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(and who didn't already know), Brain Higgins produced and offered Round Round (what we know as the Alternate Mix) to the Sugababes.
unknown title 2009
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Did you major in Alternate Universe travel instead?
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Given the colonialist frontier thematics at play here it's no surprise that the field of SF incorporates a return to the romantic roots of all this -- the War of Independence, the Civil War, the Wild West, the Indian Wars -- in Alternate History so often focused on the (re) construction of America.
Of Genres and Sub-Genres Hal Duncan 2008
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The first strategy is explication, where the writer uses detail to rationalise the environment to a convincing level; we see this in Alternate History's reconfiguration of history, SF's extrapolation of science, Fantasy's exposition of culture.
The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007
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The first strategy is explication, where the writer uses detail to rationalise the environment to a convincing level; we see this in Alternate History's reconfiguration of history, SF's extrapolation of science, Fantasy's exposition of culture.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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This genre is often known as Alternate Universe AU.
Fiction Original | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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"Today in Alternate History" is a site that racks, in "today in history format," several alternate history timelines.
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Alternate is Dutch, so you could say that it went on sale in western-europe ..
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- DiscoveryNews (Feb 23, 2010): Can Life Exist in Alternate Universes? ...
Will Brian De Palma Direct PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2? – Collider.com 2010
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The current theme for submissions over at Crossed Genres is Alternative History – and writers take note, they are not only especially interested in Alternate History stories involving non-Western cultures and civilizations but they are also seeing a drop in submissions for this theme – so it got me thinking: the primordial element in the construction of an alternate history story seems to me to be the isolation of a focal point in the timeline of a people or nation, and speculating how a particular addition or omission might radically alter the course of history.
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