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               "...I've come to the conclusion that the stupidest
               words in the language are 'What if?'"
                                         --'William Faulkner', in
                      William Sanders' THE WILD BLUE AND THE GRAY

               "What's past is past...and cannot be changed."
                                            --'Robert E. Lee', in
                         Harry Turtledove's THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH


This is an annotated list of stories involving Alternate Histories (aka What-
Ifs, Allohistory or Counterfactuals), stories in which a past event has been
altered and its effect on later history described. The list is posted quarterly
to the UseNet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and alt.history.what-if. Most of
its contents were contributed by readers of the former newsgroup, but much has
also been extracted from:

Hacker, Barton C., & Gordon B. Chamberlain, "Pasts that Might Have Been, II: A
   Revised Bibliography of Alternative History", in ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds
   Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86};
Contento, William, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS {George
   Prior/G.K. Hall 78};
-----------------, INDEX TO SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS 1977-
   1983 {G.K. Hall 84}.

Alternate history (abbrev. "AH" below) criteria are generally the same as in:

Chamberlain, Gordon B., "Allohistory in Science Fiction", in ALTERNATIVE
  HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}.

Thus, alterations affect more than fictional individuals, and the story is not
secret history, does not rely on events entirely futureward of when the author
wrote the story, etc. Submissions for new entries are always appreciated, as
are corrections to the old.

Entries have been separated into three categories:

Anthologies -- collections of genre short stories and/or essays, each of which
   is also listed separately;
Alternate Histories -- what-if stories, essays and novels;
Reference Materials -- discussions of the genre and/or specific stories.

In the entries, please note that:

The notation "W:" beginning a description stands for "What if:", and that line
describes the divergence of that AH from ours. An "S:" means "Story:", and that
line describes the plot. A "C:" indicates "Comments:", and a "T:" line lists
publications of the story in other languages. If none of these is present, "C:"
or "S:" is assumed.

All non-English AHs are grouped by language in Appendix I.

If an author's name is replaced by dashes, the entry is a sequel to or in the
same series as the preceding entry. If replaced by dashes within arrows, it is
part of a series collected within the previous book entry. Double arrows
indicate inclusion in a book collected within an omnibus volume.

If you can't find a particular short story, check other entries by the author
to see if it was retitled or included in a larger work.

References to anthologies containing a short story include an editor's name
only if different from the author of the story.

Not all of the available publication data about the entries is presented here,
and in some cases the list of books in which a story appears has been limited.
Where the latter occurs, "etc" appears at the end of the book list. If you need
more publication info about a story, drop me a line at the address above.

Abbrevs. frequently used in publication listings are:
<#AW> = THE 19# ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF (eds Wollheim & Saha) {DAW #}
<AH> = ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Garland 86}
<AK> = ALTERNATE KENNEDYS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92}
<Alt> = ALTERNATIVES (eds Adams & Adams) {Baen 89}
<AP> = ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS (ed Resnick) {Tor 92}
<AW> = ALTERNATE WARRIORS (ed Resnick) {Tor 93}
<BAW> = ROBERT ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS (eds Adams et al) {NAL/Signet
   87}
<BT> = BEYOND TIME (ed Ley) {Pocket 76}
<f&sf> = The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
<FCW> = THE FANTASTIC CIVIL WAR (ed McSherry) {Baen 91}
<GS#> = THE GREAT SF STORIES: # (eds Asimov & Greenberg) {DAW 86, 88-91}
<HSL> = HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! (ed Armer) {Heyne 90}
<HV> = HITLER VICTORIOUS (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Garland 86; Berkley 87}
<IAsfm> = [Isaac] Asimov's Science Fiction [Magazine]
<IHB> = IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES (ed Snowman) {Rowman &
   Littlefield 79}
<IHO,X> = IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE, ver X (ed Squire); ver A {Longmans,
   Green 31}; ver B as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {rev Viking 31; Kennikat 64};
   ver C {exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74}
<SAH> = SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY (Borden & Graham) {Heath 77}
<SVW> = SCHONE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE (ed
   Oth) {Luchterhand 88}
<WIA> = WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE DIFFERENT? (ed Levine) {M.E.
   Sharpe 92}
<WIE> = WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION (ed Polsby) {Lewis 82}
<WoM> = WORLDS OF MAYBE (ed Silverberg) {Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74}
<WM#> = WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME # (eds Benford & Greenberg) {Bantam 89-92}
<YB#> = THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, #TH ANNUAL COLLECTION (ed Dozois)
   {Bluejay 84-86; St. Martin's 87-92}

This list would not have been possible without the generous and continuing
help of Evelyn C. Leeper. Significant contributions were also made by Thomas
Cron, Will Linden and Duncan MacGregor. Many thanks to them and others who have
made submissions, including: Vincent Archer, A.M. Barbanson, Alan Beale, Chris
Blakey, Paul Boyer, Stan Brown, Glen E. Cox, Daniel DanehyOakes, Calle
Dybedahl, Richard K. Fox, Beth Friedman, Dorian Gray, Guy Harris, Kenneth Hite,
Todd Howard, Tom Hyer, Bill Johnston, Crawford Kilian, Mark Krenitsky, Janet
Lafler, Jim Love, Andreas Morlok, Michael A. Patton, Dave Schaumann, Harry
Turtledove, William Watson, Al B. Wesolowsky, John Whitmore and Matthew Wiener.


