[Footnote: He illustrated this proposition by a fanciful reconstruction of European history from 100 to 800 A.D. in his UCHRONIE, 1876.

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

Consider too the ' what ifs?' -would what you have suggested still work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a huge volume of work on the Templars-from serious scholarship to pseudo-academic alternative history.

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

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

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

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

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

His deceptions are widely endorsed as an alternative reality.