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- THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST
- Version 14 - 12 April 1993
-
- APPENDIX I - NON-ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS
-
- This appendix lists Alternate Histories published in languages other than
- English. The bulk of this data is taken from the Hacker & Chamberlain
- bibliography (see above), but a significant contribution was made by Andreas
- Morlok. Additional info was provided by Thomas Cron, Jorg Helbig, P.C.
- Jorgensen and Evelyn Leeper.
-
- Those entries which have not been translated to the English include an "E:"
- line, which indicates a translation of the title.
-
-
- In Chinese:
-
- Shi Jian, (title unknown), in 'Strange Tales' May 90
- E: "Cause and Effect"
- W: Germany won WW2.
- S:
-
-
- In Czech:
-
- Capek, Karel, "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi", in KNIHA APOKRYFU {Borovy 45}
- S: Lot rejects the warning of the angels to flee Sodom.
- T: English "Pseudo-Lot, or Concerning Patriotism"; Esperanto "Pseudo-Lot au
- pri patriotismo".
-
-
- In Dutch:
-
- Mulisch, Harry, DE TOEKOMST VAN GISTEREN: PROTOKOL VAN EEN SCHRIJVERIJ {De
- Bezige Bij 72}
- E: YESTERDAY'S FUTURE: OUTLINE OF A WORK
- W: Hitler was assassinated in 1944.
- S: Discussion of a possible novel about the assassination, the SS
- countercoup and German victory in WW2.
- Teng, Tais, AAN DE OEVERS VAN DE NACHT {Kraaikop cube-reeks 83}
- E: AT THE SHORES OF THE NIGHT
- >--------<, "Alle namen in het zonlicht", in SF Terra #73 zine (85)
- >--------<, "Bevers voeren", in SF Terra #73 zine (85)
- >--------<, "Een dukaat voor de veerman", in BIZARRE VISIOENEN {Diram 88}
- >--------<, "Hoe de wijze handelt", in King Kong Kerstgeschenk zine {88} and
- Science Fiction Festival {xxxCon 89}
- W: Elephants evolved only to a small size, and Hannibal's sea-borne attack
- on Rome succeeded.
- S: Tales of a Dutch empire.
- Tengbergen, Thijs van Ebberhorst: see Teng, Tais
- Van Herck, Paul, CAROLINE OH CAROLINE
- W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
- S: Hitler leads an AmerInd-Negro army against Europe.
- T: French CAROLINE OH CAROLINE
-
-
- In Esperanto:
-
- Capek, Karel, + Josef Vondrousek (tr), "Pseudo-Lot au pri patriotismo", in
- LIBRO DE APOKRIFOJ {Ceha Esperanto-Asocio 70}
- T: Czech "Pseudo-Lot cili o vlastenectvi"
-
-
- In Flemish:
-
- Bertin, Eddy C., "Tijdstorm", in DE ACHTJAARLIJKSE GOD {Bruno & Zoon 71}
- S: Barely AH story of a man, caught in a timestorm, who discovers humanoid
- aliens tinkering with the human past, encouraging the spread of war.
- T: English "Timestorm"
-
-
- In French:
-
- Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "L'Anniversaire du Reich de mille ans", in C'EST
- ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN SU {Denoel 84}
- E: "The Anniversary of the Thousand-Year Reich"
- W:
- S: Nazi power lasts *exactly* 1000 years.
- Andrevon, Jean-Pierre, "Qu'est-ce qu'il faisait, le jeune docteur
- Frankenstein, en mai 81? et en mai 68?", in C'EST ARRIVE MAIS ON N'EN A RIEN
- SU {Denoel 84}
- E: "What Was He Doing, Young Dr. Frankenstein, in May 1981 and May 1968?"
- W: Camus, Philipe and Vian did not die in the early 1960s.
- S: A descendant of Dr. Frankenstein extends the lives of Camus, Philipe and
- Vian to see how they would have affected later French history.
- Arnoux, Alexandre, FAUT-IL BRULER JEANNE? MYSTERE EN TROIS JOURNEES
- {Gallimard 54}
- E: MUST JOAN BURN?
- W: Joan of Arc was rescued.
