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Meanings of allohistory in inglés

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història alternativa

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

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      Examples for "alternate history"
      Examples for "alternate history"
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      Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history.
      Bring the Jubilee
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      Spaceflight is risky, yet in this alternate history all missions occur exactly as planned.
      Wired
      3
      History may be written by the winners, but alternate history is encoded by the thinkers.
      Wired
      4
      She continued, relating an alternate history of their family.
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      5
      What seems like a devastating premise actually yields a much richer alternate history for NASA.
      Wired
      1
      [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
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      But despite our best efforts, it's hard to overlook the what ifs.
      News.com.au
      2
      Consider too the ' what ifs?' -would what you have suggested still work?
      How to get a job in a museum or art gallery
      3
      The what ifs and the should haves will eat your brain.
      Rock and Ice Magazine
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      But of course it's useless to think in what ifs.
      Radio NZ
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      You can say a lot of what ifs, there are so many different scenarios.
      Reuters
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      A marvellous marriage of political satire, melodramatic intrigue, gothic horror and alternative history.
      Anno Dracula
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      An alternative history for the Beatles and their role in world peace is also offered.
      The Guardian
      3
      Thanks to this neat framing device, what was once obsolete sci-fi is now alternative history.
      The Guardian
      4
      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...
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      Harris's book kept calling me back to a neglected classic of alternative history, Keith Roberts's Pavane.
      The Guardian
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      In this alternative reality armed response becomes, if not logical, then at least debatable.
      The Guardian
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      Have I woken up in some fevered (but still awesome) alternative reality?
      Wired
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      Conservative media nurture their own hothouse alternative reality and regard any challenge thereto as illegitimate.
      NY Magazine
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      He understands the desire for the special experience, that element of alternative reality, of freedom.
      BBC
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      His deceptions are widely endorsed as an alternative reality.
      Independent.ie