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Sladek, John T., "1937 AD!", in New Worlds Jul 67; BEST SF: 1967 (eds
   Harrison & Aldiss) {Berkley 68} and THE STEAM-DRIVEN BUS {Panther 73} (incl.
   in THE BEST OF JOHN SLADEK {Pocket 81})
   An inventor from the US of Columbia in 1878 sets out for 1937, where he
   encounters a man who can change history with the stroke of a pen.
Smith, George Henry, "Take Me to Your Leader", in MICROCOSMIC TALES (eds
   Asimov et al) {Taplinger 80; DAW 92}
   W: The South won the Civil War.
   S: A scientist from another Earth warns of Russian attack, but the narrator
   lives in a world where Jeff Davis VI is hereditary president of the CSA.
Smith, L. Neil, THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE {Bluejay/Tor 86; Tor 89}
   W: Christendom was destroyed in 1349 when an attempt to ship plague-ridden
   rats to Saracen lands backfired disastrously.
   S: In 2042, a Helvetic North-American escorts a mission from the Saracen
   Caliph of Rome into the secretive, mysterious Aztec empire.
Smith, L. Neil, THE PROBABILITY BROACH {Ballantine 80}
   W: The Whiskey Rebellion succeeded and the US Constitution was revoked.
   S: In 1987, a Denver cop investigating a scientist's murder crosses
   timelines and finds himself in a Libertarian utopia.
--------------, "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways", in <Alt>
   In 1988, Detective Bear investigates another murder involving the crosstime
   machine.
--------------, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR {Ballantine 83}
   In 1993, ...
--------------, THE VENUS BELT {Ballantine 81}
   In 1999, with friends and relatives mysteriously disappearing, Bear is off
   to the asteroid belt to investigate a crosstime Hamiltonian plot.
--------------, THE GALLATIN DIVERGENCE {Ballantine 85}
   In 2119, ...
--------------, BRIGHTSUIT MCBEAR {Avon 88}
   S:
--------------, TAFLAK LYSANDRA {Avon 88}
   S:
Smith, Martin Cruz, THE INDIANS WON {Belmont 70; Leisure 81}
   W: N American Plains Indians banded together to stop the white man's spread,
   resulting in East and West USAs with an AmerInd nation in the middle.
   S: History of the AmerInd nation alternates with Washington intrigues during
   20th-century white vs. red tensions.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED {Warner/Popular Library 89}
   W: Magic exists, as do forces for good and evil.
   S: William of Nassau works with the White Queen to defeat the evil forces in
   Paris, eventually invading France in 1672.
Snodgrass, Melinda M., WILD CARDS X: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE {Bantam 92}
   C: In same series as Martin's WILD CARDS I.
Sobel, Robert, FOR WANT OF A NAIL...; IF BURGOYNE HAD WON AT SARATOGA
   {Macmillan 73}
   W: Burgoyne beat Gates at Saratoga, and the American rebellion collapsed.
   S: Dual history text of the Confederation of N America and the US of Mexico,
   from 1775 to 1971.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If the British Had Won the Revolutionary War?"
Somtow, S.P., THE AQUILIAD [: AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD] {Ballantine 83}; rev
   of stories in <IAsfm> 18 Jan 82 and Apr 82 and Amazing Jan 83 and May 83
------------, THE AQUILIAD II: AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE {Ballantine 88}
------------, THE AQUILIAD III: AQUILA AND THE SPHINX {Ballantine 89}
   W: Romans discovered the steam engine and conquered the world.
   S: Farcical adventures of a Roman general in the Americas (Terra Novum) and
   his entanglements with time guardians.
   T: "Aquila" as German "Aquila"
Somtow, S.P., "Sunsteps", in Unearth Summer 77 and FIRE FROM THE WINE DARK
   SEA {Donning 83}
   W:
   S: Aztecs depopulate the world in order to meet sacrificial needs.
Soukup, Martha, "Plowshare", in <AP>
   W: William Jennings Bryan was elected president in 1896 and decided to serve
   only one term. Also, Teddy Roosevelt never became president.
   S: In 1915, as Bryan and his wife look back at the years, the Lusitania is
   sunk and war looks imminent, giving Bryan a new message to preach.
Soukup, Martha, "Rosemary's Brain", in <AK>
   W: Instead of a lobotomy, Rosemary Kennedy received an experimental
   operation that turned her into a genius.
   S: Rosemary discusses her plans for her future with her godfather.
Spinrad, Norman, THE IRON DREAM {Avon 72; Gregg 77; Jove/HBJ 78; Pocket 82;
   Bantam 86}
   W: Hitler emigrated to the USA in 1919 and after several years as a
   commercial artist turned to writing SF.
   S: The text of Hitler's Hugo Award-winning novel LORD OF THE SWASTIKA.
Spruill, Steven G., "The Janus Equation", in BINARY STAR NO. 4 (ed Frenkel)
   {Dell 80}
   W: JFK wasn't assassinated.
