From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Subject: LIST: Alternate Histories (2/5) (850 lines)
Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:47:54 GMT


Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <f&sf> May 72
   W: Italy invented the first atomic bomb and won WW2.
   S: An Occupying Forces MP harasses the customers in an Amerian barbershop.
   Later, the barber discovers his straight razor has disappeared.
deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <f&sf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
   S:
Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 {Cape 78; G.K. Hall 79;
   Knopf 79; Ballantine 80; Curley 92}
   W: Germany won the Battle of Britain.
   S: A Scotland Yard detective tries to raise his motherless son and
   investigate a murder in occupied England.
Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66}
   Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States.
Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice", in <AP>
   W: Dewey ousted Roosevelt from the White House in 1944.
   S: Rather than bomb Hiroshima, Dewey orders that a demonstration shot of the
   atomic bomb be given, but the Japanese refuse to surrender.
Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians", in Christian
   Century 7-14 Jan 76
   W: In 1813, southern AmerInds joined with Tecumseh to oppose both the US and
   Britain in the War of 1812, earning themselves a seat at Ghent.
   S: Sharing N America leads to a more humane society, despite such troubles
   as the presidential succession crisis of 1876 and the buffalo war of 1880.
Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF {Heinemann 26}
   W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages.
   S:
Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in <f&sf> Jul 92
   W: After his brother was killed by Unionists in 1861, Sam Clemens decided
   to remain in Missouri rather than move west to Nevada.
   S: Joining Quantrill's raiders just in time for the attack on Lawrence,
   Kansas, Clemens begins to wonder about the mess he's gotten into.
Denton, Bradley, WRACK & ROLL {Popular Library 86, 0-445-20306-4}
   W: Roosevelt choked on a chicken bone in 1933, and Patton rolled into Russia
   after the fall of Germany.
   S: NASA is destroyed by fans after a 1967 lunar disaster kills a rock star.
   In 1979, her daughter goes on tour.
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.
Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator ...",
   in <WIE>
   W: As the title says.
   C: The "witch-hunts" might not have occurred and opposition to Communism
   might not have acquired so many anti-intellectual overtones.
Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in Science Fiction Age Nov 92
   W: Anne Frank was sent to America in 1939
   S: Anne Frank goes to Hollywood and replaces Judy Garland (who died in a car
   crash) in THE WIZARD OF OZ
Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in <f&sf> Feb 91
   W: Harry Truman became a career soldier, Robert Heinlein went into politics,
   and atomic and rocket research moved at a much faster pace.
   S: In a 1948 Heinleinian America, an SF writer meets the president and is
   recruited for a mission to the Moon to hunt down Axis refugees.
Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92
   S:
Di Filippo: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo
Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE {Ace 66}
   W: Sinanthropes rather than man's predecessors became the dominant primates.
   S: The future of our world tries to use this alternate world to relieve
   overpopulation problems.
Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE {Putnam's 62; Penguin 65; Berkley
   74; Gollancz 75; Gregg 79; Vintage 92}
   W: Before his 1933 inaugural, FDR was assassinated in Miami, which
   eventually led to the Axis winning WW2.
   S: Relations between Americans and their rulers, with light from the Tao and
   an AH novel about a world in which the Axis lost the war.
Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH {Arbor House 85; Avon 87}
   W:
   S:
Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER {Pantheon 76; G.K. Hall 76; Hodder &
   Stoughton 76; Avon 77}
----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING {Bodley Head 89; Pantheon 89; Thorndike
   90}
   W: Edward Duke of Clarence did not die in 1887 and became king of England in
   1910 rather than his brother George.
   S: Princess Louise (b. 1963) discovers some skeletons in the (royal) family
   closet and must solve some mysteries.
Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS
   W: The Nazis conquered Britain.
   S: A Dr. Who crosstime adventure.
Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened", in
   CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (ed B Disraeli) {Moxon 1849; Routledge, Warne &
   Routledge 1863; William Veazie 1864}
   Essay on possible alternatives in history, but without much development.
d'Ormesson, Jean, + Barbara Bray (tr), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE {Knopf 74};
   orig LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE
   W: Eurasia was united under a single empire.
   S:
Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR {New
   English Library 79; St. Martin's 80}
   W: An Aug 1941 plane crash left Hitler lying in a coma and Goering in charge
   of the 3rd Reich for 6 months.
   S: Left to its own devices the Wehrmacht took Moscow in Oct 1941. Also,
   details on Pearl Harbor, Malta, Cairo, Midway, Panama and Jerusalem.