And now, the list:


Anthologies:

Adams, Robert, & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ALTERNATIVES {Baen 89}
   New stories by JF Carr & RJ Green, RJ Green, Shwartz, LN Smith and
   Turtledove.
Adams, Robert, Martin H. Greenberg & Pamela Crippen Adams (eds), ROBERT
   ADAMS' BOOK OF ALTERNATE WORLDS {NAL/Signet 87}
   Reprints of by Bixby, de Camp, Effinger, Fehrenbach, Leinster, Niven and
   Piper.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), HITLER VICTORIOUS: ELEVEN
   STORIES OF THE GERMAN VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II {Garland 86; Berkley 87}
   Reprints and new stories by Bailey, Bear, Benford, Brin, Budrys, Finch,
   Goldsmith, Kornbluth, Linaweaver, K Roberts and Shippey.
Benford, Gregory, & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
   1: ALTERNATE EMPIRES {Bantam 89}
   New stories by P Anderson, Benford, Effinger, Fowler, Malzberg, Morrow,
   Niven, Pohl, Robinson, Silverberg and Turtledove.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
   2: ALTERNATE HEROES {Bantam 90}
   New stories exploring the Great Man hypothesis by Cassutt, Finch, Harrison &
   Shippey, Laidlaw, Malzberg, Morrow, Rucker & Di Filippo, Shwartz,
   Silverberg, Tarr, Turtledove, WJ Williams and Zebrowski.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
   3: ALTERNATE WARS {Bantam 91}
   New stories and a reprint exploring results of battles/wars by P Anderson,
   Busby, Benford, Churchill, Kress, Malzberg, McDevitt, Morrow, M Resnick,
   Steele, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
---------------------------------------------, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN? VOLUME
   4: ALTERNATE AMERICAS {Bantam 92}
   Semi-new stories to mark the quincentennial of Columbus' first voyage by
   Attanasio, de Camp, Eklund, Finch, Friesner, Malzberg, Oltion, Sargent,
   Silverberg, Turtledove and Zebrowski.
Borden, Morton, & Otis L. Graham, Jr., SPECULATIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY
   {Heath 77}
   Twelve essays on American AHs by Borden and Graham.
Chamberlin, J.E., THE IFS OF HISTORY {Atheneum 08}
   22 short essays.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY {George Newnes 29}
   Nineteen essays.
Levine, Herbert M. (ed), WHAT IF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM WERE
   DIFFERENT? {M.E. Sharpe 92}
   Essays on the effect of different US political structures (with minimal
   historical development) by Cohen, Esberey, Ferrell, Gentry, Jeansonne,
   Levine and Pitney.
Ley, Sandra (ed), BEYOND TIME {Pocket 76}
   New stories by Chilson, Cooper, Cores, J Coulson, R Coulson, Davidson,
   Eklund, AD Foster, Gat, Gotschalk, Lafferty, O Ley, Ward Moore, Orgill,
   Percy, D Thompson and Zebrowski.
Polsby, Nelson W. (ed), WHAT IF? EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL-SCIENCE FICTION
   {Lewis 82}
   Stories and essays by Averneri, Dexter, Fried, CO Jones, RA Kagan, Long,
   Masters, Minogue, Murphy, Polsby, Riker, Salisbury, Seabury, Wildavsky and
   PM Williams.
Resnick, Mike (ed), ALTERNATE KENNEDYS {Tor 92}
   New stories. AH entries by Aronson, Cadigan, Effinger, Friesner, Gerrold,
   Katze, Kube-McDowell, Malzberg, L Resnick, M Resnick, Rusch, Soukup, Tarr
   and Von Rospach.
------------------, ALTERNATE OUTLAWS {not yet published}
   New stories.
------------------, ALTERNATE PRESIDENTS {Tor 92}
   New stories involving American elections by Cadigan, J Carr, Chalker, G
   Cox, Delaplace, Easton, Fawcett, Gerrold, Gilliland, Gunn, King, Kube-
   McDowell, Malzberg, Nimersheim, Nye, Person, L Resnick, M Resnick, R
   Roberts, Rusch, Sheckley, Shwartz, Thomsen and Watt-Evans.
------------------, ALTERNATE WARRIORS {Tor 93, not yet published}
   New stories.
Silverberg, Robert (ed), WORLDS OF MAYBE: SEVEN STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION
   {Thomas Nelson 70; Dell 74}
   Reprints of P Anderson, Asimov, deFord, Farmer, Leinster and Niven.
Snowman, Daniel (ed), IF I HAD BEEN..., TEN HISTORICAL FANTASIES {Rowman &
   Littlefield 79}
   Corrections of decisions by 10 historical figures by Allen, Blakemore,
   Calvert, Edwards, Morgan, Pearton, Shukman, R Thompson, Windsor and Wright.
Squire, J.C. (ed), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY
   HISTORY {Longmans, Green 31; exp Sidgwick & Jackson 72; St. Martin's 74};
   rev as IF: OR HISTORY REWRITTEN {Viking 31; Kennikat 64}
   The classic AH book. Stories by Belloc, Chesterton, Churchill, Fisher,
   Guedalla, Knox, Ludwig, Maurois, Nicolson, Squire and Waldman. Rev ed swaps
   Knox for Van Loon. Exp ed adds Petrie and Trevelyan.
Waugh, Charles, G., & Martin H. Greenberg (eds), ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES:
   ELEVEN STORIES OF THE WORLD AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN {Garland 86}
   Reprints and new stories by P Anderson, Benet, IE Cox, de Camp, Elgin, Hale,
   Lafferty, Piper, K Roberts, Robinson and Utley & Waldrop. Reference material
   by Chamberlain and Hacker & Chamberlain.


