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Chalker, Jack L., DOWNTIMING THE NIGHT SIDE {Tor 85}
   A security officer has to prevent the killing of Karl Marx by a terrorist
   and gets drafted in a crosstime war.
Chalker, Jack L., "Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night", in <AP>
   W: James Buchanan suffered a stroke in Oct 1856 and Millard Fillmore,
   candidate of the American ("Know-Nothing") Party, was elected president.
   S: When Fillmore upholds the Fugitive Slave Laws in 1858, rioting and worse
   commence in New England.
Chandler, A. Bertram, KELLY COUNTRY {DAW 85}
   A mental time traveler causes Ned Kelly to escape police capture in 1880 and
   eventually become president of an Irish-dominated Australia.
Charmatz, A., "Sailing Through Program Management", in Analog 5 Jan 81
------------, "A Second Chance", in Analog 9 Nov 81
   W: Columbus returned from his first voyage to find that modern management
   techniques were being applied to Spain's exploration efforts.
   S: A series of memos showing increasingly poor relations with project
   managers, etc, as Columbus reports on voyage one and prepares for the next.
Chaykin, Howard: see Niven, Larry, & Howard Chaykin
Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell, IF ISRAEL LOST THE WAR
   {Coward-McCann 69}
   W: While Israel hoped for a diplomatic settlement, Arab forces delivered a
   devastating surprise attack on 5 Jun 1967.
   S: A day-by-day account of the 6-day fall of Israel and its repercussions in
   the US, USSR and the new UAR.
Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots",
   in <IHO,ABC> and THE COMMON MAN {Sheed & Ward 50}
   W: As the title says.
   C: Essay on England's place in Christendom and whether it would have
   accepted a Scottish Catholic queen and a Spanish prince-consort.
Chiang, Ted, "Tower of Babylon", in Omni Nov 90, <YB8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26
   (ed Morrow) {HBJ 92}
   W: An older idea of cosmology were correct.
   S: After centuries of work, the Tower of Babylon has reached the vault of
   heaven and stoneworkers now attempt to break through.
Chilson, Robert, "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sky", in <BT>
   W: Observing the continued success of Stanley brothers in auto racing, Henry
   Ford brought out the Model A steamer in 1911.
   S: Congress investigates internal combustion engines when a kerosene
   shortage arises.
Chilson, Robert, THE SHORES OF KANSAS {Popular Library 76}
   W: Teddy Roosevelt was assassinated.
   S:
Christopher, John, FIREBALL {Dutton 81; Tempo 84}
   Two boys are caught in a strange ball of fire, to emerge in ancient Roman
   times and help Christians overthrow the Roman Empire.
-----------------, NEW FOUND LAND {Dutton 83}
   The boys flee to N America and face more adventures with Viking settlers
   and Aztecs.
-----------------, DRAGON DANCE {Dutton 86}
   The boys travel on to California.
Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg", in
   Scribner's Dec 30, <IHO,ABC> and <WM3>
   W: Jeb Stuart reached the battlefield in time to support Pickett's charge.
   Later, Lee unilaterally freed the slaves and Britain recognized the CSA.
   S: Some theorizing about how a Confederate defeat at Gettysburg might have
   prevented the formation of the English-speaking union.
Clagett, John, A WORLD UNKNOWN {Popular Library 75}
   W: Jesus never lived and Constantine dissolved the Roman empire.
   S: A man finds himself in another world when a nuclear airplane experiment
   goes awry.
Clark, Ronald W., THE BOMB THAT FAILED {Morrow 69}; as THE LAST DAY OF THE
   OLD WORLD {Cape 69}
   W: The Trinity test was a failure, due in part to Klaus Fuchs.
   S: An agonizing invasion of Kyushu leads to US use of rice fungus bombs, and
   the Soviets exploit border incidents for a drive on the English Channel.
Clarke, Comer, IF THE NAZIS HAD COME {World 62}
   W:
   S:
Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Judicial Review?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Cohen, Neil B., "What If There Were No Written Constitution and Bill of
   Rights?", in <WIA>
   W: The US had an unwritten constitution, much like Britain's.
   C: An essay on how the US gov't would be more authoritarian, with minority
   opinions having less weight and no judicial review.
Collyn, George, "Unification Day", in New Worlds May 66 and THE TRAPS OF TIME
   (ed Moorcock) {Rapp & Whiting 68}
   W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
   S: England notes the 150th anniversary of its inclusion in the French
   empire.
Cooper, Edmund, "Jupiter Laughs", in <BT>
   W: Jesus of Nazareth was slain by Herod's troops before his family could
   flee to Egypt.
   S: The murder of Jesus, his family and the magi, with an epilog about Rome's
   British satrap "Queen" Victoria's humiliating coronation.
Cooper, Giles, THE OTHER MAN
   W:
   S:
Coppel, Alfred, THE BURNING MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF THE INVASION OF JAPAN {HBJ
   83}
   W: A lightning strike disrupted the Trinity test.
   S: Operations Olympic and Coronet, the invasion of Japan.
Cores, Lucy, "Hail to the Chief", in <BT>
   W: The Watergate break-in went undiscovered and Richard Nixon was president
   until poor health caused his resignation in 1994.
   S: In 1996, a plumbers unit breaks into a Hyannisport house to retrieve a
   tape stolen from the San Clemente archives.