- S: God allows Joan to be rescued, much to her disillusionment.
- Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO {Andre Sabatier 37; Plon 64; Rombaldi 76}
- E: VICTORY AT WATERLOO
- W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
- S: Despite victory, Napoleon suffers an identity crisis and abdicates.
- Balthasar, AS-TU VU MONTEZUMA? {Le Monde 80}; serial in Le Monde Jun-Sep 80
- E: HAVE YOU SEEN MONTEZUMA?
- S:
- Barbet, Pierre, CARTHAGE SERA DETRUITE: SETNI ENQUETER TEMPOREL, 2 {Fleuve
- Noir 84}
- E: CARTHAGE WILL BE DESTROYED: TIME INVESTIGATOR SETNI, 2
- W: Hannibal captured Rome.
- S: A renegade time agent helps out Hannibal, and tries to found a
- Carthaginian colony in Quebec.
- Barbet, Pierre, L'EMPIRE DU BAPHOMET {Fleuve Noir 72}
- W: A demon-like alien was shipwrecked on Earth in 1118.
- S: The alien aids the Knights Templar as they set out in 1275 to save the
- Holy Land and conquer the Mongols.
- T: English BAPHOMET'S METEOR
- --------------, CROISADE STELLAIRE {Fleuve Noir 74}
- S: Outer-space sequel to the above.
- T: English STELLAR CRUSADE
- Barbet, Pierre, LIANE DE NOLDAZ {Fleuve Noir 73}
- S:
- T: English THE JOAN-OF-ARC REPLAY
- Barbier, J.-B., SI NAPOLEON AVAIT PRIS LONDRES {Librairie Francais 70}
- E: IF NAPOLEON HAD TAKEN LONDON
- S:
- Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE {G.
- Bailliere 1872}
- E: ETERNITY THROUGH THE STARS: AN ASTRONOMICAL HYPOTHESIS
- S:
- Boireau, Jacques, "Les enfants d'Ibn Khaldoun", in UNIVERS 07 (ed Sadoul)
- {J'ai Lu 76}
- E: "Children of Ibn Khaldun"
- W: The Arabs won at Tours.
- S: Progressive Muslim southern France later suffers emigration from the
- north.
- Boireau, Jacques, "L'ete", in FICTION {Opta 84}
- E: "Summer"
- S:
- Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier, SI MAI AVAIT GAGNE: FACETIE
- POLITIQUE {Pauvert 68}
- E: IF MAY HAD SUCCEEDED: A POLITICAL PLEASANTRY
- W: The May 1968 riots produced a socialist revolution rather than a
- conservative backlash.
- S:
- Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN {vol 1, Gallimard 38; vol 2-4 Editions
- du Dialogue 41-44; complete Gallimard 49}
- E: LIFE'S CONJUNCTIONS
- W: The Popular Front gov't of 1936 France led to a leftist revolution.
- S: A detailed history text.
- Burnier, Michel-Antoine: see Bon, Frederic, & Michel-Antoine Burnier
- Caillois, Roger, PONCE PILATE: RECIT {Gallimard 61}
- W: Pilate found Jesus innocent and released him.
- S: Christianity is aborted.
- T: English PONTIUS PILATE
- Costa, A., L'APPEL DU 17 JUIN: ROMAN {Lattes 80}
- E: THE APPEAL OF JUNE 17: A NOVEL
- S:
- Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE {xxx 1791}
- E: MY REPUBLIC
- C: A history text of France, but chapter 21 speculates on an alternate
- French Revolution resulting from a stronger Louis XVI.
- d'Ormesson, Jean, LA GLOIRE DE L'EMPIRE {Gallimard 71}
- S:
- T: English THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE
- Douay, D., LE PRINCIPE DE L'OEUF {Calmann-Levy 80}
- E: THE EGG PRINCIPLE
- S:
- Droit, Jacques, MALHEUREUX ULYSSE {xxx 56}
- E: UNHAPPY ULYSSES
- W: Louis XVI escaped arrest.
- S: In 1870, France is ruled by Louis XIX.
- Duits, Charles, PTAH HOTEP: ROMAN {Denoel 71, 81}
- E: PTAH HOTEP: A NOVEL
- W: Constantine suppressed Christianity.