Alternate Histories:

Adams, Robert, CASTAWAYS IN TIME {Donning 79; Signet 82}
   W: Nestorians won at the Council of Ephesus, 451.
   S: Tourists trapped in a remote villa are transported to a 17th-century in
   which the Moorish pope has declared a Crusade against England.
-------------, THE SEVEN MAGICAL JEWELS OF IRELAND {Signet 85}
   The battlefield between Pope Abdul and Arthur III Tudor shifts to the high
   seas and to Ireland.
-------------, OF QUESTS AND KINGS {Signet 86}
-------------, OF CHIEFS AND CHAMPIONS {Signet 87}
-------------, OF MYTHS AND MONSTERS {Signet 88}
   S:
Aiken, Joan, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE {Cape 62; Doubleday 63;
   Hutchinson 75; Dell 81}
   W: The Stuarts won the Jacobite wars.
   S: Two English girls face wolves and an evil governess.
   C: Except for wolves besetting England c. 1830, this volume is not AH.
-----------, BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA {Doubleday 64; Cape 65; Dell 69, 81}
   Hanoverians plot against James III.
-----------, NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET {Doubleday 66; Dell 69}
   A mad scientist in New England develops a transatlantic zap-gun aimed at St.
   James' Palace.
-----------, THE STOLEN LAKE {Cape 81; Delacorte 81}
   A kingdom founded by Celtic refugees from the battle of Camlann is
   discovered in the Andes.
-----------, THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN {Doubleday 69}
   The Prince of Wales (later Richard IV) has a Welsh adventure.
-----------, THE CUCKOO TREE {Cape 71; Doubleday 71}
   Hanoverian plotters return to disrupt the coronation of Richard IV.
-----------, DIDO AND PA {Delacorte 86}
   Another Hanoverian plot against Richard IV.
Aksyonov, Vassily, + Michael Henry Heim (tr), THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA {Random
   House 83; Vintage 84}
   W: The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against
   the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't.
   S: In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate
   re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands.
   T: Russian OSTROV KRYM
Aldiss, Brian W., THE MALACIA TAPESTRY {Cape 76}
   W: Humans evolved from dinosaurs rather than hominids.
   S:
Aldiss, Brian W., "Matrix" (aka "Danger: Religion!"), in Science Fantasy Oct
   62, THE SALIVA TREE AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS {Faber 66; Gregg 81},
   NEANDERTHAL PLANET {Avon 69, xx}, THE UNFRIENDLY FUTURE (ed Boardman), etc
   S: In 2042, a theocratic timeline crosstime abducts people for advice on
   dealing with a slave revolt, but they develop other plans.
   T: German "Vorsicht! Religion"
Aldiss, Brian W., "What You Get for Your Dollar", in THE NEW IMPROVED SUN
   (ed Disch) {Harper & Row 75; Hutchinson 76}
   W: The UN took strong action following the Anglo-French attack on Egypt in
   1956, including an internat'l reclamation project in the Sinai.
   S: A man from our world, beset by an energy crisis, visits the utopian Sinai
   of another and describes its history.
Aldiss, Brian W., THE YEAR BEFORE YESTERDAY {Franklin Watts 87; St. Martin's
   88}
   W: Churchill was killed during a visit to Finland in 1935. Later, Germany
   gobbled up W Europe but left the Zinoviev-led Soviet Union alone.
   S: A Finnish composer finds the body of a girl alongside the road, and
   inside her backpack is an SF thriller about a different WW2.
Allen, Louis, "If I had been... Hideki Tojo in 1941", in <IHB>
   W: The prime minister of Japan pursued a path which would maximize Japan's
   gains without forcing a war with the United States.
   C: Japan's takeover of Java and Siberia provokes a worried America to elect
   MacArthur in 44 and to ally with Germany. The falling Japan uses nukes.
Amis, Kingsley, THE ALTERATION {Cape 76; Viking 76; Panther 78}
   W: Catherine of Aragon and Arthur of Wales had a son who became king of
   England upon the death of Henry VII. Later, Martin Luther became pope.
   S: A boy soprano in 1976 Catholic England tries to flee becoming a papal
   castrato.
Anderson, Kevin J., "Music Played on the Strings of Time", in Analog Jan 93
   W: Various famous rock stars did not die tragic deaths.
   S: A man visiting alternate Earths to obtain "new" music by "dead" rockers
   comes across an album with his name on it.
Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason, THE TRINITY PARADOX {Bantam 91}
   W: US nuclear weapons research was slowed down, while the Nazis accelerated
   theirs.
   S: An accident propels an anti-nuclear activist back to 1943 Los Alamos and
   she sets out to prevent the Trinity test.
Anderson, Poul, "Delenda Est", in <f&sf> Dec 55, GUARDIANS OF TIME
   {Ballantine 60; exp Pinnacle 81}, <WoM>, <AH>, <GS17>, THE TIME PATROL {Tor
   91}, etc
   W: The Scipios were killed at Ticinus and Hannibal later captured and
   destroyed Rome.
   S: Celts are driving steamcars in 1955 "New York"; it's up to Time Patrolman
   Manse Everard to go back to the 2nd Punic War and set things right.
