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An annotated bibliography of novels, stories, essays and other material involving the 'what ifs' of history.
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Uchronia: The Alternate History List What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation 8212;T.S. Eliot Turtledove. End of the Beginning Cronin. In the Morning Birmingham. Designated...Several alternate history scenarios featuring Britain, George W. Bush, and more.
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David Atwell's Alternative History To define this website as simply alternative history would no longer serve the work done herein full justice. Although originally this website was exactly that, like all things living, it...Over 25 Travel Guides, one pocket guide, and one Interdimensional Brewpub Tour, four worlds and counting.
http://www.ahtg.net/
"I do four things in this section: 1.Point to some good but obscure alternate histories. 2.Give links to a few good alternate history sites. 3.Hype my alternate history stories. 4.Toss out a couple of "alternate history scenarios of the month" for email discussion. "
http://members.aol.com/dalecoz/dale2.htm
An Alternate-History Amateur Press Association. A forum for discussion of ideas, and a story workshop for Alternate History Writers.
http://www.marmotgraphics.com/pod/
Scenarios, articles, books.
http://www.metro2000.net/~stabbott/AH.htm
A guide for histories that never were, including articles, original fiction, site reviews, and discussion board.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/alternative_history
What if the events in all those science fiction movies really did take place? When did they happen? This site will tell you when.
http://members.aol.com/JCooper652/Histories/
Includes CSA Today, Balkanized North America and Moslem Australia.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/what-if.htm
A fun and interesting way of looking at how history could have been.
http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/althistory
Directory of alternative history.
http://www.thwww.com/mrwizard/wizardAH.HTM
An anthology web comic strip that focuses on alternate history/reality. Also provides a showcase for alternate history stories.
http://timeliketoons.tripod.com/sideways.htm
Speculates on how military aviation history would have been different if the project had not been cancelled.
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/rms_tips/b49alt.hist.html
Alternate history scenarios concerning Europe, America, Asia from the 1600s-1990s.
http://www.geocities.com/david_kohlhoff/h
Blog that features important events in history that never occurred today. Created by Robbie Taylor of College Station, Texas.
http://althistory.blogspot.com/
The largest alternate history discussion forum on the web, plus a directory of individual scenarios sorted by era.
http://alternatehistory.com
An active alternate history E-Zine, Changing the Times is the largest repository of amateur alternate history on the web.
http://www.changingthetimes.co.uk/index.html
Contains various short speculative essays.
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/althis.htm
Mostly noteworthy for the long "TrolleyWorld" scenario, also has parts of zines from Point of Divergence.
http://home.earthlink.net/~trolleyfan/
A daily calendar with at least one alternate history scenario per day. Input on the scenarios or suggestions for new scenarios welcome.
http://www.othertimelines.com
A very long and detailed dystopia resulting from the death of FDR shortly after Pearl Harbor.
http://foralltime.alternatehistory.com
Features two alternate history scenarios.
http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/unionlost/
A British alternate history timeline, resulting from a different result in a 1970 football match, but leading to totalitarianism and war.
http://www.btinternet.com/~chief.gnome
Alternative history discussion about the development of rocketry.
http://www.geocities.com/duppim/vbdreams.html
An extremely detailed World War 2 alternate history, with its own discussion board.
http://www.geocities.com/cypher_zzz/shattered/shattered.htm
History of an evil USA dominated by slave owners.
http://decadesofdarkness.alternatehistory.com