Cornett, Robert: see Randle, Kevin, & Robert Cornett
Corvo, Baron: see Rolfe, Frederick William
Costello, Matthew J., TIME OF THE FOX {NAL/Roc 90}
   A mental time traveler studying what made the Beatles so great is
   sidetracked into "change war" action involving Rommel's Afrika Korps.
--------------------, HOUR OF THE SCORPION {NAL/Roc 91}
   Our hero becomes a US infantry lieutenant as the time war shifts focus to
   the Tet offensive and the attack on the US embassy in Saigon.
--------------------, DAY OF THE SNAKE {NAL/Roc 92}
   More time-war action, involving Pearl Harbor.
Coulson, Juanita, "Unscheduled Flight", in <BT>
   The Bermuda Triangle offers a one-way trip to an America colonized by
   Vikings and English pirates.
Coulson, Robert, "Soy la Libertad!", in <BT>
   W: Magellan discovered the Americas. 350 years later abolitionists blocked
   US annexation of Texas.
   S: A US Customs inspector considers the disastrous possibilities on a
   Balkanized N America of the assassination of Texas president Lyndon Johnson.
Counsil, Wendy, "Black Handkerchiefs", in <f&sf> Dec 91
   W: After defeating the US in WW2, the Japanese set the AmerInds up as
   governors of the country.
   S: Decades after the war, white Americans meet secretly to enjoy relics of
   Euro-American culture, and argue with a man who advocates accommodation.
   C: May not be AH. Lack of detail leaves room for the possibility that the
   Japanese defeat the US in the future.
Cox, Glen E., "The More Things Change...", in <AP>
   W: Dewey defeated Truman in the election of 1948.
   S: How playing hardball over Communism led to Dewey's win.
Cox, Irving E., Jr., "In the Circle of Nowhere", in Universe Jul 54,
   Fantastic Jan 60 and <AH>
   S: Following a study of racial equality, an AmerInd from a world where red
   men enslaved Europe is transported to our Chicago.
   T: German "Im Kreis des Nirgendwo"
Cox, Richard (ed), OPERATION SEA LION {Thornton Cox 74; Presidio 77}
   W: Nazi Germany carried out Operation Sealowe, invading England on 22 Sep
   1940.
   S: A detailed account of Germany's miserable 5-day failure.
   C: Based on a war game played out in 1974 by British and West German
   officers.
Crowley, John, "Great Work of Time", in NOVELTY {Doubleday 90} and <YB7>
   W: Cecil Rhodes died in 1893, and left his fortune to endow a secret society
   to preserve and extend the British Empire.
   S: Among other tasks, the Otherhood must ensure that Rhodes dies before he
   can rethink his will.
Cupp, Scott, "Thirteen Days of Glory", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds Lansdale &
   LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90}
   W: The defenders of the Alamo were homosexuals defending their lifestyle.
   S: Drag-queens fight an outraged Mexican army.
   C: Borderline secret history.
Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War", in American Mercury Oct 36
   W: Pickett's Charge succeeded, and the defenders of Vicksburg were a bit
   more tenacious.
   S: A look at the CSA during Huey Long's presidency.
Daniels, Tony, "The Careful Man Goes West", in <IAsfm> Jul 92
   W: AmerInds were absorbed peacefully into a multi-cultural society.
   S: People have the ability to choose from a variety of possible futures, and
   one of them picked one in which the AmerInds were instead wiped out.
Daniels, Tony, "God's Foot", <IAsfm> May 93
   W: What if the Eurasian and African tectonic plates had collided with the
   North American during the late Cretaceous.
   S: A Korean tourist climbs the Appalachian mountain Cheaha, the world's
   tallest, and encounters strange gods. Eventually he crosses into our world.
Davidson, Avram, "O Brave New World!", in <BT>
   W: Offered the choice of going to hell or to America, George II's heir opted
   for the latter.
   S: The center of British power shifts to Philadelphia, leading to an English
   uprising in the early 1800s against American tyranny.
Davidson, Avram: see also Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson
Davin, Eric L., "Avenging Angel", in FAR FRONTIERS II (eds Pournelle & Baen)
   {Baen 85} and <FCW>
   W: The CSA developed a long-range rocket and fired it on Washington during
   Lincoln's second inauguration, 4 Mar 1865.
   S: An explanation of its development and how it provoked the sack of
   Richmond and a harsher Reconstruction.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "Aristotle and the Gun", in Astounding Feb 58, GUN FOR
   DINOSAUR AND OTHER IMAGINATIVE TALES {Doubleday 63}, <BAW>, MODERN CLASSICS
   OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed Dozois) {St. Martin's 92, 93}, etc
   W: Aristotle abandoned the study of natural science.
   S: Trying to teach Aristotle the scientific method, a time traveler instead
   overawes and sours him on scientific research.
de Camp, L. Sprague, LEST DARKNESS FALL {Ballantine 49; Pyramid 63;
   Ballantine 74; Ballantine 83}; exp of "Lest Darkness Fall", in Unknown Dec
   39
   Transported to Rome in the time of Justinian, a man decides to start up a
   few modern industries and avert the Dark Ages.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Round-Eyed Barbarians", in Amazing Jan 92 and <WM4>
   W: The Chinese discovered the Americas at about the same time as Columbus.
