From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Subject: Alternate History List (3/5) (730 lines)
Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 06:57:14 GMT

Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES {Baen 86}
   W: After the conquest of Persia, Alexander of Macedon returned west to quell
   a rebellion of League cities.
   S: His return and dealings with early Rome.
Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT {Baen 88}
   W: Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived Zutphens.
   S: In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to protect
   James VI/I from magical attacks.
Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington had been Captured by General Howe:
   Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in <WI>
   W: The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill (New York City) was
   fought persuaded British redcoats to pursue and capture Washington.
   C: 150 years later, the Royal New York Historical Society finds a memoir
   describing the event and the later celebration of Liberation Day.
Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 12-issue comic book
   series {Steeldragon 86-87}; issue #1 rev as CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY SPECIAL
   EDITION
   W: The South won the Civil War due to un-described events c. 1862.
   S: The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s.
   C: Letters to editor often more interesting than the storyline.
------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY, 4-issue comic book
   series {Epic Comics 91-92}
   S: Super-heroes from 8 N America nations, Germany and Japan, meet in New
   Orleans, where the representative from Texas is murdered for his weaponry.
Shiner, Lewis, "Oz", in FULL SPECTRUM (eds Aronica et al) {Bantam 88}
   W: Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered.
   S: Ozzie is acquitted and later becomes a rock star, with mention of the
   conspiracy trials and America's exit from Vietnam.
Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in Look 15 Dec 61
   W:
   S: Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer might
   have kept are included.
Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in <IHB>
   W:
   C:
Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN
   W: Mark Antony and Cleopatra won at Actium and moved the Roman capital to
   the east. Also, magic works.
   S:
Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore", in <Alt>
   W: Arthur of Britain survived the battle of Camlann.
   S: An old warrior reflects on the battle and its aftermath.
Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon", in <WM2>
   W: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) survived his 1935 motorcycle accident.
   S: In 1940, Churchill convinces Lawrence to go back to N Africa, where he
   meets Rommel.
Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace...", in <AP>
   W: Due to the increasing count of body bags returning from Vietnam, George
   McGovern was elected US president in 1972.
   S: Not waiting for the promised US withdrawal, N Vietnamese continue
   marching on Saigon. An Ohio family worries about its soldier son.
Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 67; Methuen
   80; Tor 84}
   W: The Black Plague of 1348 killed more than half of Europe, leaving it
   defenseless before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks.
   S: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec N America.
------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in <IAsfm> Oct 90 and BEYOND
   THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor 91}
   S: Diplomatic intrigue is rife as the Emir of Songhay lies dying.
   C: See also Brunner's "At the Sign of the Rose" and Yarbro's "An Exaltation
   of Spiders".
Silverberg, Robert, "Looking for the Fountain", in <IAsfm> May 92 and <WM4>
   W: A shipload of Crusaders was blown off course and ended up in Florida.
   S: While looking for the Fountain of "Youth", Ponce de Leon finds a tribe of
   Christian AmerInds who want to sail to Palestine and free Jerusalem.
Silverberg, Robert, "To the Promised Land", in <WM1>
   W: The first Exodus failed on the shores of the Red Sea, preventing the rise
   of Christianity and its inclement effect on the Roman empire.
   S: The second Hebrew attempt at leaving Egypt.
------------------, "An Outpost of the Empire", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
   S: 2200 years after the founding of Rome, a clash between the Western
   (Roman-influenced) and the declining Eastern (Greek-influenced) empires.
------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods", in <f&sf> Oct 89 and <YB7>
   S: Early during the 2nd Roman Republic, two children meet a mysterious old
   man hiding in a ruined imperial hunting lodge in the Teutonic provinces.
Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN {Ballantine 78}
   W: A series of "blights" periodically prevented Europe from advancing beyond
   the Dark Ages. Also, magic works.
   S: A young man accompanies a woman and her griffin on a quest to retrieve a
   talisman to fight the blight.
Simak, Clifford D., WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS {Ballantine 82}
   W: Dragons, fairies, etc., are real.
   S: The appearance of "The Evil" from over the river provides incentive to
   hold the Roman Empire together in a time of schism (c. 1400).
Skimin, Leonard, GRAY VICTORY {St. Martin's 88}
   W: Joe Johnston retained command at Atlanta and held Sherman off so long
   that McClellan won the 1864 US presidential election.
