World War II is the single most written-about conflict in human history, and it is also the richest hunting ground for alternate history fiction. The stakes were absolute, the outcome was never guaranteed the way hindsight makes it feel, and…
The Southern Victory series is the most ambitious alternate history series ever written in the English language. Across eleven novels and nearly a decade of publishing, Harry Turtledove asks what would have happened if the Confederacy had won its independence…
The Temeraire series answers one of the best questions in alternate history: what would the Napoleonic Wars look like if every major power had an air force made of dragons? Naomi Novik’s answer, across nine novels, is so thoroughly imagined…
Alternate history asks the most irresistible question in fiction: what if? What if the Allies had lost World War II? What if the Confederacy had won at Gettysburg? What if a single assassination, a single battle, a single decision had…