Genre of speculative fiction, where one or more historical events occur differently.
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Examples for "alternate history "
Examples for "alternate history "
1 Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history .
2 Spaceflight is risky, yet in this alternate history all missions occur exactly as planned.
3 History may be written by the winners, but alternate history is encoded by the thinkers.
4 She continued, relating an alternate history of their family.
5 What seems like a devastating premise actually yields a much richer alternate history for NASA.
1 [Footnote: He illustrated this proposition by a fanciful reconstruction of European history from 100 to 800 A.D. in his UCHRONIE , 1876.
1 But despite our best efforts, it's hard to overlook the what ifs .
2 Consider too the ' what ifs ? ' -would what you have suggested still work?
3 The what ifs and the should haves will eat your brain.
4 But of course it's useless to think in what ifs .
5 You can say a lot of what ifs , there are so many different scenarios.
1 A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror and alternative history .
2 An alternative history for the Beatles and their role in world peace is also offered.
3 Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history .
4 There is a huge volume of work on the Templars-from serious scholarship to pseudo-academic alternative history .
5 Harris's book kept calling me back to a neglected classic of alternative history , Keith Roberts's Pavane.
1 In this alternative reality armed response becomes, if not logical, then at least debatable.
2 Have I woken up in some fevered (but still awesome) alternative reality ?
3 Conservative media nurture their own hothouse alternative reality and regard any challenge thereto as illegitimate.
4 He understands the desire for the special experience, that element of alternative reality , of freedom.
5 His deceptions are widely endorsed as an alternative reality .
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