   S: A man tries to create a time machine in a world dominated by multi-nat'l
   corporations.
Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write
   Shakespeare" (aka "Professor Gubbin's Revolution"), in London Mercury Jan
   31, <IHO,ABC> and OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33; Books for Libraries 71}
   W: As the title says.
   S: Satirical look at the ensuing literary chaos.
Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened", in OUTSIDE EDEN {Heinemann 33;
   Books for Libraries 71}
   W: Britain adopted Prohibition.
   S:
Stableford, Brian, THE EMPIRE OF FEAR {Carroll & Graf 91}; exp of "The Man
   who Loved the Vampire Lady", in <f&sf> Aug 88 and <YB6>
   W: Attila's horde brought real vampirism to Europe and the vampires took
   control.
   S: 1200 years later, a human scientist searches for the vampires' secret of
   immortality.
Stafford, Terry: see Gygax, E. Gary, & Terry Stafford
Stall, Michael, "Rice Brandy", in NEW WRITINGS IN SF 25 (ed Bulmer) {Sidgwick
   & Jackson 75; Corgi 76}
   With 20th-century help, a 15th-century Khmer king turns back a Thai
   invasion, then industrializes.
Stapledon, Olaf, "East is West", in FAR FUTURE CALLING {Oswald Train 79}
   An Englishman temporarily trades places with his counterpart in a world
   where England prepares to challenge Japanese world domination.
Stapp, Robert, A MORE PERFECT UNION {Harper's Magazine Press 70; Berkley 71}
   W: Lincoln ordered the evacuation of Fort Sumter, and the South was allowed
   to go in peace.
   S: In 1981, the USA faces a hostile, nuclear-capable, police-state CSA and
   decides that assassination is the only solution.
Stasheff, Christopher, HER MAJESTY'S WIZARD {Ballantine 86}
   A grad student finds a manuscript which sends him to an another Earth where
   magic works and northern Europe and most of Britain are covered with ice.
Steele, Allen, "Goddard's People", in <IAsfm> Jul 91 and <WM3>
   W: Warned that Nazi Germany was developing a trans-Atlantic rocket, the US
   started a crash rocket development program, headed by Robert Goddard.
   S: A history of Project Blue Horizon and its critical race with the Nazis;
   concludes with mention of the first manned mission to Mars in 1976.
-------------, "John Harper Wilson", in <IAsfm> Jun 89
   S: The US gov't plans to claim the moon, but the commander of the first
   manned landing goes in peace for all mankind.
Stephenson, Andrew M., THE WALL OF YEARS {Futura 79; rev Dell 80}
   Crosstime and time-travel intrigue centered on attempts to alter Alfred's
   dealing with the Danes.
Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades", in Omni Sep 85,
   MIRRORSHADES {Arbor House 86; Ace 88} and THE SEVENTH OMNI BOOK OF SCIENCE
   FICTION (ed Datlow)
   S: Europe and America of 1775 are exploited by the future of another
   timeline hungry for oil, but resistance forms.
   T: Portugese (title unknown)
Sterling, Bruce: see also Gibson, William, & Bruce Sterling
Stervermer, Caroline: see Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer
Stirling, S. M., MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA {Baen 88}
---------------, UNDER THE YOKE {Baen 89}
---------------, THE STONE DOGS {Baen 90}
   W: After the Netherlands declared war, Britain captured its Cape colony and
   later used it to resettle Tory refugees from the American Revolution.
   S: The Dominion of the Draka strives to take over the world (1940-2000) and
   only the US stands in the way. With much supplemental info in appendices.
Stone, Vince: see Shetterly, Will, & Vince Stone
Sucharitkul, Somtow: see Somtow, S.P.
Sullivan, Tim, "Dinosaur on a Bicycle", in <IAsfm> May 87
   W: The dinosaurs had not died out.
   S: Saurian time-travelers to the past encounter travelers from futures in
   which various species dominate. Chaos ensues.
Swanwick, Michael, "The Edge of the World", in FULL SPECTRUM 2 (eds Aronica
   et al) {Doubleday 89}, <YB7> and THE LEGEND BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (ed
   Dozois) {Legend 91} (aka MODERN CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION {St. Martin's
   92, 93})
   W: Earth has an edge.
   S: Three teen-agers living at an American air force base in the Middle East
   climb down a stairway on the edge of the world.
Swanwick, Michael, "In Concert", <IAsfm> Sep 92
   W: Rock & roll got started decades earlier, and had the power to shape
   history.
   S: An American attends the final performance of Lenin, "The Boss", hearing
   such standards as "The Workers Control the Means of Production".
Swanwick, Michael, IN THE DRIFT {Ace 85}; exp of "Mummer Kiss", in UNIVERSE
   11 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 81}, and "Marrow Death", in <IAsfm> Dec 84
   W: Three Mile Island melted down, irradiating eastern Pennsylvania.
