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION {Pocket 54}); ; etc 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 91 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 80; Pocket 81; Bantam 92}; rev of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH (eds Silverberg & Elwood) {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77} A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as he tries to gain tenure. Mentions the Kennedy wiretapping scandal. Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in 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 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 78; Ace 79} 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 88} 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 have been changed. Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO {Ace 86} C: Non-AH 1st volume of series 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. -------------------, THE A.I. WAR -------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT S: Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AW>; orig "Tijdstorm" A man caught in timestorm discovers humanoid aliens tinkering with the human past, encouraging the spread of war. Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in Oct 58, THE DARK SIDE OF THE EARTH {Signet 64}, COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed Haldeman) {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 74}, THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds Silverberg & Greenberg) {Arbor House 83}, THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Hartwell) {Little, Brown 89}, etc 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. Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON {Harcourt 64} 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, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE and 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 87; Tor 89} 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 88} 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 Jan 54, BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed Dikty) {Fredrick Fell 55}, SPACE BY THE TAIL {Ballantine 64} 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. C: A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a right-wing takeover. Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in Fantastic Aug 60 S: Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr), "Alternatives in Science", in Internat'l Journal for Sociology 8; orig "Alternativen in der Wissenschaft" C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at the beginning of the scientific revolution. Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?", in W: Montcalm defeated Wolfe to end the French and Indian War. C: Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?", in W: C: Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?", in W: The Constitution was rejected. C: Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in W: The House of Representatives named Burr president rather than Jefferson when breaking the Electoral College tie. C: 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. C: Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in W: Zachary Taylor lived longer, causing the COmpromise of 1850 to fail and the Civil War to start a decade earlier. C: Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH {Tor 93} W: Churchill arranged for Stalin's assassination, and the Nazis won WW2. S: Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD {Warner 86} --------------, GOBLIN MARKET {Warner 88} Crosstime stories in worlds of a French Canada and a stalemated WW2. Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH {Berkley 69; Penguin 78} 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 ARCHITECT OF SLEEP {Ace 86} 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 oversize racoons. Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN {Doubleday 53}, R IS FOR ROCKET {Doubleday 62; Bantam 65}, THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY {Knopf 80}, CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN DRAFT (eds Asimov et al) {Farrar, Straus & Giroux 83}, , etc 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 result shown is futureward (?) of the writing. Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR {DC Comics 91} 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 86, THE RIVER OF TIME {Bantam 87} and 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. Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE {Dutton 49; Bantam 50] A pulp editor finds himself in a parallel universe which match the stories his magazine has been publishing. Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER {Ace 69; Ballantine 83}; exp of "Times Without Number", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 62}; rev of stories in Science Fiction Adventures Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62 W: The Armada conquered England. S: 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time- travel. Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor 91} 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. Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe, but that doesn't solve his problems. Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 81} 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 73} 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 81 -----------, "Wrong Number", in 21 Dec 81 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, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55 Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam. Byrne, Eugene: see Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL {HBJ 77; Dell 77} 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 91, and W: 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in the 68 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 1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago. Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in W: Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice ended up going into 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. Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in W: Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be executed. C: How it might have happened, but without much further development. Capek, Karel, + Dora Round (tr), "Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in APROCRYPHAL STORIES {Penguin 75}; orig "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi" S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom. Card, Orson Scott, SEVENTH SON {Tor 87}; exp of "Hatrack River", in Aug 86, and TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed Carr) {Tor 87} 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. -----------------, RED PROPHET {Tor 88} Captured by Red men, young Alvin Maker and his brother become involved with Tecumseh, the Prophet and a different massacre at Tippecanoe. -----------------, PRENTICE ALVIN {Tor 89}; rev of "Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A MIRROR {Tor 90} Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White "mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee. 