Drake, David, FORTRESS {Tor 87, 88}
   W: JFK escaped assassination and gave further impetus to the US space
   program.
   S: Outer space saga in 1985.
Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in <IAsfm> Oct 92
   W: Nazi Germany invaded England and won at Stalingrad, thereby conquering
   Europe before the US could enter the war.
   S: In the early 1970s, the first American rock band to tour Nazi Europe
   tries to avoid provoking an incident, but the authorities have other plans.
Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY {F. Watts 87}
   W: Hitler was killed by a Russian attack while visiting the Eastern Front in
   Mar 1943 and his successors made peace with the US and Britain.
   S: In 1988, while hunting for a Red spy in the Berlin embassy, an American
   agent finds that Germany hasn't reformed as much as it pretends.
Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny", in <AP>
   W: Andrew Jackson outmaneuvered John Quincy Adams and was elected president
   in 1824, four years early.
   S: Jackson invested government money in biological research. 70 years later,
   George Washington Carver contemplates two job offers.
Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in
   <IHB>
   W: Gladstone appointed a more progressive Cabinet at the beginning of his
   2nd term as British Prime Minister.
   C: With his Cabinet's backing, Gladstone pushes through Parliament a Land
   Bill which would alleviate Irish unrest.
Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA {Ace 81}
   S: The US gov't, during Nixon's 4th term, sends a team back to alter the
   Council of Nicaea in 325 and the future course of East-West relations.
   C: Non-AH predecessor is THE SHIP THAT SAILED THE TIME STREAM.
Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor", in <WM1>
   An African-American physicist decides to use his time machine to alter a
   Civil War different from the one we remember.
Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY {Axolotl 90}
   W: An internat'l peacekeeping force intervened in the American Civil War.
   S:
Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat", in <AK>
   W: The "3rd Generation" of Kennedys included some extra children, including
   JFK's son Patrick.
   S: In 2000, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy runs for president with the aid of his
   numerous cousins, all intent on avoiding 1990s style marketing-politics.
Effinger, George Alec, RELATIVES: A NOVEL {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.
Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AW>, <YB6>
   and NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed Bishop) {Arbor House 88}
   An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist.
   Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory).
Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
   Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed Silverberg) {Harper & Row 76} and <BAW>
   W: In a fit of sanity, world leaders decided to postpone WW2.
   S: Excerpts from Effinger's book on how the WW2 of the 1970s was fought with
   automobiles instead of aircraft in order to conserve fuel.
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH {Dell 79}
   A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed.
Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE {DAW 74}
   A man from a timeline where the US went fascist after FDR's murder sets out
   to change the past and becomes dictator of Red America.
Eklund, Gordon, "The Karamazov Caper", in <WM4>
   W: Pope Innocent VIII was assassinated in 1486 and his successor suppressed
   knowledge of Columbus' voyage. Later, Bering "discovered" the Americas.
   S: 400 years later, tsarist agent Leon Trotsky investigates the ritualistic
   murder of a babe near Seattle.
Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <f&sf> Jan 81
   W: The Americas were discovered in 1219 by a Moslem, but not seriously
   colonized until Europeans showed up c. 1700.
   S: 100 years after AmerInds banded together to handle the immigration
   problem, Nazi Germany threatens war if scientist-refugees are not returned.
Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun", in <BT>
   W: Europe fell to the Moslems and was discovered by the Incas in 1600.
   S: In 1899, a renegade Arab inventor detonates an atomic weapon over Cuzco
   just as the city falls to the Aztecs.
Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME {Harlequin 75}
   A man from 2169 joins the Time Service and finds out that part of the job
   involves re-writing history; e.g., Washington's defeat on Long Island.
Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", in <AH>
   W: The North refused to enlist black soldiers during the Civil War, and
   blacks ejected whites from the South after devastating epidemics.
   S: Blacks have found that their only common language is the oppressor's
   English. Some refuse to speak until a better tongue is found.
Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH {Simon & Schuster 73}
   W: Jack Golsen did not bail out the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone in 1970,
   thus provoking the worst Wall Street crash in history.
   S: Description of the financial aftermath, plus Senate hearings revealing
   Wall Street's many excesses and consequent legislation.
Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK {Poseidon 89; Avon 89}
   W: The Nazis won WW2.
   S:
Esberey, Joy E., "What If There Were a Parliamentary System?", in <WIA>
   W: The US adopted a parliamentary form of government after the revolution.