   S: C. 1560, Spanish and Chinese explorers meet in N America, and a dispute
   over a Spaniard's elopement with a AmerInd girl must be settled.
de Camp, L. Sprague, "The Wheels of If", in Unknown Dec 40, THE WHEELS OF IF
   {Shasta 48}, <AH> and Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90}
   W: Oswiu of Northumbria adopted the Celtic rather than Roman branch of
   Christianity. Later, the Arabs won at Tours.
   S: A DA from our New York finds himself residing in the body of a Celtic
   Christian bishop in "New Belfast".
   C: Sequel is Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker".
Dean, William, "A Passage in Italics", in <f&sf> May 72
   W: Italy invented the first atomic bomb and won WW2.
   S: An Occupying Forces MP harasses the customers in an Amerian barbershop.
   Later, the barber discovers his straight razor has disappeared.
deFord, Miriam Allen, "Slips Take Over", in <f&sf> Sep 64 and <WoM>
   S:
Deighton, Len, SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN 1941 {Cape 78; G.K. Hall 79;
   Knopf 79; Ballantine 80; Curley 92}
   W: Germany won the Battle of Britain.
   S: A Scotland Yard detective tries to raise his motherless son and
   investigate a murder in occupied England.
   C: Synopsis in Giordano's WENN HITLER DEN KRIEG GEWONNEN HAETTE.
Del Rey, Lester, THE INFINITE WORLDS OF MAYBE {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66}
   Crosstimers view the 2nd American War Between the States.
Delaplace, Barbara, "No Other Choice", in <AP>
   W: Dewey ousted Roosevelt from the White House in 1944.
   S: Rather than bomb Hiroshima, Dewey orders that a demonstration shot of the
   atomic bomb be given, but the Japanese refuse to surrender.
Deloria, Vine, Jr., "Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians", in Christian
   Century 7-14 Jan 76
   W: In 1813, southern AmerInds joined with Tecumseh to oppose both the US and
   Britain in the War of 1812, earning themselves a seat at Ghent.
   S: Sharing N America leads to a more humane society, despite such troubles
   as the presidential succession crisis of 1876 and the buffalo war of 1880.
Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF {Heinemann 26}
   W: England was not subject to glaciers during the Ice Ages.
   S:
Denton, Bradley, "The Territory", in <f&sf> Jul 92
   W: After his brother was killed by Unionists in 1861, Sam Clemens decided
   to remain in Missouri rather than move west to Nevada.
   S: Joining Quantrill's raiders just in time for the attack on Lawrence,
   Kansas, Clemens begins to wonder about the mess he's gotten into.
Denton, Bradley, WRACK & ROLL {Popular Library 86, 0-445-20306-4}
   W: Roosevelt choked on a chicken bone in 1933, and Patton rolled into Russia
   after the fall of Germany.
   S: NASA is destroyed by fans after a 1967 lunar disaster kills a rock star.
   In 1979, her daughter goes on tour.
Derleth, August, & Mack Reynolds, "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time", in
   THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (ed Wolfe) {Citadel 91}
   In infinite alternate worlds, even fiction might be true. A traveler visits
   one such to ask Sherlock Holmes for help.
Dexter, Lewis A., "What if Joseph McCarthy had not been a U.S. senator ...",
   in <WIE>
   W: As the title says.
   C: The "witch-hunts" might not have occurred and opposition to Communism
   might not have acquired so many anti-intellectual overtones.
Di Filippo, Paul, "Anne", in Science Fiction Age Nov 92
   W: Anne Frank was sent to America in 1939
   S: Anne Frank goes to Hollywood and replaces Judy Garland (who died in a car
   crash) in THE WIZARD OF OZ
Di Filippo, Paul, "Mairzy Doats", in <f&sf> Feb 91
   W: Harry Truman became a career soldier, Robert Heinlein went into politics,
   and atomic and rocket research moved at a much faster pace.
   S: In a 1948 Heinleinian America, an SF writer meets the president and is
   recruited for a mission to the Moon to hunt down Axis refugees.
Di Filippo, Paul, "World Wars III", in Interzone Jan 92
   S:
Di Filippo: see also Rucker, Rudy, & Paul Di Filippo
Dick, Philip K., THE CRACK IN SPACE {Ace 66}
   W: Sinanthropes rather than man's predecessors became the dominant primates.
   S: The future of our world tries to use this alternate world to relieve
   overpopulation problems.
Dick, Philip K., THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE {Putnam's 62; Penguin 65; Berkley
   74; Gollancz 75; Gregg 79; Vintage 92}
   W: Before his 1933 inaugural, FDR was assassinated in Miami, which
   eventually led to the Axis winning WW2.
   S: Relations between Americans and their rulers, with light from the Tao and
   an AH novel about a world in which the Axis lost the war.
Dick, Philip K., RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH {Arbor House 85; Avon 87}
   W:
   S:
Dickinson, Peter, KING AND JOKER {Pantheon 76; G.K. Hall 76; Hodder &
   Stoughton 76; Avon 77}
----------------, SKELETON-IN-WAITING {Bodley Head 89; Pantheon 89; Thorndike
   90}
   W: Edward Duke of Clarence did not die in 1887 and became king of England in
   1910 rather than his brother George.
   S: Princess Louise (b. 1963) discovers some skeletons in the (royal) family
   closet and must solve some mysteries.
