From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (3/5) (850 lines)
Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:48:38 GMT


Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
   W: Japan colonized the western part of N America and Europe the east,
   leaving no major frontier.
   S: James Hickock meets Bill Cody on a train in the Dakotas, and both lament
   their uninteresting lives as businessmen.
Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived", in The Nation 13 Apr 46
   W: Roosevelt did not die in 1945.
   S: Ponderings on changes in America's place in the world, including control
   of the bomb and the start of the Cold War.
Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT {Cresset 48}
   S:
Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM {Ace Double 62; Berkley 77; exp Tor
   83}; serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61
   Adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German Imperium centered in
   London, visiting another where Germany won WW1.
-------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM {Pinnacle/Tor 81}
>-----------<, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME {Berkley 65; Walker 71; Signet 72};
   serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun 65
   Adventures continue to a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at
   Brussels in 1814.
>-----------<, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE {Berkley 68; Dobson 72}
   Adventures continue to a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle
   at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age.
-------------, ZONE YELLOW {Tor 90}
   S:
Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF
   ENGLAND {The Author 1899}
   W: The French invaded England in 1805.
   S: Once ashore, Napoleon has trouble deciding what to do next.
Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN {Scribner's 71; R. Bentley 82}
   A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist takes
   advantage of it.
Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN
   AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES {John
   Lane/Bodley Head/S.B. Gundy 19}
   W: Kaiser Wilhelm and family members were exiled to America after WW1.
   S: Their voyage across the Atlantic, in 3rd-class steerage, and the Kaiser's
   final days as a street pedlar.
Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA, WITH
   THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES {John Lane/Bodley Head/
   S.B. Gundy 19}
   W: Germany won WW1.
   S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925.
Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME {Ace 61; Gregg 76; Collier/Macmillan 91}; serial
   in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58
   At a Snake enclave somewhere outside space and time, a soldier preaches
   ChangePeace as the enclave maintainer disappears.
-------------, "No Great Magic", in Galaxy Dec 63, THE SECRET SONGS {Rupert
   Hart-Davis 68}, THE CHANGE WAR {Gregg 78}, THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES
   (eds Pohl et al) {Harper & Row 80} and CHANGEWAR {Ace 83}
   The Snake vs. Spider battlefield moves to an anachronistic performance of
   MacBeth before Elizabeth I.
-------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <f&sf> Mar 75; <76AW>; THE WORLDS
   OF FRITZ LEIBER {Ace 76; Gregg 79}; NEBULA WINNERS ELEVEN (ed Le Guin)
   {Harper & Row 77; Bantam 78}; THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed Asimov)
   {Doubleday 85}; THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed Bova) {Tor 89}; etc
   S: After dining with his son at the Empire State Building, zeppelin designer
   Adolf Hitler is caught in a whirl of parallel selves.
   C: Non-AH entries in series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change the
   Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER).
Leiber, Fritz, "Business of Killing", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
   DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53}
   A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business
   ventures.
Leiber, Fritz, "Destiny Times Three", in Astounding Mar 45, FIVE SCIENCE
   FICTION NOVELS (ed Greenberg) {Gnome 52} and BINARY STAR #1 (ed ?) {Dell 78}
   In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets them make real
   all the possible outcomes from various choices.
Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Conklin) {Dell 54} and <BAW>
   Ancient Egyptian priests discovered a parallel uninhabited world and
   sustain themselves by looting ours, for merchandise and slaves.
Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time", in Astounding Jun 34, SIDEWAYS IN TIME
   {Shasta 50}, <WoM>, BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE (ed Asimov) {Doubleday 74}, THE
   BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER {Ballantine 78; Garland 83} and THE TIME TRAVELERS
   (eds Silverberg & Greenberg) {Donald I Fine 85}
   On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other
   timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it.
Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL {Pyramid 64}
   W: Napoleon established a permanent dynasty.
   S: Men from our world use a time tunnel to investigate odd historical
   memories and a mysterious scientist in 1804.
Lem, Stanislaw, + Joel Stern & Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek (trs), "The
   Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER {HBJ 82}
   Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
   Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Were No Television?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Had Been No Cold War?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY {Knopf 51}; incl. in A
   TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 2 (ed Boucher) {Doubleday 59}
   W: Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt and suffered an unpopular
   second term trying to implement a humane Reconstruction.
   S: Diary and newspaper excerpts about the last month of Lincoln's presidency
   and his vacation in California during the summer of 1869.
Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves", in <BT>
   W: Kerensky had Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin arrested in Jul 1917 and shipped
   back to Switzerland.
   S: How it was done, with an afterword promoting tourism in the 1975 Russian
   republic.
Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE {Arbor House 88}; exp of "Moon of Ice", in
   Amazing Mar 82 and <HV>
   W: FDR was impeached in 1942, and Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 44
   to win the war in Europe.
   S: The diaries of Joseph Goebbels and his daughter describe the victory, and
   an SS plot 20 years later to kill all non-Aryans via biological warfare.
Littell, Robert: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
Livy (Titus Livius) + B.O. Foster (tr), AB URBE CONDITA {Harvard Univ/
   Heinemann 26, 48, 57, 63, 75, 82}
   W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans.
   S: A digression in book IX, 17-19 of this work suggests that the Romans
   would have beaten him.
   C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31
   BC-14 AD).
Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52 and PRIZE SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Wollheim) {McBride 53} (aka PRIZE STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME)
   W: Hitler were killed during an Allied bombing raid.
   S: Change the past tale.
Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in <WIE>
   W: Napoleon did not immediately sell Louisiana to the US in 1803.
   C: Speculation that the British would not have been nearly so generous after
   the War of 1812, leading to the inclusion of most of N America in Canada.
Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN {BBC/Hutchinson 72; Stein & Day 74;
   Arrow 75}
   W: Nazi Germany invaded England.
   S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative essays
   discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken.
   C: Originally presented as a BBC TV program.
Longyear, Barry, "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM
   SCHENECTADY
   A man finds a silver 1978 quarter and essays by his father's students about
   visits by a mysterious friend urging them to higher goals.
Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and his reign as Kaiser
   lasted longer than 91 days.
   S: Overview of Bismarck's construct of a network of peace treaties while
   Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene.
Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War", in THE PEOPLE'S
   ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
   W: Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the
   midst of the Dunkirk chaos.
   S: The later history of Europe and how Hitler's successors tempered his
   worst excesses.
   C: Accompanies Fadness' "What if...?" synopses of other AHs.
Lupoff, Richard A., "At Vega's Taqueria", in Amazing Sep 90
   A mural showing an Aztec wearing a football helmet causes a man to doubt his
   sanity until he discovers that he is shifting from one timeline to another.
Lupoff, Richard A., CIRCUMPOLAR! {Simon & Schuster 84; Berkley 85}
   W: The Earth were disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center.
   S: Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side.
--------------- A., COUNTERSOLAR! {Arbor House 87; Ace 89}
   S: Albert Einstein races the Perons to counter-Earth.
Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER {Dell 70}
   W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000.
   S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon.
MacCreigh, James: see Pohl, Frederick
MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70 and ANALOG'S
   LIGHTER SIDE (ed Schmidt) {Davis/Dial 82, 83}
--------------, "Meet a Crazy Lady Week", in Analog Aug 70
--------------, "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants", in Analog Apr 71
--------------, "One-Generation New World", in If Mar 71
--------------, "Country of the Mind", in Analog May 75
   A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really
   coherent reason).
Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940
   {Macmillan 80; Arms & Armour 80}
   W: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain.
   S: A campaign history of July 1940, when Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded
   England and forced HM gov't to flee across the Atlantic.
Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins", in <WM1>
   W: Nixon was elected president in 1960 and Johnson in 1964 and 1968.
   S: In 1972, "the senator" runs again. Upset by his change of heart on the
   Vietnam war, "Lee" decides to shoot him and his running-mate in Dallas.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Another Goddamned Showboat", in <WM2>
   W: Ernest Hemingway became a hack science fiction writer.
   S: In 1941, Hemingway is still struggling to get published when the latest
   issue of Amazing arrives, featuring a story by a kid named Asimov.
Malzberg, Barry N., CHORALE {Doubleday 78}
   S:
Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal", in <AP>
   W: JFK argued with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the presidential
   election campaign of 1960.
   S: A look at the losing campaign, as Bob Kennedy tries to cure his brother's
   self-destructive activities.
Malzberg, Barry N., "In the Stone House", in <AK>
   W: Joe Kennedy survived WW2 and was elected US president in 1952.
   S: Joe Kennedy's presidency collapses after the firing of SecState McCarthy
   and in 1963, Joe decided to end his brother's  for betraying the family.
Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75, DOWN HERE IN THE DREAM
   QUARTER {Doubleday 76} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES
   (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}
   W: Nixon was elected president in 1960.
   S: A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series
   of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish", in <AP>
   W: Huey Long survived the assassination attempt in 1935 and became president
   in 1936 by stealing away FDR's vice-president.
   S: John Nance Gardner tells how he struck a deal with the Kingfish, and then
   how they dealt with Hitler.
Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD {Ballantine 85}; exp of
   "Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed Torgeson)
   {Doubleday 80}
   W:
   S: Freud is murdered by a disappointed patient, only to be reincarnated
   aboard a spaceship whose crew need analysis.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Ship Full of Jews", in Omni Apr 92 and <WM4>
   W: Columbus carried several hundred deported Jews along during his first
   voyage.
   S: Columbus argues with a rabbi about conditions below decks. Meanwhile,
   over on the Santa Maria, Torquemada plots.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine", in <WM3>
   W: Radicals who took over the UChicago campus in 1968 went looking for the
   campus reactors.
   S: The radicals make extreme demands, forgetting that LBJ is a *vengeful*
   lame-duck.
Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy", in
   Fortnightly Apr 41
   W: William IV's heir was male.
   S: Effect of British retention of Hanover on German reunification and the
   worlds wars.
Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS I {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD {Bantam 88}
------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY {Bantam 88}
------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE {Bantam 92}
------------------------, WILD CARDS XIII: CARD SHARKS {not yet published}
-------------------, & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND
   {Bantam xx}
   W: In 1946, a genetically-tailored virus from outer space was released in
   Earth's stratosphere, killing many but giving super powers to others.
   S: A series of "mosaic novels" explores the effect of the virus during the
   ensuing decades. Curiously, history isn't altered all that much.
   C: Also in series are Snodgrass' WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE and Milan's
   WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS.
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE FIRE SWORD {Avon 85}
   W: An alteration in the progeny of Henry II resulted in a different English
   royal succession. Also, magic works.
   S: A woman from our world visits a different olde England.
------------------------, THE CRYSTAL SWORD {Avon 88}
   S:
Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW {Lancer 71}
   Exiles from different N Americas of 1965 meet.
Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WIE>
   W: Napoleon was struck down by appendicitis in Mar 1808.