   S: In 1866, while Jeb Stuart is on trial for his actions at Gettysburg, John
   Brown's son lays plans for a black insurrection.
Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE {Bluejay/Tor 86; Tor 89}
   W: Christendom was destroyed in 1349 when an attempt to ship plague-ridden
   rats to Saracen lands backfired disastrously.
   S: In 2042, a Helvetic North-American escorts a mission from the Saracen
   Caliph of Rome into the secretive, mysterious Aztec empire.
Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON {Belmont 70; Leisure 81}
   W: N American Plains Indians banded together to stop the white man's spread,
   resulting in East and West USAs with an AmerInd nation in the middle.
   S: History of the AmerInd nation alternates with Washington intrigues during
   20th-century white vs. red tensions.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED {Warner/Popular Library 89}
   W: Magic exists, as do forces for good and evil.
   S: William of Nassau works with the White Queen to defeat the evil forces in
   Paris, eventually invading France in 1672.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., & George R.R. Martin (ed), WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE
   SOLITAIRE {Bantam 92}
   C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
   S:
Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA
   {Macmillan 73}
   W: Burgoyne beat Gates at Saratoga, and the American rebellion collapsed.
   S: Dual history text of the Confederation of N America and the US of Mexico,
   from 1775 to 1971.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If the British Had Won the Revolutionary War?"
Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] {Ballantine 83}; rev
   of stories in <IAsfm> 18 Jan 82 and Apr 82 and Amazing Jan 83 and May 83
------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE {Ballantine 88}
------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX {Ballantine 89}
   W: Romans discovered the steam engine and conquered the world.
   S: Farcical adventures of a Roman general in the Americas (Terra Novum) and
   his entanglements with time guardians.
Somtow, S.P., "Sunsteps", in Unearth Summer 77 and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK
   SEA {Donning 83}
   W:
   S: Aztecs depopulate the world in order to meet sacrificial needs.
Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare", in <AP>
   W: William Jennings Bryan was elected president in 1896 and decided to serve
   only one term. Also, Teddy Roosevelt never became president.
   S: In 1915, as Bryan and his wife look back at the years, the Lusitania is
   sunk and war looks imminent, giving Bryan a new message to preach.
Soukup, Martha, "Rosemary's Brain", in <AK>
   W: Instead of a lobotomy, Rosemary Kennedy received an experimental
   operation that turned her into a genius.
   S: Rosemary discusses her plans for her future with her godfather.
Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM {Avon 72; Gregg 77; Jove/HBJ 78; Pocket 82}
   W: Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1919 and after several years as a
   commercial artist turned to writing SF.
   S: The text of Hitler's Hugo Award-winning novel LORD OF THE SWASTIKA.
Spruill, Steven G., "The Janus Equation", in BINARY STAR NO. 4 (ed Frenkel)
   {Dell 80}
   W: JFK wasn't assassinated.
   S: A man tries to create a time machine in a world dominated by multi-nat'l
   corporations.
Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write
   Shakespeare" (aka "Professor Gubbin's Revolution"), in London Mercury Jan
   31, <IHO,ABC> and OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33}
   W: As the title says.
   S: Satirical look at the ensuing literary chaos.
Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened", in OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33}
   W: Britain adopted Prohibition.
   S:
Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR {Carroll & Graf 91}; exp of "The Man
   who Loved the Vampire Lady", in <f&sf> Aug 88 and <YB6>
   W: Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe and the vampires took
   control.
   S: 1200 years later, a human scientist searches for the vampires' secret of
   immortality.
Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION {Harper's Magazine Press 70; Berkley 71}
   W: Lincoln ordered the evacuation of Fort Sumter, and the South was allowed
   to go in peace.
   S: In 1981, the USA faces a hostile, nuclear-capable, police-state CSA and
   decides that assassination is the only solution.
Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People", in <IAsfm> Jul 91 and <WM3>
   W: Warned that Nazi Germany was developing a trans-Atlantic rocket, the US
   started a crash rocket development program, headed by Robert Goddard.
   S: A history of Project Blue Horizon and its critical race with the Nazis;
   concludes with mention of the first manned mission to Mars in 1976.
-------------, "John Harper Wilson", in <IAsfm> Jun 89
   S: The US gov't plans to claim the moon, but the commander of the first
   manned landing goes in peace for all mankind.
Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA {Baen 88}
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE {Baen 89}
---------------, THE STONE DOGS {Baen 90}
   W: American Tories colonized S Africa (Drakeland) after the revolution.
   S: The Dominion of the Draka strives to take over the world (1940-2000) and
   only the US stands in the way. With much supplemental in the appendices.
Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds Aronica
   et al) {Doubleday 89}, <YB7> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed
   Dozois) {Legend 91} (aka MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION {St. Martin's
   92})
   W: Earth has an edge.
   S: Three teen-agers living at an American air force base in the Middle East
   climb down a stairway on the edge of the world.
Swanwick, Michael, "In Concert", <IAsfm> Sep 92
   W: Rock & roll got started decades earlier, and had the power to shape
   history.
   S: An American attends the final performance of Lenin, "The Boss", hearing
   such standards as "The Workers Control the Means of Production".
Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT {Ace 85}; exp of "Mummer Kiss", in UNIVERSE
   11 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 81}, and "Marrow Death", in <IAsfm> Dec 84
   W: Three Mile Island melted down.
   S: Life in Pennsylvania, 100 years later.
Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in <WM2>
   W: Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne
   converts to Islam.
   S: Describes the event.
Tarr, Judith, "Them Old Hyannis Blues", in <AK>
   W: The Kennedy brothers had gone into music.
   S: After switching from big band music to rock 'n roll, the Kennedys play at
   President Presley's inaugural ball, and foil an assassination attempt.
Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND {St.
   Martin's 90}
   W: Nazi Germany did not invade Russia, but geared up for an invasion of
   Britain on 28 May 1942.
   S: The American Expeditionary Force takes the brunt of the invasion
   and its commander violates the articles of war in order to save London.
Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF {Macmillan 74}
   W: Britain was defeated by France on the Plains of Abraham.
   S: The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, as the Stuart restoration in
   Virginia follows Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory at Annapolis.
Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5", in <IHB>
   W:
   C:
Thomsen, Brian, "Paper Trail", in <AP>
   W: Even after being fired by the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl
   Bernstein continued their investigation of the Watergate break-in.
   S: Woodward's articles in the New York Post about Watergate and the murder
   of Bernstein lead to McGovern's election in 1972.
Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox", in New Yorker 6
   Dec 30, THE THURBER CARNIVAL {Harper & Row 45; Harper 53}, <f&sf> Feb 52,
   VINTAGE THURBER {Hamish Hamilton 63} ++
   W: As the title says.
   S: Grant gives his sword to Lee.
Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace", in <f&sf> Oct/Nov 91 and <YB9>
   W: Lincoln was assassinated early by Jesse and Frank James, and the South,
   suffering a harsher Reconstruction, never actually stopped fighting.
   S: The tale of a Southern boy during Reconstruction, with an afterword
   written in 1952 by his grandson, a member of the Nazi's RE Lee Brigade.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western
   Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford 34}
   W: The Synod of Whitby (664) had adopted the teachings of Colman, and
   Charles Martel had lost at Tours.
   C: How European Christianity would have divided between the Celts of the
   North and the Roman-Orthodox of the South and East, with France Muslim.
------------------, "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian
   Civilization", A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford 34}
   W: The Vikings had captured Constantinople in 860, established stronger
   colonies in N America, harassed the Muslims in the Caspian, etc.
   C: How more aggressive expansion would have resulted in Viking control of N
   America, Europe and northern Asia by 1400.
------------------, "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern
   Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford 34}
   W: The Umayyads had not pressed on after their defeat at the Kish-Samarkand
   pass in 731.
   C: How Nestorian Christianity could have spread into Asia, leading to Moslem
   destruction at the hands of Christianized Seljuks and Mongols.
Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in Westminster
   Gazette Jul 07, CLIO: A MUSE {Longmans, Green 13; Longmans, Green 30} and
   <IHO,C>
   W: Blucher's breach of faith led to Napoleon's victory at "Mont St. Jean".
   S: Despite the Napoleon of Peace, his former enemies maintain their standing
   armies, stifling all reformist movements for decades.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If Napoleon Had Won at Waterloo?"
Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in Foreign Affairs Oct 72,
   NOTES FROM CHINA {Collier 72} and PRACTICING HISTORY {Knopf 81}
   W: Ambassador Hurley had relayed Mao and Chou En-lai's request for a meeting
   with FDR in 1945.
   C: Primarily a discussion of why it made no difference, but a few brief
   comments on how it might have averted the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds", in Amazing Mar 89 and <WM1>
   W: The Persians defeated the Greeks and democracy never developed.
   S: Investigations of a Persian eunuch sent by his king to look into the
   Greek situation.
Turtledove, Harry, "Departures", in <IAsfm> Jan 89 and <WM2>
   W: Mohammad became a Christian. The lack of Moslem pressure meant Byzantium
   never fell but faced a technologically sophisticated Persia.
   S: Christian monks, including a powerful hymn writer named Mouamet, flee a
   Sinai monastery for Constantinople as Persian forces approach.
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM {Congdon & Weed 87; Worldwide 88}
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6814"), in Amazing Jul
   85
   S: Byzantine agent Basil Argyros discovers the invention of dynamite.
>---------------<, "Strange Eruptions" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6816"), in <IAsfm>
   Aug 86
   S: Argyros finds a cure for smallpox.
>---------------<, "The Eyes of Argos" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6824"), in Amazing
   Jan 86
   S: Argyros discovers that the telescope has been invented in the steppes
   north of the Danube.
>---------------<, "Archetypes" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6825"), in Amazing Nov 85
   S: Argyros investigates numerous identical seditious handbills appearing
   near the Persian frontier.
>---------------<, "Images" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6826"), in <IAsfm> Mar 87
   S: Argyros is embroiled in an argument about religious icons.
>---------------<, "Superwine" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6829"), in <IAsfm> Apr 87
   S: Argyros is also there for the invention of brandy.
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire", in <IAsfm> 15 Dec 89
   S: Argyros is sent to deal with labor strikes in Alexandria, Egypt.
Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH {Congdon & Weed 88}
   W: European explorers discovered Ramapithecan "sims" instead of red-skinned
   men when they reached the New World.
>---------------<, "Vilest Beast", in Analog Sep 85
   S: In 1610, sims steal a babe from a Jamestown cradle and her father
   ventures into the wilderness to save her.
>---------------<, "And So to Bed", in KALEIDOSCOPE {Ballantine 90}
   S: In 1661, Samuel Pepys purchases two sims to help out around the house and
   contemplates the origins of species.
>---------------<, "Around the Salt Lick", in Analog Feb 86
   S: In 1691, a Virginia hunter is captured by wild sims and hopes that his
   sim assistant will think of rescuing him.
>---------------<, "The Iron Elephant", in Analog May 86
   S: In 1782, steam-driven trains first appear, and a race is held with one of
   the mammoth-pulled trains they threaten to replace.
>---------------<, "Though the Heavens Fall", in Analog Sep 86
   S: In 1804, a lawyer uses the existence of sims to argue that a runaway
   Negro slave should not be returned to his one-time owner.
>---------------<, "Trapping Run"
   S: In 1812, a trapper in the Rockies is wounded by a bear and is nursed back
   to health by sims.
>---------------<, "Freedom"
   S: In 1988, university students opposed to medical experiments on sims
   kidnap a sim carrying AIDS but do not take enough of the new HIV inhibitor.
Turtledove, Harry, IN THE BALANCE {not yet published}
   W: Space aliens arrived on Earth in 1942.
   S:
Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", in <IAsfm> Jan 92
   W: Isolationist America stayed out of WW2 until it was attacked by Germany
   and Japan a generation after the fall of Britain and Russia.
   S: Even in a 2010 Berlin at the heart of a world dominated by Nazi Germany,
   the Jews will still survive.
Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea", in <Alt>
   W: Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslims in the 8th
   century AD.
   S: Fifty years after the fall of Constantinople, the king of the Bulgars
   invites Muslims and Christians to decide which faith he should adopt.
Turtledove, Harry, "King of All", in New Destinies Winter 88
   W: Cocaine were legal and caffeine illegal.
   S: A day in the life of a policeman fighting "caffeine addiction", who
   orders "coke" the next day at a MacDonald's.
Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article", in <f&sf> Jan 88, <YB6>, <WM2> and THE
   FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed McSherry) {Baen 90}
   W: Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India.
   S: Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation.
Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland", in <WM3>
   W: Hitler was shot and killed by one of his generals on 19 Feb 1943 in
   retaliation for an insult, and his successors made peace with the Soviets.
   S: In 1979 fascist Croatia, British agents meet with a Serbian partisan
   seeking weapons.
Turtledove, Harry, "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life",
   in UNIVERSE 10 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 80} and <WM4>
   W: Columbus' proposed voyage was subject to an environmental impact study.
   S: The text of the report, suggesting that Columbus be turned down.
Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE {Ballantine 90}
   W: The formation of Mars resulted in a larger planet, capable of sustaining
   a thicker atmosphere and surface water.
   S: After a tool-bearing lifeform destroys a Viking probe on the surface of
   "Minerva", competitive American and Soviet manned missions are sent out.
Utley, Steven, "Look Away", in <f&sf> Feb 92
   W: Albert Sidney Johnston survived Shiloh (a Confederate victory) and
   carried the Civil War north to Ohio.
   S: After the war, former army officers debate whether the CSA should pursue
   its own version of "manifest destiny" in Mexico and points south.
Utley, Stephen, and Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed
   Carr) {Doubleday 76; Popular Library 77}; THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE
   YEAR #6 (ed Carr) {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 77}; SCIENCE FICTION A TO Z (eds
   Asimov et al) {Houghton Mifflin 82}; <AH> ++
   W: Ben Franklin invented the internal combustion engine and the Civil War
   was fought with mechanized transport.
   S: Info about the airplane Crazy Horse inherited from the Confederacy and
   later flew at the Little Big Horn.
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam", in <IHO,B>
   W:
   S: Manhattan remains a tolerant enclave until the 19th century, and its
   persisting laws have curious effects on Prohibition.
Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER {Summit 78}
   W: Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, hiding out until 1970.
   S: An int'l tribunal considers his fate.
Von Rospach, Charles, "'Til Death Do Us Part", in <AK>
   W: Marilyn Monroe was caught sneaking out of the White House in the middle
   of a 1962 night.
   S: After her suicide, Monroe's ghost haunts JFK, urging him to find a way
   to be with her.
Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln", in Scribner's Nov 30 and
   <IHO,ABC>
   W: John Wilkes Booth's gun misfired.
   S: Critical review of a Lincoln biography which blamed the president's woes
   on the Radical Republicans rather than on his reconstruction policies.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If Booth's Bullet Had Missed Lincoln?"
Waldrop, Howard, "The Effects of Alienation", in Omni Jun 92
   W: On the brink of defeat, Nazi Germany employed nuclear-tipped rockets to
   win WW2.
   S: 15 years later, a Nazi secret policeman attends "The Three Stooges Space
   Opera" at a Zurich cafe run by the widow of Berthold Brecht.
Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
   and <IAsfm> Mid-Dec 91
   W: The industrial revolution took an odd twist, resulting in steam-powered
   stilts and multi-wheel cycles for transport.
   S: In 1890s Paris, Melies joins with Rousseau, Satie, Proust and Picasso to
   make a movie about the Dreyfus affair.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds
   Lansdale & LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90} and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
   {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
   W: Taming the American West also involved bringing water to it, plus the
   film industry set up in Boise.
   S: Excerpts from books and magazine articles about Boise's one-time
   fascination with cloudbusters.
Waldrop, Howard, "Hoover's Men", in Omni Oct 88 and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
   {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
   W: Al Smith beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928.
   S: Afterwards, Smith asks Hoover to become head of the new Federal Radio
   Agency, which also gives TV an early push.
Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike", in Omni Jun 82, THE FIRST OMNI BOOK OF
   SCIENCE FICTION (ed Datlow) {Zebra 83}, HOWARD WHO? {Doubleday 86} and
   STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 90}
   W: Dwight Eisenhower cashed in his train ticket to West Point so that he
   could learn to play jazz clarinet.
   S: In 1968, Senator Aron Presley attends Ike's final performance when
   President Joe Kennedy awards medals to him and Louis Armstrong.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night", in Omni Aug 86, ALL ABOUT
   STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ursus 87}, <87AW>, STRANGE THINGS IN
   CLOSE-UP {Legend 89} and STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ace 91}
   W: Columbus found the Americas uninhabited. Later, African slaves imported
   to mine Peruvian gold rebelled, leading to white decline worldwide.