Dicks, Terrance, TIMEWYRM: EXODUS
   W: The Nazis conquered Britain.
   S: A Dr. Who crosstime adventure.
Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened", in
   CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE (ed B Disraeli) {Moxon 1849; Routledge, Warne &
   Routledge 1863; William Veazie 1864}
   C: Essay on possible alternatives in history, but without much development.
   C: Discussed in Stableford's "A Note on Alternate History".
Dixon, Dougal, THE NEW DINOSAURS: AN ALTERNATE EVOLUTION {Salem House 88;
   Fawcett 89}
   W: Dinosaurs did not die out.
   S: Fantasy pictorial biology book of what dinosaurs might have evolved into.
   Includes afterword discussing survival into modern times.
d'Ormesson, Jean, + Barbara Bray (tr), THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE {Knopf 74}
   W: Eurasia was united under a single empire.
   S:
   T: French LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE
Downing, David, THE MOSCOW OPTION: AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR {New
   English Library 79; St. Martin's 80}
   W: An Aug 1941 plane crash left Hitler lying in a coma and Goering in charge
   of the 3rd Reich for 6 months.
   S: Left to its own devices the Wehrmacht took Moscow in Oct 1941. Also,
   details on Pearl Harbor, Malta, Cairo, Midway, Panama and Jerusalem.
Drake, David, FORTRESS {Tor 87, 88}
   W: JFK escaped assassination and gave further impetus to the US space
   program.
   S: Outer space saga in 1985.
Dunn, J.R., "Crux Gammata", in <IAsfm> Oct 92
   W: Nazi Germany invaded England and won at Stalingrad, thereby conquering
   Europe before the US could enter the war.
   S: In the early 1970s, the first American rock band to tour Nazi Europe
   tries to avoid provoking an incident, but the authorities have other plans.
Dunn, J.R., "Men of Good Will", in Amazing Mar 93
   W:
   S:
Dvorkin, David, BUDSPY {F. Watts 87}
   W: Hitler was killed by a Russian attack while visiting the Eastern Front in
   Mar 1943 and his successors made peace with the US and Britain.
   S: In 1988, while hunting for a Red spy in the Berlin embassy, an American
   agent finds that Germany hasn't reformed as much as it pretends.
Easton, Thomas A., "Black Earth and Destiny", in <AP>
   W: Andrew Jackson outmaneuvered John Quincy Adams and was elected president
   in 1824, four years early.
   S: Jackson invested government money in biological research. 70 years later,
   George Washington Carver contemplates two job offers.
Edwards, Owen Dudley, "If I had been... William Ewart Gladstone in 1880", in
   <IHB>
   W: Gladstone appointed a more progressive Cabinet at the beginning of his
   2nd term as British Prime Minister.
   C: With his Cabinet's backing, Gladstone pushes through Parliament a Land
   Bill which would alleviate Irish unrest.
Edmondson, G.C., TO SAIL THE CENTURY SEA {Ace 81}
   S: The US gov't, during Nixon's 4th term, sends a team back to alter the
   Council of Nicaea in 325 and the future course of East-West relations.
   C: Non-AH predecessor is THE SHIP THAT SAILED THE TIME STREAM.
Effinger, George Alec, "Everything but Honor", in <WM1>
   An African-American physicist decides to use his time machine to alter a
   Civil War different from the one we remember.
Effinger, George Alec, LOOK AWAY {Axolotl 90}
   W: An internat'l peacekeeping force intervened in the American Civil War.
   S:
Effinger, George Alec, "Prince Pat", in <AK>
   W: The "3rd Generation" of Kennedys included some extra children, including
   JFK's son Patrick.
   S: In 2000, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy runs for president with the aid of his
   numerous cousins, all intent on avoiding 1990s style marketing-politics.
Effinger, George Alec, RELATIVES: A NOVEL {Harper & Row 73; Dell 76}; exp of
   "The City on the Sand", in <f&sf> Apr 73, and "Relatives", in BAD MOON
   RISING (ed Disch) {Harper & Row 73}
   One world in which Europe never colonized America or Africa, another in
   which Germany won WW1.
Effinger, George Alec, "Schrodinger's Kitten", in Omni Sep 89, <89AW>, <YB6>
   and NEBULA AWARDS 24 (ed Bishop) {Arbor House 88}
   An Arab girl who dreams of potential futures becomes a quantum physicist.
   Later she meets Hugh Everett (of the many worlds theory).
Effinger, George Alec, "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door
   Hardtop", in NEW DIMENSIONS 6 (ed Silverberg) {Harper & Row 76} and <BAW>
   W: In a fit of sanity, world leaders decided to postpone WW2.
   S: Excerpts from Effinger's book on how the WW2 of the 1970s was fought with
   automobiles instead of aircraft in order to conserve fuel.
   T: German "Ziel: Berlin!"
Eisenstein, Phyllis, SHADOW OF EARTH {Dell 79}
   A student from our world gets stuck in one where the Armada triumphed.
Eklund, Gordon, ALL TIMES POSSIBLE {DAW 74}
   A man from a timeline where the US went fascist after FDR's murder sets out
   to change the past and becomes dictator of Red America.
Eklund, Gordon, "The Karamazov Caper", in <WM4>
   W: Pope Innocent VIII was assassinated in 1486 and his successor suppressed
   knowledge of Columbus' voyage. Later, Bering "discovered" the Americas.
