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  1. Short Story: "Impossible Dreams" by Tim Pratt

    This lovely little story won the Hugo Award in 2007. It's about a man who wanders into a video store from an alternate universe for a short time. Enjoy! http://web.archive.org/web/20070422075939/http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0704/Impossibledreams.shtml

  2. The Manhattan Project: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ICBM

    At the time of this posting, this story is about 31,000 words long. It should more than double that by the time I finish writing. Normally, I try to finish a story before beginning to post it here, but I think I've advanced enough to be able to stay ahead of the posting pace. It begins with...

  3. Mushing ahead: A brief history of the Republic of Alaska at the Winter Olympics

    As is my style, this will be posted in several parts, with one part per day until all parts have been exhausted. It's much shorter than "The Alamo" or "Lake Kennedy", and was written largely as a reaction to watching the Olympics on TV. It does borrow heavily from my notes for the in-progress...

  4. How World War II wasn't won

    It's not every day that I go to nytimes.com and find something that'd be of interest to folks here. But this is an opinion piece by David P. Colley, author of a book called Decision at Strasbourg: Ike’s Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at the Rhine in 1944, which outlines how Lt...

  5. Megaproject: Lake Kennedy

    A note: This is a history of Lake Kennedy, the world's largest man-made lake. It's written in the vein of the Key West-Havana Tunnel and is complete. I'll be posting one section per day until I run out of sections. Please feel free to comment with questions, concerns, or just to tell me how much...

  6. If Israel Lost the War, by Richard Z. Chesnoff

    If Israel Lost the War By Richard Z. Chesnoff ASIN: B0006BVGHO Five out of five stars. Pros: Excellent writing, fascinating story, unique POD Cons: Some datedness Too often, we tend to think of alternate history as a genre that began with Harry Turtledove. But one look at uchronia.net...

  7. 1862, by Robert Conroy

    1862 By Robert Conroy ISBN 978-0345482372 One star out of five. Pros: Not Stars and Stripes Forever. Cons: Too much like Stars and Stripes Forever. Some editors say you can throw out an author's first book; it usually takes an author until their second book to grasp all the elements of...

  8. In War Times, by Kathleen Goonan

    In War Times By Kathleen Ann Goonan ISBN: 978-0-7653-1355-3 Three stars out of five. I'm too dumb for this book. In War Times is a no-doubt brilliant work of literary alternate history and science fiction, but it's not really to my taste. In philosophy, modernism generally denotes an...

  9. In War Times, by Kathleen Goonan

    In War Times By Kathleen Ann Goonan ISBN: 978-0-7653-1355-3 Three stars out of five. I'm too dumb for this book. In War Times is a no-doubt brilliant work of literary alternate history and science fiction, but it's not really to my taste. In philosophy, modernism generally denotes an...

  10. After the Downfall, by Harry Turtledove

    After the Downfall By Harry Turtledove ISBN 978-1-59780-130-0 Two stars out of five. Pros: Interesting color and description. Cons: Flat characters, simplistic story, limited characterization, poor printing Despite the name emblazoned on the cover of this novel, it isn't an alternate...

  11. Britannia's Fist: From Civil War to World War

    Britannia's Fist: From Civil War to World War By Peter G. Tsouras ISBN 978-1-57488-823-2 Four stars out of five. Pros: Superb research, unique POD, interesting story Cons: A bit of weaponry fetish, may not be suitable for casual readers, dashes of Ameriwank Britannia's Fist: From Civil...

  12. The Valley-Westside War

    The Valley-Westside War is the sixth book in Harry Turtledove's young-adult Crosstime Traffic Series, and deals with future OTL researchers trying to uncover the cause of a 1967 nuclear war that devastated the United States and basically destroyed civilization. In short, the story basically...

  13. Yiddish Policeman's Union wins Hugo Award

    http://www.thehugoawards.org/ I'm shocked and appalled that no one has mentioned the fact that Chabon's Yiddish Policeman's Union has won this year's Hugo for best novel. If that isn't a sign that alternate history has gone mainstream -- at least in the science fiction world, I don't know...

  14. Is Paris Burning?

    Discussion thread Sources: "Is Paris Burning?" By Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. "World War II in Europe: The Final Year" By Charles F. Brower, Roosevelt Study Center. "World War II: A Statistical Survey" "A Soldier's Story," General Omar N. Bradley. Setton, Kenneth M., "900...

  15. First Contract, by Greg Costikyan

    First Contract, by Greg Costikyan Five stars out of five. Pros: Interesting premise, well-written main character, beautiful color and story flow. Cons: Over too soon, supporting characters are light on detail. First Contract isn't an alternate history novel. Nor is it a work of paleofuture...

  16. Is Paris Burning?

    This is a complete scenario I'm laying out for you here, mainly because I think it will get more attention in this forum than in the writers' room. It's up to you to determine the POD, but the basic idea behind this is a determined German defense of Paris in the fall of 1944. I've attempted to...

  17. Defining "Alternate History"

    What is alternate history? It's a simple question, but it's one -- to me, at least -- that doesn't have a simple answer. Where do you draw the line in the sand and say that such-and-such falls into the alternate history genre while so-and-so doesn't? I'm sure there's lots of different views...

  18. Paleofuture: 2063 A.D.

    Yes, I know that the year 2063 hasn't arrived yet, but most of the predictions put forth in this little book -- written in 1963 -- have long since passed into the realm of paleofuture. In short, 2063 A.D. is a collection of predictions -- some brief, some long -- taken down in 1963 and...

  19. AH You Tube

    I imagine a thread for potentially AH YouTube videos wouldn't be too far out of sorts. To start it off, here's a video that, while not strictly AH, is so bizarre that it feels as if it has to be AH. The Red Army Choir and a Finnish band singing "Sweet Home Alabama."...

  20. Copyrighting Timelines

    This is a subject that just recently arose in the Writers' Forum, and I thought I should bring it up over here. Let me preface this by saying that I am not a lawyer, have no legal training, and this should not be construed as legal advice for or against any particular action. If you're...
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