   S: In 1894, an African boy writes a play about an African king while reading
   a history of the fall of European power.
Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't", in Shayol #6, HOWARD WHO?
   {Doubleday 86} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 89}
   W: Phlogiston exists.
   S: A late 19th-century scientist attempts to isolate pure phlogiston, with
   apocalyptic results.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", in <AP>
   W: Smith split the Democrats in 1932, causing Hoover to beat FDR. The US-
   Japan fight started earlier, and a firm response at Munich averted WW2.
   S: 20 years later, the Secretary of State looks for a country to which he
   can name a Jewish consul without offending the host government.
Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
   FANTASY {Reginald/Borgo 76}
   W:
   S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s.
Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA {Chapman & Hall 05; Univ Nebraska 67}; incl. in
   WORKS, vol. 9 {Scribner's 25}
   W: The Dark Ages never happened.
   S: A look at a Utopian 20th century.
   C: Borderline AH, as the world is identical to Earth except that it is
   "beyond Sirius".
Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted", in Christian Century
   23-30 Jun 76
   W:
   S:
Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER {Little Brown 71}; as DOWNFALL
   {Bantam 72}
   W: The atomic bomb was not used on Japan.
   S: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.
White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY {Ballantine 91}
   W: C. 200 BC, an Irishman returned home from Alexandria with the plans for
   Hero's aeolipile, leading to an industrial revolution 1000 years early.
   S: In 1491, the Empire of Hibernia launches man's first starship, and her
   outspoken surgeon suspects a religious conspiracy aboard.
White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP {Pyramid 68}
   W: Alien intervention averted WW2.
   S: Hitler ends up in America, calling for resistance against the "angels."
Wildavsky, Aaron, "What if the U.S. had had one law for its allies and
   another for its adversaries? The Suez Crisis (1956)", in <WI>
   W: The US did not come down hard on France and Britain during the 1956 war.
   C: Scholarly speculations on alternative outcomes, including friendlier
   relations with France, and an Israel less threatened by Arabs.
Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG {Heinemann 80; Viking 81; Magnum 82}
   W: The British royal family was wiped out by a 1935 airship disaster, and it
   took 5 weeks to locate an heir.
   S: A 25-year-old stage actor becomes king of England and discovers the
   limits on royal power in the 1900s.
   C: Basis for the non-AH movie KING RALPH.
Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
   (1963)", in <WI>
   W: The British Labor party leader did not suddenly die in Jan 1963.
   C: A more moderate Labor party and movement results, with general economic
   success and an early end to Rhodesia's UDI plans.
Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground", in <IAsfm> Nov 89, <WM2> and
   FACETS {Tor 90}
   W: Edgar Allen Poe did not die in 1849, but lived to become a Confederate
   general.
   S: After Pickett becomes ill, Poe takes command of his troops at the battle
   of Hanover Junction during the Forty Days.
Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968", in <IHB>
   W: Dubcek had retained more control over events during Prague Spring.
   C: Musings on a middle course which might have averted a Soviet invasion.
Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German
   Invasion", in Analog May 73, THE BEST OF ANALOG (ed Bova) {Baronet 78; Ace
   xx} and GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS {Doubleday 81}
   W: Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military conquest in
   the 1930s and 40s. Also, Churchill returned to journalism after WW1.
   S: A retired US Army officer from Abilene KS invents a game called World
   War, and participates in a race between German and British compact cars.
Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA {Ace 89}
   W: Magic works, in Regency London.
   S:
Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s", in
   <IHB>
   W:
   C:
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
   RENAISSANCE {Pocket 80}
   W: The Medicis brought together Italia Federata, c. 1500.
   S: A court poet to Il Primario is involved in intrigues to hold Italy
   together, but dreams of a world where he is a famous soldier-poet.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders", in BEYOND THE GATE OF
   WORLDS {Tor 91}
   C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
   S: The True Inca, seeking a solution to possible invasion by the False Inca
   of Brazil, sends a mission to the Maori nation.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ON SAINT HUBERT'S THING {Cheap Street 82}
   W:
   S: Religious intrigue in a world where Christian Europe is divided north vs.
   south.
