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Green, Roland J., & John F. Carr, GREAT KINGS' WAR {Ace 85}
   C: 1st sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
   S: In their first attack on Lord (now King) Kalvan, Styphon's House hits him
   with three forces, but is defeated in all cases.
--------------------------------, "Siege at Tarr-Hostigos", in THERE WILL BE
   WAR 8: ARMAGEDDON (eds Pournelle & Carr)
   C: 3rd sequel to Piper's LORD KALVAN OF OTHERWHEN.
   S: Lord Kalvan loses his citadel to the forces of Styphon's House.
Green, Roland J.: see also Carr, John F., & Roland J. Green
Griffin, Peni, "Books", in <IAsfm> Nov 91
   A used bookstore gets alternative/fictional world customers.
Grigg, John, 1943: THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS {Hill & Wang 80}
   W: The Allies invaded France a year earlier.
   C: Discussion of Allied errors in WW2. Final chapter speculates that
   invading a year earlier would have given a postwar advantage to the West.
Grimwood, Ken, REPLAY {Arbor House 86; Thorndike 86; Berkley 88; Ace 92}
   At death's edge, a man has a chance to relive and change his life, again and
   again and again.
Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Ferdinand and Isabella's army was defeated at Lanjaron in 1491.
   S: An overview of the history of the great, enlightened Kingdom of Granada.
Gunn, Eileen, "Fellow Americans", in <IAsfm> Dec 91 and <AP>
   W: Hardball mud-slinging brought disgrace to LBJ in 1964, leading to the
   election of Barry Goldwater as president.
   S: Vignettes of 1991, when Bush is president and Quayle is veep, but Tricky
   Dick has a popular TV talk show that's been on the air for 20 years.
Guthridge, George: see Gluckman, Janet, & George Guthridge
Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford, VICTORIOUS GERMAN ARMS: AN ALTERNATE
   MILITARY HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II {T-K Graphics 73}, collected from Int'l
   Federation of Wargamers newsletter
   W: The Axis adopted a coherent grand strategy, resulting in a quick victory
   at Stalingrad.
   S: Detailed account of German victory in WW2, ending with domination of
   Europe and Africa.
Haffner, Sebastian, + Ewald Osers (tr), THE MEANING OF HITLER {Macmillan 79;
   Weidenfeld & Nicolson 79; Harvard Univ 83}
   C: Biography of Hitler includes discussion of the Nazis making a peace after
   the fall of France.
   T: German ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER
Haiblum, Isidore, THE TSADDIK OF THE SEVEN WONDERS {Doubleday 71}
   W:
   S: Alternate events in Judaic history.
Haldeman, Joe, THE HEMINGWAY HOAX {William Morrow 90; Avon 91}; exp of "The
   Hemingway Hoax", in <IAsfm> Apr 90, <YB8> and NEBULA AWARDS 26 (ed Morrow)
   {HBJ 92}
   A professor planning a Hemingway forgery is killed by a timeline protector
   and awakes as another timeline's version of himself.
Haldeman, Joe, "No Future in It", in Omni Apr 79, THE BEST OF OMNI SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Bova) {Omni 80} and DEALING IN FUTURES {Viking 85}
   In a bar discussion, a man claims to have traveled back in time and invested
   in all the right scientific inventions, but it didn't work.
Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off", in Harper's Mar 1881; HANDS OFF {J.S.
   Smith 1895}; ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE BEST FANTASY OF THE 19TH CENTURY (eds
   Asimov et al) {Beufort 82}; <AH>; etc
   W: Joseph was not sold into slavery in Egypt.
   S: A godling discovers the implications of altering an event, as he watches
   the Phoenicians take over the Mediterranean.
Hamilton, Franklin, "What If--?", in 1066 {Dial 64}
   W: William the Conqueror was beaten at Hastings and the Norman Conquest was
   averted.
   S: Two possibilities; either fragmented England was later occupied by France
   or Harold united the land, but it spent the next millenium in isolation.
Harness, Charles L., LURID DREAMS {Avon 90}
   W: Gambling debts did not force Edgar Allen Poe to quit the Univ Virginia,
   and he later lived to serve as a Confederate general at Gettysburg.
   S: Via astral travel, a 21st-century man searches for when/where Edgar Allen
   Poe's life turned to literature.
Harness, Charles L., "O Lyric Love", in Amazing May 85
   S:
Harris, Raymond, THE SCHIZOGENIC MAN {Ace 90}
   W: Cleopatra's son Kaisarion escaped the Romans *or* Cleopatra murdered
   Octavian.
   S: Through cyber-simulation a man visits Cleopatra's Egypt and tries to save
   the her son Kaisarion. He awakes in a slightly altered present.
Harris, Robert, FATHERLAND {Random House 92; Thorndike 92}
   W: Nazi Germany met greater success invading Russia, and after discovering
   that Britain had broken the Enigma code, forced a peace in the west.
   S: A cop in 1964 Nazi Berlin investigates an apparent suicide and finds
   himself unwrapping a 20-year-old conspiracy.
Harrison, Harry, A REBEL IN TIME {Tor 83}
   A racist army officer goes back in time to help the South win the Civil War;
   a black soldier follows in order to defeat him.
Harrison, Harry, "Run from the Fire", in EPOCH (eds Silverberg & Elwood)
   {Berkley/Putnam's 75; Berkley 77}, CATASTROPHES (eds Asimov et al) {Fawcett
   81} and TIME WARS (eds Waugh & Greenberg) {Tor 86}
   A man from our world aids others in timelines where the sun is about to go
   nova, including one where Europe is feudal and the Iriquois run N America.