   S: Life in Philadelphia and the adjacent Drift, 100 years later, and the
   conflict for power.
Tarr, Judith, "Roncesvalles", in <WM2>
   W: Upon hearing of Roland's death and Ganelon's treachery, Charlemagne
   converted to Islam.
   S: Describes the event, but no follow through.
Tarr, Judith, "Them Old Hyannis Blues", in <AK>
   W: The Kennedy brothers went into music.
   S: After switching from big band music to rock 'n roll, the Kennedys play at
   President Presley's inaugural ball, and foil an assassination attempt.
Tenn, William, "Brooklyn Project", in SHOT IN THE DARK (ed Merrill) {Bantam
   50}, VOYAGERS IN TIME (ed Silverberg) {Meredith 67}, THE WOODEN STAR
   {Ballantine 68}, THE ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION #3 (ed Gunn) {NAL/Mentor 79},
   <GS10>, etc
   Scientists send a sphere back in time, claiming it has no effect. Each time
   it comes back, things change but they just don't notice.
Thayer, James Stewart, S-DAY: A MEMOIR OF THE INVASION OF ENGLAND {St.
   Martin's 90}
   W: Nazi Germany did not invade Russia, but geared up for an invasion of
   Britain on 28 May 1942.
   S: The American Expeditionary Force takes the brunt of the invasion and its
   commander violates the articles of war in order to save London.
Thomas, Donald, PRINCE CHARLIE'S BLUFF {Macmillan 74}
   W: Britain was defeated by France on the Plains of Abraham.
   S: The battle and subsequent break-up of BNA, with the Stuart restoration in
   Virginia following Bonnie Prince Charlie's victory at Annapolis.
Thompson, Don, "Worlds Enough", in <BT>
   Stealing a timeline jumper in an accident, a man looks around for an
   invention, yet undiscovered in his home timeline, that will make him rich.
Thompson, Roger, "If I had been... the Earl of Sherburne in 1762-5", in <IHB>
   W: The Earl of Sherburne was placed in charge of peace negotiations with
   France after the 7 Year War, and then became Treasury Minister.
   C: The earl contemplates returning Canada to the French and avoiding taxes
   on the 13 colonies, actions which would prevent the American Revolution.
Thomsen, Brian, "Paper Trail", in <AP>
   W: Even after being fired by the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl
   Bernstein continued their investigation of the Watergate break-in.
   S: Woodward's articles in the New York Post about Watergate and the murder
   of Bernstein lead to McGovern's election in 1972.
Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox", in New Yorker 6
   Dec 30, THE THURBER CARNIVAL {Harper & Row 45; Harper 53}, <f&sf> Feb 52,
   VINTAGE THURBER {Hamish Hamilton 63}, etc
   W: As the title says.
   S: Grant gives his sword to Lee.
Tilton, Lois, "A Just and Lasting Peace", in <f&sf> Oct/Nov 91 and <YB9>
   W: Lincoln was assassinated early by Jesse and Frank James, and the South,
   suffering a harsher Reconstruction, never actually stopped fighting.
   S: The tale of a Southern boy during Reconstruction, with an afterword
   written in 1952 by his grandson, a member of the Nazi's RE Lee Brigade.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western
   Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
   W: The Synod of Whitby (664) adopted the teachings of Colman, and Charles
   Martel lost at Tours.
   C: How European Christianity would have divided between the Celts of the
   North and the Roman-Orthodox of the South and East, with France Muslim.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian
   Civilization", A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
   W: The Vikings captured Constantinople in 860, established stronger colonies
   in N America, harassed the Muslims in the Caspian, etc.
   C: How more aggressive expansion would have resulted in Viking control of N
   America, Europe and northern Asia by 1400.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern
   Christian Civilization", in A STUDY OF HISTORY, VOLUME II {Oxford Univ 34}
   W: The Umayyads did not press on after their defeat at the Kish-Samarkand
   pass in 731.
   C: How Nestorian Christianity could have spread into Asia, later leading to
   Moslem destruction at the hands of Christianized Seljuks and Mongols.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Alexander the Great had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS
   IN GREEK HISTORY {Oxford Univ 69}
   W: Alexander of Macedon listened to his physicians' advice in 323 BC, and
   later returned to the Mediterranean.
   S: How Alexander made the Pheonicians his Navy, conquered Carthage, allied
   with Rome, conquered India and Ch'in and finally died in 287 BC.
   C: Synopsis in Demandt's HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
Toynbee, Arnold J., "If Ochus and Philip had Lived On", in SOME PROBLEMS IN
   GREEK HISTORY {Oxford Univ 69}
   W: Artaxerxes III Ochus did not die in 338 BC and Philip II of Macedon did
   not die in 336 BC.
   S: Surviving an assassination attempt, Philip ends up killing son Alexander,
   conquers Rome and pushes Ochus' Persia back to the Euphrates.
Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo", in Westminster
   Gazette Jul 07, CLIO: A MUSE {Longmans, Green 13; Longmans, Green 30; Books
   for Libraries 68} and <IHO,C>
   W: Blucher's breach of faith led to Napoleon's victory at "Mont St. Jean".
   S: Despite the Napoleon of Peace, his former enemies maintain their standing
   armies, stifling all reformist movements for decades.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If Napoleon Had Won at Waterloo?"
Tuchman, Barbara, "If Mao Had Come to Washington", in Foreign Affairs Oct 72,
   NOTES FROM CHINA {Collier 72} and PRACTICING HISTORY {Knopf 81; Ballantine
   82}
   W: Ambassador Hurley relayed Mao and Chou En-lai's request for a meeting
   with FDR in 1945.
   C: Primarily a discussion of why it made no difference, but a few brief
   comments on how it might have averted the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Turtledove, Harry, "Counting Potsherds", in Amazing Mar 89 and <WM1>
   W: The Persians defeated the Greeks and democracy never developed.
   S: Investigations of a Persian eunuch sent by his king to look into the
   Greek situation.
Turtledove, Harry, "Departures", in <IAsfm> Jan 89 and <WM2>
   W: Mohammad became a Christian. The lack of Moslem pressure meant Byzantium
   never fell but faced a technologically sophisticated Persia.
   S: Christian monks, including a powerful hymn writer named Mouamet, flee a
   Sinai monastery for Constantinople as Persian forces approach.
-----------------, AGENT OF BYZANTIUM {Congdon & Weed 87; Worldwide 88}
>---------------<, "The Eyes of Argos" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6814"), in Amazing
   Jan 86
   S: Byzantine agent Basil Argyros discovers that the telescope has been
   invented in the steppes north of the Danube.
>---------------<, "Strange Eruptions" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6816"), in <IAsfm>
   Aug 86
   S: Argyros finds a cure for smallpox.
>---------------<, "Unholy Trinity" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6824"), in Amazing Jul
   85
   S: Argyros discovers the invention of dynamite.
>---------------<, "Archetypes" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6825"), in Amazing Nov 85
   S: Argyros investigates numerous identical seditious handbills appearing
   near the Persian frontier.
>---------------<, "Images" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6826"), in <IAsfm> Mar 87
   S: Argyros is embroiled in an argument about religious icons.
>---------------<, "Superwine" (aka "Etos Kosmou 6829"), in <IAsfm> Apr 87
   and HIGH ADVENTURE (eds Manson & Ardai)
   S: Argyros is also there for the invention of brandy.
-----------------, "Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Fire", in <IAsfm> 15 Dec 89
   S: Argyros is sent to deal with labor strikes in Alexandria, Egypt.
Turtledove, Harry, A DIFFERENT FLESH {Congdon & Weed 88}
   W: European explorers discovered Ramapithecan "sims" instead of red-skinned
   men when they reached the New World.
>---------------<, "Vilest Beast", in Analog Sep 85
   S: In 1610, sims steal a babe from a Jamestown cradle and her father
   ventures into the wilderness to save her.
>---------------<, "And So to Bed", in KALEIDOSCOPE {Ballantine 90} and TERRY
   CARR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR (ed Carr) {Tor 87}
   S: In 1661, Samuel Pepys purchases two sims to help out around the house and
   contemplates the origins of species.
>---------------<, "Around the Salt Lick", in Analog Feb 86
   S: In 1691, a Virginia hunter is captured by wild sims and hopes that his
   sim assistant will think of rescuing him.
>---------------<, "The Iron Elephant", in Analog May 86
   S: In 1782, steam-driven trains first appear, and a race is held with one of
   the mammoth-pulled trains they threaten to replace.
>---------------<, "Though the Heavens Fall", in Analog Sep 86
   S: In 1804, a lawyer uses the existence of sims to argue that a runaway
   Negro slave should not be returned to his one-time owner.
>---------------<, "Trapping Run"
   S: In 1812, a trapper in the Rockies is wounded by a bear and is nursed back
   to health by sims.
>---------------<, "Freedom"
   S: In 1988, university students opposed to medical experiments on sims
   kidnap a sim carrying AIDS but do not take enough of the new HIV inhibitor.
Turtledove, Harry, "Down in the Bottomlands", in Analog Jan 93
   W: The Mediterranean basin never opened to the ocean.
   S: In modern days, a murder during a tour of the Bottomlands Trench reveals
   a plot to destroy the "Gibraltar" mountains with a nuclear weapon.
Turtledove, Harry, THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR
   {Ballantine 92}; excerpt publ. as "The Long Drum Roll", in <FCW>
   W: The Confederacy obtained advanced weaponry just before the Wilderness.
   S: Afrikaaners from 2014 provide the CSA with AK-47s, etc, leading to
   Confederate victory in the Civil War, but strings are attached to the gift.
