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Alternate history fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5564 words) |
 | Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or some would say of science fiction) that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known. |
| While to some extent all fiction can be described as "alternate history," the subgenre proper comprises fiction in which a change or point of divergence occurs in the past that causes human society to develop in a way that is distinct from our own. |
| In both science fiction and fantasy, whether a given parallel universe is an alternate history may not be clear. |
| Alternative history (fiction) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (3247 words) |
| Alternative history or alternate history is fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known; more simply put, alternate history asks the question, "What If?". |
| While to some extent all fiction can be described as alternative history, the genre proper comprises fiction in which a change happens that causes history to diverge from our own. |
| In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "P.'s Correspondence", published in 1846 and which recounts the tale of an apparent madman and his purported encounters with various literary and political figures of the 1840s. |
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