Harrison, Harry, A TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! {Faber 72; New English
   Library 76; Berkley 74; Tor 81}; as TUNNEL THROUGH THE DEEPS {Putnam's 72,
   Berkley 72}; serial in Analog Apr-Jun 72
   W: Spain remained Islamic after Christian defeat at Navas de Tolosa in 1212,
   and the War of the Roses fizzled after the early death of Louis XI.
   S: A descendant of executed British-American rebel George Washington is in
   charge of building the ultimate tunnel.
   C: See also the reference entry for Harrison's "Worlds Beside Worlds".
Harrison, Harry, WEST OF EDEN {Bantam 84}
---------------, WINTER IN EDEN {Bantam 86}
---------------, RETURN TO EDEN {Bantam 88, 89}
   W: Dinosaurs did not die out and did develop intelligence.
   S: Conflict between warm climate saurians and cool climate humans.
Harrison, Harry, "The Wicked Flee", in NEW DIMENSIONS I (ed Silverberg)
   {Doubleday 71; Avon 73}, BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF THE YEAR (1971) (ed
   Del Rey) {Dutton 72}; and THE BEST OF HARRY HARRISON {Signet 76}
   A scientist flees from 2017 of a world where the death of Henry VIII and
   imprisonment of Luther aborted the Reformation. An inquisitor follows.
Harrison, Harry, & Tom Shippey, "Letter from the Pope", in <WM2>
   W: The last Christian king in England broke with the church.
   S: In 878, Alfred receives the letter from the pope that pushes him over the
   edge.
Heinlein, Robert A., JOB: A COMEDY OF JUSTICE {Ballantine 84}
   A man and a woman go hopping between worlds, apparently because some deity
   has it in for them.
Henry, O., "Roads of Destiny", in ROADS OF DESTINY {Doubleday, Doran 09;
   Doubleday, Page 17} and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF O. HENRY {Doubleday 53}
   S: Three possible futures for a French shepherd/poet who comes to a
   crossroads.
   C: Not really AH since all characters are fictional, but an early statement
   of the theme of alternate choices leading to alternate futures.
Hersey, John, WHITE LOTUS {Knopf 65; Bantam 66; Vintage 90}
   W: Warlord-run China conquered the US in an undescribed war in the mid
   1900s.
   S: Story of an Arizona girl who is taken into slavery in China.
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki, "Visitors", in Weird Tales Winter 91/92
   A woman is visited by her future self, telling her to commit suicide because
   everything gets worse, but she has been visited before.
Hogan, James P., THE PROTEUS OPERATION {Bantam 85}
   W: The Nazis remained an obscure political party *or* Churchill did not
   return to the British cabinet after the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
   S: Beleaguered Americans from 1975 go back to stiffen Britain's spine and
   promote US atomic weapons research. Unfortunately it's not their own past.
Hood, Gwenyth, THE COMING OF THE DEMONS {Morrow 82}
   W: Aliens disrupted the execution of Conradin Hohenstaufen in 1268 Naples.
   S: Trying to fix things without technological interference, the aliens
   become involved in the conflict over who should be Holy Roman emperor.
Hoyle, Trevor, SEEKING THE MYTHICAL FUTURE {Panther 77; Ace 82}
   During an attempt to travel into a potential future, a man finds himself
   retrieved from a red ocean by a slave ship traveling to New Amerika.
-------------, THROUGH THE EYE OF TIME {Panther 77; Ace 82}
   S:
-------------, THE GODS LOOK DOWN {Panther 78; Ace 82}
   S:
Hull, E. M., "The Flight that Failed", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
   DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53} and ADVENTURES IN DIMENSION (ed
   Conklin) {Grayson 55}
   A man from a future in which Germany won WW2 comes back onto a flight that
   had been shot down to save it and change his past so that Germany lost.
Ing, Dean: see Reynolds, Mack, & Dean Ing
Iverson, Eric G.: see Turtledove, Harry
Jablokov, Alexander, "At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball", in <IAsfm> Aug 87
   and <YB5>
   An art critic of Shadow worlds is haunted by marital trouble and assassins
   as he visits various worlds.
Jackson, Donald, VALLEY MEN: A SPECULATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ARKANSAS EXPEDITION
   OF 1807 {Tickner & Fields 83}
   W: The American expedition to explore the Arkansas River was not canceled.
   S:
Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones, THE BEAVER PAPERS: THE STORY OF THE "LOST
   SEASON" {Crown 83}
   S:
Jacobson, Dan, THE GOD-FEARER {Bloomsbury 92}
   Literary fantasy about a Europe where Christianity is a minor sect.
Jakes, John, BLACK IN TIME {Paperback Library 70}
   S:
Jeansonne, Glen, "What If There Had Been No Slavery?", in <WIA>
   W: African-Americans voluntarily emigrated to America rather than be
   transported as slaves.
   C: Various effects on American society, including a shrunken plantation
   culture in a more industrialized but less cohesive South.
Jenkins, Will F.: see Leinster, Murray
Jennings, Philip C., "Captain Theodule and the Chileland Kommandos", in
   Amazing Jul 91
   W:
   S: Realities of European colonization and imperialism are turned upside
   down.
Jeschke, Wolfgang, & Gertrud Mander, THE LAST DAY OF CREATION {St. Martin's
   82; Century 82}
   W: Mexico stretched from Canada to Venezuela *or* the Axis enjoyed greater
   success in WW2.
