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The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century: Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg 2003 What Ifs? of American History: Robert Cowley 2006 Futures Past: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois: 2009 Other Earths: Nick Gevers and Jay Lake: Columbia & Britannia: Brian A. Dixon and Adam Chamberlain: 2011 Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories
A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternate history of the 1920s, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.. Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, [1] althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.
In the 20th century, Adams' portrait was used on the United States five-dollar bill. In The Two Georges, an alternate history novel, also by Harry Turtledove, by the late 20th Century, John Adams had an ale named after him in the North American Union.
In the alternate history novel The Mirage by Matt Ruff, Lyndon Johnson was the evangelical dictator of the Christian States of America, a Third World country which consisted of 17 states in the East Coast of North America, at some point during the 20th Century. In the alternate history novel Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived ...
The novel attracted praise for exploring racism through the alternate-history mechanism. In Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South (1900) by Frank Williams, the earliest known Civil War alternate history, the Confederacy won by mobilizing black slaves to its army, their participation turning the tide at Gettysburg. Thirty years later ...
The stories are linked through their setting, an alternate history of the twentieth century in which the United States experienced a communist Second Revolution in 1917 and became a communist superpower, whereas Russia did not.
The late 20th century Earth was completely covered by water during the latter part of the 20th century. Strange Days: Film 1995 1999 Events occur near the end of the 1990s; a person's memories in their brain can be recorded on a disc called a "SQUID" that others can steal. [10] Street Fighter 2010: Video game 1990 2010 Aliens and bionic ...
List of alternate histories diverging at the American Civil War is a compilation of alternate history fiction whose point of divergence is the American Civil War.These Civil War alternate histories typically focus on a Confederate victory but others focus on scenarios such as a Civil War being averted, British intervention in the conflict, a Union victory occurring under different ...