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 85 W: What if there were no Manhattan project, and Stevenson won the election of '52. C: How to change history so that Asimov's "Trends" (Astounding Jul 39) came true. Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 (ed Del Rey) {Ballantine 81} 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. 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. Chadbourne, Billie Niles: see Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne Chalker, Jack L., AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER {Ballantine 79} A man and woman gather jewel-like devices from 5 alternate Earths to cancel an experiment that caused an asteroid to move toward their Earth. Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in Jul 78, <79AW>, ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 78} (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and DANCE BAND ON THE TITANIC Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of Maine and Nova Scotia. Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE {Tor 85} A security officer has to prevent the killing of Karl Marx by a terrorist and gets drafted in a crosstime war. 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 commence in New England. Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY {DAW 85} A mental time traveler causes Ned Kelly to escape police capture in 1880 and eventually become president of an Irish-dominated Australia. Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management", in Analog 5 Jan 81 ------------, "A Second Chance", in Analog 9 Nov 81 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. Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR {Coward-McCann 69} 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 and THE COMMON MAN {Sheed & Ward 50} 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 90, and NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow) {HBJ 92} 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. 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 76} W: Teddy Roosevelt was assassinated. S: Christopher, John, FIREBALL {Dutton 81; Tempo 84} Two boys are caught in a strange ball of fire, to emerge in ancient Roman times and help Christians overthrow the Roman Empire. -----------------, NEW FOUND LAND {Dutton 83} The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers and Aztecs. -----------------, DRAGON DANCE {Dutton 86} The boys travel on to California. Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in Scribner's Dec 30, and 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 75} W: Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire. S: A man finds himself in another world when a nuclear airplane experiment goes awry. Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED {Morrow 69}; as THE LAST DAY OF THE OLD WORLD {Cape 69} 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 62} W: S: Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Judicial Review?", in W: C: Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Written Constitution and Bill of Rights?", in W: The US had an unwritten constitution, much like Britain's. C: An essay on how the US gov't would be more authoritarian, with minority opinions having less weight and no judicial review. Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66 and THE TRAPS OF TIME (ed Moorcock) {Rapp & Whiting 68} W: Napoleon won at Waterloo. S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French empire. 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 W: S: Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN {HBJ 83} 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 Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX {NAL/Roc 90} 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 {NAL/Roc 91} 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 {NAL/Roc 92} More time-war action, involving Pearl Harbor. Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in 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. Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in Dec 91 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. 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 54, Fantastic Jan 60 and 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 74; Presidio 77} W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Sealowe, 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. Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY {Doubleday 90} and 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. Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds Lansdale & LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90} W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle. S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army. C: Borderline AH-secret history. Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36 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. Daniels, Tony, "The Careful Man Goes West", in Jul 92 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. 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 (eds Pournelle & Baen) {Baen 85} and 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. de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, GUN FOR DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES {Doubleday 63}, , MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) {St. Martin's 92, 93}, etc 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 49; Pyramid 63; Ballantine 74; Ballantine 83}; exp of "Lest Darkness Fall", in Unknown Dec 39 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 Jan 92 and W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as 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 40, THE WHEELS OF IF {Shasta 48}, and Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90} 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". From rec.arts.sf.written Wed Jan 13 13:43:26 1993 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Path: lysator.liu.se!isy!liuida!sunic!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!spacsun.rice.edu!schmunk From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (2/5) (850 lines) Message-ID: Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:47:54 GMT Lines: 855 Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in May 72 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. deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in Sep 64 and S: Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 {Cape 78; G.K. Hall 79; Knopf 79; Ballantine 80; Curley 92} 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. Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66} Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States. 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. Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians", in Christian Century 7-14 Jan 76 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 26} W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages. S: Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in Jul 92 W: After his brother was killed by Unionists in 1861, Sam Clemens decided to remain in Missouri rather than move west to Nevada. S: Joining Quantrill's raiders just in time for the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, Clemens begins to wonder about the mess he's gotten into. Denton, Bradley, WRACK & ROLL {Popular Library 86, 0-445-20306-4} W: Roosevelt choked on a chicken bone in 1933, and Patton rolled into Russia after the fall of Germany. S: NASA is destroyed by fans after a 1967 lunar disaster kills a rock star. In 1979, her daughter goes on tour. Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time", in THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed Wolfe) {Citadel 91} In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help. Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator ...", in W: As the title says. C: The "witch-hunts" might not have occurred and opposition to Communism might not have acquired so many anti-intellectual overtones. Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in Science Fiction Age Nov 92 W: Anne Frank was sent to America in 1939 S: Anne Frank goes to Hollywood and replaces Judy Garland (who died in a car crash) in THE WIZARD OF OZ Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in Feb 91 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, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92 S: Di Filippo: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE {Ace 66} 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. Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE {Putnam's 62; Penguin 65; Berkley 74; Gollancz 75; Gregg 79; Vintage 92} W: Before his 1933 inaugural, 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. Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH {Arbor House 85; Avon 87} W: S: Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER {Pantheon 76; G.K. Hall 76; Hodder & Stoughton 76; Avon 77} ----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING {Bodley Head 89; Pantheon 89; Thorndike 90} W: Edward Duke of Clarence did not die in 1887 and became king of England in 1910 rather than his brother George. S: Princess Louise (b. 1963) discovers some skeletons in the (royal) family closet and must solve some mysteries. Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS W: The Nazis conquered Britain. S: A Dr. Who crosstime adventure. Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened", in CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (ed B Disraeli) {Moxon 1849; Routledge, Warne & Routledge 1863; William Veazie 1864} Essay on possible alternatives in history, but without much development. d'Ormesson, Jean, + Barbara Bray (tr), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE {Knopf 74}; orig LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE W: Eurasia was united under a single empire. S: Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR {New English Library 79; St. Martin's 80} 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. Drake, David, FORTRESS {Tor 87, 88} W: JFK escaped assassination and gave further impetus to the US space program. S: Outer space saga in 1985. Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in Oct 92 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. Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY {F. Watts 87} 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. 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. 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 81} 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 An African-American physicist decides to use his time machine to alter a Civil War different from the one we remember. Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY {Axolotl 90} 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 73; Dell 76}; exp of "The City on the Sand", in Apr 73, and "Relatives", in BAD MOON RISING (ed Disch) {Harper & Row 73} One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in which Germany won WW1. Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AW>, and NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed Bishop) {Arbor House 88} An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist. Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory). Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed Silverberg) {Harper & Row 76} and 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 79} A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed. Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE {DAW 74} 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' 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 81 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 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 {Harlequin 75} A man from 2169 joins the Time Service and finds out that part of the job involves re-writing history; e.g., Washington's defeat on Long Island. Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", 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. Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH {Simon & Schuster 73} 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 89; Avon 89} W: The Nazis won WW2. S: Esberey, Joy E., "What If There Were a Parliamentary System?", in W: The US adopted a parliamentary form of government after the revolution. C: Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in Aug 80 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 52, , THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79}, A TREASURY OF MODERN FANTASY (eds Carr & Greenberg) {Avon 81}, , etc W: The world were 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 79}; rev of THE GATE OF TIME {Belmont 70} American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is still at war. Farren, Mick, NECROM {Ballantine 91, 0-345-36185-7} 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. Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, ANALOG 1 (ed Campbell) {Doubleday 63}, TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) {Fawcett 74}; POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (eds Greenberg & Warrick) {Prentice-Hall 74}, and 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 90}; exp of "The World Next Door", Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr) W: Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s. S: In up-state NY, 1980s 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 (eds Clute et al) {J.M. Dent 85; St Martin's 85} 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 W: The Constitution of 1787 were rejected, but after civil unrest, a more centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797. C: Description of a 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 Feb 92 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 85} 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 Nov 89 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 Einstein frets about whether he's wasted his life as a violin teacher. Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace", in W: Rudolf Hess' 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 68}; rev of "The Other Wife" (aka "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60 and ABOUT TIME {Simon & Schuster 86}; incl. in THREE BY FINNEY, etc Adventures in various timelines with minor differences. Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in Scribner's Jan 31, and PAGES FROM THE PAST {Clarendon 39; Books for Libraries 69} 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 ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES {Simon & Schuster 57; Ace xx; Greenwood 77}; as INVASION 1940: AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES {Hart-Davis 57; Pan 75} W: Germany occupied England in 1940 *or* made no invasion preparations at all. C: Mostly background material but chapter 20 discusses events which could not have occurred if either supposition were true. Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in Analog Jun 87 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., IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND {Baen 90} W: Babbage perfected the Difference Engine. S: A secret society uses the machine to rule the world. C: Borderline secret history. Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in Analog Mar 89 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 83; Avon 85} 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. Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) 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 80 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 80 and 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 Oct 81 An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2. Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in London Daily Mail xxx, Saturday Evening Post 16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE {Little Brown 70; Joseph 71; Pinnacle 76} W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40. S: Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS, 3-issue comic book series {Caliber Comics 90} W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church. S: Adventures of League of Nation operatives in the 20th century. Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... {Ballantine 77} W: Poland became an important player on the world stage, capable of putting down Hitler in 6 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 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 86} ---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT {Ballantine 89} ---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR {Ballantine 89} ---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD {Ballantine 89} ---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY {Ballantine 90} An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to defeat the coming Mongol invasion. Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)", in W: Nazi Germany developed atomic bombs by early 1944, dropping them on London and Leningrad in May. C: Speculation on the bombing and its consequences, delaying Normandy only a bit and still resulting in the defeat of the 3rd Reich. Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD {NAL/Signet 88} 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 S: Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in Jan 92 and W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus' voyage of discovery was instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant. S: As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus' 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. Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55 and TAKEOFF! {Donning 80} W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study. S: Newton writes the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA. Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY {Doubleday/SFBC 83} W: Richard Couer de Lion survived Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo- French kingdom to nephew Arthur. Also, magic was codified c. 1300. >--------------<, MURDER AND MAGIC {Ace 79} >>------------<<, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64, RULERS OF MEN (ed Santesson) {Pocket 65} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82} A lecherous count is killed and the best clue pointing to the perpetrator is the last thing the murdered man saw. >>------------<<, "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64 and ANALOG 4 (ed Campbell) {Doubleday 66} The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks just like him is found dead near its harbor. >>------------<<, "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL WONDER (ed McComas) {Random House 70} Just after the death of the Duke of Kent, his coffin is found occupied by the body of the Chief Investigator for the Duchy. >>------------<<, "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE (ed Dickinsheet) {Doubleday 73} A book publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day. >--------------<, TOO MANY MAGICIANS {Doubleday 67; Gregg 78, Ace xx}; serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66 Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a sorcerers' convention in London. >--------------<, LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES {Ace 81} >>------------<<, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed Lore) {Davis/Dial 83} A materialist count is killed when he is flung out of a window in his laboratory. >>------------<<, "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76 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 76 and 13 CRIMES OF SCIENCE FICTION (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 79} 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 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 79} 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 78; ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed Jordan) {Davis/Dial 82} A drink of 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 Bretnor) {Ace 79} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82} 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. Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee", in Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence of Henry Ford. Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 54} W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still rule. S: Gentry, Judith F., "What If the 1787 Constitution Had Provided for Equal Rights?", in W: C: 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 6 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 73; Faber 73; Popular Library 74; Aeonian 76; Bantam 91} S: Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 81; Zebra 81}; BURNING CHROME {Arbor House 86; Ace 87} and MIRRORSHADES (ed Sterling) {Arbor House 86; Ace 88} A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport, etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF. Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 91} 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. 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 71 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. Gluckman & Guthridge, THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT {St. Martins} W: The Nazis establish a Jewish homeland on Madagascar. S: Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 91} 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. Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in Aug 70 and LAUGHING SPACE (ed Asimov & Jeppson) {Houghton Mifflin 82} W: The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay. S: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company. 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 77; Sphere 79} W: King Antonio defeated the Portugese 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 (eds Asimov et al) {Taplinger 80; DAW 92} 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 85} 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 Pournelle & Carr) 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.: see also Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green Griffin, Peni, "Books", in Nov 91 A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers. Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS {Hill & Wang 80} W: The Allies 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 86; Thorndike 86; Berkley 88; Ace 92} At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and again and again. Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in 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 91 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. Guthridge: see Gluckman & Guthridge Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II {T-K Graphics 73}, collected from 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. Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS {Doubleday 71} W: S: Alternate events in Judaic history. Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 90; Avon 91}; exp of "The Hemingway Hoax", in Apr 90, and NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow) {HBJ 92} A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector and awakes as another timeline's version of himself. Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in Omni Apr 79, THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE FICTION (ed Bova) {Omni 80} and DEALING IN FUTURES {Viking 85} 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}; ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE BEST FANTASY OF THE 19TH CENTURY (eds Asimov et al) {Beufort 82}; ; etc 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 64} 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. Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS {Avon 90} 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 May 85 S: Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN {Ace 90} 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 the her son Kaisarion. He awakes in a slightly altered present. Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND {Random House 92; Thorndike 92} 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 conspiracy. Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME {Tor 83} 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 Silverberg & Elwood) {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}, CATASTROPHES (eds Asimov et al) {Fawcett 81} and TIME WARS (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86} A man from our world aids others in timelines where the sun is about to go nova, including one where Europe is feudal and the Iriquois run N America. Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber 72; New English Library 76; Berkley 74; Tor 81}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 72, Berkley 72}; serial in Analog Apr-Jun 72 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 entry for Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds". Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN {Bantam 84} ---------------, WINTER IN EDEN {Bantam 86} ---------------, RETURN TO EDEN {Bantam 88, 89} W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence. S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans. Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed Silverberg) {Doubleday 71; Avon 73}, BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR (1971) (ed Del Rey) {Dutton 72}; and THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON {Signet 76} 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, "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. Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE {Ballantine 84} A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity has it in for them. Henry, O., "Roads of Destiny", in ROADS OF DESTINY {Doubleday, Doran 09; Doubleday, Page 17} and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF O. HENRY {Doubleday 53} S: Three possible futures for a French shepherd/poet who comes to a crossroads. C: Not really AH since all characters are fictional, but an early statement of the theme of alternate choices leading to alternate futures. Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS {Knopf 65; Bantam 66; Vintage 90} 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. Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in Weird Tales Winter 91/92 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 85} 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 to stiffen Britain's spine and promote US atomic weapons research. Unfortunately it's not their own past. Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS {Morrow 82} 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. Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE {Panther 77; Ace 82} 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. -------------, THROUGH THE EYE OF TIME {Panther 77; Ace 82} S: -------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN {Panther 78; Ace 82} S: Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53} and ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed Conklin) {Grayson 55} A man from a future in which Germany won WW2 comes back onto a flight that had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost. Ing, Dean: see Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing Iverson, Eric G.: see Turtledove, Harry Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in Aug 87 and An art critic of Shadow worlds is haunted by marital trouble and assassins as he visits various worlds. Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION OF 1807 {Tickner & Fields 83} W: The American expedition to explore the Arkansas River was not canceled. S: Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST SEASON" {Crown 83} S: Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER {Bloomsbury 92} Literary fantasy about a Europe where Christianity is a minor sect. Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME {Paperback Library 70} S: Jeansonne, Glen, "What If There Had Been No Slavery?", in W: African-Americans voluntarily emigrated to America rather than be transported as slaves. C: Various effects on American society, including a shrunken plantation culture in a more industrialized but less cohesive South. Jenkins, Will F.: see Leinster, Murray Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in Amazing Jul 91 W: S: Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside down. Jeschke, Wolfgang, & Gertrud Mander, THE LAST DAY OF CREATION {St. Martin's 82; Century 82}; orig DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG 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, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR, THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 66} C: Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without Watergate? (1973)", in W: As the title says. C: No threat of impeachment and no "search for wrongdoers" occurs in Washington, but little else changes. Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER {Scribner's 76; Warner 77} W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry wiped out on Custer's Hill, above the Little Bighorn. S: Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for disobeying orders and negligence. Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA {Greenwillow 80} W: Guy Fawkes suffered a premature explosion. Also, magic works. S: Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter. ------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT {Greenwillow 88} S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the great mage Chrestomanci. ------------------, CHARMED LIFE {Greenwillow 77; Macmillan 77} S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci. ------------------, WITCH WEEK {Greenwillow 82} S: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for witch- orphans. Jones, Gerard: see Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones 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, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)", in W: Richard Nixon was not forced to withdraw his nomination of Fortas for chief justice of the Supreme Court. C: Scholarly speculation on the effects that a more liberal US Supreme Court would have had. Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR {Bantam 61}; exp of "If the South had Won the Civil War", in Look 22 Nov 60 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' "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. Kazantzakis, Nikos, + P.A. Bien (tr), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST {Simon & Schuster 60}; orig TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS W: Jesus fled his doom. S: Jesus dreams of the possible result. Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC {Ballantine 87} 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 88} 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 87} Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting alternate Earths along the way. 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. Klein, Edward: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in Feb 59, BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 9 (ed Mills) {Doubleday 60} (aka FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AND OTHER STORIES) and OFF CENTER {Gollancz 69; Award/Tandem xx} 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 W: The 1926 British general strike succeeded. S: An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike. Koning, Hans, "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur", in Harper's May 90 Short descriptions of numerous ifs: e.g., delaying the Nazi invasion of Poland to 1941, making William III a heterosexual, etc. Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH {Doubleday 76; Taplinger 77}, , , THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed McSherry) {Baen 90}, etc 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 91 and 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 89} W: Columbus' 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 89} ----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS {Ace 88} C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc. S: More stories about Lord Darcy. Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL {Pyramid 69} Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world. Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR {DAW 75} Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US Constitution. Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 80; Lorevan/ Critic's Choice 85} 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 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 Knight) {Putnam's 70; Berkley 70}, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72} and THE GOLDEN ROAD (ed Knight) {Simon & Schuster 74} A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes' world-map goes sailing and lands on the Africa of our world. Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed Knight) {Putnam's 70; Berkley 71}, CAR SINISTER (eds Silverberg et al) {Avon 79}, RINGING CHANGES {Ace 84}, , etc 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 61, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72}, AGAINST TOMORROW (ed Hoskins) {Fawcett 79}, , etc 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 Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular Library 78} W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different principles. S: A review of some early television programs. Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES {Pinnacle 77} W: 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 67, WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 68 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 68}, NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS {Ace 70}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed Sullivan) {Prentice- Hall 74}, etc 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 89 and 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 89} 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. From rec.arts.sf.written Wed Jan 13 13:43:33 1993 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Path: lysator.liu.se!isy!liuida!sunic!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!spacsun.rice.edu!schmunk From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (3/5) (850 lines) Message-ID: Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk) Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:48:38 GMT Lines: 857 Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89} 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 46 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 48} S: Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM {Ace Double 62; Berkley 77; exp Tor 83}; serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61 Adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German Imperium centered in London, visiting another where Germany won WW1. -------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM {Pinnacle/Tor 81} >-----------<, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME {Berkley 65; Walker 71; Signet 72}; serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun 65 Adventures continue to a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at Brussels in 1814. >-----------<, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE {Berkley 68; Dobson 72} Adventures continue to a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age. -------------, ZONE YELLOW {Tor 90} S: 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. Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN {Scribner's 71; R. Bentley 82} A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist takes advantage of it. 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 19} 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 19} W: Germany won WW1. S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925. Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME {Ace 61; Gregg 76; Collier/Macmillan 91}; serial in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58 At a Snake enclave somewhere outside space and time, a soldier preaches ChangePeace as the enclave maintainer disappears. -------------, "No Great Magic", in Galaxy Dec 63, THE SECRET SONGS {Rupert Hart-Davis 68}, THE CHANGE WAR {Gregg 78}, THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES (eds Pohl et al) {Harper & Row 80} and CHANGEWAR {Ace 83} The Snake vs. Spider battlefield moves to an anachronistic performance of MacBeth before Elizabeth I. -------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in Mar 75; <76AW>; THE WORLDS OF FRITZ LEIBER {Ace 76; Gregg 79}; NEBULA WINNERS ELEVEN (ed Le Guin) {Harper & Row 77; Bantam 78}; THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed Asimov) {Doubleday 85}; THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed Bova) {Tor 89}; etc S: After dining with his son at the Empire State Building, zeppelin designer Adolf Hitler is caught in a whirl of parallel selves. C: Non-AH entries in series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change the Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER). Leiber, Fritz, "Business of Killing", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53} A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business ventures. Leiber, Fritz, "Destiny Times Three", in Astounding Mar 45, FIVE SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS (ed Greenberg) {Gnome 52} and BINARY STAR #1 (ed ?) {Dell 78} In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets them make real all the possible outcomes from various choices. Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Conklin) {Dell 54} and 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 34, SIDEWAYS IN TIME {Shasta 50}, , BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE (ed Asimov) {Doubleday 74}, THE BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER {Ballantine 78; Garland 83} and THE TIME TRAVELERS (eds Silverberg & Greenberg) {Donald I Fine 85} 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 64} 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. Lem, Stanislaw, + Joel Stern & Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek (trs), "The Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER {HBJ 82} Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur. Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Were No Television?", in W: C: Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Had Been No Cold War?", in W: C: Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY {Knopf 51}; incl. in A TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 2 (ed Boucher) {Doubleday 59} 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, MOON OF ICE {Arbor House 88}; exp of "Moon of Ice", in Amazing Mar 82 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. Littell, Robert: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell Livy (Titus Livius) + B.O. Foster (tr), AB URBE CONDITA {Harvard Univ/ Heinemann 26, 48, 57, 63, 75, 82} W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans. S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this work 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 52 and PRIZE SCIENCE FICTION (ed Wollheim) {McBride 53} (aka PRIZE STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME) W: Hitler were killed during an Allied bombing raid. S: Change the past tale. Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in W: Napoleon did not immediately sell Louisiana to the US in 1803. C: Speculation that the British would not have been nearly so generous after the War of 1812, leading to the inclusion of most of N America in Canada. Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN {BBC/Hutchinson 72; Stein & Day 74; Arrow 75} W: Nazi Germany invaded England. S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative essays discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken. C: Originally presented as a BBC TV program. Longyear, Barry, "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM SCHENECTADY 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. Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in 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 Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78} 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' "What if...?" synopses of other AHs. Lupoff, Richard A., "At Vega's Taqueria", in Amazing Sep 90 A mural showing an Aztec wearing a football helmet causes a man to doubt his sanity until he discovers that he is shifting from one timeline to another. Lupoff, Richard A., CIRCUMPOLAR! {Simon & Schuster 84; Berkley 85} W: The Earth were disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center. S: Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side. --------------- A., COUNTERSOLAR! {Arbor House 87; Ace 89} S: Albert Einstein races the Perons to counter-Earth. Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER {Dell 70} W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000. S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon. MacCreigh, James: see Pohl, Frederick MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70 and ANALOG'S LIGHTER SIDE (ed Schmidt) {Davis/Dial 82, 83} --------------, "Meet a Crazy Lady Week", in Analog Aug 70 --------------, "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants", in Analog Apr 71 --------------, "One-Generation New World", in If Mar 71 --------------, "Country of the Mind", in Analog May 75 A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really coherent reason). Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940 {Macmillan 80; Arms & Armour 80} 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. 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., "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 78} S: 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., "In the Stone House", in W: Joe Kennedy 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. Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75, DOWN HERE IN THE DREAM QUARTER {Doubleday 76} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78} 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 85}; exp of "Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed Torgeson) {Doubleday 80} W: S: Freud is murdered by a disappointed patient, only to be reincarnated aboard a spaceship whose crew need analysis. 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. Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy", in Fortnightly Apr 41 W: William IV's heir was male. S: Effect of British retention of Hanover on German reunification and the worlds wars. Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS I {Bantam 87} ------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH {Bantam 87} ------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD {Bantam 87} ------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD {Bantam 88} ------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY {Bantam 88} ------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE {Bantam xx} ------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS {Bantam xx} ------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE {Bantam xx} ------------------------, WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE {Bantam 92} ------------------------, WILD CARDS XIII: CARD SHARKS {not yet published} -------------------, & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND {Bantam xx} 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: Also in series are Snodgrass' WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE and Milan's WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS. Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE FIRE SWORD {Avon 85} 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. ------------------------, THE CRYSTAL SWORD {Avon 88} S: Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW {Lancer 71} Exiles from different N Americas of 1965 meet. Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in W: Napoleon was struck down by appendicitis in Mar 1808. C: The avoidance of invasions of Spain and Russia leads to greater success later, with the US and Russia as nominal French allies. Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in 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 73} 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. 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 Apr 92 W: James Joyce took up another occupation than writing. S: Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he pursued other paths. McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision", in Analog Oct 92 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: Aborigines decide to stop Columbus' expedition to order to save the world from Europeans. Meredith, Richard C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE {Putnam's 73; Berkley 75; Playboy 79} An agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain suppressed American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders. ---------------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND {Doubleday 766; Playboy 79} Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest. ---------------------, VESTIGES OF TIME {Doubleday 78; Playboy 79} And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome. Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! {Ballantine 76} 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 51; Galaxy SF Novel #12 52; Modern Literary Editions xx}; exp of "The House of Many Worlds", in Startling Stories Sep 51 Time guardians intervene in affairs in divergent worlds, including one where Aaron Burr conquered and reshaped the USA. Merwin, Sam, "Three Faces of Time", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 55}; exp of "Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53 Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient Rome. Miesel, Sandra, DREAMRIDER {Ace 82}; as SHAMAN {Baen 89} S: Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS {Bantam 93} C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I. Miller, John J.: see Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in Analog Nov 91 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: The revolutionary and "Communist" movements that have plagued Europe would have been reduced to a few feeble revolts. Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN {Ace 87} 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 84} --------------, NEW BARBARIANS {Ace 86} --------------, CRY REPUBLIC {Ace 89} W: Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth, and Rome was never weakened by Christianity. S: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes Caesar. Mitchell, V.E., "Against the Night", serial in Amazing May-Jun 92 W: S: WW2 in which the secret British plan to create an aircraft carrier out of a piece of the Greenland ice shelf was carried out. Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in Sep 91 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 77} 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 91 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. Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE {Allison & Busby 78; Fontana 78; Avon 79; Warner/Popular Library 86} 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, THE NOMAD OF TIME {Doubleday/SFBC xx} >---------------<, THE WARLORD OF THE AIR {New English Library 71; Ace 71; rev Quartet 78; DAW 78; Granada 81} 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 74; Quartet 74; DAW 76} Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did the world no good. >---------------<, THE STEEL TSAR {DAW 82} 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 xx}; reprints 12-issue comic book series {DC Comics 86-87} 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 53; Ballantine 53; Avon 72}; exp of "Bring the Jubilee", in Nov 52 and 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. Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES {Bantam 88} In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out to prevent the nuclear war of 2007. 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. Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in If Feb 66 W: Napoleon used balloons to invade England. S: Foiling the invasion. Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in and <90AW> 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 Jul 91 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 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. Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON: A NOVEL {Simon & Schuster 75; Macmillan 75} W: Hitler attacked the Soviet Union immediately instead of toying with Greece and Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, Japan attacked Vladivostok. S: A young officer and a maverick bishop get involved in a last-ditch attempt to topple Hitler. Murphy, Walter F., "What if Peter had been Pope During World War II?", in W: God re-ran history, with Pope Pius XII changed to have St. Peter's moral fiber. C: The Oct 1943 roundup of Roman Jews leads the Pope to criticize the 3rd Reich and Great Britain, and the Nazis attack the Vatican. Murrin, John M., "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual Speculations", in Reviews in American History Jun 83 W: Three men who powered the American Great Awakening did not do so. C: Scholarly rgument that minus the evangelical movement, the revolution would still occur and independence probably gained, but no Civil War. Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE {McGraw-Hill 69; McGraw- Hill 86; Vintage 90} W: S: National Lampoon, editors of, "Grand Fifth Term Inaugural Issue: JFK's First 6,000 Days", in Nat'l Lampoon Feb 77 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, BLAKE'S PROGRESS {Laser 75} 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 HAD WON GETTYSBURG {Reliance 80} W: The CSA won the battle. S: Details of how Lee could have won the battle. Final chapter speculates on possible historical impact. Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone 23 and W: H.G. Wells' book THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was not fiction. S: A Martian gets a job in Hollywood. Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in Aboriginal Jul/Aug 91 W: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, but was assassinated at a labor strike before the inauguration. S: The US gov't takes harsher actions against labor organizers, etc, thereby provoking a revolution. Meanwhile, Mexico retakes much of Texas. Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE WANDERING JEW (ed Stableford) {Daedalus 91} W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, creating a world in which Jews gained the power Christians had in our world. S: In the year 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew is present at the great battle pitting the Jews against the Muslims and Zoroastrians. Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in 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 i