--------------, THE SHIELD OF TIME {Tor 90}
   S: Everard and Wanda Tamberley patch history up at Bactra (209 BC) and
   Rignano (1137).
   C: Non-AH entries in series are "Time Patrol", "Brave to be a King", "The
   Only Game in Town", "Gibraltar Falls", "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks", "The
   Sorrow of Odin the Goth", "Star of the Sea" and "The Year of the Ransom".
   All may be found in THE TIME PATROL {Tor 91} and elsewhere.
Anderson, Poul, "Eutopia", in DANGEROUS VISIONS (ed Ellison) {Doubleday 67;
   NAL 75}; PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT (eds Wolf & Fitz Gerald) {Fawcett
   73} and THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS {Berkley 81}
   W: Alexander lived longer *or* Christianity fell before Norse, Arab and
   Magyar attacks.
   S: A crosstime explorer from an advanced Alexandrine timeline violates a
   taboo while visiting a Norse-Magyar N America
Anderson, Poul, "In the House of Sorrows", in <WM1>
   W: Assyrians captured Jerusalem and the Diasporah occurred before
   Christianity could get started.
   S: Adventures of a courier from North Markland (America) in an alternate
   Israel/Palestine.
Anderson, Poul, A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST {Doubleday 74; Ballantine 75, Orbit/
   Futura 75}
   W: Shakespeare's plays were real history and the Industrial Revolution
   arrived two centuries early. Also, magic works.
   S: In order to keep Charles I on England's throne, a Cavalier prince
   searches for Prospero's isle.
Anderson, Poul, OPERATION CHAOS {Doubleday 71; Lancer xx; Berkley 78; Baen
   xx}; rev of stories in <f&sf> Sep 56, Jan 57, Oct 59 and May-Jun 69
   W: Men learned to remove antimagical properties of iron and magical
   technology ensued.
   S: A werewolf and witch are involved in repeated struggles against the
   machinations of Hell during WW2, as the Saracens invade America.
Anderson, Poul, THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS {Doubleday 61; Avon xx; Berkley
   78; Ace 84}
   A Dane from our Earth must save a magical alternate Europe from the forces
   of Chaos, but why are the people there expecting him?
Anderson, Poul, "When Free Men Shall Stand", in <WM3>
   W: Lucien Bonaparte convinced Napoleon to consolidate the French hold on
   Europe rather than invade Egypt. Later, the French won at Trafalgar.
   S: In 1849, Sam Houston talks history with a French diplomat during the
   battle for New Orleans in the 2nd French-American War.
Anvil, Christopher, "Apron Chains", in Analog Dec 70
   W: The scientific revolution started in the 15th century, the result of a
   man's being saved from drowning.
   S: Discovery of the Americas is stalled, then stifled, by too-rigid
   adherence to the scientific method.
Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme, WHEN THE BELLS RANG {Harrap 43}
   W: Nazi Germany invaded England in 1940.
   S: How the invasion was defeated.
Armstrong, Michael, "Everything That Rises, Must Converge", in <IAsfm> Feb 93
   W: Flannery O'Conner became an SF writer.
   S: She steals Hugos from Harlan Ellison but yearns for literary
   respectability.
Aronson, Mark, "President-Elect", in <AK>
   W: Robert Kennedy survived Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt, and as a
   result adopted a hard anti-crime stance.
   S: Facing Democratic rejection, RFK becomes the Republican presidential
   nominee as brother Teddy leads the Democrats. Nixon still becomes president.
Asimov, Isaac, THE END OF ETERNITY {J. Curley 81}; rev of "The End of
   Eternity", in THE ALTERNATE ASIMOVS {Doubleday 86; NAL/Roc xx}
   W: Enrico Fermi had not become involved in atomic research.
   S: A time engineer falls in love with a woman who will, because of a
   forthcoming history remake, never have existed.
   C: Marginally AH. Divergence is 1932 but all results shown are in *far*
   future.
Asimov, Isaac, "Fair Exchange?", in Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine Fall 78,
   3 BY ASIMOV {Targ 81} and THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND OTHER STORIES {Doubleday
   83}
   W: Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta THESPIS was not lost.
   S: A mental time traveler attempting to learn the score of THESPIS causes
   it to go into print, with personally damaging consequences.
Asimov, Isaac, "Living Space", in EARTH IS ROOM ENOUGH {Doubleday 57,
   Abelard-Schuman 76}, <WoM>, VALENCE AND VISION (eds Jones & Roe) {Rinehart
   74}, THE FAR ENDS OF TIME AND EARTH {Doubleday 79}, etc
   Using parallel Earths to solve overpopulation in 4000 AD, humans encounter
   similar colonists from a world in which Germany won WW2.
Attanasio, A.A., IN OTHER WORLDS {Morrow 84; Bantam 85}
   W: WW1 led to a world gov't.
   S:
Attanasio, A.A., "Ink from the New Moon", in <IAsfm> Nov 92 and <WM4>
   W: North America was discovered and settled by Chinese Buddhists.
   S: A scribe describes the Unified Sandalwood Autocracies, and an encounter
   on its eastern shores with a European explorer named Christ-bearer.