- S: Far future of a Egyptian-Roman-Arab world.
- Etienne, Gerard, UN AMBASSADEUR-MACUTE A MONTREAL {Nouvelle-Optique 79}
- E: A HAITIAN AMBASSADOR AT MONTREAL
- W: Quebec seceded from Canada in 1970.
- S: Interaction between the Duvalier dictatorship of Haiti and Quebecois
- separatists.
- Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON APOCRYPHE {Paulin 1841; Librairie
- Illustree 1896}; as NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-1823: HISTOIRE DE
- LA MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE {Dellaye 1836; J. Bry 1851; Tallandier 1983}
- E: THE APOCRYPHAL NAPOLEON; as NAPOLEON AND THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD, 1812-
- 1823: HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSAL MONARCHY
- W: Napoleon sought out and destroyed the Russian army rather than freeze in
- Moscow.
- S: Napoleon keeps on going.
- C: *The* first AH written in novel length. Extensive synopsis in Alkon's
- "From Utopia to Uchronia".
- Goldring, Maurice, LA REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DU FRANCE, 1949-1981: DE
- L'ASSASSINAT DU GENERAL DE GAULLE (12 JUIN 1949) AU COUP D'ETAT DU GENERAL
- MASSU (10 MAI 1981) {Belfond 84}
- E: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF FRANCE, 1949-1981: FROM THE ASSASSINATION OF
- GENERAL DE GAULLE (JUNE 12, 1949) TO THE COUP D'ETAT OF GENERAL MASSU (MAY
- 10, 1981)
- S:
- Grousset, Rene, FIGURES DE PROUE {Plon 49}
- E: FIGUREHEADS
- S:
- Hertel, Francois, "Lepic et l'histoire hypothetique", in JEREMIE ET BARABBAS
- {Le Jour 66}
- E: "Lepic and hypothetical history"
- W: Montcalm beat Wolfe at the battle of Montreal.
- S: 1940s Canada as a prosperous, ultra-Catholic nation.
- Jeanne, Rene: see Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne
- Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE
- {Tallandier 29}
- E: IF, ON JULY 27, 1794...: AN HISTORICAL HYPOTHESIS
- W: Robespierre escaped the guillotine.
- S:
- Le Brun, Claire, "Les chansons de geste: la tentation de l'uchronie au moyen
- age", in Imagine Autumn 82
- E: "The Chansons de Geste: the Temptation of Allohistory in the Middle Ages"
- C:
- Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE BEAUCHENE,
- CAPITAINE DE FILIBUSTIERS DANS LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE {Ganeau 1732; Dufour &
- Roux 1780}
- E: THE ADVENTURES OF M. ROBERT CHEVALIER, AKA DE BEAUCHENE
- W: AmerInds discovered Europe before vice versa.
- C: Borderline AH, but a very early publication.
- Mazarin, Jean, L'HISTOIRE DETOURNEE {Fleuve Noir 84}
- E: HISTORY SIDETRACKED
- W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
- S: WW3 in 1989 against Japan.
- Morin, Edgar, "Le Camarade-Dieu: un conte de Noel", in France Observateur 28
- Dec 61
- E: "The Comrade-God: a Christmas Story"
- W: Surviving death in 1953, Stalin is proclaimed a living god in 1961.
- S: Reactions from elsewhere.
- Noel-Noel, VOYAGEUR DES SIECLES
- E: TRAVELER THROUGH THE CENTURIES
- S:
- Quilliet, Bernard, LA VERITABLE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE {Presses de la Renaissance
- 83}
- E: THE TRUE HISTORY OF FRANCE
- S:
- Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE
- APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE TEL QU'IL N'A PAS
- ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE {Bureau de la Critique Philosophique 1876;
- Alcan 01; Artheme Fayard 88}
- E: UCHRONIA (UTOPIA IN HISTORY), AN APOCRYPHAL SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF
- EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION NOT AS IT WAS BUT AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
- W: Marcus Aurelius helped reform the Roman army, free the slaves, repress
- the Christians and avert the Dark Ages.
- S: Narrative of a 17th-century man about to be executed by the Inquisition.