   S: A US attempt to steal Arabian oil using a pipeline in the past runs into
   trouble vs. people from other timelines.
   T: German DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG
Johnson, Robert B., & Billie Niles Chadbourne, TIMES-SQUARE SAMURAI; OR,
   THE IMPROBABLE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF NEW YORK {Tuttle 66}
   C:
Jones, Charles O., "What if there had been a Nixon presidency without
   Watergate? (1973)", in <WIE>
   W: As the title says.
   C: No threat of impeachment and no "search for wrongdoers" occurs in
   Washington, but little else changes.
Jones, Douglas C., THE COURT-MARTIAL OF GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER {Scribner's
   76; Warner 77}
   W: Custer was the sole survivor among the elements of the 7th Cavalry
   wiped out on Custer's Hill, above the Little Bighorn.
   S: Army commanding General William Sherman orders Custer court-martialed for
   disobeying orders and negligence.
Jones, Diana Wynne, THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA {Greenwillow 80}
   W: Guy Fawkes suffered a premature explosion. Also, magic works.
   S: Two children from powerful, magic-working Italian families cannot perform
   magic themselves, but save the city of Caprona from an enchanter.
------------------, THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT {Greenwillow 88}
   S: After dream-traveling to other timelines, an English boy becomes the
   great mage Chrestomanci.
------------------, CHARMED LIFE {Greenwillow 77; Macmillan 77}
   S: Two English children go to live with Uncle Chrestomanci.
------------------, WITCH WEEK {Greenwillow 82}
   S: Chrestomanci sorts out strange goings-on at a state-run school for witch-
   orphans.
Jones, Gerard: see Jacobs, Will, & Gerard Jones
Kagan, Janet, "Love Our Lockwood", in <AP>
   W: Minor candidate Belva Ann Lockwood was elected US president in 1888.
   S: During the election of 1892, Lockwood personally leads the way to
   universal suffrage.
Kagan, Robert A., "What if Abe Fortas had been more discreet? (1969)", in
   <WIE>
   W: Richard Nixon was not forced to withdraw his nomination of Fortas for
   chief justice of the Supreme Court.
   C: Scholarly speculation on the effects that a more liberal US Supreme Court
   would have had.
Kantor, Mackinlay, IF THE SOUTH HAD WON THE CIVIL WAR {Bantam 61}; exp of "If
   the South had Won the Civil War", in Look 22 Nov 60
   W: Grant was killed on 12 May 1863 and Sherman died in the Vicksburg
   debacle. Also, occupation of Culp's Hill led to rebel victory at Gettysburg.
   S: Vicksburg, Gettysburg and the end of the war, followed by a review of US,
   CS and Texas history until reunification in the 1960s.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If the South Had Won the Civil War?"
Katze, Rick, "Bobbygate", in <AK>
   W: JFK did not die in 1963 and ran for reelection the next year.
   S: A reporter stumbles onto links between Robert Kennedy and a break-in at
   the Republican national headquarters, and Joe Kennedy has to take charge.
Kaye, Lenny, "If Elvis Had Lived", in THE COMPLETE ELVIS (ed Torgoff)
   {Delilah 82}
   W: Elvis Presley was rushed to the hospital in time to prevent his death in
   1977.
   S: Elvis shapes up, goes back to his musical roots and receives a medal from
   President Reagan.
Kazantzakis, Nikos, + P.A. Bien (tr), THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST {Simon &
   Schuster 60}
   W: Jesus fled his doom.
   S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
   T: Greek TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
Keen, Tony, "Napoleon's Airship", in Visions xxx 90 (4:3)
   W: Napoleon had a dirigible to supply aerial intelligence at Waterloo.
   S: A British time traveler seeking to reverse his country's subjugation
   finds he isn't the only meddler at Waterloo, and he won't be the last.
Kilian, Crawford, THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC {Ballantine 87}
   Mental Trainables of 1998 use information gained from the future of a
   similar timeline to speed up the end of an American Emergency.
----------------, ROGUE EMPEROR {Ballantine 88}
   Intemporal Agent Jerry Pierce investigates the assassination of the Roman
   emperor Domitian in another timeline by means of an antitank weapon.
----------------, THE EMPIRE OF TIME {Ballantine 87}
   Pierce tries to find out how disaster struck Earth in the future, visiting
   alternate Earths along the way.
King, Tappan, "Patriot's Dream", in <AP>
   W: Leila Morse accepted Samuel Tilden's proposal, putting backbone into his
   effort to be president during the Electoral College debate of 1877.
   S: In 1896, Sam and Leila Tilden tell a reporter how it all happened, and
   how Tilden became the Great Reformer and head of the Liberal Party.
Klein, Edward: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
Knight, Damon, "What Rough Beast", in <f&sf> Feb 59, BEST FROM FANTASY AND
   SCIENCE FICTION: 9 (ed Mills) {Doubleday 60} (aka FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AND
   OTHER STORIES) and OFF CENTER {Gollancz 69; Award/Tandem xx}
   A man from Novo Russie has the mental power to fix things by altering the
   events that caused them.
Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded", in <IHO,AC>
   W: The 1926 British general strike succeeded.
   S: An imaginary 1930 London Times shows the social impact of the strike.
Koning, Hans, "Ifs: Destiny and the Archduke's chauffeur", in Harper's May 90
   Short descriptions of numerous ifs: e.g., delaying the Nazi invasion of
   Poland to 1941, making William III a heterosexual, etc.