   S: 400 years later, tsarist agent Leon Trotsky investigates the ritualistic
   murder of a babe near Seattle.
Eklund, Gordon, "Red Skins", in <f&sf> Jan 81
   W: The Americas were discovered in 1219 by a Moslem, but not seriously
   colonized until Europeans showed up c. 1700.
   S: 100 years after AmerInds banded together to handle the immigration
   problem, Nazi Germany threatens war if scientist-refugees are not returned.
Eklund, Gordon, "The Rising of the Sun", in <BT>
   W: Europe fell to the Moslems and was discovered by the Incas in 1600.
   S: In 1899, a renegade Arab inventor detonates an atomic weapon over Cuzco
   just as the city falls to the Aztecs.
   T: German "Die Sonne geht auf"
Eklund, Gordon, SERVING IN TIME {Harlequin 75}
   A man from 2169 joins the Time Service and finds out that part of the job
   involves re-writing history; e.g., Washington's defeat on Long Island.
Elgin, Suzette Haden, "Hush My Mouth", in <AH>
   W: The North refused to enlist black soldiers during the Civil War, and
   blacks ejected whites from the South after devastating epidemics.
   S: Blacks have found that their only common language is the oppressor's
   English. Some refuse to speak until a better tongue is found.
   T: German "Schweig stille, Mund!"
Ellis, Charles D., THE SECOND CRASH {Simon & Schuster 73}
   W: Jack Golsen did not bail out the brokerage firm of Hayden, Stone in 1970,
   thus provoking the worst Wall Street crash in history.
   S: Description of the financial aftermath, plus Senate hearings revealing
   Wall Street's many excesses and consequent legislation.
Erickson, Steve, TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK {Poseidon 89; Avon 89}
   W: The Nazis won WW2.
   S:
Esberey, Joy E., "What If There Were a Parliamentary System?", in <WIA>
   W: The US adopted a parliamentary form of government after the revolution.
   C:
Farber, Sharon N., "Trans Dimensional Imports", in <IAsfm> Aug 80
   A woman publishes fiction never written in our timeline and gains moral
   strength from talking to her counterpart in another.
Farmer, Philip Jose, "Sail On, Sail On", in Startling Stories Dec 52, <WoM>,
   THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79}, A TREASURY OF
   MODERN FANTASY (eds Carr & Greenberg) {Avon 81}, <GS14>, etc
   W: The world were flat, and Bacon developed a radio from theological
   principles.
   S: Columbus sails off the edge of Earth.
Farmer, Philip Jose, TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH {Ace 79}; rev of THE GATE OF TIME
   {Belmont 70}
   American and German pilots from different WW2s meet on an Earth where the
   Americas are only an archipelago, but Europe is still at war.
Farren, Mick, NECROM {Ballantine 91, 0-345-36185-7}
   Crosstime adventurer visits an Aztec dominated modern Earth.
Fawcett, Bill, "Lincoln's Charge", in <AP>
   W: Stephen Douglas won the election of 1860, but the Republican-controlled
   Senate still provoked Southern secession.
   S: In 1863, with the Union facing imminent disaster, General Abe Lincoln and
   his Illinois militia must lead an attack at Carrolton, Indiana.
Fehrenbach, T.R., "Remember the Alamo!", in Analog Dec 61, ANALOG 1 (ed
   Campbell) {Doubleday 63}, TRANSFORMATION II (ed Roselle) {Fawcett 74};
   POLITICAL SCIENCE FICTION (eds Greenberg & Warrick) {Prentice-Hall 74},
   <BAW> and <GS23>
   W: Napoleon conquered Britain.
   S: A Britisher from our (?) timeline goes back in time to the Alamo, but its
   defenders behave like 20th-century liberals.
Ferguson, Brad, THE WORLD NEXT DOOR {Tor 90}; exp of "The World Next Door",
   <IAsfm> Sep 87 and THERE WILL BE WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
   W: Nuclear war broke out in the early 1960s.
   S: In up-state NY, 1980s survivors of the war have strange dreams of a world
   full of home computers, cable television, etc.
Ferguson, Neil, "The Monroe Doctrine", in Interzone 6 and INTERZONE: THE
   FIRST ANTHOLOGY (eds Clute et al) {J.M. Dent 85; St Martin's 85}
   W: Marilyn Monroe was elected president.
   S: When the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, Marilyn tries a little personal
   diplomacy on Leonid Brezhnev.
Ferrell, Thomas H., "What If There Were a Unitary Rather Than a Federal
   System?", in <WIA>
   W: The Constitution of 1787 were rejected, but after civil unrest, a more
   centrist Constitution was adopted in 1797.
   C: Description of a US government and political parties under a system in
   which states are little more than geographic regions.
Finch, Sheila, "If There Be Cause", in Amazing Feb 92 and <WM4>
   W: Sir Francis Drake planted the seed of Protestantism among AmerInds of the
   Pacific Coast.
   S: 200 years later, religious war breaks out when the Spanish begin their
   colonization of California.
Finch, Sheila, INFINITY'S WEB {Bantam 85}
   Analogous versions of the same woman interact through particle physics,
   Tarotry, mysticism and a twist in spacetime.
Finch, Sheila, "Old Man and C", in Amazing Nov 89 and <WM2>
   W: A Swiss patent office employee quit his job to become a professional
   musician.
