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. 

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-reads/2024/05/15/five-novels-that-imagine-dictatorship-in-america


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

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-reads/2024/11/15/books-that-imagine-that-history-took-a-different-course


Kontrafaktisk historieskrivning - Alternate History 

https://internetional.se/bookskontrafaktisk.htm


Alternate history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history


Tillbaka till Rolfs länktips 18 November 2024

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/11/rolfs-lanktips-18-november-2024.html






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