Kornbluth, C.M., "Two Dooms", in Venture Jul 58, THE BEST OF C.M. KORNBLUTH
   {Doubleday 76; Taplinger 77}, <HV>, <GS20>, THE FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed
   McSherry) {Baen 90}, etc
   W: The US did not develop the atomic bomb.
   S: A Los Alamos worker concerned about the power of the bomb is given a
   glimpse of the Axis partition of America.
Kress, Nancy, "And Wild for to Hold", in <IAsfm> Jul 91 and <WM3)
   22nd-century people trying to prevent past mass bloodshed kidnap four
   historical figures, one of whom is an angry Anne Boleyn.
Kress, Nancy, "The Battle for Long Island", in Omni Feb/Mar 93
   In 2001 Long Island, a Hole opens up and occasionally emits wounded soldiers
   from different Battles of Long Island.
Krohn, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, & Wolfgang Krohn,
   + E.G.H. Joffe (tr)
Kruas, Stephen, "Frame of Reference", in Analog May 88
   W: Albert Einstein accepted an invitation to visit CalTech in 1925 and while
   in transit was arrested after delivering a lecture in Louisville, KY.
   S: Clarence Darrow humiliates William Jennings Bryant at a trial to decide
   whether Einstein violated a law against contradicting the Bible.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., ALTERNITIES {Ace 88}
   W: Different timelines spun off a cosmic bubble in late 1950, with US and
   Soviet gov'ts of varying degrees of liberalism/repression.
   S: A right-wing US seeks a crosstime bolthole for its leaders as nuclear war
   grows closer.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "I Shall Have a Flight to Glory", in <AP>
   W: Barred from the presidency in 1877 by subterfuge, Samuel Tilden turned
   the tables on James Garfield in 1880.
   S: With Charles Guiteau at his side, Garfield vainly attempts to convince
   Tilden that they can fix the corrupted electoral system.
Kube-McDowell, Michael P., "The Inga-Binga Affair", in <AK>
   W: It was revealed during WW2 that Navy officer John F. Kennedy was having
   an affair with a suspected Nazi spy.
   S: Alerted that the FBI is taping his trysts, JFK plots to get out from
   under his father's control.
Kurland, Michael, PERCHANCE {Signet 89}
   W: Columbus' first voyage had a fourth ship *or* the Americas were invaded
   by Europeans c 1000 BC *or* Germany won an early WW1.
   S: An apprentice from Philadelphia meets an amnesiac girl who can blip
   between timelines, and a lot of people are hunting for her.
Kurland, Michael, A STUDY IN SORCERY {Ace 89}
----------------, TEN LITTLE WIZARDS {Ace 88}
   C: Sequels to Garrett's LORD DARCY, etc.
   S: More stories about Lord Darcy.
Kurland, Michael, THE UNICORN GIRL {Pyramid 69}
   Crosstime junket, with a stopover in Garrett's Lord Darcy (qv) world.
Kurland, Michael, THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR {DAW 75}
   Crosstime adventure involving slightly different versions of the US
   Constitution.
Kurland, Michael, & S.W. Barton, THE LAST PRESIDENT {Morrow 80; Lorevan/
   Critic's Choice 85}
   W: The Watergate break-ins went undetected.
   S: Nixon & Co.'s further activities (more break-ins, internal confinement
   camps, canceled elections, etc) provoke a military coup.
   C: Borderline AH, as names have been changed.
Kuttner, Henry: see Padgett, Lewis
Lafferty, R. A., "Assault on Fat Mountain", in <BT>
   W: The state of Franklin resisted suppression by N Carolina and became
   independent Appalachia.
   S: Backwater USers constantly complain about the wealth of Appalachia.
Lafferty, R.A., "Entire and Perfect Chrysolite", in ORBIT 6 (ed Knight)
   {Putnam's 70; Berkley 70}, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72} and THE GOLDEN
   ROAD (ed Knight) {Simon & Schuster 74}
   A group of people from the Africa of Erastothenes' world-map goes sailing
   and lands on the Africa of our world.
Lafferty, R. A., "Interurban Queen", in ORBIT 8 (ed Knight) {Putnam's 70;
   Berkley 71}, CAR SINISTER (eds Silverberg et al) {Avon 79}, RINGING CHANGES
   {Ace 84}, <AH>, etc
   W: Trolleys took the place of the automobile in America's growth.
   S: An older man reminisces about when he had to choose between investing in
   trolleys or autos, and then helps hunt down an auto outlaw.
Lafferty, R.A., "Rainbird", in Galaxy Dec 61, STRANGE DOINGS {Scribner's 72},
   AGAINST TOMORROW (ed Hoskins) {Fawcett 79}, <GS23>, etc
   An 18th-century inventor grows old, then uses a time machine to go back to
   give himself advice. His younger self repeats the process, etc.
Lafferty, R.A., "Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies", in UNIVERSE 8
   (ed Carr) {Doubleday 78; Popular Library 78}
   W: Television was invented 60 years earlier on somewhat different
   principles.
   S: A review of an early television series.
Lafferty, R.A., "The Three Armageddons of Enniscorthy Sweeny", in APOCALYPSES
   {Pinnacle 77}
   W:
   S: In a world in which the World Wars were never fought, a man produces
   comic operas based on events in our world, thereby corrupting his own.