Averneri, Shlomo, "What if Sadat had come to Jerusalem under a Labor
   government? (1977)", in <WIE>
   W: Itzhak Rabin was Israeli PM in early 1977 and while visiting Romania was
   advised of Anwar Sadat's peace plans.
   C: Peace talks between Sadat and Rabin include King Hussein of Jordan,
   leading to an agreement that includes the West Bank, but not the PLO.
Bailey, Hilary, "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner", in New Worlds Jun 64, THE BEST
   OF NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Compact 65}, SF12 (ed Merrill) {Delacorte 68},
   THE BEST SF STORIES FROM NEW WORLDS (ed Moorcock) {Panther 74} and <HV>
   W: Hitler did not invade Russia.
   S: Life in occupied London, 1954.
Ball, Margaret, THE SHADOW GATE {Tor 91}
   A New Age woman from our Austin TX is drawn into a magical alternate where
   an immortal elven queen rules in France.
Barbet, Pierre, COSMIC CRUSADERS: TWO COMPLETE NOVELS {DAW 80}
>------------<, + Bernard Kay (tr), BAPHOMET'S METEOR {DAW 72}
   W: A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118.
   S: The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the
   Holy Land and conquer the Mongols.
   T: French L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET
>------------<, + C.J. Cherryh (tr), STELLAR CRUSADE {no ind. publ.}
   S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
   T: French CROISADE STELLAIRE
Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative", in London Mercury Nov 22, HALF A MINUTE'S
   SILENCE {Heinemann 25; Doubleday 25; Books for Libraries 70}, MAURICE BARING
   RESTORED {Heinemann 70; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 70} and TRAVELERS IN TIME
   (ed Stern) {Doubleday 47}
   W: Napoleon's father decided that his son would get the best education
   possible if enlisted in the British navy.
   S: A sketch of historical and literary consequences from 1800 to 1850.
Barnett, Lisa A.: see Scott, Melissa, & Lisa A. Barnett
Barrett, Neal, Jr., THE LEAVES OF TIME {Lancer 71}
   During an alien attack on one Earth, a human soldier is thrown into another
   where N America was settled by Vikings. An alien pursues him.
Barton, S.W.: see Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton
Basil, Otto, + Thomas Weyr (tr, abr), TWILIGHT MAN {Meredith 68}
   W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
   S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
   T: German WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSST
Bear, Greg, EON {Bluejay 85}
----------, ETERNITY {Warner 88}
   A strange artifact comes back in time from the future, only it's a
   different future.
Bear, Greg, "Scattershot", in UNIVERSE 8 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular
   Library 79}, <79AW> and THE WIND FROM A BURNING WOMAN {Arkham House 83}
   A woman aboard a spacecraft hit by a "disruptor" beam finds that it has
   reassembled with parts (and crew) of ships from alternate universes.
Bear, Greg, "Through Road No Whither", in <HV> and THERE WILL BE WAR 8:
   ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
   Nazi officers in a world where Germany won WW2 insult a gypsy woman when
   asking for directions, and she arranges for Germany's retroactive defeat.
Beason, Doug: see Anderson, Kevin J., & Doug Beason
Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Louis XVI escaped Paris and was not executed.
   S: Following Lafayette's defeat of Republican forces, France sinks into
   mediocrity and Britain must contend with the mighty Austrian empire.
Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls", in Saturday Evening Post 5 Oct
   35; THIRTEEN O'CLOCK {Farrar & Rinehart 71; Books for Libraries 71; Franklin
   Library 82}; MOONLIGHT TRAVELER (ed Stern) {Doubleday 42} (aka GREAT TALES
   OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION {Pocket 54}); <AH>; etc
   W: Napoleon were born much earlier, say in 1737.
   S: An Englishman residing on the Mediterranean coast of France meets a
   retired, frustrated French artillery major.
Benford, Gregory, "Manassas, Again", in <IAsfm> Oct 91 and <WM3>
   W: Rome developed a steam-driven machine gun.
   S: Rome's former American colonies fight a civil war in the 19th century.
Benford, Gregory, TIMESCAPE {Simon & Schuster 80; Pocket 81; Bantam 92}; rev
   of "3:02 P.M., Oxford", in If Sep 70, and "Cambridge, 1:58 A.M.", in EPOCH
   (eds Silverberg & Elwood) {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}
   A UC prof in 1962 worries about tachyon interference in an experiment as he
   tries to gain tenure. Mentions the Kennedy wiretapping scandal.
Benford, Gregory, "Valhalla", in <HV>
   A man from a timeline where WW2 lasted til 1947, allowing completion of the
   Final Solution, travels back and sideways to take revenge on Hitler.
Benford, Gregory, "We Could Do Worse", in <WM1>
   W: Nixon threw the California delegation's support to Robert Taft at the
   1952 GOP convention, with the stipulation that Joe McCarthy become Veep.
   S: After Taft's sudden death, McCarthy begins to institute a police state,
