Usage of "alternative reality"

Russian

альтернативная история

Portuguese

história alternativa

Spanish

ucronía

Catalan

història alternativa

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

Related terms

genre

альтернативная история

Synonyms

Examples for "alternate history"

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 

[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 

Usage of alternative reality in English

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 

But does such an alternative reality even exist? 
 Introvert power: why your inner life is your hidden strength 

When a machine learns from outputs and memories like this, it can create an alternative reality. 
 Wired 

But the earnings statements of foreign multinationals give a good alternative reality check on the Chinese economy. 
 Reuters 

The separatists together with the Russian peacekeepers are trying to create an alternative reality, he told Reuters. 
 Reuters 

The scaling back of economic activity in recent weeks has given us a glimpse of an alternative reality. 
 The Irish Times 

As he gathers knowledge about some of them, Bullough finds himself in a kind of permanent alternative reality. 
 The Guardian 

Gervais will play a man living in an alternative reality where no one can lie -but him. 
 Wired 

The world of the sefiroth is not an alternative reality 'out there' between the Godhead and the world, however. 
 A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ... 

He had moved into the alternative reality the drug provided, but had somehow become detached from the original world. 
 A week in december 

We're not quite in the alternative reality where the actual news has become FAKE news!! 
 The Guardian 

The production's alternative reality sci-fi feel is neatly buffed with plenty of audio effects, familiar to our ears from contemporary gaming. 
 Independent.ie 