Lafferty, R.A., "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne", in Galaxy Feb 67, WORLD'S
   BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 68 (eds Wollheim & Carr) {Ace 68}, NINE HUNDRED
   GRANDMOTHERS {Ace 70}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY (ed Sullivan) {Prentice-
   Hall 74}, etc
   S: Future scientists experiment with the battle at Roncesvalles, altering
   their past without realizing it.
   T: German "Karl der Grosse, frustriert"
Laidlaw, Marc, "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes", in Omni Sep 89 and
   <WM2>
   W: After Benedict Arnold's betrayal of West Point, George Washington was
   captured, tortured and executed.
   S: 200 years later, an art curator stumbles upon AmerInds who regret their
   part in Washington's torture and have elevated him to a Christ figure.
Lansdale, Joe R., "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches", in
   Last Wave #5 and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
   W: Jesus was run over by a donkey cart and John the Baptist became the
   Messiah.
   S: A letter from one AmerInd to another reveals the divisions in a N America
   controlled by Japanese, Aztecs and various tribes.
   T: German "Brief aus dem Sueden, zwei Monde, westlich von Nacogdoches"
Lansdale, Joe R., "Trains Not Taken", in RE:AL and BY BIZARRE HANDS {Avon 89}
   W: Japan colonized the western part of N America and Europe the east,
   leaving no major frontier.
   S: James Hickock meets Bill Cody on a train in the Dakotas, and both lament
   their uninteresting lives as businessmen.
Laski, Harold J., "If Roosevelt had Lived", in The Nation 13 Apr 46
   W: Roosevelt did not die in 1945.
   S: Ponderings on changes in America's place in the world, including control
   of the bomb and the start of the Cold War.
Laski, Marghanita, TORY HEAVEN; OR, THUNDER ON THE RIGHT {Cresset 48}
   S:
Laumer, Keith, WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM {Ace Double 62; Berkley 77; exp Tor
   83}; serial in Fantastic Stories Feb-Apr 61
   Adventures beginning in a world with an Anglo-German Imperium centered in
   London, visiting another where Germany won WW1.
-------------, BEYOND THE IMPERIUM {Pinnacle/Tor 81}
>-----------<, THE OTHER SIDE OF TIME {Berkley 65; Walker 71; Signet 72};
   serial in Fantastic Stories Apr-Jun 65
   Adventures continue to a timeline where Napoleon won a glorious victory at
   Brussels in 1814.
>-----------<, ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE {Berkley 68; Dobson 72}
   Adventures continue to a timeline where Richard Couer de Lion avoided battle
   at Chaluz but succumbed to French conquest in his old age.
-------------, ZONE YELLOW {Tor 90}
   S:
Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF
   ENGLAND {The Author 1899}
   W: The French invaded England in 1805.
   S: Once ashore, Napoleon has trouble deciding what to do next.
Le Guin, Ursula K., THE LATHE OF HEAVEN {Scribner's 71; R. Bentley 82}
   A man's dreams have the power to rewrite history, and a psychiatrist takes
   advantage of it.
Leacock, Stephen, "The Hohenzollerns in America", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN
   AMERICA, WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES {John
   Lane/Bodley Head/S.B. Gundy 19}
   W: Kaiser Wilhelm and family members were exiled to America after WW1.
   S: Their voyage across the Atlantic, in 3rd-class steerage, and the Kaiser's
   final days as a street pedlar.
Leacock, Stephen, "If Germany Had Won", in THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA, WITH
   THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES {John Lane/Bodley Head/
   S.B. Gundy 19}
   W: Germany won WW1.
   S: Farcical entries from the New York Imperial Gazette during 1925.
Lee, Rand B., "Knight of Shallows", in Amazing Jul 83, <YB1> and <84AW>
   W: Margaret Thatcher was assassinated and the Falklands crisis went nuclear.
   S: Barely AH tale in which a man hunts a murderous version of himself
   through different Key Wests.
Leiber, Fritz, THE BIG TIME {Ace 61; Gregg 76; Collier/Macmillan 91}; serial
   in Galaxy Mar-Apr 58
   At a Snake enclave somewhere outside space and time, a soldier preaches
   ChangePeace as the enclave maintainer disappears.
-------------, "No Great Magic", in Galaxy Dec 63, THE SECRET SONGS {Rupert
   Hart-Davis 68}, THE CHANGE WAR {Gregg 78}, THE GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SERIES
   (eds Pohl et al) {Harper & Row 80} and CHANGEWAR {Ace 83}
   The Snake vs. Spider battlefield moves to an anachronistic performance of
   MacBeth before Elizabeth I.
-------------, "Catch that Zeppelin!", in <f&sf> Mar 75; <76AW>; THE WORLDS
   OF FRITZ LEIBER {Ace 76; Gregg 79}; NEBULA WINNERS ELEVEN (ed Le Guin)
   {Harper & Row 77; Bantam 78}; THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME FOUR (ed Asimov)
   {Doubleday 85}; THE BEST OF THE NEBULAS (ed Bova) {Tor 89}; etc
   S: After dining with his son at the Empire State Building, zeppelin designer
   Adolf Hitler is caught in a whirl of parallel selves.
   C: Non-AH entries in series include THE CHANGE WAR and "Try and Change the
   Past" (Astounding Mar 58 and THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER).
Leiber, Fritz, "Business of Killing", in SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES IN
   DIMENSIONS (ed Conklin) {Vanguard 53}
   A traveler finds a parallel world in which wars are treated as business
   ventures.