   C: The avoidance of invasions of Spain and Russia leads to greater success
   later, with the US and Russia as nominal French allies.
Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Louis XVI were more stubborn, retaining Turgot as finance minister.
   S: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia
   entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820).
Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM {Doubleday 73}
   W: By asking the voters if they could trust Nixon for 4 more years, George
   McGovern was elected president in 1972.
   S: An administration insider describes how McGovern's strong moral compass
   is diverted by playing politics to get his policies enacted.
McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb", in <WM3>
   W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, leading to
   the complete break-up of Rome and a never-ending dark age.
   S: C. 1700, a young man meets an old man excavating a tomb in a ruined city.
McDonald, Ian, "The Best & the Rest of James Joyce", in Interzone Apr 92
   W: James Joyce took up another occupation than writing.
   S: Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he
   pursued other paths.
McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision", in Analog Oct 92
   W: Aborigines in Australia progressed much much faster, developing steam
   engines by 22000 BC, atomic power by 10000 BC and rockets by 800 BC.
   S: Aborigines decide to stop Columbus' expedition to order to save the world
   from Europeans.
Meredith, Richard C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE {Putnam's 73; Berkley 75; Playboy
   79}
   An agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain suppressed
   American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders.
---------------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND {Doubleday 766; Playboy 79}
   Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another
   colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest.
---------------------, VESTIGES OF TIME {Doubleday 78; Playboy 79}
   And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome.
Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! {Ballantine 76}
   W: Chicago did not burn in Oct 1871.
   S: A time-hopper, fleeing an American religious dictatorship in a history
   in which Nazi Germany nuked Chicago, recuperates in 1871 Chicago.
Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS {Doubleday 51; Galaxy SF Novel #12 52;
   Modern Literary Editions xx}; exp of "The House of Many Worlds", in
   Startling Stories Sep 51
   Time guardians intervene in affairs in divergent worlds, including one where
   Aaron Burr conquered and reshaped the USA.
Merwin, Sam, "Three Faces of Time", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 55}; exp of
   "Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53
   Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient
   Rome.
Miesel, Sandra, DREAMRIDER {Ace 82}; as SHAMAN {Baen 89}
   S:
Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS {Bantam 93}
   C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
Miller, John J.: see Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller
Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in Analog Nov 91
   A scientist discovers that time travelers cause the formation of impermanent
   alternate "virtual" timelines when they make changes in history.
Minogue, Kenneth, "What if Karl Marx had drowned in a cross-Channel ferry
   accident (1847)", in <WIE>
   W: As the title says.
   C: The revolutionary and "Communist" movements that have plagued Europe
   would have been reduced to a few feeble revolts.
Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN {Ace 87}
   A Bret Harte descendant attempts to make his ancestor the literary giant of
   1900 by arranging for Mark Twain's success in the gold fields.
Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR {Ace 84}
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS {Ace 86}
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC {Ace 89}
   W: Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth, and Rome was never weakened by
   Christianity.
   S: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes
   Caesar.
Mitchell, V.E., "Against the Night", serial in Amazing May-Jun 92
   W:
   S: WW2 in which the secret British plan to create an aircraft carrier out of
   a piece of the Greenland ice shelf was carried out.
Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in <IAsfm> Sep 91 and <AP>
   W: Andrew Jackson's image was tarnished by a land-dealing scandal, leading
   to Davey Crockett becoming president in 1828.
   S: Just as the Confederacy wins its independence in 1853, a soldier recounts
   how the flight of a slave may have broken the Compromise of 1850.
Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD {Manor 77}
   Soldiers from post-nuclear war USA are thrown back to 1860, where they help
   create an AmerInd nation and a Free State of New Mexico.
Montville, Leigh, "What If? Bubbles and the Babe", in Sports Illustrated
   [Classic] Fall 91
   W: Henry Frazee's mistress prevented him from trading Babe Ruth to the New
   York Yankees in 1919.
   S: Reminiscing about the many men who played for the Boston Red Sox, the
   greatest dynasty in baseball history.
Moorcock, Michael, GLORIANA; OR, THE UNFULFILL'D QUEEN. BEING A ROMANCE
   {Allison & Busby 78; Fontana 78; Avon 79; Warner/Popular Library 86}
   W: Refugees from Troy founded a new empire in Britain.
   S: Political machinations in London, capital of Elizabethan-level Albion,
   which is ruled by a virgin queen.
Moorcock, Michael, THE NOMAD OF TIME {Doubleday/SFBC xx}
>---------------<, THE WARLORD OF THE AIR {New English Library 71; Ace 71;
   rev Quartet 78; DAW 78; Granada 81}
   Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace
   has maintained European imperialism.
>---------------<, THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE {Doubleday
   74; Quartet 74; DAW 76}
   Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development did
   the world no good.
>---------------<, THE STEEL TSAR {DAW 82}
   Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese
   invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili.
Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN {DC Comics xx}; reprints 12-issue comic
   book series {DC Comics 86-87}
   W: Costumed vigilantes appeared in 1939 and a real superhero with
   superpowers was created in 1959 by an accident in a nuclear research lab.
   S: In 1986, Nixon is still president, someone is killing old costumed heroes
   and nuclear war looks imminent. Why are the latter two related?
Moore, C.L.: see Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore
Moore, Ward, BRING THE JUBILEE {Farrar, Straus & Young 53; Ballantine 53;
   Avon 72}; exp of "Bring the Jubilee", in <f&sf> Nov 52 and <FCW>
   W: Confederates occupied the Round Tops during the first day of Gettysburg,
   leading to victory in the battle and Confederate independence.
