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Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR (Ace 84)
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS (Ace 86)
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC (Ace 89)
   W: Rome defeated Arminius in the Teutoburg Wald and the legion responsible
   was posted to Judea, where 20 years later, Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth.
   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
   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)
   S: 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 (SFBC ...)
(---------------), THE WARLORD OF THE AIR (New English Library 71; Ace 71;
   rev Quartet 78; DAW 78; Granada 81)
   S: Oswald Bastable travels from 1902 to 1973 in a world where longtime peace
   has maintained European imperialism.
   T: German DER HERR DER LUFTE
(---------------), THE LAND LEVIATHAN: A NEW SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE (Doubleday
   74; Quartet 74; DAW 76; Panther 81)
   S: Continuing to 1904 on a world where premature technological development
   did the world no good.
   T: German DER LANDLEVIATHAN
(---------------), THE STEEL TSAR (DAW 82)
   S: Bastable ends up on a 1941 Kerenskian Russian airship fighting Japanese
   invaders and Cossacks led by a Georgian named Djugashvili.
   T: German DER STAHLZAR
Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN (DC Comics 88); reprints WATCHMEN #1-
   12 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.
   T: German DER GROSSE SUDEN
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.
Moore, William O., "Let Us Cross Over the River: A Flight of Fancy for
   Wargamers", in The General ... 89
   W: Stonewall Jackson seemingly rose from the dead after Chancellorsville,
   and followed Lee to Gettysburg, occupying the Round Tops.
   S: Details of Jackson's resurrection and the Confederate victory at
   Gettysburg, plus the capture of Baltimore and the armistice in August.
Morales, Alejandro, THE RAG DOLL PLAGUES: A NOVEL (Arte Publico 92)
   W: A mysterious plague swept through Mexico City in 1788.
   S: Doctors fight the plague in 1788, 1970 and 2050.
Moran, Daniel Keys, THE ARMAGEDDON BLUES (Bantam 88); exp of "All the Time in
   the World", in <IAsfm> ... 82
   S: In 1968, a woman from 2731 meets an immortal born in 1712, and they set
   out to prevent the nuclear war of 2007.
Moran, Tony, "Close Your Eyes and Stare at Your Memories", in Amazing Jan 73
   S:
Morgan, Roger, "If I had been... Konrad Adenauer in 1952", in <IIHB>
   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.
Morrissette, Gabriel: see Shainblum, Mark, & Gabriel Morrissette
Morrow, James, "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's", in <WMHB2> and <90AWBSF>
   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 <WMHB3>
   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 <WMHB1>
   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.
Morselli, Guido, + Hugh Shankland (tr), PAST CONDITIONAL: A RETROSPECTIVE
   HYPOTHESIS (Chatto & Windus 89)
   W: Austria-Hungary invaded Italy via a secret tunnel in May 1916, forcing it
   out of the war in five days.
   S: How lightning tactics achieved victory for the Central Powers in WW1 and
   led to the creation of a semi-socialist W European federation in 1917.
   T: Italian CONTRO-PASSATO PROSSIMO: UN'IPOTESI RETROSPETTIVA
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
   <WIESSF>
   W: God re-ran history, giving Pope Pius XII St. Peter's moral character.
   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 argument 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; Fawcett
   70; McGraw-Hill 86; Vintage 90)
   S:
Nathanson, E.M., & Aaron Bank, KNIGHT'S CROSS (Carol/Birch Lane 93)
   W: Hitler was captured by the Allies in early 1945.
   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, TIMEQUEST (... 85); rev of BLAKE'S PROGRESS (Laser 75)
   S: 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 WON GETTYSBURG (Reliance 80)
   W: Lee listened to Longstreet and flanked the Union on the South before the
   battle's third day.
   S: Day by day account of the battle, and JEB Stuart's raid on Washington.
   Final chapter provides outline of consequent American history to 1940.
Newman, Kim, ANNO-DRACULA (Simon & Schuster 92; Carroll & Graf 93; Pocket UK
   94)
   W: Dracula actually existed, defeated Van Helsing and married the widowed
   Queen Victoria.