Leiber, Fritz, "Destiny Times Three", in Astounding Mar 45, FIVE SCIENCE
   FICTION NOVELS (ed Greenberg) {Gnome 52} and BINARY STAR #1 (ed ?) {Dell 78}
   In the future, someone gets a "probability machine" that lets them make real
   all the possible outcomes from various choices.
Leinster, Murray, "The Other World", in 6 GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Conklin) {Dell 54} and <BAW>
   Ancient Egyptian priests discovered a parallel uninhabited world and
   sustain themselves by looting ours, for merchandise and slaves.
Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time", in Astounding Jun 34, SIDEWAYS IN TIME
   {Shasta 50}, <WoM>, BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE (ed Asimov) {Doubleday 74}, THE
   BEST OF MURRAY LEINSTER {Ballantine 78; Garland 83} and THE TIME TRAVELERS
   (eds Silverberg & Greenberg) {Donald I Fine 85}
   On 5 Jun 1935, portions of Earth swapped places with their analogs in other
   timelines and a professor tries to take advantage of it.
Leinster, Murray, TIME TUNNEL {Pyramid 64}
   W: Napoleon established a permanent dynasty.
   S: Men from our world use a time tunnel to investigate odd historical
   memories and a mysterious scientist in 1804.
Lem, Stanislaw, + Joel Stern & Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek (trs), "The
   Eighteenth Voyage", in MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER {HBJ 82}
   S: Scientist sends a specially tailored particle of matter back to cause the
   Big Bang. Someone else tampers with the particle and odd changes occur.
   T: Polish (title unknown)
Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Were No Television?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Levine, Herbert M., "What If There Had Been No Cold War?", in <WIA>
   W:
   C:
Lewis, Oscar, THE LOST YEARS: A BIOGRAPHICAL FANTASY {Knopf 51}; incl. in A
   TREASURY OF GREAT SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 2 (ed Boucher) {Doubleday 59}
   W: Lincoln survived Booth's assassination attempt and suffered an unpopular
   second term trying to implement a humane Reconstruction.
   S: Diary and newspaper excerpts about the last month of Lincoln's presidency
   and his vacation in California during the summer of 1869.
Ley, Olga, "Checkmate in Six Moves", in <BT>
   W: Kerensky had Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin arrested in Jul 1917 and shipped
   back to Switzerland.
   S: How it was done, with an afterword promoting tourism in the 1975 Russian
   republic.
Linaweaver, Brad, MOON OF ICE {Arbor House 88}; exp of "Moon of Ice", in
   Amazing Mar 82 and <HV>
   W: FDR was impeached in 1942, and Nazi Germany used nuclear weapons in 44
   to win the war in Europe.
   S: The diaries of Joseph Goebbels and his daughter describe the victory, and
   an SS plot 20 years later to kill all non-Aryans via biological warfare.
Littell, Robert: see Chesnoff, Richard Z., Edward Klein, & Robert Littell
Livy (Titus Livius) + B.O. Foster (tr), AB URBE CONDITA {Harvard Univ/
   Heinemann 26, 48, 57, 63, 75, 82}
   W: Alexander the Great lived longer and turned west to attack the Romans.
   S: A digression in book IX, 17-19, of this history of Rome suggests that the
   Romans would have beaten him.
   C: Almost certainly the oldest AH, written during the reign of Augustus (31
   BC-14 AD).
Locke, Robert Donald, "Demotion", in Astounding Sep 52 and PRIZE SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Wollheim) {McBride 53} (aka PRIZE STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME)
   W: Hitler were killed during an Allied bombing raid.
   S: Change the past tale.
Long, Norton E., "What if Napoleon had not sold Louisiana", in <WIE>
   W: Napoleon did not immediately sell Louisiana to the US in 1803.
   C: Speculation that the British would not have been nearly so generous after
   the War of 1812, leading to the inclusion of most of N America in Canada.
Longmate, Norman, IF BRITAIN HAD FALLEN {BBC/Hutchinson 72; Stein & Day 74;
   Arrow 75}
   W: Nazi Germany invaded England.
   S: After a narrative scenario of Operation Sealowe, some speculative essays
   discuss the direction that the occupation would have taken.
   C: Originally presented as a BBC TV program.
Longyear, Barry, "Collector's Item", in Analog 27 Apr 81 and IT CAME FROM
   SCHENECTADY
   A man finds a silver 1978 quarter and essays by his father's students about
   visits by a mysterious friend urging them to higher goals.
Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Frederick did not die of throat cancer in 1888 and his reign as Kaiser
   lasted longer than 91 days.
   S: Overview of Bismarck's construct of a network of peace treaties while
   Frederick worked on liberalizing the domestic scene.
Lukacs, John, "If Hitler had Won the Second World War", in THE PEOPLE'S
   ALMANAC #2 (eds Wallechinsky & Wallace) {Morrow 78; Bantam 78}
   W: Nazi Germany used paratroops to invade England on 3 Jun 40, right in the
   midst of the Dunkirk chaos.
   S: The later history of Europe and how Hitler's successors tempered his
   worst excesses.
   C: Accompanies Fadness' "What if...?" synopses of other AHs.
Lupoff, Richard A., "At Vega's Taqueria", in Amazing Sep 90
   A mural showing an Aztec wearing a football helmet causes a man to doubt his
   sanity until he discovers that he is shifting from one timeline to another.
Lupoff, Richard A., CIRCUMPOLAR! {Simon & Schuster 84; Berkley 85}
   W: The Earth were disk-shaped, with the North Hole at the center.