Turtledove, Harry, "Hindsight", Analog mid-Dec 84 and KALEIDOSCOPE
   {Ballantine 90}
   A woman from 1988 goes back 40 years and sells SF stories written in between
   plus accounts of famous events, such as "Neutron Star" and "Watergate".
Turtledove, Harry, IN THE BALANCE {not yet published}
   W: Space aliens arrived on Earth in 1942.
   S:
Turtledove, Harry, "In the Presence of Mine Enemies", in <IAsfm> Jan 92
   W: Isolationist America stayed out of WW2 until it was attacked by Germany
   and Japan a generation after the fall of Britain and Russia.
   S: Even in a 2010 Berlin at the heart of a world dominated by Nazi Germany,
   the Jews will still survive.
Turtledove, Harry, "Islands in the Sea", in <Alt>
   W: Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslims in the 8th
   century AD.
   S: Fifty years after the fall of Constantinople, the king of the Bulgars
   invites Muslims and Christians to decide which faith he should adopt.
Turtledove, Harry, "King of All", in New Destinies Winter 88
   W: Cocaine were legal and caffeine illegal.
   S: A day in the life of a policeman fighting "caffeine addiction", who
   orders "coke" the next day at a MacDonald's.
Turtledove, Harry, "The Last Article", in <f&sf> Jan 88, <YB6>, <WM2> and THE
   FANTASTIC WORLD WAR II (ed McSherry) {Baen 90}
   W: Hitler's armies penetrated all the way to India.
   S: Gandhi preaches non-violent resistance to the German occupation.
   T: German "Das letzte Gebot"
Turtledove, Harry, "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", in Tor SF Double #20 {Tor 90}
   C: Sequel to de Camp's "The Wheels of If".
   S: The former New York DA and New Belfast bishop, now a judge, is sent to S
   America to adjudicate a complex religio-political dispute.
Turtledove, Harry, "Ready for the Fatherland", in <WM3>
   W: Hitler was shot and killed by one of his generals on 19 Feb 1943 in
   retaliation for an insult, and his successors made peace with the Soviets.
   S: In 1979 fascist Croatia, British agents meet with a Serbian partisan
   seeking weapons.
Turtledove, Harry, "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life",
   in UNIVERSE 10 (ed Carr) {Doubleday 80} and <WM4>
   W: Columbus' proposed voyage was subject to an environmental impact study.
   S: The text of the report, suggesting that Columbus be turned down.
Turtledove, Harry, A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE {Ballantine 90}
   W: The formation of Mars resulted in a larger planet, capable of sustaining
   a thicker atmosphere and surface water.
   S: After a tool-bearing lifeform destroys a Viking probe on the surface of
   "Minerva", competitive American and Soviet manned missions are sent out.
Utley, Steven, "Look Away", in <f&sf> Feb 92
   W: Albert Sidney Johnston survived Shiloh (a Confederate victory) and
   carried the Civil War north to Ohio.
   S: After the war, former army officers debate whether the CSA should pursue
   its own version of "manifest destiny" in Mexico and points south.
Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop, "Custer's Last Jump", in UNIVERSE 6 (ed
   Carr) {Doubleday 76; Popular Library 77}; THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE
   YEAR #6 (ed Carr) {Holt, Rinehart & Winston 77}; SCIENCE FICTION A TO Z (eds
   Asimov et al) {Houghton Mifflin 82}; <AH>; etc
   W: Ben Franklin invented the internal combustion engine and the Civil War
   was fought with mechanized transport.
   S: Info about the airplane Crazy Horse inherited from the Confederacy and
   later flew at the Little Big Horn.
Van Arnam, Dave: see White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam
van den Daele, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele, &
   Wolfgang Krohn, + E.G.H. Joffe (tr)
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept New Amsterdam", in <IHO,B>
   W:
   S: Manhattan remains a tolerant enclave until the 19th century, and its
   persisting laws have curious effects on Prohibition.
Van Rjndt, Phillipe, THE TRIAL OF ADOLF HITLER {Summit 78}
   W: Hitler faked his suicide and survived WW2, but was found in the 1970s.
   S: An internat'l tribunal considers his fate.
Vanauken, Sheldon, "The World After the South Won", in Southern Partisan
   Spring 84
   W: Britain recognized the Confederacy in Dec 1862, and her contribution of
   troops tipped the scales at Gettysburg.
   S: The story of the intervention, and some of the later effects of the
   British-Confederate alliance.
Villard, Oswald Garrison, "Issue and Men", in The Nation 22 Oct 38
   W: Germany won the Battle of the Marne.
   S:
Von Rospach, Charles, "'Til Death Do Us Part", in <AK>
   W: Marilyn Monroe was caught sneaking out of the White House in the middle
   of a 1962 night.
   S: After her suicide, Monroe's ghost haunts JFK, urging him to find a way
   to be with her.
Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln", in Scribner's Nov 30 and
   <IHO,ABC>
   W: John Wilkes Booth's gun misfired.
   S: Critical review of a Lincoln biography which blamed the president's woes
   on the Radical Republicans rather than on his reconstruction policies.
   C: Synopsis in Fadness' "What If Booth's Bullet Had Missed Lincoln?"
Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded", in Century Magazine Jun 26
   W: Lincoln withdrew Major Anderson et al from Fort Sumter.
   S: In 1926, an Englishman discusses society, literature and politics with
   three Northerners variously happy and unhappy with the events of 1861.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Effects of Alienation", in Omni Jun 92
   W: On the brink of defeat, Nazi Germany employed nuclear-tipped rockets to
   win WW2.
   S: 15 years later, a Nazi secret policeman attends "The Three Stooges Space
   Opera" at a Zurich cafe run by the widow of Berthold Brecht.
Waldrop, Howard, "Fin de Cycle", in NIGHT OF THE COOTERS {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
   and <IAsfm> Mid-Dec 91
   W: The industrial revolution took an odd twist, resulting in steam-powered
   stilts and multi-wheel cycles for transport.
   S: In 1890s Paris, Melies joins with Rousseau, Satie, Proust and Picasso to
   make a movie about the Dreyfus affair.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Passing of the Western", in RAZORED SADDLES (eds
   Lansdale & LoBrutto) {Dark Harvest 89; Avon 90} and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
   {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
   W: Taming the American West also involved bringing water to it, plus the
   film industry set up in Boise.
   S: Excerpts from books and magazine articles about Boise's one-time
   fascination with cloudbusters.
Waldrop, Howard, "Hoover's Men", in Omni Oct 88 and NIGHT OF THE COOTERS
   {Ursus/Ziesing 90}
   W: Al Smith beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1928.
   S: Afterwards, Smith asks Hoover to become head of the new Federal Radio
   Agency, which also gives TV an early push.
Waldrop, Howard, "Ike at the Mike", in Omni Jun 82, THE FIRST OMNI BOOK OF
   SCIENCE FICTION (ed Datlow) {Zebra 83}, HOWARD WHO? {Doubleday 86} and
   STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 90}
   W: Dwight Eisenhower cashed in his train ticket to West Point so that he
   could learn to play jazz clarinet.
   S: In 1968, Senator Aron Presley attends Ike's final performance when
   President Joe Kennedy awards medals to him and Louis Armstrong.
Waldrop, Howard, "The Lions are Asleep This Night", in Omni Aug 86, ALL ABOUT
   STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ursus 87}, <87AW>, STRANGE THINGS IN
   CLOSE-UP {Legend 89}, STRANGE MONSTERS OF THE RECENT PAST {Ace 91}, and
   FUTURE EARTHS: UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (eds Resnick & Dozois) {DAW 93}
   W: Columbus found the Americas uninhabited. Later, African slaves imported
   to mine Peruvian gold rebelled, leading to white decline worldwide.
   S: In 1894, an African boy writes a play about an African king while reading
   a history of the fall of European power.
Waldrop, Howard, THEM BONES {Ace 84; Ziesing 89}
   Time travelers trying to avert WW3 end up in wrong locales: one in right
   time, wrong timeline; the rest vice versa.
Waldrop, Howard, "...The World as We Know't", in Shayol #6, HOWARD WHO?
   {Doubleday 86} and STRANGE THINGS IN CLOSE-UP {Legend 89}
   W: Phlogiston exists.
   S: A late 19th-century scientist attempts to isolate pure phlogiston, with
   apocalyptic results.
Waldrop, Howard: see also Utley, Steven, & Howard Waldrop
Wall, John W.: see Sarban
Watson, Ian, CHEKHOV'S JOURNEY {Carroll & Graf 89, 91}
   Hypnotized to portray Anton Chekhov's Sakhalin trip, an actor instead
   describes an anachronistic expedition to the Tunguska site.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "The Murderer", in <IAsfm> Apr 93
   W: Someone killed men responsible for mass deaths of the 20th century.
   S: A man arrested for murder claims to be a time traveler who has prevented
   carnage.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "New Worlds", in <IAsfm> Dec 91 and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC
   {Ballantine 92}
   Crosstime traveler offers to sell the secret to parallel worlds, and finds
   one with faster-than-light travel. Both sides fear the other.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Storm Trooper", in <IAsfm> Jan 92 and CROSSTIME
   TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
   Reality storms occasionally swap pieces of Earth with pieces of alternates,
   and New York sets up a Discontinuity Control Squad.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", in <AP> and
   CROSSTIME TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
   W: Smith split the Democrats in 1932, causing Hoover to beat FDR. The US-
   Japan fight started earlier, and a firm response at Munich averted WW2.
   S: 20 years later, the Secretary of State looks for a country to which he
   can name a Jewish consul without offending the host government.