   S: A human agent of the Diogenes Club and a vampire are among those hunting
   for Jack the Ripper, who is killing vampire whores.
Newman, Kim, "Famous Monsters", in Interzone #23 (Spr 88) and <YBSF6>
   W: H.G. Wells's 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 Interzone
   #48 (Jun 91) and Aboriginal #27 (Jul/Aug 91)
   W: Theodore Roosevelt won the 1912 election, but was assassinated while
   trying to break up a Chicago labor strike before the inauguration.
   S: How reaction to the anti-socialist backlash, early entry in WW1 and the
   corrupt presidency of plutocrat C.F. Kane led to a socialist revolution.
---------------------------, "Tom Joad", in Interzone #65 (Nov 92)
   S: Ideology agents Elliott Ness and Melvyn Purvis hunt for a legendary
   agitator and end up confronting Chairman Capone's enforcer Frank Nitti.
---------------------------, "In the Air", in Interzone #43 (Jan 91)
   S: Musician Charlie Holley recounts how Howie Hughes and Jack Kerouac
   crashed a party in honor of Patton's Revolutionary Fraternity Squadron.
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 after his
   army panicked, making Christianity a laughing-stock of a religion.
   S: In 4759 (999 AD), the Wandering Jew/Christian tells the story of his
   life, from 30 AD Jerusalem to Persian-besieged Jewish Rome.
Nicholas, Herbert N., "Hail Our Britannic Bicentennial", in Virginia
   Quarterly Review Summer 76
   W: Britain prevented troops and siege supplies from reaching Washington at
   Yorktown, leading to a Cornwallis victory.
   S: The states remain within the British Empire, but are permitted to form a
   unified government after a constitutional convention in 1787.
Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece", in <If,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.
Nimersheim, Jack, "#2, With a Bullet", in <AO>
   S:
Nimersheim, Jack, "The Wages of Sin", in <BAOF>
   W: Bonnie and Clyde found a safer way of making money than bank robbery.
   S: B&C go into tent-revival sex therapy, but still have a fatal date with
   the FBI on a Louisiana highway.
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; Worldview 81), N-SPACE (Tor 90; Orbit 92), etc
   W: The Cuban Missile Crisis escalated to nuclear exchange.
   S: A detective investigates a series of suicides involving the Crosstime
   Corporation.
   C: Retold in comic-book form by Niven & Chaykin.
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)
   S: Time-traveling souvenir hunters destroy Henry Ford's first auto.
Niven, Larry, "Death in a Cage", in THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE (Ballantine 73)
   S: 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 <WMHB1> and N-SPACE (Tor
   90; Orbit 92)
   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>
   S: A time traveler strays sideways to a timeline where the dominant
   inhabitants developed from wolves instead of hominids.
Niven, Larry, & Howard Chaykin, "All the Myriad Ways", in Unknown Worlds of
   Science Fiction #5 (Marvel Comics 75)
   C: Comic book adaptation of the Niven short story.
Nock, Albert Jay, "If Only--", in Atlantic Aug 37
   S:
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)
   S: 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)
   S: 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; vt CROSSTIME AGENT,
   Gollancz 75)
   S: 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 ...; Tor 92)
   S: Adventures and magic in an African empire of a world where Islam never
   got started.
Norwood, Warren, TIME POLICE: TRAPPED!
   S: Our hero visits a 1968 where Leslie King, Jr. is president and names Gov.
   Nixon of California his running mate.
Nourse, Alan E., THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN (Paperback Library 67)
   S: 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 and INSIDE THE
   FUNHOUSE (ed Resnick) (Avon 92)
   S: A woman submitting SF stories written by a time-traveler to <IAsfm> gets
   upset with their continual rejection and decides to make some changes.
Nutman, Philip, WET WORK
   W: George Bush was re-elected.
   S:
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 <WMHB4>
   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 & 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
   S: A man and woman fall into a non-Christian parallel run by alchemic
   priests, who believe our New York is Paradise.
Parker, Geoffrey, "If The Armada Had Landed", in History v61, pp 358-368
   C: Primarily an analysis of the relative strengths of Spanish and English
   land forces, but includes speculation on the effect of Spanish landfall.