- Richard-Bessiere, F., CROISIERE DANS LE TEMPS {Fleuve Noir 51}
- E: CRUISE IN TIME
- W: Time travelers prevented the assassination of Henri IV in 1610.
- S: France unifies Europe, but world war begins a century later and
- civilization collapses in the 20th century.
- Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet", in Litterature Mar 21 and PAPIERS
- POSTHUMES {Sans Pareil 34}
- E: "A Brilliant Subject"
- S: A time traveler poisons Jesus, does plastic surgery on Cleopatra, etc.
- Robban, Randolph, SI L'ALLEMAGNE AVAIT VAINCU {Editions de la Tour du Guet
- 50}
- E: IF GERMANY HAD WON
- W: Germany won WW2 using atomic weapons.
- S: A diplomat imagines a world in which Germany lost.
- Schuiten, Francois, & Benoit Peeters, LES MURAILLES DE SAMARIS {Casterman 83}
- E: THE WALLS OF SAMARIS
- S:
- Thiry, Marcel, ECHEC AU TEMPS {Nouvelle France 45; La Renaissance du Livre
- 62; Jacques Antoine 86}
- E: REPULSE IN TIME
- W: Napoleon won at Waterloo.
- S: Time travelers reverse the event.
- Van Herck, Paul, + Michel Vedewe (tr), CAROLINE OH CAROLINE {Champs-Elysee
- 76}
- T: Dutch CAROLINE OH CAROLINE
- Van Herck, Paul, OPERATION BONAPARTE
- S:
-
-
- Reference Materials:
-
- Angenot, Marc, Farko Suvin, & Jean-Marc Gouanvic, "L'uchronie, histoire
- alternative et science-fiction", in Imagine Autumn 82
- E: "Allohistory, alternative history and science fiction"
- C:
- Boireau, Jacques, "La machine a ralentir le temps"
- E: "The time-slowdown machine"
- C: Contrasts utopian French AHs with distopian American AHs.
- Brie, Marc-Andre, "Quelques reperes pour une bibliographie de l'uchronie"
- E: "Some Benchmarks for a Bibliography of Allohistory"
- C: A bibliography of AH.
- Gouanvic, Jean-Marc, "Pourquoi un 'Special Uchronie'", in Imagine Autumn 82
- E: Why an "Allohistory Special"
- C: Discussion of AH in conjunction with a special issue of Imagine.
- Herp, Jacques van, "Dans les corridors de l'espace-temps", in PANORAMA DE LA
- SCIENCE-FICTION {Gerard 73; Marabout 75}
- E: "In the Halls of Space-Time"
- C: Includes discussion of AH.
- Leccia, Pierre, "Uchronie: l'histoire detournee", in POLITIQUE/FICTION (ed
- Riche)
- E: "Allohistory: History Sidetracked"
- C: Brief discussion and bibliography of AH.
- Versins, Pierre, ENCYCLOPEDIE DE L'UTOPIE, DES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES ET DE
- LA SCIENCE FICTION {L'Age du Homme 72; exp 84}
- E: ENCYLOPEDIA OF UTOPIA, EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES AND SCIENCE FICTION
- C:
-
-
- In German:
-
- "Das Wort 'Wenn' ist das deutscheste aller deutschen Worter."
- <<The word 'if' is the most German of all German words.>>
- --'Friedrich Hebbel', in
- Alexander Demandt's UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE
-
- Anthologies:
-
- Armer, Karl Michael (ed), HIROSHIMA SOLL LEBEN! {Heyne 90}
- E: HIROSHIMA SHALL LIVE!
- C: Translations of stories by Aldiss, Effinger, Gibson, Lansdale, Martin,
- Robinson, Shiner, Somtow, and Turtledove. Reference material by Armer.
- Oth, Rene (ed), SCHONE VERKEHRTE WELT: PHANTASTISCHE GESCHICHTEN ZUR
- GESCHICHTE {Luchterhand 88}
- E: NICE WRONG WORLD: FANTASTIC HAPPENINGS IN HISTORY
- C: Translations of stories by Cox, Eklund, Elgin, Lafferty, Piper, Roberts
- and Robinson. Reference material by Oth.