   S: An historian from a fifth-rate 1952 US, overshadowed by the CSA and
   the Germanic Union, travels back to Gettysburg, 1 Jul 1863.
Moore, Ward, "A Class with Dr. Chang", in <BT>
   W: The Sino-German alliance defeated Japan and won WW2.
   S: A Chinese-American history prof at UC-Monterey finds that his students
   are violently bigoted.
Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES {Bantam 88}
   In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set out
   to prevent the nuclear war of 2007.
Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IHB>
   W: Adenauer did not ignore Stalin's proposal for German re-unification.
   C: His five reasons for exploring the idea, plus some commentary about the
   all-German election of 1954.
Morris, Howard L., "Not by Sea", in If Feb 66
   W: Napoleon used balloons to invade England.
   S: Foiling the invasion.
Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WM2> and <90AW>
   W: Lincoln made peace with the Confederacy in 1863.
   S: Through time travel, Lincoln gets a look at slavery in 2009.
Morrow, James, "Arms and the Woman", in Amazing Jul 91 and <WM3>
   W: Upon finding out that the Trojan War was being fought over her, Helen
   decided she didn't need the guilt.
   S: Notified of Helen's desire to end the war, the leaders of both sides
   aren't having any of it.
Morrow, James, "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant", in <WM1>
   W: Moses couldn't get a replacement set for the tablets he smashed on the
   golden calf, and society had to be constructed without them.
   S: An attempt to computer-reconstruct the law of Moses from the tablet
   shards, which have been saved.
Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON: A NOVEL {Simon & Schuster 75; Macmillan
   75}
   W: Hitler attacked the Soviet Union immediately instead of toying with
   Greece and Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, Japan attacked Vladivostok.
   S: A young officer and a maverick bishop get involved in a last-ditch
   attempt to topple Hitler.
Murphy, Walter F., "What if Peter had been Pope During World War II?", in
   <WIE>
   W: God re-ran history, with Pope Pius XII changed to have St. Peter's moral
   fiber.
   C: The Oct 1943 roundup of Roman Jews leads the Pope to criticize the 3rd
   Reich and Great Britain, and the Nazis attack the Vatican.
Murrin, John M., "No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual
   Speculations", in Reviews in American History Jun 83
   W: Three men who powered the American Great Awakening did not do so.
   C: Scholarly rgument that minus the evangelical movement, the revolution
   would still occur and independence probably gained, but no Civil War.
Nabokov, Vladmir, ADA, OR ARDOR: A FAMILY CHRONICLE {McGraw-Hill 69; McGraw-
   Hill 86; Vintage 90}
   W:
   S:
National Lampoon, editors of, "Grand Fifth Term Inaugural Issue: JFK's First
   6,000 Days", in Nat'l Lampoon Feb 77
   W: Jackie Kennedy died in Dallas instead of JFK.
   S: A whimsical look at Kennedy's first 16 years, including his marriage to
   Christina Onassis and military intervention in N Ireland.
Nelson, Ray, BLAKE'S PROGRESS {Laser 75}
   William Blake, his wife and others travel through time changing how things
   turn out. In one instance, the Romans never defeat the Egyptians.
Nesbitt, Mark, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON GETTYSBURG {Reliance 80}
   W: The CSA won the battle.
   S: Details of how Lee could have won the battle. Final chapter speculates on
   possible historical impact.
Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone 23 and <YB6>
   W: H.G. Wells' book THE WAR OF THE WORLDS was not fiction.
   S: A Martian gets a job in Hollywood.
Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "Ten Days That Shook the World", in Aboriginal
   Jul/Aug 91
   W: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, but was assassinated at a labor
   strike before the inauguration.
   S: The US gov't takes harsher actions against labor organizers, etc,
   thereby provoking a revolution. Meanwhile, Mexico retakes much of Texas.
Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne, "The Wandering Christian", in TALES OF THE
   WANDERING JEW (ed Stableford) {Daedalus 91}
   W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, creating a
   world in which Jews gained the power Christians had in our world.
   S: In the year 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew is present at the great
   battle pitting the Jews against the Muslims and Zoroastrians.
Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Lord Byron did not die of a fever in 1824.
   S: An overview of Byron's life from 1824 to 1854, including how he became
   king of Greece in 1831 and his wife's attempts to usurp power.
Nimersheim, Jack, "A Fireside Chat", in <AP>
   W: Warren Harding died during the campaign of 1920, putting James Cox in the
   White House. But Cox died too and his Veep became president.
   S: In 1923, President Franklin Roosevelt meets with German Chancellor Adolf
   Hitler, who successfully pulled off the Beer Hall Putsch.
Niven, Larry, "All the Myriad Ways", in Galaxy Oct 68, <WoM>, ALL THE MYRIAD
   WAYS {Ballantine 71}, GALAXY: THIRTY YEARS OF INNOVATIVE SCIENCE FICTION
   (eds Pohl et al) {Playboy 80; Wideview 81}, N-SPACE {Tor 90}, etc
   W: The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to nuclear exchange.
   S: A detective investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime
   Corporation.
Niven, Larry, "Bird in the Hand", in <f&sf> Oct 70, WORLD'S BEST SCIENCE
   FICTION: 71 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 71} and THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE
   {Ballantine 73}
   Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto.
Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 73}
   Post-holocaust time-traveler creates our timeline by preventing a blow-up
   resulting from the Cuban missile crisis.