Pearton, Maurice, "If I had been... Adolphe Thiers in 1870", in <IIHB>
   W: Thiers accepted the appointment to be French Minister of War as the
   Franco-Prussian War began.
   C: Thiers's 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
   S: 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 <If,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)
   W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die in 1492.
   S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
   T: Italian STORIA DELLA TOSCANA
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; vt 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".
--------------, PARATIME (Ace 81)
(------------), "He Walked Around the Horses", in Astounding Apr 48, THE
   GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Amis) (Hutchinson 81; Penguin 83),
   <GSFS10>, SPACE MAIL (eds Asimov et al) (Fawcett 80), <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.
   T: German "Der Mann, der um die Pferde herumging"
(------------), "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
   S: Tales of the Paratime Police guarding 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 Were Three Major Parties?", in WHAT IF
   THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed Levine) (M.E. Sharpe 92)
   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)
   S: 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)
   S: 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)
   S: 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) (Avon 92)
   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, <89AWBSF>
   and <WMHB1>
   W: Jesus 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 <WIESSF>
   W: As the title says.
   C: Kennedy would not have been the Democratic candidate, but as Humphrey's
   veep, he would have led party reform and accelerated Vietnam withdrawal.
Powlesland, Aidan, "Prelude to War: Poland, pivot of history: 1st August
   1939--1 November 1939", in Miniature Wargames #70 (Mar 89)
   W: Poland and Germany signed a non-agression pact in September 1939.
   C: Outline of Aug to Nov, including Britain's retreat to isolation and civil
   strife in France, as Germany prepares for Operation Attila in Dec.
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:
Purdom, Tom, "The Redemption of August", in <IAsfm> Mar 93
   W: Von Kluck did not modify the Schlieffen plan and attacked Paris from the
   front rather than behind.
   S: Two time travelers fight to affect the events of Aug 1914, each believing
   his personal timeline is better replaced by another.
Purser, Philip, "Alternative Biography: Margaret Thatcher", in The Oldie #30
   (2 Apr 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Ron Reagan", in The Oldie #31 (16 Apr
   93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Germaine Greer", in The Oldie #32 (5
   May 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Paul Johnson", in The Oldie #33 (30
   May 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Roy Hattersley", in The Oldie #35 (11
   Jun 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Antonia Fraser", in The Oldie #36 (25
   Jun 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Clive James", in The Oldie #37 (9 Jul
   93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: John Birt", in The Oldie #38 (23 Jul
   93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Fiona Pitt-Keithley", in The Oldie
   #39 (6 Aug 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Chris Patten", in The Oldie #40 (20
   Aug 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: John Patten", in The Oldie #40 (20
   Aug 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Dirk Bogarde", in The Oldie #41 (3
   Sep 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Auberon Waugh", in The Oldie #42 (17
   Sep 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Peregrine Worsthorne", in The Oldie
   #43 (1 Oct 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Edwina Currie", in The Oldie #44 (15
   Oct 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Kenneth Clarke", in The Oldie #45 (29
   Oct 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Nigel Kennedy", in The Oldie #46 (12
   Nov 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: David Hockney", in The Oldie #47 (26
   Nov 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Betty Boothroyd", in The Oldie #48
   (10 Dec 93)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Melvyn Bragg", in The Oldie #49 (24
   Dec 93
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Clint Jefferson", in The Oldie #50
   (7 Jan 94)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: David Jenkins", in The Oldie #51 (14
   Jan 94)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Justice Rantzen", in The Oldie #52
   (4 Feb 94)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: John Major", in The Oldie #53 (18 Feb
   94)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Lord Waterhouse", in The Oldie #54
   (4 Mar 94)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Lady Diana Spencer", in The Oldie #55
   (18 Mar 94)
--------------, "Alternative Biography: Lorena Bobbitt", in The Oldie #56
   (1 April 94)
   S: Short humorous sketches of different lives that famous people might
   have led.
Quarrie, Bruce, HITLER: THE VICTORY THAT NEARLY WAS (David & Charles 88;
   Guild 89)
   W: Germany started a 'Manhattan Project' in 1939 and postponed Barbarossa
   until 1942, and the Japanese did not attack Pearl Harbor until Sep 42.