   and 4 years later a congressman is kidnaped.
Bensen, D.R., AND HAVING WRIT... {Bobbs-Merrill 78; Ace 79}
   W: Four aliens were stranded on Earth in 1908 when they barely avoided an
   explosive impact at Tunguska and splash-landed near San Francisco.
   S: To get their ship repaired, they set about accelerating technological
   development, but President Edison doesn't want to share with Europe.
Bernau, George, PROMISES TO KEEP {Warner 88}
   W: The US presidential assassination attempt on 22 Nov 1963 failed.
   S: Hunting the conspirators, plus the elections of 1964 and 68.
   C: Borderline AH, as all names have been changed.
Berry, Stephen Ames, THE BATTLE FOR TERRA TWO {Ace 86}
   C: Non-AH 1st volume of series is THE BIOFAB WAR.
   W: The US never developed the bomb, Nazi Germany did and Hitler was
   assassinated in Jul 44.
   S: A war against insectoids shifts from our Earth to another.
-------------------, THE A.I. WAR
-------------------, THE FINAL ASSAULT
   S:
Bertin, Eddy C., "Timestorm", in <72AW>
   S: Barely AH story of a man, caught in a timestorm, who discovers humanoid
   aliens tinkering with the human past, encouraging the spread of war.
   T: Flemish "Tijdstorm"
Bester, Alfred, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", in <f&sf> Oct 58, THE DARK
   SIDE OF THE EARTH {Signet 64}, COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed Haldeman) {Holt, Rinehart
   & Winston 74}, THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES (eds
   Silverberg & Greenberg) {Arbor House 83}, THE WORLD TREASURY OF SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Hartwell) {Little, Brown 89}, etc
   Due to his wife's infidelity, a Mad Scientist repeatedly goes back in time
   to prevent her existence but can only affect his "personal" timeline.
Bier, Jesse, "Father and Son", in A HOLE IN THE LEAD APRON {Harcourt 64}
   W: As punishment for participating in or ignoring the Holocaust, the Allies
   ordered that 6 million random Germans be executed.
   S: An exchange of letters between father and son, respectively a member of
   the provisional postwar gov't and a former SS officer.
Bishop, Michael, "And the Marlin Spoke", in <f&sf> Oct 83
   W: N American colonization had followed a slightly different path.
   S: A farmer from a different Oklahoma makes a pilgrimage to the Gulf Coast
   of New Castile, where a cult of sea worship has sprung up.
Bishop, Michael, "For Thus Do I Remember Carthage", in THE UNIVERSE and <YB5>
   W: Science and technology advanced faster in portions of the world.
   S: [St.] Augustine of Hippo receives a visitor from Cathay who speaks of
   collapsing stars and other arcane heavenly topics.
Bishop, Michael, THE SECRET ASCENSION; OR, PHILIP K. DICK IS DEAD, ALAS {St.
   Martin's 87; Tor 89}
   W: In a skewed world, Richard Milrose Nixon was elected to four terms as US
   president and SF author Philip K. Dick attained more fame.
   S: Shortly after his death in 1982, Phil Dick visits a small town in Georgia
   and the moon in order to correct history.
Bisson, Terry, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN {Arbor House 88}
   W: With the aid of Harriet Tubman, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
   (three months early) was successful, and provoked a mass black rebellion.
   S: 100 years later, as Pan Africa is about to land on Mars, a woman delivers
   to a museum papers describing the roots of the Nova African nation.
Bixby, Jerome, "One Way Street", in Amazing Jan 54, BEST SCIENCE FICTION
  STORIES AND NOVELS: 1955 (ed Dikty) {Fredrick Fell 55}, SPACE BY THE TAIL
   {Ballantine 64} and <BAW>
   W: Numerous small things were changed; eg., Shakespeare didn't write HAMLET,
   the Korean War only lasted two months, etc.
   S: A physics experiment knocks a passerby into a similar timeline, and he
   must be returned to save the universe.
Blakemore, Harold, "If I had been... Salvador Allende in 1972-3", in <IHB>
   W: Allende moderated Socialist policy and took decisive action against civil
   disorder.
   C: A description of Chilean troubles and how Allende avoided chaos and a
   right-wing takeover.
Bloch, Robert, "The World-Timer", in Fantastic Aug 60
   S:
Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr),
   "Alternatives in Science", in Internat'l Journal for Sociology 8
   C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
   the beginning of the scientific revolution.
   T: German "Alternativen in der Wissenschaft"
Bomba, Ty, "Outgoing Mail", in Strategy & Tactics Jun/Jul 89
   W: Exploiting a border dispute, Mexico's improved army invaded Texas in 1846
   and made for New Orleans, where a vicious siege occurs.
   S: Provoked by the attack, the US gov't revises the Monroe Doctrine to mean
   US control of all N America, resulting in an Imperial Republic.
Borden, Morton, "1759: What If Canada Had Remained French?", in <SAH>
   W: Montcalm defeated Wolfe to end the French and Indian War.
   C:
Borden, Morton, "1784: What If Slavery Had Been Geographically Confined?", in
   <SAH>
   W:
   C:
Borden, Morton, "1789: Could the Articles of Confederation Have Worked?", in
   <SAH>
   W: The Constitution was rejected.
   C:
Borden, Morton, "1801: Would Aaron Burr Have Been a Great President?", in
   <SAH>
   W: The House of Representatives named Burr president rather than Jefferson
   when breaking the Electoral College tie.
   C:
Borden, Morton, "1832: What If the Second Bank Had Been Rechartered?", in
   <SAH>
   W: Nicholas Biddle renewed the charter of the 2nd Bank of the United States
   at a more opportune time.
   C:
Borden, Morton, "1850: What If the Compromise of 1850 Had Been Defeated?", in
   <SAH>
   W: Zachary Taylor lived longer, causing the Compromise of 1850 to fail and
   the Civil War to start a decade earlier.
   C:
Borges, Jorge Luis, + Helen Temple & Ruthven Todd (trs), "The Garden of
   Forking Paths", in FICCIONES (ed Kerrigan) {Grove 62; Weidenfeld & Nicolson
   62; John Calder 65} and THE TRAPS OF TIME (ed Moorcock) {Rapp & Whiting 68}
   S:
   T: Spanish "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan"
Bova, Ben, TRIUMPH {Tor 93}
   W: FDR quit smoking in 1943, and two years later, Churchill ordered the
   assassination of Stalin in order to avert a Communist E Europe.
   S: When Stalin rather than FDR dies on 12 Apr 1945, the US decided to drive
   for Berlin, sending the 101st Airborne and Patton's Third Army after Hitler.
Bowes, Richard, WARCHILD {Warner 86}
--------------, GOBLIN MARKET {Warner 88}
   Crosstime stories in worlds of a French Canada and a stalemated WW2.
Boyd, John, THE LAST STARSHIP FROM EARTH {Berkley 69; Penguin 78}
   W: Judas Iscariot never existed and Jesus lived to age 70.
   S: 2000 years later, a Mathematician is tried for miscegenation for sleeping
   with a Poet.
Boyett, Steven R., THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP {Ace 86}
   W: Intelligent life evolved from racoons rather than primates.
   S: A human spelunker exits a Florida cave to find himself in a world run by
   oversize racoons.
Bradbury, Ray, "A Sound of Thunder", in GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN {Doubleday
   53}, R IS FOR ROCKET {Doubleday 62; Bantam 65}, THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY
   {Knopf 80}, CAUGHT IN THE ORGAN DRAFT (eds Asimov et al) {Farrar, Straus &
   Giroux 83}, <GS14>, etc
   S: Accidentally stepping on a butterfly while on a T. rex hunt has its
   repercussions.
   C:  A classic about the effect of a minor change on history, but not really
   AH since the only result shown is futureward (?) of the writing.
Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle, BATMAN: HOLY TERROR {DC Comics 91}
   W: Oliver Cromwell lived another 10 years and consolidated the Puritan hold
   on Britain and its colonies.
   S: A young priest named Bruce Wayne becomes a costumed vigilante fighting
   the repressive theocracy running the American Commonwealth.
Breyfogle, Norm: see Brennert, Alan, & Norm Breyfogle
Brin, David, "Thor Meets Captain America", in <f&sf> Jul 86, THE RIVER OF
   TIME {Bantam 87} and <HV>
   W: Nazi rituals resurrected the Norse pantheon, but Loki went over to the
   Allies.
   S: A captured American officer about to be sacrificed comes face-to-face
   with the god of battle.
Brown, Frederic, WHAT MAD UNIVERSE {Dutton 49; Bantam 50]
   A pulp editor finds himself in a parallel universe which match the stories
   his magazine has been publishing.
Brown, Walt, THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD {Carroll & Graf/Gallen 92}
   W: Jack Ruby had only wounded Oswald.
   S: In novel form, a study of whether Oswald could have been convicted of the
   murder of JFK based on the evidence against him.
Brunner, John, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER {Ace 69; Ballantine 83}; exp of "Times
   Without Number", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 62}; rev of stories in Science
   Fiction Adventures Mar 62, Jun 62 and Jul 62
   W: The Armada conquered England.
   S: 400 years later, a plot is afoot to destroy the Spanish empire via time-
   travel.
Brunner, John, "At the Sign of the Rose", in BEYOND THE GATE OF WORLDS {Tor
   91}
   C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
   S: The Tsar of Russia dies under suspicious circumstances; six travelers
   tell their tales at a Krakow inn.
Budrys, Algis, "Never Meet Again", in <HV>
   A scientist dissatisfied with Hitler's victory tries a change of universe,
   but that doesn't solve his problems.
Burroughs, William S., CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 81}
   W: Capt. Mission's 18th-century pirate commune on Madagascar was not wiped
   out by natives.
   S:
Busby, F.M., "Play It Again, Sam", in CLARION III (ed Wilson) {Signet 73}
   Two friends discuss how the world could be made a better place, working
   their way back from event to event.
-----------, "Balancing Act", in <IAsfm> 16 Feb 81
-----------, "Wrong Number", in <IAsfm> 21 Dec 81
   S:
Busby, F.M., "Tundra Moss", in <WM3>
   W: Victim of a minor stroke in late 1941, FDR was unable to resist