   S: As the USA drops a new type of bomb in Korea, a 75-year-old Einstein
   frets about whether he's wasted his life as a violin teacher.
Finch, Sheila, "Reichs-Peace", in <HV>
   W: Rudolf Hess' flight was successful and a Pan-European federation began a
   1000-year peace.
   S: An attempt to use telepathy to rescue Hitler's adoptive son after an
   accident on the Moon.
Finney, Jack, THE WOODROW WILSON DIME {Simon & Schuster 68}; rev of "The
   Other Wife" (aka "The Coin Collector"), in Saturday Evening Post Jan 60 and
   ABOUT TIME {Simon & Schuster 86}; incl. in THREE BY FINNEY, etc
   Adventures in various timelines with minor differences.
Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America", in Scribner's Jan 31,
   <IHO,ABC> and PAGES FROM THE PAST {Clarendon 39; Books for Libraries 69}
   W: Napoleon did not surrender after Waterloo but fled to Boston.
   S: L'empereur looks for new lands to conquer and focuses on S America,
   but will it be enough?
Fleming, Peter, OPERATION SEA LION: THE PROJECTED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN
   1940, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES
   {Simon & Schuster 57; Ace xx; Greenwood 77}; as INVASION 1940: AN ACCOUNT OF
   THE GERMAN PREPARATIONS AND THE BRITISH COUNTERMEASURES {Hart-Davis 57; Pan
   75}
   W: Germany occupied England in 1940 *or* made no invasion preparations at
   all.
   C: Mostly background material but chapter 20 discusses events which could
   not have occurred if either supposition were true.
Flynn, Michael F., "Forest of Time", in Analog Jun 87
   W: The US never united, resulting in a collection of independent States
   fighting constant border wars.
   S: A crosstime traveler is stranded in a Wyoming Valley where Pennsylvania
   is fighting for control vs Virginia and New York.
Flynn, Michael F., IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND {Baen 90}
   W: Babbage perfected the Difference Engine.
   S: A secret society uses the machine to rule the world.
   C: Borderline secret history.
Flynn, Michael F., "On the Wings of a Butterfly", in Analog Mar 89
   W: Pizarro's 2nd expedition met with greater success.
   S: A member of the Shining Path goes back to ensure that Pizarro encounters
   the Inca Empire before civil war broke out.
Ford, John M., THE DRAGON WAITING: A MASQUE OF HISTORY {Simon & Schuster 83;
   Avon 85}
   W: Byzantine emperor Julian mandated religious tolerance in the empire and
   Justinian had time to consolidate his gains. Also, magic works.
   S: A Welsh mage, Florentine doctor, German vampire and Greek mercenary
   become involved in England's Richard III's struggle for power.
Ford, John M., "Mandalay", in <IAsfm> Oct 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE
   FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka
   ISAAC ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION)
   Crosstime travelers are stranded in a tunnel lined with hatches leading to
   all sorts of parallel worlds; they search for the "Homeline."
-------------, "Out of Service", in <IAsfm> Jul 80
   An Alternities guide is stranded after the "Fracture" and tries to convince
   the local gate operative that it will lead to the correct Homeline.
-------------, "Slowly By, Lorena", in <IAsfm> Nov 80 and <FCW>
   A doctor on a vacation offered by the Alternities Corporation is stranded in
   an 1867 where British intervention is prolonging the Civil War.
-------------, "Intersections", in <IAsfm> 26 Oct 81
   An Alternities guide crosses over into the real 1944 WW2.
Forester, C. S., "If Hitler Had Invaded England", in London Daily Mail xxx,
   Saturday Evening Post 16-30 Apr 60 and GOLD FROM CRETE {Little Brown 70;
   Joseph 71; Pinnacle 76}
   W: Nazi Germany invaded England on 30 Jun 40.
   S:
Fortier, Ron, THE BOSTON BOMBERS #1-3, comic book series {Caliber Comics 90}
   W: "Jesus" was female, leading to a matriarchal Catholic Church.
   S: Adventures of League of Nation operatives in the 20th century.
Foster, Alan Dean, "Polonaise", in <BT> and WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...
   {Ballantine 77}
   W: Poland became an important player on the world stage, capable of putting
   down Hitler in 6 months.
   S: A secret Polish space project to impose world peace in an age of nuclear
   proliferation.
Fowler, Karen Joy, "Game Night at the Fox and Goose", in <WM1>
   W: The war between the sexes took a violent turn in 1872 when American women
   began to fight back against degradation.
   S: A woman betrayed by her boyfriend meets a traveler who says she can
   take her to a more equable world.
Frankowski, Leo, THE CROSS-TIME ENGINEER {Ballantine 86}
---------------, THE HIGH-TECH KNIGHT {Ballantine 89}
---------------, THE RADIANT WARRIOR {Ballantine 89}
---------------, THE FLYING WARLORD {Ballantine 89}
---------------, LORD CONRAD'S LADY {Ballantine 90}
   An engineer accidentally transported back to medieval Poland decides to
   defeat the coming Mongol invasion.
Freireich, Valerie J., "Measure for Measure", in Aboriginal Dec 91
   W: Wat Tyler was not killed at Smithfield but became an advisor to Richard
   II, prolonging that king's reign and leading to an English enlightenment.