   S: Detailed description of WW2 from Malta to Beria's capitulation of the
   Soviet Union in Jun 43, with an afterword about the A-bombing of New York.
Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett, REMEMBER THE ALAMO! (Charter 86)
   S:
-------------------------------, REMEMBER GETTYSBURG! (Charter 88)
   S: A team travels back to prevent a Confederate victory and the consequent
   Nazi victory in WW2.
-------------------------------, REMEMBER THE LITTLE BIGHORN! (Charter 90)
   S: A remnant of the team goes back to prevent George Armstrong Custer from
   being elected president in 1880.
Reginald, Robert, & Jeffrey M. Elliot, IF J.F.K. HAD LIVED: A POLITICAL
   SCENARIO (Borgo 82); rev of Reginald's THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN
   F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL FANTASY (Borgo 76)
   S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s.
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, "The Vatican Outfit", in <AW>
   W: Mafiosi warned Pope John Paul I of his imminent assassination.
   S: After numerous assassination attempts, John Paul adopts a new management
   style to run the church.
Resnick, Laura, "Saint Frankie", in <AO>
   S:
Resnick, Laura, "Under a Sky More Fiercely Blue", in <BAOF>
   W: Lucky Luciano really was sent on a secret mission to Sicily in 1943.
   S: A boy older than his years guides Luciano to the home of a local capo.
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, STALKING THE WILD RESNICK (NESFA
   ...), 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, "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle", in <IAsfm> Mar 93 and <AW>
   W: In order to end the Tanzania-Uganda war of 1980, Julius Nyrere accepted
   Idi Amin's challenge to a boxing match
   S: Outweighed by 200 pounds, Nyrere struggles to stay alive in the boxing
   ring.
Resnick, Mike, "Over There", in <IAsfm> Apr 91, <WMHB3> 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)
   S: 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)
   S: Crosstime adventure on a world where telepathic research replaced the
   advance of technology.
Richards, R.W., A SOUTHERN YARN (Rokarn 90)
   W: Lee's Army of Northern Virginia defeats Grant's Army of the Potomac at Ox
   Ford in spring 1864 and later captures Washington.
   S: Story of Lee, Grant and a fictional sergeant during May and June 1864.
   C: Non-AH prequel is BROTHERS IN GRAY.
Richards, John Thomas, "Minor Alteration", in <f&sf> Dec 65
   S: A mental traveler prevents Lincoln's assassination.
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.
Riddell, Peter, "If Tony Benn had won", in Times of London 17 Aug 92
   S: Several short scenarios based on what-ifs in British politics between
   1974 and 1990.
Riker, William H., "What If Elbridge Gerry Had Been More Rational and Less
   Patriotic? (1787)", in <WIESSF>
   W: Massachusetts delegate Gerry votes against a Constitutional proposal,
   causing the entire convention to collapse.
   C: Speculation on the Balkanization of N America, begun by armed conflict
   between New York and New England for Vermont.
Roberts, John Maddox, KING OF THE WOOD (Doubleday 83; Tor 86)
   W: Pagan Vikings fleeing forced conversion to Christianity established
   strong settlements in N America, and were later joined by Saxons.
   S: An outlaw Saxon prince from eastern N America takes part in the Mongol
   conquest of Mexico.
Roberts, Keith, PAVANE (Hart-Davis 68; Doubleday 68; Ace 68; Berkley 76;
   Gollancz 84)
(------------), "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" (vt "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; vt 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) (not in 1968 Hart-Davis ed of PAVANE)
   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.
   C: See also the reference mat'l entry for Roberts's "The Peacock Dance".
   T: PAVANE as German DIE FOLGENSCHWERE ERMORDUNG IHRER MAJESTAT ELISABETH I.
Roberts, Keith, "Weihnachtsabend", 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.
   T: German "Weihnachtsabend"
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, <76AWBSF>, 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)
   S: 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, Frank M., "One Month in 1907", in <AO>
   S:
Robinson, Kim Stanley, "The Lucky Strike", in UNIVERSE 14 (ed Carr)
   (Doubleday 84; Tor 86), <YBSF2>, 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.