Watt-Evans, Lawrence, "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers", in <IAsfm>
   xxx xx; THE NEW HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME II (ed Asimov) and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC
   {Ballantine 92}
--------------------, "A Flying Saucer with Minnesota Plates", in <IAsfm> Aug
   91 and CROSSTIME TRAFFIC {Ballantine 92}
   S: A West Virginia diner caters to late-night customers from parallel
   Earths.
   C: Except for short comments on possibilities, neither story is particularly
   AH.
Webb, Lucas, THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY: A POLITICAL
   FANTASY {Reginald/Borgo 76}
   W:
   S: A Lord President of the US remembers his boyhood during the early 1960s.
Weissman, Barry Alan, "Past Touch-the-Sky Mountain", in If May 68
   W: Marco Polo discovered America.
   S: An English merchant and wives in Chinese America is mysteriously
   transported crosstime to the Lone Star State, where he meets a traffic cop.
Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA {Chapman & Hall 05; Univ Nebraska 67}; incl. in
   WORKS, vol. 9 {Scribner's 25}
   W: The Dark Ages never happened.
   S: A look at a Utopian 20th century.
   C: Borderline AH, as the world is identical to Earth except that it is
   "beyond Sirius".
Wentz, Richard E., "Reflections of a Rebellion Averted", in Christian Century
   23-30 Jun 76
   W: The American Revolution never occurred.
   S: Musings on life in idyllic, non-nationalist N America, but without any
   detail.
West, Wallace, RIVER OF TIME {Avalon 63}
   Teen-agers try to avert WW3 by saving Julius Caesar.
Westheimer, David, LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER: A NOVEL {Little Brown 71}; as
   DOWNFALL {Bantam 72}
   W: The atomic bomb was not used on Japan.
   S: Operation Olympic, the invasion of Kyushu.
White, James, THE SILENT STARS GO BY {Ballantine 91}
   W: C. 200 BC, an Irishman returned home from Alexandria with the plans for
   Hero's aeolipile, leading to an industrial revolution 1000 years early.
   S: In 1491, the Empire of Hibernia launches man's first starship, and her
   outspoken surgeon suspects a religious conspiracy aboard.
White, Ted, THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN {Belmont 67}
   S:
White, Ted, & Dave Van Arnam, SIDESLIP {Pyramid 68}
   W: Alien intervention averted WW2.
   S: Hitler ends up in America, calling for resistance against the "angels."
Wildavsky, Aaron, "What if the U.S. had had one law for its allies and
   another for its adversaries? The Suez Crisis (1956)", in <WIE>
   W: The US did not come down hard on France and Britain during the 1956 war.
   C: Scholarly speculations on alternative outcomes, including friendlier
   relations with France, and an Israel less threatened by Arabs.
Williams, Emlyn, HEADLONG: A NOVEL {Heinemann 80; Viking 81; Magnum 82}
   W: The British royal family was wiped out by a 1935 airship disaster, and it
   took 5 weeks to locate an heir.
   S: A 25-year-old stage actor becomes king of England and discovers the
   limits on royal power in the 1900s.
   C: Basis for the non-AH movie KING RALPH.
Williams, Philip M., "What if Hugh Gaitskell had become Prime Minister
   (1963)", in <WIE>
   W: The British Labor party leader did not suddenly die in Jan 1963.
   C: A more moderate Labor party and movement results, with general economic
   success and an early end to Rhodesia's UDI plans.
Williams, Walter Jon, "No Spot of Ground", in <IAsfm> Nov 89, <WM2> and
   FACETS {Tor 90}
   W: Edgar Allen Poe did not die in 1849, but lived to become a Confederate
   general.
   S: After Pickett becomes ill, Poe takes command of his troops at the battle
   of Hanover Junction during the Forty Days.
Williamson, Jack, THE LEGION OF TIME {Bluejay 85}
   Hero from 1930s is shown two possible futures which hinge on whether or not
   a particular event happens; future woman tries to affect what happens.
Wilson, Robert Charles, GYPSIES {Doubleday 89}
   S:
Windsor, Philip, "If I had been... Alexander Dubcek in 1968", in <IHB>
   W: Dubcek retained more control over events during Prague Spring.
   C: Musings on a middle course which might have averted a Soviet invasion.
Wodhams, Jack, "Try Again", in Amazing Nov 68
   W: Germany pursued a more rational course in WW2, avoiding the invasion of
   Russia til 44 and tipping the US off to Japanese plans in the Pacific.
   S: A man gets the chance to relive his life, and the Nazis hear about the
   amazing boy with prophetic powers. Detailed history of a different WW2.
Wolfe, Gene, "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German
   Invasion", in Analog May 73, THE BEST OF ANALOG (ed Bova) {Baronet 78; Ace
   xx} and GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS {Doubleday 81}; incl in CASTLE OF DAYS
   {Tor 92}
   W: Germany and Japan used economic warfare instead of military conquest in
   the 1930s and 40s. Also, Churchill returned to journalism after WW1.