   C:
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, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, <WoM>,
   THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79}, A TREASURY OF
   MODERN FANTASY (eds Carr & Greenberg) {Avon 81}, <GS14>, etc
   W: The world were flat, and Bacon developed a radio from theological
   principles.
   S: Columbus sails off the edge of Earth.
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 still at war.
Farren, Mick, NECROM {Ballantine 91, 0-345-36185-7}
   Crosstime adventurer visits an Aztec dominated modern Earth.
Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge", in <AP>
   W: Stephen Douglas won the election of 1860, but the Republican-controlled
   Senate still provoked Southern secession.
   S: In 1863, with the Union facing imminent disaster, General Abe Lincoln and
   his Illinois militia must lead an attack at Carrolton, Indiana.
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>
   W: Napoleon conquered Britain.
   S: A Britisher from our (?) timeline goes back in time to the Alamo, but its
   defenders behave like 20th-century liberals.
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)
   W: Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s.
   S: In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of the war have strange dreams of a world
   full of home computers, cable television, etc.
Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine", in Interzone 6 and INTERZONE: THE
   FIRST ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al) {J.M. Dent 85; St Martin's 85}
   W: Marilyn Monroe was elected president.
   S: When the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Marilyn tries a little personal
   diplomacy on Leonid Brezhnev.
Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal
   System?", in <WIA>
   W: The Constitution of 1787 were rejected, but after civil unrest, a more
   centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797.
   C: Description of a US government and political parties under a system in
   which states are little more than geographic regions.
Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause", in Amazing Feb 92 and <WM4>
   W: Sir Francis Drake planted the seed of Protestantism among AmerInds of the
   Pacific Coast.
   S: 200 years later, religious war breaks out when the Spanish begin their
   colonization of California.
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB {Bantam 85}
   Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
   Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WM2>
   W: A Swiss patent office employee quit his job to become a professional
   musician.
   S: As the USA drops a new type of bomb in Korea, a 75-year-old Einstein
   frets about whether he's wasted his life as a violin teacher.
Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace", in <HV>
   W: Rudolf Hess' flight was successful and a Pan-European federation began a
   1000-year peace.
   S: An attempt to use telepathy to rescue Hitler's adoptive son after an
   accident on the Moon.
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, etc
   Adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in Scribner's Jan 31,
   <IHO,ABC> and PAGES FROM THE PAST {Clarendon 39; Books for Libraries 69}
   W: Napoleon did not surrender after Waterloo but fled to Boston.
   S: L'empereur looks for new lands to conquer and focuses on S America,
   but will it be enough?
Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN
   1940, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES
   {Simon & Schuster 57; Ace xx; Greenwood 77}; as INVASION 1940: AN ACCOUNT OF
   THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES {Hart-Davis 57; Pan
   75}
   W: Germany occupied England in 1940 *or* made no invasion preparations at
   all.
   C: Mostly background material but chapter 20 discusses events which could
   not have occurred if either supposition were true.
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in Analog Jun 87
   W: The US never united, resulting in a collection of independent States
   fighting constant border wars.
   S: A crosstime traveler is stranded in a Wyoming Valley where Pennsylvania
   is fighting for control vs Virginia and New York.
Flynn, Michael F., IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND {Baen 90}
   W: Babbage perfected the Difference Engine.
   S: A secret society uses the machine to rule the world.
   C: Borderline secret history.
Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in Analog Mar 89
   W: Pizarro's 2nd expedition met with greater success.
   S: A member of the Shining Path goes back to ensure that Pizarro encounters
   the Inca Empire before civil war broke out.
Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY {Simon & Schuster 83;
   Avon 85}
   W: Byzantine emperor Julian mandated religious tolerance in the empire and
   Justinian had time to consolidate his gains. Also, magic works.
   S: A Welsh mage, Florentine doctor, German vampire and Greek mercenary
   become involved in England's Richard III's struggle for power.
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE
   FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka
   ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION)
   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.
Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in London Daily Mail xxx,
   Saturday Evening Post 16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE {Little Brown 70;
   Joseph 71; Pinnacle 76}
   W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
   S:
Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS, 3-issue comic book series {Caliber Comics
   90}
   W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church.
   S: Adventures of League of Nation operatives in the 20th century.
Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT> and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
   {Ballantine 77}
   W: Poland became an important player on the world stage, capable of putting
   down Hitler in 6 months.
   S: A secret Polish space project to impose world peace in an age of nuclear
   proliferation.
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WM1>
   W: The war between the sexes took a violent turn in 1872 when American women
   began to fight back against degradation.