   T: German "Lucky Strike", "Der Flug de Lucky Strike"
----------------------, "A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions", in
   Interzone #49 (Jul 91), REMAKING HISTORY (Tor 91) and Author's Choice
   Monthly #20
   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, <WMHB1> 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.
Rochelle, Warren G., "A Peaceful Heart", in Aboriginal May/Jun 89
   W: The Confederacy gained independence. 100 years later, civilization along
   the eastern seaboard has fallen apart due to biological warfare.
   S: In 1978, a man raising two orphan boys on a N Carolina island must cope
   with the eldest's desire to find out what's happening on the mainland.
Rodgers, Alan, & James D. MacDonald, "Souvenirs", in <AO>
   S:
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)
   W: The Qarmatian Muslims enjoyed further victories after Basra *or* Great
   Britain capitulated to the Nazis.
   S: An astral disarmamament inspector discovers a crosstime Nazi plot to
   destroy his timeline, Time One.
Roy, Archie, ALL EVIL SHED AWAY (John Long 70; Apogee 86)
   W: Churchill was assassinated in June 1940 and an armistice followed, then
   invasion and occupation.
   S: In our 1945, two officers find a manuscript written by a time traveler
   from occupied Britain 1970 who decided to set things right.
Rucker, Rudy, THE HOLLOW EARTH: THE NARRATIVE OF MASON ALGIERS REYNOLDS OF
   VIRGINIA (Morrow 90)
   S: 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 <WMHB2>
   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 Arrival of Truth", in <AW>
   W: Sojourner Truth marched through the South telling the slaves to take what
   is theirs.
   S: Slaves at a Virginia plantation await Truth's coming
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
   RFK ordered an assassination attempt on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Common Sense", in <AO>
   S:
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.
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn, "Sinner-Saints", in <f&sf> May 93 and <BAOF>
   W: Lillian Hellman joined a third party movement and ran for the US Senate,
   losing lover Dashiell Hammett as a consequence.
   S: 15 years later, in the midst of the Communist witch hunts, Sen. Hellman
   must decide how much to admit regarding her relationship with Hammett.
Russ, Joanna, THE FEMALE MAN (Bantam 75; Gregg 77; Beacon 86); incl in
   RADICAL UTOPIAS (Book-of-the-Month Club 90)
   S: 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.
   T: German PLANET DER FRAUEN
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
   S: A time-traveler from Arabic America alters the outcome at Tours.
Saberhagen, Fred, A CENTURY OF PROGRESS (Tor 83)
   S: A man is recruited into helping a group fighting Hitler in all timelines.
Saberhagen, Fred, THE MASK OF THE SUN (Ace 79; Tor 87)
   W: The Inca rebellion against Spanish domination succeeded.
   S: A man from our world gets involved in a time war between Inca and Aztec
   timelines, seeing action in old Cuzco.
Sagara, Michelle, "For Love of God", in <AW>
   W: Thomas a Becket did not return after fleeing England because of his
   dispute with Henry II.
   S: Armies representing the two sides meet on a French battlefield, and
   Becket remembers the history of his relationship with Henry.
Sagara, Michelle, "What She Won't Remember", in <AO>
   S:
Salisbury, Robert H., "What If Marbury v. Madison and the Impeachment of
   John Marshall (1803)", in <WIESSF>
   W: Congress impeached and removed Chief Justice Marshall from office.
   C: Scholarly history describing the "crippling" of the US Supreme Court,
   ending in impeachment of thre  justices who supported abortion in 1973.
Salomon, Warren, "Time on My Hands", in <IAsfm> Oct 82
   W: Alexander the Great besieged Jerusalem.
   S:
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)
   S: A man escapes a Nazi POW camp in 1943 and falls into the future of a
   world where Germany won WW2.
   T: Spanish EL CUERNO DE CAZA
Sargent, Pamela, "The Sleeping Serpent", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WMHB4>
   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:
Schimel, Lawrence, "Taking Action", in <AW>
   W: Precognition of what might be, including the Rodney King beating, pushed
   Martin Luther King, Jr. away from the path of non-violence.
