Usage of "alternate history"

rus

альтернативная история

portuguès

história alternativa

espanyol

ucronía

català

història alternativa

Genre of speculative fiction, where one or more historical events occur differently.

Termes relacionats

genre

història alternativa

Sinònims

Examples for "uchronie"

[Footnote: He illustrated this proposition by a fanciful reconstruction of European history from 100 to 800 A.D. in his UCHRONIE, 1876. 
 The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth 

But despite our best efforts, it's hard to overlook the what ifs. 
 News.com.au 

Consider too the ' what ifs?' -would what you have suggested still work? 
 How to get a job in a museum or art gallery 

The what ifs and the should haves will eat your brain. 
 Rock and Ice Magazine 

But of course it's useless to think in what ifs. 
 Radio NZ 

You can say a lot of what ifs, there are so many different scenarios. 
 Reuters 

A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror and alternative history. 
 Anno Dracula 

An alternative history for the Beatles and their role in world peace is also offered. 
 The Guardian 

Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history. 
 The Guardian 

There is a huge volume of work on the Templars-from serious scholarship to pseudo-academic alternative history. 
 Templars: history and myth: from solomon's temple to the freemas... 

Harris's book kept calling me back to a neglected classic of alternative history, Keith Roberts's Pavane. 
 The Guardian 

In this alternative reality armed response becomes, if not logical, then at least debatable. 
 The Guardian 

Have I woken up in some fevered (but still awesome) alternative reality? 
 Wired 

Conservative media nurture their own hothouse alternative reality and regard any challenge thereto as illegitimate. 
 NY Magazine 

He understands the desire for the special experience, that element of alternative reality, of freedom. 
 BBC 

His deceptions are widely endorsed as an alternative reality. 
 Independent.ie 

Ús de alternate history en anglès

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history. 
 Bring the Jubilee 

Spaceflight is risky, yet in this alternate history all missions occur exactly as planned. 
 Wired 

History may be written by the winners, but alternate history is encoded by the thinkers. 
 Wired 

She continued, relating an alternate history of their family. 
 Map of bones 

What seems like a devastating premise actually yields a much richer alternate history for NASA. 
 Wired 

It's become something of an alternate history flashpoint. 
 News.com.au 

His most famous work, by far, is the classic alternate history Bring the Jubilee (1953). 
 Bring the Jubilee 

This is his fifth alternate history novel. 
 Red inferno: 1945 

People who play with alternate history sometimes take really dramatic leaps, why do you think that couldn't happen? 
 Reuters 

What follows is an unabashed exercise in alternate history speculation (and, above all, shameless wishful thinking). 
 Wired 

It combined mystery, alternate history, and a Sherlock Holmes analogue, not to mention a dash of James Bond. 
 Wired 

The story that I tell an alternate history version of in this collection is based on a real story. 
 Wired 

His howls carried knowledge and his stench spoke of an alternate history to the evolutionary blunderings of known life. 
 Stories: all-new tales 

It's well worth reading his comprehensive Resident Advisor piece: "An alternate history of sexuality in club culture". 
 The Guardian 

Anno Dracula is a rich and panoramic tale, combining horror, politics, mystery and romance to create a unique and compelling alternate history. 
 Anno Dracula 

It is easy to envisage an alternate history where the advancing ant colony became merely the myriad-bodied puppet of hidden beetle overlords. 
 Children of Time 