Introducing the 'What If' Genre: 9 Popular Anthologies

When historians, journalists and fiction-writers master details about eras, it can work well.

Oct 19, 2022

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The alternate histories genre includes these nine popular anthologies. It is important for these to be written by trained historians, journalists, deep researchers, and writers so it’s not just speculative fiction or ASB — “alien space bats” in the denigrating jargon of alternate history readers. These stories rank as quite credible and plausible and make you think.

Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals, edited by British historian Niall Ferguson, consists of nine alternative scenarios: 1. England Without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the civil war? 2. British America:

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