   S: A woman betrayed by her boyfriend meets a traveler who says she can
   take her to a more equable world.
Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER {Ballantine 86}
---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT {Ballantine 89}
---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR {Ballantine 89}
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD {Ballantine 89}
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY {Ballantine 90}
   An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to
   defeat the coming Mongol invasion.
Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WIE>
   W: Nazi Germany developed atomic bombs by early 1944, dropping them on
   London and Leningrad in May.
   C: Speculation on the bombing and its consequences, delaying Normandy only a
   bit and still resulting in the defeat of the 3rd Reich.
Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD {NAL/Signet 88}
   W: During the reign of Claudius in Rome, a druid magically isolated Britain
   from the rest of the world.
   S: Mage-queen Victoria employs a Holmesian detective to find a stolen
   grimoire on which rests her authority.
Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships", in <AW>
   S:
Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <f&sf> Jan 92 and <WM4>
   W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus' voyage of discovery was
   instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant.
   S: As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus' ships return from
   meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold.
Friesner, Esther M., "Told You So", in <AK>
   W: Magic works. Also, after saving a leprechaun, John Kennedy was granted
   the power of making anything true merely by saying so.
   S: JFK begins to change the world for the better, but a misstatement in
   Berlin has disastrous effects.
Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55 and TAKEOFF!
   {Donning 80}
   W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study.
   S: Newton writes the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA.
Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY {Doubleday/SFBC 83}
   W: Richard Couer de Lion survived Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo-
   French kingdom to nephew Arthur. Also, magic was codified c. 1300.
>--------------<, MURDER AND MAGIC {Ace 79}
>>------------<<, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64, RULERS OF MEN (ed
   Santesson) {Pocket 65} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
   A lecherous count is killed and the best clue pointing to the perpetrator is
   the last thing the murdered man saw.
>>------------<<, "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64 and ANALOG 4 (ed
   Campbell) {Doubleday 66}
   The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks just like him is
   found dead near its harbor.
>>------------<<, "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL
   WONDER (ed McComas) {Random House 70}
   Just after the death of the Duke of Kent, his coffin is found occupied by
   the body of the Chief Investigator for the Duchy.
>>------------<<, "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE (ed
   Dickinsheet) {Doubleday 73}
   A book publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day.
>--------------<, TOO MANY MAGICIANS {Doubleday 67; Gregg 78, Ace xx};
   serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66
   Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a
   sorcerers' convention in London.
>--------------<, LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES {Ace 81}
>>------------<<, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and ALFRED
   HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed Lore) {Davis/Dial 83}
   A materialist count is killed when he is flung out of a window in his
   laboratory.
>>------------<<, "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76
   Lord Vauxhall dies after apparently aging 50 years in an hour, and the
   papers he was carrying have disappeared in his 16-room mansion.
>>------------<<, "The Ipswich Phial", in Analog Dec 76 and 13 CRIMES OF
   SCIENCE FICTION (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 79}
   During the search for a stolen magical weapon, a royal secret agent is found
   dead on an undisturbed beach in Normandy.
>>------------<<, "The Napoli Express", in <IAsfm> Apr 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S
   SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 79}
   A copy of a treaty between the Angevin Empire and Byzantium secretly travels
   to Athens via the Napoli Express for signing.
----------------, "The Bitter End", in <IAsfm> Sep-Oct 78; ISAAC ASIMOV'S
   SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka ISAAC
   ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed Jordan)
   {Davis/Dial 82}
   A drink of rat poison is used to murder a man in a bar, but magic is
   required to explain how the murderer disguised its bitter taste.
----------------, "The Spell of War", in THE FUTURE AT WAR I: THOR'S HAMMER
   (ed Bretnor) {Ace 79} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
   S: The first meeting of Lord Darcy and Master Sean, on a battlefield.
   C: See also Kurland's STUDY IN SORCERY, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS and THE UNICORN
   GIRL.
Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee",
   in <BT>
   Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence
   of Henry Ford.
Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 54}
   W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
   rule.
   S:
Gentry, Judith F., "What If the 1787 Constitution Had Provided for Equal
   Rights?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP>
   W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson
   winning the election of 1952.
   S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on
   how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar.
Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise", in <AK>
   W: After divorcing Rose, Joe Kennedy moved to Hollywood, where he married
   Gloria Swanson and his sons went into the movie business.
   S: Second-rate actor Jack Kennedy enjoys his greatest successes in sci-fi
   features, and ends up the captain of Gene Roddenberry's Enterprise.
Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF {Random House 73; Faber 73;
   Popular Library 74; Aeonian 76; Bantam 91}
   S:
Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons
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, transport,
   etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF.
Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 91}
   W: Byron led the Industrial Radicals to English power, and Babbage perfected
   his analytical engine so that the Information Age began a century early.
   S: A paleontologist accidentally acquires a set of punch cards from Ada
   Byron, dropping him right in the middle of a circle of mayhem and murder.
Gillies, John, "A Sending Parable: What Might Have Been the Result Had St.
   Paul Traveled East to the Orient Instead of West", in Christian Century 24
   Feb 71
   W: As the title says.
   S: The difficulties faced by the Tokyo Christian Ministry in Arizona,
   particularly its competition with American Christian missions.
Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran", in <AP>
   W: Gerald Ford gave Nixon a specific, rather than general, pardon, thus
   keeping his popularity high enough that he beat Carter in 1976.
   S: On his masseur's advice, Ford threatens to break relations with Iran
   after the embassy seizure, just like Austria did with Serbia in 1914.
Gluckman & Guthridge, THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE LIGHT {St.
   Martins}
   W: The Nazis establish a Jewish homeland on Madagascar.
   S:
Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 91}
   S:
Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?", in <HV>
   W: Germany won WW2.
   S: An American couple rents a house in Munich and find it haunted by the
   previous occupant's Dachau experiments.
Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <f&sf> Aug 70 and
   LAUGHING SPACE (ed Asimov & Jeppson) {Houghton Mifflin 82}
   W: The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay.
   S: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company.
Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars", in <BT>
   W: Napoleon was not defeated at Waterloo.
   S: Assassination attempts are constant in 1958 New Orleans, capital of New
   France and home of the Emperor-in-exile of Eurasia
Graeme, Bruce: see Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?", in
   <SAH>
   W:
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained
   Neutral?", in <SAH>
   W: The United States was not drawn into WW1.
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without
   Franklin Roosevelt?", in <SAH>
   W: FDR was either not nominated for president in 1932 *or* died at the hands
   of Zangara the next spring.
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War--
   What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?", in <SAH>
   W: FDR enjoyed better health.
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?", in <SAH>
   C:
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}
   W: King Antonio defeated the Portugese invading the Kongo at Mbwila in 1665.
   S: Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle, one with the Congo
   at the heart of Christianity and one like ours but post-nuclear war.
Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds Asimov et al)
   {Taplinger 80; DAW 92}
   W: The American Revolution failed.
   S: HMS Bellerophon prepares to transport a defeated enemy leader to exile on
   St. Helena, but is he Napoleon?
Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in <Alt>
   W: Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was able to consolidate
   his hold on the crown of France.
   S: A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power in
   France.
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.
Green, Roland J.: see also Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green
Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
   A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers.
Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS {Hill & Wang 80}
   W: The Allies invaded France a year earlier.
   C: Discussion of Allied errors in WW2. Final chapter speculates that
   invading a year earlier would have given a postwar advantage to the West.
Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY {Arbor House 86; Thorndike 86; Berkley 88; Ace 92}
   At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and
   again and again.
Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Ferdinand and Isabella's army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491.
   S: An overview of the history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of Granada.
Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans", in <IAsfm> Dec 91 and <AP>
   W: Hardball mud-slinging brought disgrace to LBJ in 1964, leading to the
   election of Barry Goldwater as president.
   S: Vignettes of 1991, when Bush is president and Quayle is veep, but Tricky
   Dick has a popular TV talk show that's been on the air for 20 years.
Guthridge: see Gluckman & Guthridge
Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
   MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II {T-K Graphics 73}, collected from Int'l
   Federation of Wargamers newsletter
   W: The Axis adopted a coherent grand strategy, resulting in a quick victory
   at Stalingrad.
   S: Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of
   Europe and Africa.
Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS {Doubleday 71}
   W:
   S: Alternate events in Judaic history.
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 90; Avon 91}; exp of "The
   Hemingway Hoax", in <IAsfm> Apr 90, <YB8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow)
   {HBJ 92}
   A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector
   and awakes as another timeline's version of himself.
Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in Omni Apr 79, THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Bova) {Omni 80} and DEALING IN FUTURES {Viking 85}
   In a bar discussion, a man claims to have traveled back in time and invested
   in all the right scientific inventions, but it didn't work.
Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881; HANDS OFF {J.S.
   Smith 1895}; ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE BEST FANTASY OF THE 19TH CENTURY (eds
   Asimov et al) {Beufort 82}; <AH>; etc
   W: Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt.