-
- Alternate Histories:
-
- Aldiss, Brian W., + Barbara Heidkamp (tr), "Vorsicht! Religion", in <HSL>
- T: English "Matrix"
- Amery, Carl, AN DEN FEUERN DER LEYERMARK: ROMAN {Nymphenburger 79; Heyne 81,
- 83}
- E: AT THE LIGHTS OF THE LEYERMARK or BY LEYERMARK CAMPFIRES
- W: Former Confederate soldiers were hired as mercenaries by Bavaria and used
- to subjugate Bismarck's Prussia.
- S: Bavaria replaces Prussia as the dominant German power and important
- European player.
- Amery, Carl, DAS KONIGSPROJEKT {Piper 74; Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 78;
- Heyne 84}
- E: THE KING-PROJECT or PROJECT ROYALTY
- S: The Vatican tries to use Leonardo da Vinci's time machine to support a
- Bavarian-Stuart reversal of the Reformation.
- Basil, Otto, WENN DAS DER FUHRER WUSSTE {Molden 66}
- W: Germany won WW2 after dropping a nuclear bomb on London.
- S: Hitler's death 20 years later leads to a power struggle.
- T: English TWILIGHT MAN
- Blumenberg, Hans C., "Und wenn er nicht gestorben ist...", in Tempo Jun 92
- E: "And if he didn't die..."
- W: Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder didn't die in 1982.
- S: He later receives two Oscars, one for BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ starring
- Robert DeNiro.
- Boeheim, Carl von, DIE KAISERSAGA: UTOPIA AUSTRIACA {A. Kraft 60}
- E: IMPERIAL SAGA: AN AUSTRIAN UTOPIA
- W: Emperor Franz Josef had a 2nd son, named Franz Stefan.
- S: Franz Stefan preserves the Hapsburg Empire by revolution from above.
- Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn, "Alternativen in
- der Wissenschaft", in Zeitschrift fur Soziolofie 1
- C: Includes discussion of a chemical rather than mechanical worldview at
- the beginning of the scientific revolution.
- T: English "Alternatives in Science"
- Cox, Irving E., Jr., + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Im Kreis des Nirgendwo",
- in <SVW>
- T: English "In the Circle of Nowhere"
- Effinger, George Alec, + Juergen Langowski (tr), "Ziel: Berlin!", in <HSL>
- T: English "Target: Berlin! The Role of the Air Force Four-Door Hardtop"
- Eklund, Gordon, + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Die Sonne geht auf", in <SVW>
- T: English "The Rising of the Sun"
- Elgin, Suzette Haden, + Sylvia Brecht-Pukallus (tr), "Schweig stille, Mund!",
- in <SVW>
- T: English "Hush My Mouth"
- Franzel, Emil: see Boeheim, Carl von
- Gibson, William, + Reinhard Heinz (tr), "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der
- amerikanische Traum", in <HSL>
- T: English "The Gernsback Continuum"
- Haffner, Sebastian, ANMERKUNGEN ZU HITLER {Kindler 78}
- C: Biography of Hitler includes discussion (pp 131-139) of the Nazis making
- a peace after the fall of France.
- T: English THE MEANING OF HITLER
- Hahn, Ronald M., "Hey, Mr. Spaceman", in EIN DUTZEND H-BOMBEN {Ullstein 83}
- W:
- S:
- Hahn, Ronald M., & Harald Pusch, DIE TEMPONAUTEN: SCIENCE FICTION-ROMAN
- {Corian 83}
- E: THE TEMPONAUTS: A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL
- W: The first atomic bomb was used in 1943 on Berlin.
- S: An amnesiac time traveller is hunted by a competing time travel agency in
- the Klondike of 1896-97, where he meets Jack London, among others.
- Hohlbein, Wolfgang E., "Im Namen der Menschlichkeit", in JUPITER (ed Le
- Blanc) {Goldmann 85}
- E: "In the Name of Humanity"
- W: A peaceful revolution overthrew Rome and Jesus became the new "Caesar".
- S: Travelers from a peaceful Empire are sent back in time to undermine the
- Toltecs, but their time machine crashes near Jerusalem, 30 AD.
