Hellekson K. The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time

Kent State University Press, 2001. — 131 p. — ISBN: 0-87338-683-3, 978-0-87338-683-8.What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.Inventing the Past: A Brief Background of the Alternate History
Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee: Alternate History, Narrativity, and the Nature of Time
Parallel Worlds: Simultaneity and Time
Narrative, Temporality, and Historicity in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle
Looking Forward: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine
Looking Backward: Entropy and Brian Aldiss’s The Malacia Tapestry
Poul Anderson’s Time Patrol as Anti-Alternate HistoryNotesTrue PDF