   S: A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he watches
   the Phoenicians take over the Mediterranean.
Hamilton, Franklin, "What If--?", in 1066 {Dial 64}
   W: William the Conqueror was beaten at Hastings and the Norman Conquest was
   averted.
   S: Two possibilities; either fragmented England was later occupied by France
   or Harold united the land, but it spent the next millenium in isolation.
Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS {Avon 90}
   W: Gambling debts did not force Edgar Allen Poe to quit the Univ Virginia,
   and he later lived to serve as a Confederate general at Gettysburg.
   S: Via astral travel, a 21st-century man searches for when/where Edgar Allen
   Poe's life turned to literature.
Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in Amazing May 85
   S:
Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN {Ace 90}
   W: Cleopatra's son Kaisarion escaped the Romans *or* Cleopatra murdered
   Octavian.
   S: Through cyber-simulation a man visits Cleopatra's Egypt and tries to save
   the her son Kaisarion. He awakes in a slightly altered present.
Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND {Random House 92; Thorndike 92}
   W: Nazi Germany met greater success invading Russia, and after discovering
   that Britain had broken the Enigma code, forced a peace in the west.
   S: A cop in 1964 Nazi Berlin investigates an apparent suicide and finds
   himself unwrapping a 20-year-old conspiracy.
Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME {Tor 83}
   A racist army officer goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War;
   a black soldier follows in order to defeat him.
Harrison, Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds Silverberg & Elwood)
   {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}, CATASTROPHES (eds Asimov et al) {Fawcett
   81} and TIME WARS (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86}
   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.
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber 72; New English
   Library 76; Berkley 74; Tor 81}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 72,
   Berkley 72}; serial in Analog Apr-Jun 72
   W: Spain remained Islamic after Christian defeat at Navas de Tolosa in 1212,
   and the War of the Roses fizzled after the early death of Louis XI.
   S: A descendant of executed British-American rebel George Washington is in
   charge of building the ultimate tunnel.
   C: See also the reference entry for Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds".
Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN {Bantam 84}
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN {Bantam 86}
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN {Bantam 88, 89}
   W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence.
   S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans.
Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed Silverberg)
   {Doubleday 71; Avon 73}, BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR (1971) (ed
   Del Rey) {Dutton 72}; and THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON {Signet 76}
   A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and
   imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows.
Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in <WM2>
   W: The last Christian king in England broke with the church.
   S: In 878, Alfred receives the letter from the pope that pushes him over the
   edge.
Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE {Ballantine 84}
   A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity
   has it in for them.
Henry, O., "Roads of Destiny", in ROADS OF DESTINY {Doubleday, Doran 09;
   Doubleday, Page 17} and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF O. HENRY {Doubleday 53}
   S: Three possible futures for a French shepherd/poet who comes to a
   crossroads.
   C: Not really AH since all characters are fictional, but an early statement
   of the theme of alternate choices leading to alternate futures.
Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS {Knopf 65; Bantam 66; Vintage 90}
   W: Warlord-run China conquered the US in an undescribed war in the mid
   1900s.
   S: Story of an Arizona girl who is taken into slavery in China.
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in Weird Tales Winter 91/92
   A woman is visited by her future self, telling her to commit suicide because
   everything gets worse, but she has been visited before.
Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION {Bantam 85}
   W: The Nazis remained an obscure political party *or* Churchill did not
   return to the British cabinet after the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
   S: Beleaguered Americans from 1975 go back to stiffen Britain's spine and
   promote US atomic weapons research. Unfortunately it's not their own past.
Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS {Morrow 82}
   W: Aliens disrupted the execution of Conradin Hohenstaufen in 1268 Naples.
   S: Trying to fix things without technological interference, the aliens
   become involved in the conflict over who should be Holy Roman emperor.
Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE {Panther 77; Ace 82}
   During an attempt to travel into a potential future, a man finds himself
   retrieved from a red ocean by a slave ship traveling to New Amerika.
-------------, THROUGH THE EYE OF TIME {Panther 77; Ace 82}
   S:
-------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN {Panther 78; Ace 82}
   S:
Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
   DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53} and ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed
   Conklin) {Grayson 55}
   A man from a future in which Germany won WW2 comes back onto a flight that
   had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost.
Ing, Dean: see Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing
Iverson, Eric G.: see Turtledove, Harry
Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAsfm> Aug 87
   and <YB5>
   An art critic of Shadow worlds is haunted by marital trouble and assassins
   as he visits various worlds.
Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION
   OF 1807 {Tickner & Fields 83}
   W: The American expedition to explore the Arkansas River was not canceled.
   S:
Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST
   SEASON" {Crown 83}
   S:
Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER {Bloomsbury 92}
   Literary fantasy about a Europe where Christianity is a minor sect.
Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME {Paperback Library 70}
   S:
Jeansonne, Glen, "What If There Had Been No Slavery?", in <WIA>
   W: African-Americans voluntarily emigrated to America rather than be
   transported as slaves.
   C: Various effects on American society, including a shrunken plantation
   culture in a more industrialized but less cohesive South.
Jenkins, Will F.: see Leinster, Murray
Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in
   Amazing Jul 91
   W:
   S: Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside
   down.
Jeschke, Wolfgang, & Gertrud Mander, THE LAST DAY OF CREATION {St. Martin's
   82; Century 82}; orig DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG
   W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater
   success in WW2.
   S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into
   trouble vs. people from other timelines.
Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
   THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 66}
   C:
Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
   Watergate? (1973)", in <WIE>
   W: As the title says.
   C: No threat of impeachment and no "search for wrongdoers" occurs in
   Washington, but little else changes.
Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER {Scribner's
   76; Warner 77}
   W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry
   wiped out on Custer's Hill, above the Little Bighorn.
   S: Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for
   disobeying orders and negligence.
Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA {Greenwillow 80}
   W: Guy Fawkes suffered a premature explosion. Also, magic works.
   S: Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform
   magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter.
------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT {Greenwillow 88}
   S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the
   great mage Chrestomanci.
------------------, CHARMED LIFE {Greenwillow 77; Macmillan 77}
   S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci.
------------------, WITCH WEEK {Greenwillow 82}
   S: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for witch-
   orphans.
Jones, Gerard: see Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones
Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in <AP>
   W: Minor candidate Belva Ann Lockwood was elected US president in 1888.
   S: During the election of 1892, Lockwood personally leads the way to
   universal suffrage.
Kagan, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)", in
   <WIE>
   W: Richard Nixon was not forced to withdraw his nomination of Fortas for
   chief justice of the Supreme Court.
   C: Scholarly speculation on the effects that a more liberal US Supreme Court
   would have had.
Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR {Bantam 61}; exp of "If
   the South had Won the Civil War", in Look 22 Nov 60
   W: Grant was killed on 12 May 1863 and Sherman died in the Vicksburg
   debacle. Also, occupation of Culp's Hill led to rebel victory at Gettysburg.
   S: Vicksburg, Gettysburg and the end of the war, followed by a review of US,
   CS and Texas history until reunification in the 1960s.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If the South Had Won the Civil War?"
Katze, Rick, "Bobbygate", in <AK>
   W: JFK did not die in 1963 and ran for reelection the next year.
   S: A reporter stumbles onto links between Robert Kennedy and a break-in at
   the Republican national headquarters, and Joe Kennedy has to take charge.
Kazantzakis, Nikos, + P.A. Bien (tr), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST {Simon &
   Schuster 60}; orig TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
   W: Jesus fled his doom.
   S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC {Ballantine 87}
   Mental Trainables of 1998 use information gained from the future of a
   similar timeline to speed up the end of an American Emergency.
----------------, ROGUE EMPEROR {Ballantine 88}
   Intemporal Agent Jerry Pierce investigates the assassination of the Roman
   emperor Domitian in another timeline by means of an antitank weapon.
----------------, THE EMPIRE OF TIME {Ballantine 87}
   Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting
   alternate Earths along the way.
King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream", in <AP>
   W: Leila Morse accepted Samuel Tilden's proposal, putting backbone into his
   effort to be president during the Electoral College debate of 1877.
   S: In 1896, Sam and Leila Tilden tell a reporter how it all happened, and
   how Tilden became the Great Reformer and head of the Liberal Party.
Klein, Edward: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <f&sf> Feb 59, BEST FROM FANTASY AND
   SCIENCE FICTION: 9 (ed Mills) {Doubleday 60} (aka FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AND
   OTHER STORIES) and OFF CENTER {Gollancz 69; Award/Tandem xx}
   A man from Novo Russie has the mental power to fix things by altering the
   events that caused them.
Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in <IHO,AC>
   W: The 1926 British general strike succeeded.
   S: An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike.
Koning, Hans, "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur", in Harper's May 90
   Short descriptions of numerous ifs: e.g., delaying the Nazi invasion of
   Poland to 1941, making William III a heterosexual, etc.