Niven, Larry, "The Return of William Proxmire", in <WM1> and N-SPACE {Tor
   90}
   W: SF author Robert Heinlein did not resign from the navy.
   S: Sen. Proxmire tries to destroy NASA by preventing Heinlein from becoming
   a writer.
Niven, Larry, "There's a Wolf in My Time Machine", in <f&sf> Jun 71, THE
   FLIGHT OF THE HORSE {Ballantine 73}, ZOO 2000 (ed Yolen) {Seabury 73} and
   <BAW>
   A time traveler strays sideways to a timeline where the dominant inhabitants
   developed from wolves instead of hominids.
Nolan, William F., "The Worlds of Monty Wilson", in Amazing Jul 71, ALIEN
   HORIZONS {Pocket 74} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES (eds
   Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}
   In 1990, a NASA employee suddenly "shifts" to a timeline where Sirhan Sirhan
   missed Robert Kennedy and Apollo 11 met disaster.
Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION {Warner 73}
   W: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
   S: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York.
Norton, Andre, THE CROSSROADS OF TIME {Ace 56; Gregg 78}
   Caught in a fight between crosstimers, a man from our world is stranded on
   one where the Axis attacked US coasts after England's fall.
-------------, QUEST CROSSTIME {Viking 65; Ace 65}; as CROSSTIME AGENT
   {Gollancz 75}
   Further adventures in a world where Richard III won at Bosworth in 1485 and
   Cortez's death prevented the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.
Norton, Andre, WRAITHS OF TIME {Atheneum 76; Fawcett Crest xx; Tor 92}
   Adventures and magic in an African empire of a world where Islam never got
   started.
Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN {Paperback Library 67}
   Attempts to transmit matter between planets opens a path to another
   universe, with so much damage the alternate has to destroy the transmitter.
Nurse, Patricia, "One Rejection Too Many", <IAsfm> Jul-Aug 78
   A woman submitting SF stories written by a time-traveler to <IAsfm> gets
   upset with their continual rejection and decides to make some changes.
Nye, Jody Lynn, "The Father of His Country", in <AP>
   W: Ben Franklin was elected president in 1789 rather than Washington.
   S: Franklin manipulates the government by using pseudonymous newspaper
   writings to influence public opinion, un-nerving Veep John Adams.
Oltion, Jerry, "Red Alert", in Analog Oct 91 and <WM4>
   W: Montezuma kicked the Spaniards out of Mexico and N AmerInds had similar
   success, leaving only the European colony on Manhattan Island.
   S: The Cuban Missile Crisis, recast in the 1800s as the Iroquois Federation
   inter-tribal air force vs. Manhattan.
Orgill, Michael, "Many Rubicons", in <BT>
   W: MacArthur invaded China against orders and later set himself up as US
   dictator.
   S: MacArthur turns to psychic exploration of alternate possibilities to find
   out where he went wrong.
O'Rourke, P.J., "The Seventies that Never Happened", in Nat'l Lampoon Feb 80
   W: The counterculture took over the US.
   S:
Overgard, William, THE DIVIDE {Jove 80}
   W: Axis powers using jets and V-4 rockets defeated and partitioned America.
   S: Thirty years later, the American resistance develops the atomic bomb.
Padgett, Lewis, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", in Astounding Jan-Feb 47, TOMORROW
   AND TOMORROW AND THE FAIRY CHESSMEN {Gnome 51} and TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
   {Consul 51}
   S:
Padgett, Lewis, & C.L. Moore, BEYOND HEAVEN'S GATES, in Ace Double D-69
   {Ace 54}; exp of Padgett's "The Portal in the Picture", in Startling
   Stories Sep 49
   A man and woman fall into a non-Christian parallel run by alchemic priests,
   who believe our New York is Paradise.
Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IHB>
   W: Thiers accepted the appointment to be French Minister of War as the
   Franco-Prussian War began.
   C: Thiers' diary demonstrates how he used his position to prevent French
   aggressive action which would provoke a German unification.
Peirce, Hayford, NAPOLEON DISENTIMED {Tor 87}
   W: The Ottomans invaded Russia c 1697, preventing its rise to power and
   leaving it helpless before Napoleon a century later.
   C: Cross- and vertical time travel adventure involving an attempt to prevent
   Napoleon's European takeover.
Percy, H.R., "Letter from America", in <BT> and VISIONS FROM THE EDGE (ed
   Bell) {Pottersfield 81}
   W: The French won the Battle of Quebec and took over Britain's American
   territories at the end of the French and Indian War.
   S: An annotated letter from a 1975 Boston terrorist seeking Soviet aid for a
   British-American revolt against the Republic of New France.
Person, Lawrence, "Details", in <IAsfm> Apr 91
   A man tries to cope with slow but steady reality shifts.
Person, Lawrence, "Huddled Masses", in <AP>
   W: Walter Mondale beat Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election, and Nicaragua
   took the opportunity to export revolution.
   S: In 1979, while US forces intervene in the Mexican civil war, refugees
   overwhelm the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Houston.
Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy", in Weekly Westminster 30 Jan 26,
   THE JACOBITE MOVEMENT: THE LAST PHASE, 1716-1807 {Eyre & Spottiswoode 50}
   and <IHO,C>
   W: In 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie decided at Derby to continue his advance
   into England and the Hanoverians fled.
   S: Review of the Stuart restoration and speculation on how the Hanoverians
   would have mucked things up, particularly in America.
Pignotti, Lorenzo, + John Browning (tr), THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY {Black,
   Young & Young 1823}; orig STORIA DELLA TOSCANA
   W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die 1492.