   S: Two groups, American and German, travel to the other side.
--------------- A., COUNTERSOLAR! {Arbor House 87; Ace 89}
   S: Albert Einstein races the Perons to counter-Earth.
Lupoff, Richard A., INTO THE AETHER {Dell 70}
   W: Muscovites drove the Muslims out of Spain, c. 1000.
   S: Adventures on a space-faring galleon.
MacCreigh, James: see Pohl, Frederick
MacFarlane, W., "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc.", in Analog Mar 70 and ANALOG'S
   LIGHTER SIDE (ed Schmidt) {Davis/Dial 82, 83}
--------------, "Meet a Crazy Lady Week", in Analog Aug 70
--------------, "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants", in Analog Apr 71
--------------, "One-Generation New World", in If Mar 71
--------------, "Country of the Mind", in Analog May 75
   A crosstime traveler hops back and forth from world to world (for no really
   coherent reason).
Macksey, Kenneth, INVASION: THE GERMAN INVASION OF ENGLAND, JULY 1940
   {Macmillan 80; Arms & Armour 80}
   W: Hitler decided, just before Dunkirk, to invade Britain.
   S: A campaign history of July 1940, when Germany destroyed the RAF, invaded
   England and forced HM gov't to flee across the Atlantic.
Malzberg, Barry N., "All Assassins", in <WM1>
   W: Nixon was elected president in 1960 and Johnson in 1964 and 1968.
   S: In 1972, "the senator" runs again. Upset by his change of heart on the
   Vietnam war, "Lee" decides to shoot him and his running-mate in Dallas.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Another Goddamned Showboat", in <WM2>
   W: Ernest Hemingway became a hack science fiction writer.
   S: In 1941, Hemingway is still struggling to get published when the latest
   issue of Amazing arrives, featuring a story by a kid named Asimov.
Malzberg, Barry N., CHORALE {Doubleday 78}
   S:
Malzberg, Barry N., "Heavy Metal", in <AP>
   W: JFK argued with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the presidential
   election campaign of 1960.
   S: A look at the losing campaign, as Bob Kennedy tries to cure his brother's
   self-destructive activities.
Malzberg, Barry N., "In the Stone House", in <AK>
   W: Joe Kennedy survived WW2 and was elected US president in 1952.
   S: Joe Kennedy's presidency collapses after the firing of SecState McCarthy
   and in 1963, Joe decided to end his brother's  for betraying the family.
Malzberg, Barry N., "January 1975", in Analog Jan 75, DOWN HERE IN THE DREAM
   QUARTER {Doubleday 76} and 100 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION SHORT SHORT STORIES
   (eds Asimov et al) {Doubleday 78; Avon 78}
   W: Nixon was elected president in 1960.
   S: A writer in that timeline tries to convince his editor to accept a series
   of stories based on the premise that Kennedy was elected.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Kingfish", in <AP>
   W: Huey Long survived the assassination attempt in 1935 and became president
   in 1936 by stealing away FDR's vice-president.
   S: John Nance Gardner tells how he struck a deal with the Kingfish, and then
   how they dealt with Hitler.
Malzberg, Barry N., THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD {Ballantine 85}; exp of
   "Emily Dickinson-Saved from Drowning", in CHRYSALIS 8 (ed Torgeson)
   {Doubleday 80}
   W:
   S: Freud is murdered by a disappointed patient, only to be reincarnated
   aboard a spaceship whose crew need analysis.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Ship Full of Jews", in Omni Apr 92 and <WM4>
   W: Columbus carried several hundred deported Jews along during his first
   voyage.
   S: Columbus argues with a rabbi about conditions below decks. Meanwhile,
   over on the Santa Maria, Torquemada plots.
Malzberg, Barry N., "Turpentine", in <WM3>
   W: Radicals who took over the UChicago campus in 1968 went looking for the
   campus reactors.
   S: The radicals make extreme demands, forgetting that LBJ is a *vengeful*
   lame-duck.
Marriott, J.A.R., "If Queen Victoria--? An Historical Phantasy", in
   Fortnightly Apr 41
   W: William IV's heir was male.
   S: Effect of British retention of Hanover on German reunification and the
   worlds wars.
Martin, George R.R., "Under Siege", in Omni Oct 85 and <YB3>
   W: Fremont was elected US president in 1856.
   S: A mental time traveler trying to prevent the Russian capture of Sveabourg
   in 1808 fails, but later emigrates to America and becomes a Republican.
   T: German "Belagert"
Martin, George R.R. (ed), WILD CARDS I {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS II: ACES HIGH {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS III: JOKERS WILD {Bantam 87}
------------------------, WILD CARDS IV: ACES ABROAD {Bantam 88}
------------------------, WILD CARDS V: DOWN AND DIRTY {Bantam 88}
------------------------, WILD CARDS VI: ACE IN THE HOLE {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS VIII: ONE-EYED JACKS {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS IX: JOKERTOWN SHUFFLE {Bantam xx}
------------------------, WILD CARDS XI: DEALER'S CHOICE {Bantam 92}
------------------------, WILD CARDS: CARD SHARKS {Baen 93}
-------------------, & John J. Miller, WILD CARDS VII: DEAD MAN'S HAND
   {Bantam xx}
   W: In 1946, a genetically-tailored virus from outer space was released in
   Earth's stratosphere, killing many but giving super powers to others.