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH
   {Doubleday 76; Taplinger 77}, <HV>, <GS20>, THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed
   McSherry) {Baen 90}, etc
   W: The US did not develop the atomic bomb.
   S: A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the bomb is given a
   glimpse of the Axis partition of America.
Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in <IAsfm> Jul 91 and <WM3)
   22nd-century people trying to prevent past mass bloodshed kidnap four
   historical figures, one of whom is an angry Anne Boleyn.
Krohn, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn,
   + E.G.H. Joffe (tr)
Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference", in Analog May 88
   W: Albert Einstein accepted an invitation to visit CalTech in 1925 and while
   in transit was arrested after delivering a lecture in Louisville, KY.
   S: Clarence Darrow humiliates William Jennings Bryant at a trial to decide
   whether Einstein violated a law against contradicting the Bible.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., ALTERNITIES {Ace 88}
   W: Different timelines spun off a cosmic bubble in late 1950, with US and
   Soviet gov'ts of varying degrees of liberalism/repression.
   S: A right-wing US seeks a crosstime bolthole for its leaders as nuclear war
   grows closer.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory", in <AP>
   W: Barred from the presidency in 1877 by subterfuge, Samuel Tilden turned
   the tables on James Garfield in 1880.
   S: With Charles Guiteau at his side, Garfield vainly attempts to convince
   Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "The Inga-Binga Affair", in <AK>
   W: It was revealed during WW2 that Navy officer John F. Kennedy was having
   an affair with a suspected Nazi spy.
   S: Alerted that the FBI is taping his trysts, JFK plots to get out from
   under his father's control.
Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE {Signet 89}
   W: Columbus' first voyage had a fourth ship *or* the Americas were invaded
   by Europeans c 1000 BC *or* Germany won an early WW1.
   S: An apprentice from Philadelphia meets an amnesiac girl who can blip
   between timelines, and a lot of people are hunting for her.
Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY {Ace 89}
----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS {Ace 88}
   C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc.
   S: More stories about Lord Darcy.
Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL {Pyramid 69}
   Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world.
Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR {DAW 75}
   Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US
   Constitution.
Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 80; Lorevan/
   Critic's Choice 85}
   W: The Watergate break-ins went undetected.
   S: Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement
   camps, canceled elections, etc) provoke a military coup.
   C: Borderline AH, as names have been changed.
Kuttner, Henry: see Padgett, Lewis
Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in <BT>
   W: The state of Franklin resisted suppression by N Carolina and became
   independent Appalachia.
   S: Backwater USers constantly complain about the wealth of Appalachia.
Lafferty, R.A., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed Knight)
   {Putnam's 70; Berkley 70}, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72} and THE GOLDEN
   ROAD (ed Knight) {Simon & Schuster 74}
   A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes' world-map goes sailing
   and lands on the Africa of our world.
Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed Knight) {Putnam's 70;
   Berkley 71}, CAR SINISTER (eds Silverberg et al) {Avon 79}, RINGING CHANGES
   {Ace 84}, <AH>, etc
   W: Trolleys took the place of the automobile in America's growth.
   S: An older man reminisces about when he had to choose between investing in
   trolleys or autos, and then helps hunt down an auto outlaw.
Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird", in Galaxy Dec 61, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72},
   AGAINST TOMORROW (ed Hoskins) {Fawcett 79}, <GS23>, etc
   An 18th-century inventor grows old, then uses a time machine to go back to
   give himself advice. His younger self repeats the process, etc.
Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8
   (ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular Library 78}
   W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different
   principles.
   S: A review of some early television programs.
Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES
   {Pinnacle 77}
   W:
   S: In a world in which the World Wars were never fought, a man produces
   comic operas based on events in our world, thereby corrupting his own.
Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67, WORLD'S
   BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 68 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 68}, NINE HUNDRED
   GRANDMOTHERS {Ace 70}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed Sullivan) {Prentice-
   Hall 74}, etc
   Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering their
   past without realizing it.
Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in Omni Sep 89 and
   <WM2>
   W: After Benedict Arnold's betrayal of West Point, George Washington was
   captured, tortured and executed.
   S: 200 years later, an art curator stumbles upon AmerInds who regret their
   part in Washington's torture and have elevated him to a Christ figure.
Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in
   Last Wave #5 and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
   W: Jesus was run over by a donkey cart and John the Baptist became the
   Messiah.
   S: A letter from one AmerInd to another reveals the divisions in a N America
   controlled by Japanese, Aztecs and various tribes.

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