- Jeschke, Wolfgang, DER LETZTE TAG DER SCHOPFUNG {Nymphenburger 81; Heyne 85}
- 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: English THE LAST DAY OF CREATION
- Krohn, Wolfgang: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
- Lafferty, R.A., + Karl H. Kosmehl (tr), "Karl der Grosse, frustriert", in
- <SVW>
- T: English "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne"
- Lansdale, Joe R., + Nobert Stresau (tr), "Brief aus dem Sueden, zwei Monde,
- westlich von Nacogdoches", in <HSL>
- T: English "Letter from the South Two Moons West of Nacogdoches"
- Mahr, Kurt, MENSCHEN ZWISCHEN DER ZEIT {Terra 61}
- E: MAN BETWEEN TIME
- S: Hunt for a man who is trying to destroy the world financial system with
- dollars from a timeline suffering high inflation.
- Mahr, Kurt, 2 * PROFESSOR MANSTEIN {Terra 61}
- S: A scientist from our world is transported to another to fight an alien
- invasion.
- Martin, George R.R., + Barbara Heidkamp (tr), "Belagert", in <HSL>
- T: English "Under Siege"
- Mayer, Christian: see Amery, Carl
- Mielke, Thomas R.P., GRAND ORIENTALE 3301 {Heyne 80}
- W: The Arabs continued during the Middle Ages to rise in power and
- technology, but become divided.
- S: People from our world encounter Arabic nations fighting for control of
- powerlines from hydroelectric power plants in Europe.
- Piper, H. Beam, + Lore Strassl (tr), "Der Mann, der um die Pferde herumging",
- in <SVW>
- T: English "He Walked Around the Horses"
- Roberts, Keith, + Michael Nagula (tr), "Weihnachtsabend", in <SVW>
- T: English "Weihnachstabend"
- Robinson, Kim Stanley, + Michael Nagula (tr), "Der Flug de Lucky Strike", in
- <SVW>
- ---------------------, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Lucky Strike", in <HSL>
- T: English "The Lucky Strike"
- Shiner, Lewis, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Zeit des Zwielichts", in <HSL>
- T: English "Twilight Time"
- Somtow, S.P., + Ruediger Hipp (tr), "Aquila", in <HSL>
- T: English "Aquila"
- Turtledove, Harry, + Michael Windgassen (tr), "Das letzte Gebot", in <HSL>
- T: English "The Last Article"
- van den Daele: see Bohme, Gernot, Wolfgang van den Daele & Wolfgang Krohn
- Ziegler, Thomas, DIE STIMMEN DER NACHT {Ullstein 84}; exp of "Die stimmen
- der Nacht", in PHANTASTISCHE LITERATUR 83 (ed Gorden) {Bastei-Lubbe 83}
- E: VOICES OF THE NIGHT
- W: FDR didn't die in 1945, and it required use of the bomb on Berlin to
- force a German surrender.
- S: Refugees from the agrarian German state dominate S America and cause a
- nuclear war in 1984.
-
- Reference Materials:
-
- Demandt, Alexander, UNGESCHEHENE GESCHICHTE: EIN TRAKTAT UBER DIE FRAGE, WAS
- WARE GESCHEHEN, WENN--? {Vandenheock & Ruprecht 84, 86}
- C: Commentary on various possibilities, plus a synopsis of Toynbee's "If
- Alexander the Great had Lived On".
- T: English HISTORY THAT NEVER HAPPENED: A TREATISE ON THE QUESTION, WHAT
- WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF--?
- Giordano, Ralph, WENN HITLER DEN KRIEG GEWONNEN HAETTE: DIE PLANE DER NAZIS
- NACH DEM ENDSIG {Rasch & Roehring 89}
- E: IF HITLER HAD WON THE WAR
- C: Primarily a discussion of the Nazi's actual plans for world conquest, but
- includes a synopsis of Deighton's SS-GB.
