uchronia

"Eric, I know you've got philosophical objections to the practice, but the rest of us find uchronia to be a harmless mental exercise."

DBTL 76: Must Give Us Pause Johnny Pez 2010

Conventional wisdom is that Trotsky would have succeeded Lenin were it not for Stalin's machinations, but Candyman is minded of some chains on the uchronia group he frequents that bring this into question.

DBTL 77: The Little Finish Johnny Pez 2010

All you have to do is look at the original uchronia, Louis Geoffroy's Napoléon apocryphe, to see that it's little more than wish-fulfillment fantasy coupled with a clandestine attempt to resurrect the Great Man theory of history.

DBTL 76: Must Give Us Pause Johnny Pez 2010

I have been looking for a Victorian novel that would stand out from the crowd, and I was immediately drawn to the way in which Mark justified the steampunk elements of his uchronia, which all descend from a certain key change in our own history rather than simply being used as set dressing.

Introducing Burton & Swinburne Lou Anders 2009

With the original motivation of writing a "Communist ghost story," Howard Waldrop has produced one of his patented alternate histories, a uchronia of surpassing strangeness, _A Better World's in Birth!

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

uchronia.net has lots on this sort of thing, if this is the sort of thing you like.

Alternate Histories 2005

The Emperor’s oppressive writ runs severely, and a woman novelist, part of a circle of rather dilettantish bohemians, becomes involved in serious seditious activity, falling in love with a revolutionary and spreading his propaganda via her writings (which include an opera libretto portraying a uchronia under Aztec supremacy, wheels within counterfactual wheels …).

The Voyage of Night Shining White Lou Anders 2006

The Emperor’s oppressive writ runs severely, and a woman novelist, part of a circle of rather dilettantish bohemians, becomes involved in serious seditious activity, falling in love with a revolutionary and spreading his propaganda via her writings (which include an opera libretto portraying a uchronia under Aztec supremacy, wheels within counterfactual wheels …).

Archive 2006-12-01 Lou Anders 2006