alternate history
Alternate History is a Subgenre of Speculative fiction about what would happen if a event in history happened differently. A quick history of Alternate History Ab Urbe Condita Libri is possibly the first example of Alternate History written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius it tells a story where Alexander the Great didn't die prematurely and Rome still beats Macedonia. This trope of the writers side still winning even though logically they should not is still a common trope in AH today. Harry Norman Turtledove is a major author for AH and other works in the modern day and his stories have gone on to inspire many others. How to get ideas for writing? As Alternate History is about history the ideas are limitless. From making a small change in leadership or creating a massive change in how major events went down looking through history itself will give many ideas Writing and story making There are many ways to format your story. From telling it from the 3rd person or through the eyes of someone living in this world there are many options. Some use AH as a vector for making maps,flags ETC of alternate nations. Fake Wiki articles are also a popular format(please do not vandalize articles use the sandbox or other means) conclusion Alternate History is a fun topic to write about with endless stories just waiting to be written this guide will be updated as needed thank you for reading!
What book should I add to my collection next?
What if the space race was a tie? Either both sides give up trying to go to the moon Or both make it to the moon in a very close timeframe and have to deal with each other on the moon
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Examples The Axis win WW2(somehow) by making more of this or that Historical figures act in ways completely outside of the way they acted in real life
I’m aware of what many say is the first (I talked about it in an old alternate history of the day post) but what are some other examples?
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What if world war 1 kept going? (for at least 5 more years or more)
I've read The Two Georges by Turtledove and Dreyfuss, I enjoyed that but I was thinking of something more along the lines of like his Southern Victory series in structure.
What if one side decisively won the Korean War
This includes short stories and scenarios!
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What if Julius Caesar was never assassinated?
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What if the Spanish Flu was worse?
2021 Suez Canal Incident March 23rd, 2021, Suez, Egypt. The ship that was ever given becomes stuck in the Suez Canal and takes over 6 days to unlodge, costing hundreds of billions of dollars in lost trade. Divergence point. Unlike in our time, on April 6, 2021, the United States authorized the use of a small nuclear bomb several miles from the site of the Suez Cana, and the ship was unlodged, but shortly after, many users on T-machines claimed the disappearance of the entire ever-given. Dozens of tugboats were used to unlodge the boat, a much less efficient process. The “Suez Crab” is never mentioned, leaving it to be assumed that the entity does not exist in this timeline. Nor is the 2021 Cairo Tower stampede a tragedy still remembered by the public today as a preventable tragedy. The April 19th stampede is not mentioned either, leading to this timeline’s events being much less deadly. It is also believed that in this timeline, at least one person did a double take and reread the Wikipedia article for the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction. Happy April fools day and thanks to Alex I mean MISTER MANTICORE’s video SUEZCANALCRAB for the idea.
Is there anyone like this I’ve not heard of many alt history movies
What’s that story that you really like but not a lot of people seem to talk about for me it’s the atlantropa articles a book by Cody Franklin how about you all?
The writing, the plot, the characters, or anything else what story, book etc made you think there’s no way someone wrote this?
What if Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo?
Thank you Sylver for this idea! Hello everyone this week we will be having a alt history prompt for you all to write about This week what if Lincoln survived his assassination Attempt! Take this however you want he doesn’t get shot he still gets shot and lives(somehow) whatever you want I’m excited to see what everyone comes up with
alternate history
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