   S: The civil right movement follows a more violent route, leading to a duel
   between King and George Wallace.
Scholz, Carter, "The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost
   Songs", in UNIVERSE 7 (ed Carr) (Doubleday 77)
   S: 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: An attempt to transmit "Black Field" power from Pluto to Earth has
   disastrous crosstime potential, heading directly for Hiroshima 1945.
Scott, Melissa, A CHOICE OF DESTINIES (Baen 86)
   W: After the conquest of Persia, Alexander of Macedon returned west to quell
   a rebellion of League cities.
   S: His return and dealings with early Rome.
Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett, ARMOR OF LIGHT (Baen 88)
   W: Witchcraft works. Also, Sir Philip Sidney survived Zutphens.
   S: In 1593, Elizabeth I directs Sidney and Christopher Marlowe to protect
   James VI/I from magical attacks.
Seabury, Paul, "The Histronaut", in <f&sf> Apr 63
   W: Lenin did not return to Russia from Switzerland.
   S: A time traveler destroys Lenin's train, but returns to his home time to
   find Washington DC occupied by Germans.
Seabury, Paul, "What If George Washington Had Been Captured by General Howe:
   Mrs. Murray's War (1776)", in <WIESSF>
   W: The owner of the farm where the battle of Murray Hill was fought
   persuaded Howe to forget refreshment and pursue Washington.
   C: Memoir of an historian who discovers Mrs. Murray's diary and who shows
   it to Howe's biographer while at the Royal New York Historical Society
Sell, William, "Other Tracks", in Astounding Oct 38 and SCIENCE FICTION
   ADVENTURES IN DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) (Vanguard 53)
   S: Two scientific assistants use a time machine to visit the past, and
   discover that they have changed the present.
   C: 1st known story to theorize that changing the past will alter the time-
   traveler's home time. However, little historical development.
Shapiro, Stanley, A TIME TO REMEMBER (Random House 86)
   S: To prevent his brother's death in Vietnam, a man travels back to 1963
   Dallas, but an altered history may also need correction.
   C: Basis for the 1990 movie RUNNING AGAINST TIME.
Shaw, Bob, THE TWO-TIMERS (Ace 68)
   S: A man goes back in time to save his wife from a killer, creating a world
   in which the wife didn't die and another version of himself exists.
Shainblum, Mark, & Gabriel Morrissette, "The Infinite Man", in Gene Day's
   Black Zeppelin (Renegade)
   W: Britain and Russia fought a war in the 1880s.
   S:
Sheckley, Robert, "The Deaths of Ben Baxter", in Galaxy Jul 57 and STORE OF
   INFINITY (Bantam 60)
   S: Scientists manipulating history are faced with three equally undesirable
   choices.
Sheckley, Robert, "Disquisitions on the Dinosaur", in DINOSAUR FANTASTIC (eds
   Resnick & Greenberg) (DAW 93; SFBC 94)
   S: Time travelers bring dinosaurs forward to ancient Rome, and various
   invading (in our timeline) armies decide not to invade.
Sheckley, Robert, "Dukakis and the Aliens", in <AP>
   S: In 1989, on his first day as president, an alien invasion conspiracy is
   revealed to Michael Dukakis. His reaction requires reworking history.
Sheckley, Robert, "Miranda", in <AO>
   S:
Shelley, Rick, "The Worlds I Used to Know", in Analog Jan 88
   S:
Shepard, Lucius, "A Spanish Lesson", in <f&sf> Dec 85 and TERRY CARR'S BEST
   SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR #15 (ed Carr) (Tor 86)
   S:
Sherman, Josepha, "Monsieur Verne and the Martian Invasion", in <AW>
   S: In a steampunk 19th century, the great inventor Jules Verne discovers and
   fights a creature from outer space.
Shetterly, Will, "Hero Worship: Public Faces and Private Dreams", in Captain
   Confederacy (vol 2) #2
   W: The South won the Civil War due to un-described events c. 1862.
   S: An autobiographical sketch of a reporter, born to Union parents but
   working in the CSA.