- Helbig, Jorg, DER PARAHISTORISCHE ROMAN. EIN LITERARHISTORISCHER UND
- GATTUNGSTYPOLOGISCHER BEITRAGE ZUR ALLOTOPIEFORSCHUNG {Lang 87}
- E: THE PARAHISTORICAL NOVEL. A HISTORICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL STUDY IN
- ALLOTOPIAN LITERATURE
- C: Dissertation on AH, with focus on two general types (intellectual study
- of history vs. fictional allegory) and a 30-page bibliography.
- Tucholsky, Kurt, "Was ware, wenn...?", in GESAMMELTE WERKE (ed Gerold-
- Tucholsky & Raddatz) {Rowohlt 60-62}
- E: "What if...?"
- C: Series of political commentaries on use of AH for political satire.
-
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- In Greek:
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- Kazantzakis, Nikos, TELEUTAIOS PEIRASMOS
- W: Jesus fled his doom.
- S: Jesus dreams of the possible result.
- T: English THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
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- In Italian:
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- Eriksson, James S., AMERICA VICCHINGA {Frasinelli 84}
- E: VIKING AMERICA
- S:
- Menard, Pierre, 1938: LA DISTRUZIONE DI PARIGI {Frasinelli 84}
- E: 1938: THE DESTRUCTION OF PARIS
- W: Petain led a successful French coup in 1934.
- S:
- Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO {xxx 27}
- E: THE UNDERSEA TUNNEL
- W: A transatlantic tunnel was begun in the 1920s.
- S:
- Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA SINO EL PRINCIPATO: CON DIVERSI SAGGI
- SULLE SCIENZE, LETTERE E ARTI {Didot 1813-14; Marchini 1821; Gaetano Ducci
- 1826}
- W: Lorenzo de Medici, il Magnifico, did not die in 1492.
- S: He saves Italy from foreign invasion and Europe from the Protestants.
- T: English THE HISTORY OF TUSCANY
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- In Japanese:
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- Hanmura Ryo, SENGOKU JIEITAI {Hayakawa Shobo 71; Kadokawa Shoten 78, 79}
- E: THE WARRING STATES SELF DEFENSE FORCE
- S:
- C: Basis of the Kadokawa movie TIME SLIP.
- Hirose Tadashi, EROSU {Hayakawa Shobu 71}
- E: EROS
- S:
- Komatsu Sakyo, "Chi ni wa heiwa o", in SF Magajin xxx 61
- E: "Peace on Earth"
- W: The US invaded Japan at the end of WW2.
- S:
- Mitsuse Ryu, SEITO TOTOKUFU {Hayakawa Shobu 75}
- E: HEADQUARTERS OF THE FAR EAST
- W: Japan lost the Sino-Japanese War.
- S:
- Toyota Aritsune, MONGORU NO ZANKO {Kadokawa Shoten 67}
- E: AFTERGLOW OF THE MONGOLS
- W: The Mongols conquered Europe during the 13th century.
- S: Centuries later, a Caucasian falsely accused of murder steals a time
- machine in order to prevent the Mongol dominance.
- Toyota Aritsune, TAIMU SURIPPU DAISENSO {Kadokawa Shoten 67}
- E: THE TIME SLIP WAR
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- In Latin:
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- Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA
- 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).
- T: English AB URBE CONDITA
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- In Norwegian:
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- Gjaerevold, Einar, "Isens veg", in EVIGSKOGEN {Bok og Magasinforlaget 90}
- E: "The Way of Ice"
- W: A new Ice Age came in the 19th century.
- S: An unorthodox woman's struggle to keep alive beside the ice-covered North
- Sea.
- Hermansen, Sjur, "Alternativ naatid", in Algernon Jan 92
- E: "Alternate Present"
- W: Germany won WW2, with a "Nazi-style Glasnost" in the 1990.
- S: Two friends contemplate founding a new party, "The Environmental
- Fascists".
- Jensen, Reidar, "Brev til min venn Wolfgang Wegener, februar 1924", in
- HISTORIEN SOM IKKE VILLE SLUTTE {Gyldendal Norsk 78}
- E: "Letter to My Friend Wolfgang Wegener, February 1924"
- W: WW1 never took place, and Lenin died in Switzerland in 1924.
- S: A letter-writer tells his friend about this strange Russian exile.