   S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
Piper, H. Beam, "Crossroads of Destiny", in Fantastic Universe Jul 59 and THE
   WORLDS OF H. BEAM PIPER {Ace 83}
   W: George Washington died at Germantown.
   S: TV execs discuss an AH TV series, not realizing one participant is from a
   different timeline.
Piper, H. Beam, LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN {Ace 65; Garland 75}; as GUNPOWDER
   GOD {Sphere 1978}; rev of "Gunpowder God", in Analog Nov 64 and TIME WARS
   (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86}, and "Down Styphon", in Analog Nov 65 and
   ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF SOLDIERS (eds Adams et al) {Signet 88}
   W: Bronze Age Indo-Aryans crossed the Bering straight to colonize America.
   S: A Penn state trooper is transported to a N America where priests of
   Styphon exert political control through their monopoly on gunpowder.
   C: Sequels are Green & Carr's GREAT KINGS' WAR and "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos"
   and Carr & Green's "Kalvan Kingmaker".
Piper, H. Beam, PARATIME {Ace 81}
>------------<, "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, THE
   GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Amis) {Hutchinson 81; Penguin 83}, <GS10>,
   SPACE MAIL (eds Asimov et al), <AH>, etc
   W: Burgoyne won at Saratoga, forestalling American independence and the Age
   of Revolution.
   S: Germans investigate a man claiming to be a British diplomat and carrying
   documents regarding some nonexistent French emperor named Napoleon.
>------------<, "Police Operation", in Astounding Jul 48, SPACE POLICE (ed
   Norton) {Cleveland 56}, ANALOG: THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed anon.) and
   THE BEST OF ASTOUNDING (ed Lewis) {Baronet 78}
>------------<, "Last Enemy", in Astounding Aug 50, ASTOUNDING SF ANTHOLOGY
   (ed Campbell) {Simon & Schuster 52} and <BAW>
>------------<, "Temple Trouble", in Astounding Apr 51
>------------<, "Time Crime", in Astounding Feb-Mar 55
   Tales of the Paratime Police guarding the crosstime byways. All Earths shown
   are exotic locales with no clear divergence from (or similarity to) ours.
Pirie-Gordon, C.H.: see Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon
Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Had Been No Welfare State?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Pitney, John J., Jr., "What If There Were Three Major Parties?", in <WIA>
   W: FDR was killed in 1933, and when Jack Garner instituted no New Deal,
   Huey Long ran for president in 36 as a Populist.
   C: The many ways in which presidential elections could get hung up in the
   Electoral College or Congress if there were three equi-strength parties.
Pohl, Frederick, THE COMING OF THE QUANTUM CATS {Bantam 86}
   In a US ruled by a militaristic regime, crosstime travel is used to steal
   better technology. Several versions of the same person get caught up.
Pohl, Frederick, "The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass", in Galaxy Jun 62,
   DAY MILLION {Ballantine 70}, 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES
   (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}, etc
   S: A man travels back to 1 AD Rome and teaches modern medicine, causing a
   population explosion.
   C: Satire of de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL.
Pohl, Frederick, "Let the Ants Try", in Planet Stories Winter 49, ALTERNATING
   CURRENTS {Ballantine 56} and BEYOND THE END OF TIME {Doubleday 52;
   PermaBooks 52}
   Following a nuclear war, a scientist carries some mutated ants 40 Myr into
   the past and returns to find his present irrevocably altered.
Pohl, Frederick, "Target One", in Galaxy Apr 55 and ALTERNATING CURRENTS
   {Ballantine 56}
   Victims of a nuclear war decide to go back in time and kill Einstein.
Pohl, Frederik "The Reunion at the Mile-High", in FOUNDATION'S FRIENDS (ed
   Greenberg) {Tor 89} and INSIDE THE FUNHOUSE (ed Resnick)
   W: Hearing about Einstein's letter to FDR, a biochemist wrote a similar
   letter proposing a crash study of biological warfare.
   S: Fred Pohl attends the 50th anniversary meeting of The Futurians and
   listens to Isaac Asimov tell a reporter about the typhus bomb.
Pohl, Frederick, "Waiting for the Olympians", in <IAsfm> Aug 88, <89AW> and
   <WM1>
   W: Jeshua of Nazareth was not executed for sedition and Rome never fell. Two
   millennia later, aliens announce their imminent arrival.
   S: It is suggested to a sci-rom author in a rut that he try writing a "What
   If?" book, but he can't see the point of it.
Polsby, Nelson W., "What if Robert Kennedy had not been assassinated (1968)",
   in <WIE>
   W: As the title says.
   C: Speculation on the success of a Humphrey-Kennedy Democrat ticket.
Poyer, David C., THE SHILOH PROJECT {Avon 81}
   W: Pickett's Charge succeeded and the Confederacy won at Gettysburg,
   leading to British recognition of the CSA and Confederate independence.
   S: 120 years later, both Confederacy and Underground Railroad plan to hijack
   a Union nuclear artillery shell being shipped past Hampton Roads. 
Poyer, Joe, TUNNEL WAR {Atheneum 79}
   W: Construction of the Chunnel started 80 years earlier.
   S: Germany attempts to sabotage the project in 1911.
Pratt, Fletcher, THE BLUE STAR {Ballantine 69; Ballantine 75}; rev of "The
   Blue Star", in WITCHES THREE {Twayne 52}
   W: Gunpowder was never invented. Also, magic works.