---------------, & Vince Stone, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (vol 1) #1-12, comic book
   series (Steeldragon 86-87); issue #1 rev as Captain Confederacy Special
   Edition
   S: The CSA develops a Captain America-type superhero in the 1980s but he is
   unhappy being ordered about in an apartheid-ridden country.
   C: Letters to editor often more interesting than the story.
------------------------------, CAPTAIN CONFEDERACY (vol 2) #1-4, comic book
   series (Epic Comics 91-92)
   S: Super-heroes from 8 N America nations, Germany and Japan, meet in New
   Orleans, where the representative from Texas is murdered for his weaponry.
Shiner, Lewis, "Oz", in FULL SPECTRUM (eds Aronica & McCarthy) (Bantam 88)
   W: Lee Harvey Oswald was not murdered.
   S: Ozzie is acquitted and later becomes a rock star, with mention of the
   conspiracy trials and America's exit from Vietnam.
Shiner, Lewis, "Twilight Time", in <IAsfm> Apr 84
   W: Aliens secretly invaded in the 1950s, using subliminal TV, drugged food,
   etc, in an attempt to establish a police state.
   S: A political prisoner is sent back into 1961 in a time travel project to
   remove alien influence.
   T: German "Zeit des Zwielichts"
Shiner, Lewis, "Voodoo Child", in <IAsfm> Jul 93; excerpted from GLIMPSES
   (Morrow 93)
   W: Jimi Hendrix did not accidentally overdose on sleeping pills.
   S: A man from 1989 tries to keep Hendrix alive so that he may produce "Last
   Rays of the Rising Sun".
   C: Although this segment seems AH, when taken within the context of the
   whole novel it is not.
Shiner, Lewis, "White City", in <IAsfm> Jun 90 and <YBSF8>
   S: Tesla conducts an experiment with atmospheric electricity at the Chicago
   World's Fair with results unanticipated by his backers.
Shiner, Lewis: see also Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner
Shippey, Tom, "Enemy Transmissions", in <HV>
   S: Occult use of dreams in a 3rd Reich that succeeded, some of which are of
   our timeline.
Shippey, Tom: see also Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey
Shirer, William, "If Hitler Had Won World War II", in Look 15 Dec 61
   S: Mostly a speculative essay, but passages from the diary that Shirer might
   have kept are included.
Shukman, Harold, "If I had been... Alexander Kerensky in 1917", in <IIHB>
   W: Kerensky did not stop Kornilov's occupation of Petrograd.
   C: Kerensky decides that Kornilov's aid is the only way to alleviate civil
   unrest and prevent a Bolshevik takeover.
Shwartz, Susan, BYZANTIUM'S CROWN
   W: Mark Antony and Cleopatra won at Actium and moved the Roman capital to
   the east. Also, magic works.
   S:
--------------, THE WOMAN OF FLOWERS (Warner/Popular Library 87)
--------------, QUEENSBLADE (... 87)
   S:
Shwartz, Susan, "Count of the Saxon Shore", in <Alt>
   W: Arthur of Britain survived the battle of Camlann.
   S: An old warrior reflects on the battle and its aftermath.
Shwartz, Susan, "Loose Cannon", in <WMHB2>
   W: T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) survived his 1935 motorcycle accident.
   S: In 1940, Churchill convinces Lawrence to go back to N Africa, where he
   meets Rommel.
Shwartz, Susan, "Suppose They Gave a Peace...", in <AP>
   W: Due to the increasing count of body bags returning from Vietnam, George
   McGovern was elected US president in 1972.
   S: Not waiting for the promised US withdrawal, N Vietnamese continue
   marching on Saigon. An Ohio family worries about its soldier son.
Silverberg, Robert, THE GATE OF WORLDS (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 67; Methuen
   80; Tor 84)
   W: The Black Plague of 1348 killed more than half of Europe, leaving it
   defenseless before the invasion of the Ottoman Turks.
   S: Travels of an English boy in 1960s Aztec N America.
   T: German AUF ZU HESPERIDEN!
------------------, "Lion Time in Timbuctoo", in <IAsfm> Oct 90, LION TIME IN
   TIMBUCTOO (Axolotl 90) and BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS (Tor 91)
   S: Diplomatic intrigue is rife as the Emir of Songhay lies dying.
