Books that imagine that history took a different course
What if Hitler had won and Hillary Rodham had broken up with Bill Clinton?
They man not have the cachet of the Pulitzer or the Booker, but the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History deserve respect.
The what-if genre of fiction is growing fast, with work of startling quality and originality.
We recommended five novels that imagine a dictatorship in America, some of which revise the past.
In 2017 we warned that the what-if-the-Nazis-had-won genre may distract from more credible threats to democracy.
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2017/03/14/the-allure-of-dystopian-alternative-histories
Our series “The World If” has speculated about the future and invented history.
https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-nuclear-power-had-taken-off-in-the-1970s
The Economist 15 November 2024
Kontrafaktisk historieskrivning - Alternate History
https://internetional.se/bookskontrafaktisk.htm
Alternate history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history
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