   S:
Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
-------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG
-------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIG HORN
   S:
Reich, Tova, "Mengele in Jerusalem", in Harper's Jun 86
   W: Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor, hid in Jerusalem,
   S: The search for Mengele has an unusual conclusion.
Reilly, Rick, "What If? Short By a Nose", in Sports Illustrated [Classic]
   Fall 1992
   W: A sneeze by Jerry Kramer resulted in the Dallas Cowboys winning the 1967
   NFL championship rather than the Green Bay Packers.
   S: The decisive play of the game, plus comments on the futures of Kramer,
   the Packers and the Cowboys.
Resnick, Laura, "A Fleeting Wisp of Glory", in <AK>
   W: The Cuban missile crisis blew up.
   S: Centuries after Armageddon, legends of the two Camelots become entwined.
Resnick, Laura, "We Are Not Amused", in <AP>
   W: Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate, was elected US president
   in 1872.
   S: Series of letters from Queen Victoria to the radical feminist president,
   at first expressing approval but not later.
Resnick, Mike, "The Bull Moose at Bay", in <IAsfm> Nov 91 and <AP>
   W: Theodore Roosevelt was not wounded during the 1912 assassination attempt,
   leaving him healthy enough to successfully campaign for president.
   S: Four years later, as TR anticipates defeat by Woodrow Wilson, he
   discusses women's suffrage with various friends and allies.
Resnick, Mike, "Bully!", in <IAsfm> Sep 91, BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double
   #33) {Tor 91}, BULLY! (Axolotl 90) and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE
   PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? {Tor 92}
   W: When told during a 1910 safari that 50 white men would join him to tame
   Africa, Teddy Roosevelt did not turn the offer down.
   S: How TR tried to create a republic of the Congo, ousting the Belgians but
   ultimately failing due to the non-democratic traditions of the natives.
Resnick, Mike "Lady in Waiting", in <AK>
   W: Marilyn Monroe did not become an actress.
   S: Washington, DC, waitress Norma Jean gets picked up by the president for
   a one-night stand and futilely dreams of becoming first lady.
Resnick, Mike, "The Light That Blinds, the Claws That Catch", in <IAsfm> Jul
   92 and WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN?
   {Tor 92}
   W: Alice Roosevelt did not die on 14 Feb 1884.
   S: To protect his wife's fragile health, husband Teddy lives a quiet life as
   a naturalist, but dreams of greater accomplishments.
Resnick, Mike, "Over There", in <IAsfm> Apr 91, <WM3> and WILL THE LAST
   PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE SHUT OFF THE SUN? {Tor 92}
   W: Under duress, Woodrow Wilson in May 1917 gave Teddy Roosevelt permission
   to re-form the Rough Riders and go to France.
   S: TR discovers that the natures of war and the enemy have changed in 20
   years.
Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing, THE OTHER TIME {Simon & Schuster 84; Baen 84}
   An archaeologist is displaced in time and has a chance to witness the
   Spanish conquest of Mexico. He wonders if he can change history.
Reynolds, Mack: see also Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds
Reynolds, Pamela, EARTH TIMES TWO {Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd 70}
   Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the
   advance of technology.
Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in <f&sf> Dec 65
   S:
Richardson, Hal, "The Time of Fear", in Melbourne Argus 28 Jul-6 Sep 56
   W: Japan won the Battle of the Coral Sea.
   S: Life in occupied Australia.
Riker, William H., "What if Elbridge Gerry had been more rational and less
   patriotic? (1787)", in <WIE>
   W: One of the delegates from Massachusetts voted "no" on a motion, causing
   the US constitutional convention in 1787 to fail.
   C: Speculation on the consequences, including the breakup of the US into a
   number of warring "states" and the non-existence of Canada (map included).
Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD {Doubleday 83; Tor 86}
   W: Saxons and Vikings established strong settlements in N America.
   S: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern N America takes part in the Mongol
   conquest of Mexico.
Roberts, Keith, PAVANE {Doubleday 68; Ace 68; Berkley 76}
>------------<, "The Signaller", in Impulse Mar 66, ANOTHER WORLD (ed Dozois)
   {Follett 77} and THE BEST OF BRITISH SF 2 (ed Ashley) {Futura 77}
>------------<, "The Lady Anne" (aka "The Lady Margaret"), in Impulse Apr 66,
   A DAY IN THE LIFE (ed Dozois) {Harper & Row 72}, <AH> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF
   SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) {Legend 91} (aka MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE
   FICTION {St. Martin's 92, 93})
>------------<, "Brother John", in Impulse May 66
>------------<, "Lords and Ladies", in Impulse Jun 66
>------------<, "Corfe Gate", in Impulse Jul 66
>------------<, "The White Boat", in New Worlds Dec 66 and THE GRAIN KINGS
   {Hutchinson 76}
   W: Elizabeth I was assassinated, the Armada triumphed and Europe and the New
   World languished under 500 years of Church rule.
   S: Steam locomotives and heroic semaphore operators represent modern-day
   high-tech. Secret quasi-priesthood of scientists hunted by Inquisition.
Roberts, Keith, "Weihnacht[s]abend", in NEW WORLDS QUARTERLY NO. 4 (ed
   Moorcock) {Berkley 72}, THE GRAIN KINGS {Hutchinson 76}, THE PASSING OF
   DRAGONS, <HV> and THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Hartwell)
   {Little, Brown 89}
   W: A junta overthrew George VI and Churchill in 1940, then made peace with
   the Axis.
   S: A girl disappears during the joint celebration of Christmas and the Hunt
   on an occupied-British estate.