   C: See also Brunner's "At the Sign of the Rose" and Yarbro's "An Exaltation
   of Spiders".
Silverberg, Robert, "Looking for the Fountain", in <IAsfm> May 92 and <WMHB4>
   W: A shipload of Crusaders was blown off course and ended up in Florida.
   S: While looking for the Fountain of "Youth", Ponce de Leon finds a tribe of
   Christian AmerInds who want to sail to Palestine and free Jerusalem.
Silverberg, Robert, "A Sleep and a Forgetting", in Playboy Jul 89, <WMHB2>
   and THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92)
   W: Genghis Khan was abducted at age 11, and after being sold into slavery
   became a prince's guard in Constantinople.
   S: Modern scientists in our timeline somehow communicate with a palace guard
   in old Constantinople, and one reminds him of sense of destiny.
Silverberg, Robert, "An Outpost of the Empire", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
   W: The first Exodus failed on the shores of the Red Sea, preventing the rise
   of Christianity and its inclement effect on the Roman empire.
   S: 2200 years after the founding of Rome, a clash between the Western
   (Roman-influenced) and the declining Eastern (Greek-influenced) empires.
------------------, "Via Roma", in <IAsfm> Apr 94
   S: A Britannic visitor to Rome finds himself among the political "jet set"
   and sees from the sidelines the bloody creation of the 2nd Roman Republic.
------------------, "Tales from the Venia Woods", in <f&sf> Oct 89 and
   <YBSF7>
   S: Early during the 2nd Republic, two children meet a mysterious old
   man hiding in a ruined imperial hunting lodge in the Teutonic provinces.
------------------, "To the Promised Land", in <WMHB1> and THE COLLECTED
   STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG: VOL. I (Bantam 92)
   S: 4000 years after the failed Exodus, the few remaining Hebrews in Egypt
   plan a new Exodus, to space, and recruit an historian to write their tale.
Silverberg, Robert, "Translation Error", in Astounding Mar 59, TRANSFORMATION
   II (ed Roselle) (Fawcett 74), <WOM> and THE CUBE ROOT OF UNCERTAINTY
   (Macmillan 76)
   S: An alien returns to Earth after tampering with history in 1914, finds
   things are askew and decides that he has shifted onto a parallel by mistake.
Silverberg, Robert, "Trips", in FINAL STAGE (eds Ferman & Malzberg)
   (Charterhouse 74; Penguin 75); exp in THE FEAST OF DIONYSIUS (Scribner's 75;
   Berkley 75), THE BEST OF ROBERT SILVERBERG VOLUME 2 (Gregg 78) and LOST
   WORLDS, UNKNOWN HORIZONS (Thomas Nelson 78)
   S: A man visits a number of different San Franciscos, one in a timeline
   where Pres. Willkie maintained US neutrality in WW2.
Silverberg, Robert, UP THE LINE (Ballantine 69, 73)
   S: A time-travel tour leader gets in trouble.
   C: Basically non-AH, but the result of assassinating Jesus at age 11 is
   briefly described.
   C: Follow-ups include Baron's GLORY'S END, Kingston CAESAR'S TIME LEGIONS,
   MacDonald & Doyle's TIMECRIME, INC., and Wu's THE ROBIN HOOD AMBUSH.
   T: Czech <title unknown>
Simak, Clifford, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN (Ballantine 78)
   W: A series of "blights" periodically prevented Europe from advancing beyond
   the Dark Ages. Also, magic works.
   S: A young man accompanies a woman and her griffin on a quest to retrieve a
   talisman to fight the blight.
Simak, Clifford, RING AROUND THE SUN (Musson 1953; SFBC 1953; Ace 54; World
   60; Avon 67; Four Square 67; New English Library 77; Carroll & Graf 92)
   S: A whole series of parallel Earths (uninhabited) can be reached by mental
   means. Emphasis on the mutants and androids than on crosstime aspect.
Simak, Clifford, SPECIAL DELIVERANCE (Ballantine 82)
   S: Six people from different timelines join together on a quest.



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