   S: A retired US Army officer from Abilene KS invents a game called World
   War, and participates in a race between German and British compact cars.
Womack, Jack, TERRAPLANE: A NOVEL {Tor 90}
   W: Lincoln was murdered in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration, and
   Teddy Roosevelt freed the slaves in 1907. Later, Zangara killed FDR.
   S: Fleeing an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents end up in 1939
   New York of a different past.
------------, ELVISSEY {Tor 93}
   S: In a future with religions based on Elvis Presley, two people plan a trip
   to an alternate past to bring back Elvis.
   C: Non-AH entries in series are AMBIENT and HEATHERN.
Wrede, Patricia C., & Caroline Stervermer, SORCERY AND CECILIA {Ace 89}
   W: Magic works, in Regency London.
   S:
Wright, Esmond, "If I had been... Benjamin Franklin in the Early 1770s", in
   <IHB>
   W: Franklin returned to America in 1775 with evidence of a softening British
   attitude towards dealings with the colonies.
   C: Franklin contemplates the troubles, and then describes the appointment of
   Washington as governor of Vandalia (Ohio) and other compromises.
Wyndham, John, "Random Quest", in CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS {M. Joseph 61;
   Penguin 65}, THE INFINITE MOMENT {Ballantine 61}, AS TOMORROW BECOMES TODAY
   (ed Sullivan) {Prentice-Hall 74}, etc
   W: The League of Nations prevented WW2.
   S: A man searches for the analog of a woman with whom he fell in love in a
   parallel world.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ARIOSTO: ARIOSTO FURIOSO, A ROMANCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE
   RENAISSANCE {Pocket 80}
   W: Lorenzo de Medici did not die in 1492, but lived to unite Italy in 1515.
   S: In 1533, a court poet to Damiano de Medici is involved in intrigues to
   hold Italy together but dreams of a world where he is a famous soldier-poet.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, "An Exaltation of Spiders", in BEYOND THE GATE OF
   WORLDS {Tor 91}
   C: In same timeline as Silverberg's THE GATE OF WORLDS.
   S: The True Inca, seeking a solution to possible invasion by the False Inca
   of Brazil, sends a mission to the Maori nation.
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, ON SAINT HUBERT'S THING {Cheap Street 82}
   W:
   S: Religious intrigue in a world where Christian Europe is divided north vs.
   south.
Yulsman, Jerry, ELLEANDER MORNING: A NOVEL {St. Martin's/Marek 84; Tor 85}
   W: Hitler died in 1913 while still a starving artist.
   S: A woman is mystified by a strange book entitled the TIME-LIFE HISTORY OF
   WW2 and by her grandmother's murder of an obscure Viennese artist.
Zebrowski, George, "The Cliometricon", in Amazing May 75, <BT> and THE
   MONADIC UNIVERSE {Ace 77}
   A machine lets historians study AHs, with looks at D-Day and Thermopylae.
-----------------, "The Number of the Sand", in Amazing Aug 91 and <WM3>
   A cliometrician examines the possible lives of Hannibal and their effect on
   the 2nd Punic War.
-----------------, "Let Time Shape", in Amazing Mar 92 and <WM4>
   Examines the possibilities of Columbus finding the Americas populated by the
   techonologically sophisticated descendants of refugees from Carthage.
Zebrowski, George, "The Eichmann Variations", in LIGHT YEARS AND DARK (ed
   Bishop) {Berkley 84} and NEBULA AWARDS 20 (ed Zebrowski) {HBJ 85}
   W: WW2 ended with Japan surrendering after the Allies dropped nuclear
   weapons on Germany in 1946.
   S: Adolf Eichmann, captured by the Israelis in 1961, is executed 6e6 times.
Zebrowski, George, "Lenin in Odessa", in Amazing Mar 90 and <WM2>
   W: Lenin was assassinated in 1918 by a Russian expatriate.
   S: Stalin describes the assassin and the occasion.
Zebrowski, George, STRANGER SUNS {Bantam 91}; rev of "Stranger Suns", serial
   in Amazing Jan and Mar 91
   An alien ship found in Antarctica includes portals to alternate Earths, but
   those who explore them can never return to their home lines.
Zelazny, Roger, "The Game of Blood and Dust", in Galaxy Apr 75, THE BEST
   FROM GALAXY VOLUME IV (ed Baen) {Award 76}, THE LAST DEFENDER OF CAMELOT
   {Pocket 80; Underwood/Miller 81; Avon 88}, etc
   Two aliens play at changing events in our past to compete in achieving their
   individual goals (success or failure for humanity).
Zelazny, Roger, ROADMARKS {Ballantine 79}
   On a strange road that reaches from past to future, a man fights assassins
   and attempts to prevent a Greek defeat at Marathon.


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