From: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Subject: Alternate History List (2/5) (730 lines)
Reply-To: schmunk@spacsun.rice.edu (Robert Schmunk)
Organization: Dept. of Space Physics, Rice University, Houston TX
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 06:56:38 GMT

Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 54}
   W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
   rule.
   S:
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.
Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 91}
   W: Babbage perfected his analytical engine and 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.
Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 91}
   W:
   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.
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
Green, Roland, "Exile's Greeting"
   W:
   S: A British ship 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.
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.
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.
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 had adopted a coherent grand strategy.
   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.
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> ++
   W: Joseph had not been sold into slavery in Egypt.
   S: A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he watches
   the Phoenicians take over the Mediterranean.
Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND {Random House 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 suicideand finds
   himself unwrapping a 20-year-old conspiracy.
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber 72; New English
   Library 76; Berkley 74; Tor 81}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 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 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, & 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.
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: No historical development so not really AH, 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: 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.
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.
Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST
   SEASON" {Crown 83}
   W:
   S:
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.
Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
   THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 66}
   W:
   S:
Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
   Watergate? (1973)", in <WI>
   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.
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
   <WI>
   W: Richard Nixon had not been 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 HO TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
   W: Jesus had fled his doom.
   S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
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.
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH
   {Doubleday 76}, <HV>, <GS20>, THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed McSherry) {Baen
   90} ++
   W: The US had not developed 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.
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.
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., "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 had been 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, 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, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 80; Lorevan/
   Critic's Choice 85}
   W: The Watergate break-ins had gone 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.
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., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed Knight) {Putnam's 70;
   Berkley 71}, SURVIVAL PRINTOUT (eds Allison et al) {Vintage 73}, CAR
   SINISTER (eds Silverberg et al) {Avon 79}, RINGING CHANGES {Ace 84}, <AH> ++
   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., "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.
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.
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}
   W:
   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.
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.
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: Nazi Germany developed nuclear weapons.
   S: Goebbel's 1960s diaries reexamine what happened.
Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in <WI>
   W: Napoleon had not immediately sold 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 had 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.
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, 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.
---------------, 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.
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 how 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., "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)
   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 VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND {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}
   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: See also Snodgrass & Martin's WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE.
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:
Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WI>
   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: George McGovern was elected US president in 1972.
   S: McGovern gets us out of Vietnam, but himself into trouble with Congress.
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 had taken up another occupation than writing.
   S: Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he
   pursued other paths.
Minogue, Kenneth, "What if Karl Marx had drowned in a cross-Channel ferry
   accident (1847)", in <WI>
   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, 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.
Montville, Leigh, "Bubbles and the Babe", in Sports Illus Fall 91 (75/18)
   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.
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, 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.
Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IHB>
   W:
   C:
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>
   W: Lincoln had 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.
Morton, H.V., JAMES BLUNT
   W: Hitler won WW2.
   S:
Mullally, Frederic, HITLER HAS WON {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
   <WI>
   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.
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.
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.
Norden, Eric, THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION {Warner 73}
   W: FDR was assassinated in 1933.
   S: Police-work in Nazi-occupied New York.
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.
Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IHB>
   W:
   C:
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, "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.
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, Frederik, "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 <WI>
   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.
   S: Confederates plot to steal a nuclear-tipped cannon shell from the US,
   causing revolts by right-wing and pro-Negro extremists.
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:
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.
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 and BWANA & BULLY! (Tor SF Double
   #33) {Tor 91}
   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 had 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 WOULD THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE TURN 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 WOULD THE LAST
   PERSON TO LEAVE THE PLANET PLEASE TURN 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.
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 <WI>
   W: One of the delegates from Massachusetts had 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})
>------------<, "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.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed Carr)
   {Doubleday 84}, <YB2>, <AH>, THE PLANET ON THE TABLE {Tor 87} and THERE
   WON'T BE WAR (eds Harrison & McAllister) {Tor 91}
   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 film company makes a movie about the successful rescue.
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.
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.
Ryman, Geoff, THE UNCONQUERED COUNTRY {Bantam 87}
   W:
   S: A look at the Pol Pot period in Cambodia.
Salisbury, Robert H., "What if Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of John
   Marshall (1803)", in <WI>
   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.
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.