- Jorgensen, Per C., "Neste aar i Jerusalem", in Algernon Jan 92
- T: "Next Year in Jerusalem"
- W: Imperial Russia were the sole superpower, and about to start a war with
- the Baghdad Califate in a different '91.
- S: Jewish refugee tries to get out of Jerusalem.
- Olsen, Per G., "Medaljens bakside", in DOD OG VED GODT MOT I NEW YORK
- {Gyldendal Norsk 79}
- T: "The Back Side of the Medal"
- W: Norway fought a bitter War of Independence against Sweden, 1905 - 1937.
- S: Journalist interviews war veteran.
- Olsen, Per G., "I Albions tid", in ASTERVEG {Bok og Magasinforlaget 89}
- T: "In the Age of Albion"
- W: Wat Tyler's rebellion in 14th-century England succeeded. Magic works.
- S: Two sailors are stranded in an "Albion" ruled by Dark Magic.
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- In Polish:
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- Lem, Stanislaw, (title unknown), in DZIENNIKI GWIAZDOWE
- 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: English "The Eighteenth Voyage"
- Parnicki, Teodor, CZAS SIANIA I CZAS ZBIERANIA
- E: A TIME TO SOW AND A TIME TO REAP
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- Parnicki, Teodor, I U MOZNYCH DZIWNY: POWIESC Z WIEKU XVII {Pax 65, 79}
- E: STRANGE EVEN AMONG THE MIGHTY
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- Parnicki, Teodor, MUZA DALEKICH PODROZNY: POWIESC {Pax 70}
- E: THE MUSE OF DISTANT JOURNEYS: A NOVEL
- W: The 4th Polish Kingdom was established following the 1793 uprising.
- S:
- Parnicki, Teodor, SAM WYIDE BEZBRONNY: POWIESC HISTORYCZNO-FANTASTYCZYNA W
- TRZECH CZESCIACH {Pax 76}
- E: I SHALL LEAVE DEFENSELESS
- W: Julian the Apostate survived the Persian campaign and lived until 383.
- S:
- Parnicki, Teodor, SREBRNE ORLY {Pax 56, 60; Czytelnik 67}
- E: THE SILVER EAGLES
- W: A Polish state was created in the 10th century.
- S:
- Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA {Towarzystwo
- wydawnicze Ignis 24; Czytelnik 67}
- E: TIME TORPEDO
- W: Time travellers seeking to prevent the nationalism of the 19th century
- end up in 1796 Italy, where they defeat both Napoleon and the Austrians.
- S: Carnot takes power in France, but is deposed by one of the time
- travellers, who fails in an attempt to create a benevolent society.
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- In Portugese:
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- Gibson, William, + Eduardo Salo (tr), (title unknown), in REFLEXOS DO FUTURO
- {Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88}
- T: English "The Gernsback Continuum"
- Sterling, Bruce, & Lewis Shiner, + Eduardo Salo (tr), (title unknown), in
- REFLEXOS DO FUTURO {Edicao/Livros do Brasil 88}
- T: English "Mozart in Mirrorshades"
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- In Russian:
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- Aksyonov, Vassily, OSTROV KRYM {Ardis 81}
- W: The Crimea was an island and White Russians successfully held it against
- the Bolsheviks and established a provisionary democratic gov't.
- S: In the early 1980s, a Crimean newspaper editor spearheads the Common Fate
- re-unification movement, playing into Soviet hands.
- T: English THE ISLAND OF CRIMEA
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- In Spanish:
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- Borges, Jorge Luis, "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan", in EL JARDIN DE
- SENDEROS QUE SE BIFURCAN {Sur 41}, FICCIONES (1935-44) {Emece 44} and OBRAS
- COMPLETAS vol. 5 {Emece 46}
- S:
- T: English "The Garden of Forking Paths"
- Caron, Carlos Maria, "La Victoria de Napoleon", in LOS ARGENTINOS EN LA LUNA
- (ed Goligorsky) {Flor 68}
- E: "Napoleon's Victory"
- S: Future astronauts use a super telescope to look into Earth's history, but
- they see Napoleon's conquest of England, a Chinese invasion of Europe, etc.
- Lindo, Hugo, "Espejos paralelos"
- E: "Parallel Mirrors"
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