Classic alternate-history fiction tends to follow a formula. It asks “what if” about a few key moments in history: what if a pivotal war had a different outcome? What if a different man had been ...

For All Mankind is as big and chaotic as space itself. In addition to the seven NASA astronauts and ground staff that the show’s second season primarily focuses on, there’s also the spouses and ...

The (fictional) Second Battle of Harper's Ferry, ca. April 2025. (Reddit User GeorgeSquarshington) Alternate history writing looks at "what if" scenarios; What if the Soviet Union won the Cold War?

"Alternate history" is one of those sub-genres that tends to fly a bit under the radar. It gets lumped in with run of the mill historical fiction, or it gets shelved in the sci-fi section alongside ...

The video considers an alternate history in which Emperor Julian stays in Constantinople rather than launching the Persian ...

As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead? The alternate history has traditionally been intellectual in its impulses: It ...

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The right needs a narrative to refute the superstitions of progress. At any given time, most cultures have a dominant narrative, a collectively agreed upon story that explains where they came from, ...