   S: Two time travelers from our future and another meet outside Geoffrey
   Chaucer's home and fight to retain the histories they remember.
Fried, Robert C., "What if Hitler got the Bomb? (1944)", in <WIE>
   W: Nazi Germany developed atomic bombs by early 1944, dropping them on
   London and Leningrad in May.
   C: Speculation on the bombing and its consequences, delaying Normandy only a
   bit and still resulting in the defeat of the 3rd Reich.
Friesner, Esther M., DRUID'S BLOOD {NAL/Signet 88}
   W: During the reign of Claudius in Rome, a druid magically isolated Britain
   from the rest of the world.
   S: Mage-queen Victoria employs a Holmesian detective to find a stolen
   grimoire on which rests her authority.
Friesner, Esther M., "Jane's Fighting Ships", in <AW>
   S:
Friesner, Esther M., "Such a Deal", in <f&sf> Jan 92 and <WM4>
   W: Rejected by Ferdinand and Isabella, Columbus' voyage of discovery was
   instead financed by a Jewish Granadan merchant.
   S: As Catholic Spain lays siege to Granada, Columbus' ships return from
   meeting the Aztecs, and they carry more than gold.
Friesner, Esther M., "Told You So", in <AK>
   W: Magic works. Also, after saving a leprechaun, John Kennedy was granted
   the power of making anything true merely by saying so.
   S: JFK begins to change the world for the better, but a misstatement in
   Berlin has disastrous effects.
Garrett, Randall, "Gentlemen: Please Note", in Astounding Oct 55 and TAKEOFF!
   {Donning 79, 86}
   W: Frustrated by gov't contractors, Isaac Newton changed his field of study.
   S: A series of letters showing how Newton became disillusioned and came to
   write the PRINCIPIA THEOLOGICA.
Garrett, Randall, LORD DARCY {Doubleday/SFBC 83}
   W: Richard Couer de Lion survived Chaluz, ruling well and leaving the Anglo-
   French kingdom to nephew Arthur. Also, magic was codified c. 1300.
>--------------<, MURDER AND MAGIC {Ace 79}
>>------------<<, "The Eyes Have It", in Analog Jan 64, RULERS OF MEN (ed
   Santesson) {Pocket 65} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
   A lecherous count is killed and the best clue pointing to the perpetrator is
   the last thing the murdered man saw.
>>------------<<, "A Case of Identity", in Analog Sep 64 and ANALOG 4 (ed
   Campbell) {Doubleday 66}
   The Marquis of Cherbourg disappears and a man who looks just like him is
   found dead near its harbor.
>>------------<<, "The Muddle of the Woad", in Analog Jun 65 and SPECIAL
   WONDER (ed McComas) {Random House 70}
   Just after the death of the Duke of Kent, his coffin is found occupied by
   the body of the Chief Investigator for the Duchy.
>>------------<<, "A Stretch of the Imagination", in MEN AND MALICE (ed
   Dickinsheet) {Doubleday 73}
   A book publisher in Normandy apparently hangs himself one day.
>--------------<, TOO MANY MAGICIANS {Doubleday 67; Gregg 78, Ace xx};
   serial in Analog Aug-Nov 66
   Lord Darcy investigates espionage-related murders in Cherbourg and at a
   sorcerers' convention in London.
>--------------<, LORD DARCY INVESTIGATES {Ace 81}
>>------------<<, "A Matter of Gravity", in Analog Oct 74 and ALFRED
   HITCHCOCK'S FATAL ATTRACTIONS (ed Lore) {Davis/Dial 83}
   A materialist count is killed when he is flung out of a window in his
   laboratory.
>>------------<<, "The Sixteen Keys", in Fantastic Stories May 76
   Lord Vauxhall dies after apparently aging 50 years in an hour, and the
   papers he was carrying have disappeared in his 16-room mansion.
>>------------<<, "The Ipswich Phial", in Analog Dec 76 and 13 CRIMES OF
   SCIENCE FICTION (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 79}
   During the search for a stolen magical weapon, a royal secret agent is found
   dead on an undisturbed beach in Normandy.
>>------------<<, "The Napoli Express", in <IAsfm> Apr 79 and ISAAC ASIMOV'S
   SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 79}
   A copy of a treaty between the Angevin Empire and Byzantium secretly travels
   to Athens via the Napoli Express for signing.
----------------, "The Bitter End", in <IAsfm> Sep-Oct 78; ISAAC ASIMOV'S
   SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 4 (ed Scithers) {Davis/Dial 80} (aka ISAAC
   ASIMOV'S WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) and ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S FEAR (ed Jordan)
   {Davis/Dial 82}
   A drink of rat poison is used to murder a man in a bar, but magic is
   required to explain how the murderer disguised its bitter taste.
----------------, "The Spell of War", in THE FUTURE AT WAR I: THOR'S HAMMER
   (ed Bretnor) {Ace 79} and THE BEST OF RANDALL GARRETT {Pocket 82}
   S: The first meeting of Lord Darcy and Master Sean, on a battlefield.
   C: See also Kurland's STUDY IN SORCERY, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS and THE UNICORN
   GIRL.
Gat, Dmitri, "U-Genie SX-1--Human Entrepeneur: Naturally Rapacious Yankee",
   in <BT>
   Time-traveling merchants ruin their present by arranging for the existence
   of Henry Ford.