   congressional and public pressure for a Japan First war policy.
   S: Japanese saboteurs land on Amchitka just as orders for a crucial American
   offensive are being transmitted down the Aleutians via secure cable.
Butler, Ron, "What Number are You Calling?", in Fantastic Oct 55
   Crosstime adventure in New Amsterdam.
Byrne, Eugene: see Newman, Kim, & Eugene Byrne
Byrne, Robert, THE TUNNEL {HBJ 77; Dell 77}
   W: The 1973 agreement to dig the English Channel tunnel was not canceled.
   S: An American engineer embarks on the biggest project of his career, as an
   Irish terrorist plans to destroy it.
Cadigan Pat, "Dispatches from the Revolution", in <IAsfm> Jul 91, <AP> and
   <YB9>
   W: 1960s social protests met with harsh government reaction, LBJ stayed in
   the 68 presidential race and Sirhan Sirhan didn't kill Robert Kennedy.
   S: The cycle of violence gets bigger and bigger until it all blows up at the
   1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention in Chicago.
Cadigan, Pat, "No Prisoners", in <AK>
   W: Robert Kennedy decided to become a priest and sister Eunice ended up
   going into politics.
   S: In 1968, former Attorney General and now Senator Eunice Kennedy is faced
   with the final outcome of Father Robert Kennedy's antiwar activism.
Caillois, Roger, + Charles Lam Markmann (tr), PONTIUS PILATE {Macmillan 63}
   W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
   S: Christianity is aborted.
   T: French PONCE PILATE: RECIT
Calvert, Peter, "If I had been... Benito Juarez in 1867", in <IHB>
   W: Juarez granted clemency to Mexican Emperor Maximilian, about to be
   executed.
   C: How it might have happened, but without much further development.
Capek, Karel, + Dora Round (tr), "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism", in
   APROCRYPHAL STORIES {Penguin 75}
   S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
   T: Czech "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
Card, Orson Scott, SEVENTH SON {Tor 87}; exp of "Hatrack River", in <IAsfm>
   Aug 86, <YB4> and TERRY CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR
   (ed Carr) {Tor 87}
   W: Natural magic works. Also, the Puritan revolution succeeded, altering
   English history and the course of American colonization.
   S: Born in 1800, the seventh son of a seventh son growing up on the American
   frontier meets an itinerant storyteller named William Blake.
-----------------, RED PROPHET {Tor 88}
   Captured by Red men, young Alvin Maker and his brother become involved with
   Tecumseh, the Prophet and a different massacre at Tippecanoe.
-----------------, PRENTICE ALVIN {Tor 89}; rev of "Prentice Alvin and the
   No-Good Plow", in Sunstone Aug 89 and MAPS IN A MIRROR {Tor 90}
   Alvin's years as an apprentice blacksmith and the story of a Black-White
   "mix-up boy" removed from slavery in Appalachee.
Carr, Jayge, "The War of '07", in <AP>
   W: When Congress broke the Electoral College tie of 1800, they made Aaron
   Burr president rather than Thomas Jefferson.
   S: Militant Burr begins the move to manifest destiny 40 years early, but he
   also shows no signs of leaving the White House.
Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green, "Kalvan Kingmaker", in <Alt>
   C: 2nd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
   S: Styphon's House drives barbarians from the N American plains east into
   Kalvan's territory in order to destroy him, but he turns the tables on them.
Carr, John F.: see also Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr
Carter, Paul A., "The Constitutional Origins of Westly v. Simmons", in Analog
   Oct 85
   W: What if there were no Manhattan project, and Stevenson won the election
   of '52.
   C: How to change history so that Asimov's "Trends" (Astounding Jul 39) came
   true.
Carter, Paul A., "The Mystery of the Duplicate Diamonds", in STELLAR #7 (ed
   Del Rey) {Ballantine 81}
   W: Robert Kennedy was elected president in 1968 *or* Watergate was never
   discovered.
   S: Two people from different timelines meet at a jewelry store in a third
   trying to exchange different versions of the same ring.
Cassutt, Michael, "Mules in Horses' Harness", in <WM2>
   W: Lincoln was assassinated while visiting a Union hospital on 4 Jul 1863.
   Wasn't he?
   S: 1980 Confederate differential engineers trying to model history explore
   the Great Man hypothesis.
Chadbourne, Billie Niles: see Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne
Chalker, Jack L., AND THE DEVIL WILL DRAG YOU UNDER {Ballantine 79}
   A man and woman gather jewel-like devices from 5 alternate Earths to cancel
   an experiment that caused an asteroid to move toward their Earth.
Chalker, Jack L., "Dance Band on the Titanic", in <IAsfm> Jul 78, <79AW>,
   ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial
   78} (aka ISAAC ASIMOV'S MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and DANCE BAND ON THE
   TITANIC
   Adventures of a ferry boat crew traveling between alternate versions of
   Maine and Nova Scotia.