   S: A series of "mosaic novels" explores the effect of the virus during the
   ensuing decades. Curiously, history isn't altered all that much.
   C: Also in series are Snodgrass' WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE and Milan's
   WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS.
Martine-Barnes, Adrienne, THE FIRE SWORD {Avon 85}
   W: An alteration in the progeny of Henry II resulted in a different English
   royal succession. Also, magic works.
   S: A woman from our world visits a different olde England.
------------------------, THE CRYSTAL SWORD {Avon 88}
   S:
Mason, David, THE SHORES OF TOMORROW {Lancer 71}
   Exiles from different N Americas of 1965 meet.
Masters, Roger D. "What if Napoleon had not invaded Russia? (1808)", in <WIE>
   W: Napoleon was struck down by appendicitis in Mar 1808.
   C: The avoidance of invasions of Spain and Russia leads to greater success
   later, with the US and Russia as nominal French allies.
Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness", in <IHO,ABC>
   W: Louis XVI were more stubborn, retaining Turgot as finance minister.
   S: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia
   entry on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820).
Max, Nicholas, PRESIDENT MCGOVERN'S FIRST TERM {Doubleday 73}
   W: By asking the voters if they could trust Nixon for 4 more years, George
   McGovern was elected president in 1972.
   S: An administration insider describes how McGovern's strong moral compass
   is diverted by playing politics to get his policies enacted.
McDevitt, Jack, "The Tomb", in <WM3>
   W: Constantine was defeated by Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, leading to
   the complete break-up of Rome and a never-ending dark age.
   S: C. 1700, a young man meets an old man excavating a tomb in a ruined city.
McDonald, Ian, "The Best & the Rest of James Joyce", in Interzone Apr 92
   W: James Joyce took up another occupation than writing.
   S: Joyce consults with Carl Jung about troublesome dreams in which he
   pursued other paths.
McMullen, Sean, "A Greater Vision", in Analog Oct 92
   W: Aborigines in Australia progressed much much faster, developing steam
   engines by 22000 BC, atomic power by 10000 BC and rockets by 800 BC.
   S: Aborigines decide to stop Columbus' expedition to order to save the world
   from Europeans.
Meredith, Richard C., AT THE NARROW PASSAGE {Putnam's 73; Berkley 75; Playboy
   79}
   An agent from Macedonian world visits timelines where Britain suppressed
   American revolutions and Albigensia survived orthodox crusaders.
---------------------, NO BROTHER, NO FRIEND {Doubleday 766; Playboy 79}
   Further adventures in a world of fascist, isolationist America and another
   colonized by an England that escaped Norman conquest.
---------------------, VESTIGES OF TIME {Doubleday 78; Playboy 79}
   And closing in a world of Punic victory over Rome.
Meredith, Richard C., RUN, COME SEE JERUSALEM! {Ballantine 76}
   W: Chicago did not burn in Oct 1871.
   S: A time-hopper, fleeing an American religious dictatorship in a history
   in which Nazi Germany nuked Chicago, recuperates in 1871 Chicago.
Merwin, Sam, THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS {Doubleday 51; Galaxy SF Novel #12 52;
   Modern Literary Editions xx}; exp of "The House of Many Worlds", in
   Startling Stories Sep 51
   Time guardians intervene in affairs in divergent worlds, including one where
   Aaron Burr conquered and reshaped the USA.
Merwin, Sam, "Three Faces of Time", in Ace Double #xx {Ace 55}; exp of
   "Journey to Misenum", in Startling Stories Aug 53
   Cross and vertical time-travel adventure in a slightly different ancient
   Rome.
Miesel, Sandra, DREAMRIDER {Ace 82}; as SHAMAN {Baen 89}
   S:
Milan, Victor J., WILD CARDS XII: TURN OF THE CARDS {Bantam 93}
   C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
Miller, John J.: see Martin, George R.R., & John J. Miller
Miller, Mark R., "Split End", in Analog Nov 91
   A scientist discovers that time travelers cause the formation of impermanent
   alternate "virtual" timelines when they make changes in history.
Minogue, Kenneth, "What if Karl Marx had drowned in a cross-Channel ferry
   accident (1847)", in <WIE>
   W: As the title says.
   C: The revolutionary and "Communist" movements that have plagued Europe
   would have been reduced to a few feeble revolts.
Mitchell, Kirk, NEVER THE TWAIN {Ace 87}
   A Bret Harte descendant attempts to make his ancestor the literary giant of
   1900 by arranging for Mark Twain's success in the gold fields.
Mitchell, Kirk, PROCURATOR {Ace 84}
--------------, NEW BARBARIANS {Ace 86}
--------------, CRY REPUBLIC {Ace 89}
   W: Pilate spared Jesus of Nazareth, and Rome was never weakened by
   Christianity.
   S: A 20th-century Roman general who believes in republican gov't becomes
   Caesar.
Mitchell, V.E., "Against the Night", serial in Amazing May-Jun 92
   W:
   S: WW2 in which the secret British plan to create an aircraft carrier out of
   a piece of the Greenland ice shelf was carried out.
Moffett, Judith, "Chickasaw Slave", in <IAsfm> Sep 91 and <AP>
   W: Andrew Jackson's image was tarnished by a land-dealing scandal, leading
   to Davey Crockett becoming president in 1828.
   S: Just as the Confederacy wins its independence in 1853, a soldier recounts
   how the flight of a slave may have broken the Compromise of 1850.
Montana, Ron, THE SIGN OF THE THUNDERBIRD {Manor 77}
   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.