Gatch, Tom, Jr., KING JULIAN: A NOVEL {Vantage 54}
   W: George Washington accepted the American crown and his descendants still
   rule.
   S:
Gentry, Judith F., "What If the 1787 Constitution Had Provided for Equal
   Rights?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Gerrold, David, "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson", in <AP>
   W: Eisenhower made Joe McCarthy his running mate, leading to Stevenson
   winning the election of 1952.
   S: A writer assigned to draft Stevenson's resignation speech looks back on
   how 6 years of intelligent decisions provoked Congressional uproar.
Gerrold, David, "The Kennedy Enterprise", in <AK>
   W: After divorcing Rose, Joe Kennedy moved to Hollywood, where he married
   Gloria Swanson and his sons went into the movie business.
   S: Second-rate actor Jack Kennedy enjoys his greatest successes in sci-fi
   features, and ends up the captain of Gene Roddenberry's Enterprise.
Gerrold, David, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF {Random House 73; Faber 73;
   Popular Library 74; Aeonian 76; Bantam 91}
   S:
Gibbons, Dave: see Moore, Alan, & Dave Gibbons
Gibson, William, "The Gernsback Continuum", in UNIVERSE 11 (ed Carr)
   {Doubleday 81; Zebra 81}; BURNING CHROME {Arbor House 86; Ace 87} and
   MIRRORSHADES (ed Sterling) {Arbor House 86; Ace 88}
   S: A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport,
   etc, are all out of 30s pulp SF.
   T: German "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der amerikanische Traum"; Portugese
   (title unknown)
Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling, THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE {Bantam 91}
   W: Byron led the Industrial Radicals to English power, and Babbage perfected
   his analytical engine so that the Information Age began a century early.
   S: A paleontologist accidentally acquires a set of punch cards from Ada
   Byron, dropping him right in the middle of a circle of mayhem and murder.
Gillies, John, "A Sending Parable: What Might Have Been the Result Had St.
   Paul Traveled East to the Orient Instead of West", in Christian Century 24
   Feb 71
   W: As the title says.
   S: The difficulties faced by the Tokyo Christian Ministry in Arizona,
   particularly its competition with American Christian missions.
Gilliland, Alexis A., "Demarche to Iran", in <AP>
   W: Gerald Ford gave Nixon a specific, rather than general, pardon, thus
   keeping his popularity high enough that he beat Carter in 1976.
   S: On his masseur's advice, Ford threatens to break relations with Iran
   after the embassy seizure, just like Austria did with Serbia in 1914.
Gluckman, Janet, & George Guthridge, THE MADAGASCAR MANIFESTO: CHILD OF THE
   LIGHT {St. Martins 9x}
   W: The Nazis establish a Jewish homeland on Madagascar.
   S:
Gold, Jerome, THE INQUISITOR {Black Heron 91}
   S:
Goldsmith, Howard, "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?", in <HV>
   W: Germany won WW2.
   S: An American couple rents a house in Munich and find it haunted by the
   previous occupant's Dachau experiments.
Goldstone, Cynthia, & Avram Davidson, "Pebble in Time", in <f&sf> Aug 70 and
   LAUGHING SPACE (ed Asimov & Jeppson) {Houghton Mifflin 82}
   W: The Mormons bypassed Salt Lake and settled near the San Francisco Bay.
   S: A time traveler accidentally diverts Brigham Young and company.
Gotschalk, Felix C., "The Napoleonic Wars", in <BT>
   W: Napoleon was not defeated at Waterloo.
   S: Assassination attempts are constant in 1958 New Orleans, capital of New
   France and home of the Emperor-in-exile of Eurasia
Graeme, Bruce: see Armstrong, Anthony, & Bruce Graeme
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1887: Whites and Indians--Was There a Better Way?", in
   <SAH>
   W:
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1917: What If the United States Had Remained
   Neutral?", in <SAH>
   W: The United States was not drawn into WW1.
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1933: What Would the 1930s Have Been Like Without
   Franklin Roosevelt?", in <SAH>
   W: FDR was either not nominated for president in 1932 *or* died at the hands
   of Zangara the next spring.
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1945: The United States, Russia, and the Cold War--
   What if Franklin Roosevelt Had Lived?", in <SAH>
   W: FDR enjoyed better health.
   C:
Graham, Otis L., Jr., "1974: What If There Had Been No Watergate?", in <SAH>
   C:
Green, Martin, THE EARTH AGAIN REDEEMED: MAY 26 TO JULY 1, 1984, ON THIS
   EARTH OF OURS AND ITS ALTER EGO {Basic 77; Sphere 79}
   W: King Antonio defeated the Portugese invading the Kongo at Mbwila in 1665.
   S: Interaction of two worlds diverging from the battle, one with the Congo
   at the heart of Christianity and one like ours but post-nuclear war.
Green, Roland J., "Exile's Greeting", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds Asimov et al)
   {Taplinger 80; DAW 92}
   W: The American Revolution failed.
   S: HMS Bellerophon prepares to transport a defeated enemy leader to exile on
   St. Helena, but is he Napoleon?
Green, Roland J., "The Goodwife of Orleans", in <Alt>
   W: Henry V of England did not die in 1422 and was able to consolidate
   his hold on the crown of France.
   S: A young woman from the village of Arc helps preserve English power in
   France.