Roberts, Ralph, "How the South Preserved the Union", in <AP>
   W: In 1849, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore were killed in an accident,
   elevating the Senate president pro tem to the US presidency.
   S: David Atchison's presence in the White House provokes the abolitionist
   North into secession, leading to a different Civil War.
Robinett, Stephen, "Helbent 4", in Galaxy Oct 75, <76AW>, THE BEST FROM
   GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed Baen) {Award 76} and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF
   THE YEAR, FIFTH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Del Rey) {Dutton 76}
   A "man" sent to fight aliens returns to Earth 300 years later but it isn't
   the Earth he left. The new one thinks he's the menace.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed Carr)
   {Doubleday 84}, <YB2>, NEBULA AWARDS 20 (ed Zebrowski) {HBJ 85}, <AH>, THE
   PLANET ON THE TABLE {Tor 87}, THERE WON'T BE WAR (eds Harrison & McAllister)
   {Tor 91}, etc
   W: The "Enola Gay" crashed on a practice flight.
   S: The "Lucky Strike" is selected to bomb Hiroshima, but its bombardier is
   horrified by the power of the atomic bomb.
----------------------, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in
   REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 91} and Author's Choice Monthly #xx
   C: An essay on quantum physics and AH, with various possible outcomes of the
   bombing of Hiroshima described.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "Remaking History", in <IAsfm> Mar 89, <WM1> and
   REMAKING HISTORY {Tor 91}
   W: The 1980 rescue of the hostages in Iran succeeded.
   S: A lunar film company remakes the DeNiro classic ESCAPE FROM TEHERAN and
   discusses Great Men and Women.
Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING
   CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C.
   {Cassell 35; Arno 78}
   W: Arthur Plantagenet escaped from King John.
   S: Arthur becomes King of Jerusalem and later returns to England to
   overthrow his uncle.
Romano, Deane, FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE {Walker 72; Fitzhenry & Whiteside 72}
   Astral projection to Muslim- and Nazi-dominated Earths.
Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF
   VIRGINIA {Morrow 90}
   In 1836, an expedition including Edgar Allen Poe set out for the S Pole to
   locate the entrance to the Earth's hollow interior.
Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo, "Instability", in <WM2>
   W: Members of the Beat Generation decided to disrupt an H-bomb test.
   S: William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and John von Neumann intersect at
   White Sands.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "The Best and the Brightest", in <AK>
   W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1964.
   S: A black reporter faces a personal crisis when he is given evidence that
   Kennedy ordered an assassination attempt on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Fighting Bob", in <AP>
   W: Progressive Party candidate Robert La Follette was elected US president
   in 1924, but died in 1925 during a stalemate with Congress.
   S: Six years later, family, friends and enemies of La Follette meet to argue
   over the Wisconsin Senate race, breaking open old wounds.
Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN {Bantam 75; Gregg 77; Beacon 86}
   Interaction of a woman from a future where a plague killed all men, a 1960s
   woman from a timeline where WW2 didn't happen, and the author.
Rutman, Leo, CLASH OF EAGLES {Ballantine 90}
   W: The Nazis enjoyed enough success in Europe that they could invade the US.
   S:
Ryan, J.B., "The Mosaic", in Astounding Jul 40
   A time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours.
Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY {Bantam 87}
   W:
   S: A look at the Pol Pot period in Cambodia.
Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS {Tor 83}
   A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines.
Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN {Ace 79; Tor 87}
   Descendants of the Inca Empire recruit soldiers from other time periods to
   stop the Spanish conquests in yet other timelines.
Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John
   Marshall (1803)", in <WIE>
   W: Congress impeached and removed Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall from
   office.
   C: Scholarly history describing the "crippling" of the American legal
   system, ending in impeachment of justices who supported abortion in 1973.
Sanders, William, JOURNEY TO FUSANG {Warner/Questar 8x}
   W: The Mongols sacked Europe from Moscow to Cordova, leaving the Moors and
   Chinese to discover the New World during the 16th century.
   S: In the late 1600s, an Irish rogue adrift in N America sets his sights on
   Chinese California but must first cope with a Cossack army loose in the SW.
Sanders, William, THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY {Warner/Questar 91}
   W: With British help, the Confederacy won the Civil War.
   S: The sole member of the Cherokee air force is attached to a Confederate
   squadron fighting in France in 1916.
Sarban, THE SOUND OF HIS HORN {Davies 52; Ballantine 60}
   A man escapes a Nazi POW camp in 1943 and falls into the future of a world
   where Germany won WW2.
Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WM4>
   W: The Mongols conquered mainland Europe and crossed the Atlantic.
   S: Led by the son of the khan of France, the Iriquois federation moves to
   drive the English out of New England.
Saunders, Jake, "Back to the Stone Age", in LONE STAR UNIVERSE (eds Proctor
   & Utley) {Heidelberg 76} and BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR, SIXTH
   ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois) {Dutton 77; Ace 78}
   W: Disaster at Oak Ridge scrapped the Manhattan Project, and the US decided
   not to invade Japan.
   S: In 1954, random bombers fly over the bombed-out Japanese islands,
   eliminating any signs of human activity they happen to find.
Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices", in Astounding Dec 33
   S:
Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost
   Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 77}
   Mental time travelers examining Beethoven's creative process drive the
   composer mad before he can complete the Ode to Joy.
Scortia, Thomas N., ARTERY OF FIRE {Doubleday 72; Popular Library 72}; exp of
   "Artery of Fire", in Original Science Fiction Stories Mar 60
   S:
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.

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