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Posts about Alternate History, including reviews of alternative history books, movies and games
Swastika Night was written by Katharine Burdekin and published in 1937 under the pseudonym “Murray Constantine”. It is remembered primarily as the first novel to portray a world…
The Probability Broach, an alternative history novel about a libertarian utopia, was written by L. Neil Smith and published in 1979. I think The Probability Broach is the…
Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published in 1992, is one of the greatest alternative history novels ever written. It’s the only alternative history novel ever shortlisted…
As an author, one of my favourite things about writing is putting my characters in the cockpit of fictional aircraft. There’s something fascinating about being able to imagine…
The Guns of the South, written by Harry Turtledove and published in 1992, is one of the classic alternative history novels. It weaves a story around a fascinating premise: ‘What…
Bring the Jubilee, written by Ward Moore and published in 1953, is one of the classic alternative history novels. Set in the mid-twentieth century, it describes a world…
Alternative History is a genre that often seems dominated by male authors. But there are plenty of great alternative history novels written by women too. In fact, several…
Watchmen, written by Alan Moore, drawn by Dave Gibbons and coloured by John Higgins, was serialised in 1986 and published as a graphic novel in 1987. Hugely commercially and critically successful, critics have long…
Alternative history is becoming much better known because of two TV series: SS-GB and The Man in the High Castle, both set in a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World…
The Final Countdown is a time-travel movie from 1980, starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. It’s often described as an alternative history movie, though technically it isn’t. Despite that, it…