Zebrowski, George, "The Eichmann Variations", in LIGHT YEARS AND DARK (ed
   Bishop) {Berkley 84}
   W: WW2 ended with Japan surrendering after the Allies dropped nuclear
   weapons on Germany in 1946.
   S: Adolf Eichmann, captured by the Israelis in 1961, is executed 6e6 times.
Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in Amazing Mar 90 and <WM2>
   W: Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate.
   S: Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion.


Crosstime Stories:

Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME {Donning 79; Signet 82}
   Tourists trapped in a remote English villa are dropped into a 17th-century
   Earth in which Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 431. 
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND {Signet 85}
   The battlefield between Pope Abdul and England's Arthur III Tudor shifts to
   the high seas and to Ireland.
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS {Signet 86}
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS {Signet 87}
-------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS {Signet 88}
   S:
Aldiss, Brian, "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct 62,
   THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS {Faber 66; Gregg 1981},
   NEANDERTHAL PLANET {Avon 69, xx}, THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed Boardman) ++
   In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
   dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed Ellison) {Doubleday 67;
   NAL 75} and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS {Berkley 81}
   An explorer from an advanced Alexandrine world violates a taboo while
   visiting a backward N America dominated by Norse and Magyar colonies.
Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS {Doubleday 61; Avon xx}
   A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces
   of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH {Doubleday 57,
   Abelard-Schuman 76}, <WoM>, VALENCE AND VISION (eds Jones & Roe) {Rinehart
   74}, THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH {Doubleday 79} ++
   Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter
   similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE {Tor 91}
   A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where
   an immortal elven queen rules in France.
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME {Lancer 71}
   During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into another
   where N America was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
Bear, Greg, EON {Bluejay 85}
----------, ETERNITY {Warner 88}
   A strange artifact comes back in time from the future, only it's a different
   future.
Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular
   Library 79}, <79AW> and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN {Arkham House 83}
   A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
   reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
   A man from a timeline where WW2 lasted til 1947, allowing completion of the
   Final Solution, travels back and sideways to take revenge on Hitler.
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO {Ace 86}
   C: Non-AH 1st volume of series is THE BIOFAB WAR.
   S: A war against insectoids shifts to an Earth where the US never developed
   the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was assassinated in Jul 44.
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
   S:
Bisson, Terry, TALKING MAN {Arbor House 86; Avon 87}
   Main characters find the world is changing around them as a wizard/witch
   fight for control of the universe.
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54, BEST SCIENCE FICTION
   STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed Dikty) {Fredrick Fell 55}, SPACE BY THE TAIL
   {Ballantine 64} and <BAW>
   A physics experiment accidentally knocks a passerby into a similar timeline,
   and he must be returned to save the universe.
Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in Fantastic Aug 60
   S:
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP {Ace 86}
   A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world where
   racoons rather than primates evolved intelligence.
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE {Dutton 49; Bantam 50}
   A pulp editor finds himself in parallel universe which matches the stories
   his magazine has published.
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
   A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe,
   but that doesn't solve his problems.
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55
   Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker", in <Alt>
   C: 2nd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
   S: Styphon's House drives barbarians from the N American plains east into
   Kalvan's territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them.
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 (ed
   Del Rey) {Ballantine 81}
   Two people from different timelines end up at the same jewelry store in a
   third trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
Chalker, Jack L., AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER {Ballantine 79}
   A man and woman gather jewel-like devices from 5 alternate Earths to cancel
   an experiment that caused an asteroid to move toward their Earth.
Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAsfm> Jul 78, <79AW>,
   ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed Scithers) {Davis 78}
   (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION {Dial 78}) and DANCE BAND ON
   THE TITANIC
   Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
   Maine and Nova Scotia.
Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE {Tor 85}
   A security officer has to prevent the killing of Karl Marx by a terrorist
   and gets drafted in a crosstime war.
Christopher, John, FIREBALL {Dutton 81; Tempo 84}
   Two boys are caught in a strange ball of fire, to emerge in ancient Roman
   times and help Christians overthrow the Roman Empire.
-----------------, NEW FOUND LAND {Dutton 83}
   The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers and
   Aztecs.
-----------------, DRAGON DANCE {Dutton 86}
   The boys travel on to California.
Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN {Popular Library 75}
   When a nuclear airplane experiment goes awry, a man finds himself in a world
   where Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire.
Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
   The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by
   Vikings and English pirates.
Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54,
   Fantastic Jan 60 and <AH>
   Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red men
   enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, THE WHEELS OF IF
   {Shasta 48}, <AH> and Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90}
   S: A DA from our New York finds himself residing in the body of a Celtic
   Christian bishop in "New Belfast".
   C: Sequel is Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker".
deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <f&sf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
   S:
Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66}
   S:
Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time", in
   THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed Wolfe) {Citadel 91}
   In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits
   one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92
   S:
Dozois, Gardner, and Jack Dann, "Playing the Game", in Twilight Zone Feb 82,
   <83AW> and THE GREAT STORIES FROM ROD STERLING'S THE TWILIGHT ZONE MAGAZINE
   (ed Klein) {TZ 83}
   A boy travels from one parallel world to another, trying to get "home."
Effinger, Geo. Alec, RELATIVES {Harper & Row 73; Dell 76}; exp of "The City
   on the Sand", in <f&sf> Apr 73, and "Relatives", in BAD MOON RISING (ed
   Disch) {Harper & Row 73}
   One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in
   which Germany won WW1.
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH {Dell 79}
   A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed.
Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAsfm> Aug 80
   A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral
   strength from talking to her counterpart in another.
Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH {Ace 79}; rev of THE GATE OF TIME
   {Belmont 70}
   American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the
   Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is at war.
Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, ANALOG 1 (ed
   Campbell) {Doubleday 63}, TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) {Fawcett 74};
   POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (eds Greenberg & Warrick) {Prentice-Hall 74},
   <BAW> and <GS23>
   A Britisher goes back in time to the Alamo, but its defenders behave like
   20th-century liberals. Also mentions differing Napoleonic events.
Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR {Tor 90}; exp of "The World Next Door",
   <IAsfm> Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
   In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of a 60s nuclear war have strange dreams of
   a world full of home computers, cable television, etc.
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB {Bantam 85}
   Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
   Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME {Simon & Schuster 68}; rev of "The
   Other Wife" (aka "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60 and
   ABOUT TIME {Simon & Schuster 86}; incl. in THREE BY FINNEY ++
   Adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", Analog Jun 87
   A crosstime traveler gets lost and ends up in a balkanized N America, where
   Pennsylvania is fighting a territorial war vs Virginia and New York.
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE
   FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis 80} (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S
   WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION {Dial 80})
   Crosstime travelers are stranded in a tunnel lined with hatches leading to
   all sorts of parallel worlds; they search for the "Homeline."
-------------, "Out of Service", in <IAsfm> Jul 80
   An Alternities guide is stranded after the "Fracture" and tries to convince
   the local gate operative that it will lead to the correct Homeline.
-------------, "Slowly By, Lorena", in <IAsfm> Nov 80 and <FCW>
   A doctor on a vacation offered by the Alternities Corporation is stranded in
   an 1867 where British intervention is prolonging the Civil War.
-------------, "Intersections", in <IAsfm> 26 Oct 81
   An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2.
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WM1>
   A woman meet a traveller from a world in which the war between the sexes
   took a violent turn in 1872.
Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed Carr)
   {Doubleday 81; Zebra 81}; BURNING CHROME {Arbor House 86; Ace 87} and
   MIRRORSHADES (ed Sterling) {Arbor House 86; Ace 88}
   A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture,
   transportation, etc. are all out of 30s pulp SF.
Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS
   EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO {Basic 77; Sphere 79}
   Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle of Mbwila (1665), one
   post-nuclear war and one with the Congo at the heart of Christianity.
Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR {Ace 85}
   C: 1st sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
   S: In their first attack on Lord (now King) Kalvan, Styphon's House hits him
   with three forces, but is defeated in all cases.
--------------------------------, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos", in THERE WILL BE
   WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
   C: 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
   S: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House.
Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
   A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers.
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 90; Avon 91}; exp of "The
   Hemingway Hoax", in <IAsfm> Apr 90 and <YB8>
   A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector
   and awakes as another timeline's version of himself.
Harrison, Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds Silverberg & Elwood)
   {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77} and CATASTROPHES (eds Asimov et al)
   {Fawcett 81}
   A man from our world aids others in timelines where the sun is about to go
   nova, including one where Europe is feudal and the Iriquois run N America.
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