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 Many [[timelines:ASB timelines]] and stories created on AH.com are based around various types of ISOTs.
-Some notable examples from the [[offtopic:New Board]]'s early years :
+Some notable examples from the [[offtopic:New Board]]'s early years:
   * [[offtopic:Chris]]' //**[[offtopic:complete_works_of_chris#the_second_chance_trilogy_britain_in_the_sea_of_time|Second Chance]]**// trilogy
   * [[offtopic:Thande]]'s //**[[stories:Moonstruck]]**// trilogy
   * [[offtopic:Doctor What]]'s //**[[stories:Extinction Event]]**//
+Of course, the ASB forum offers many more ISOT timelines and stories, older and newer, with varying premises (and at varying levels of completion). A good place to start looking for interesting ISOT timelines is to visit the ASB sections of [[alternate_history:turtledove_winners_by_year|each annual]] [[alternate history:Turtledove Awards]] [[alternate_history:turtledove_winners_by_year|page]], and perhaps even open the annual Turtledove Awards nominations and voting threads that cover ISOT or ASB scenarios. You're bound to find an ISOT scenario that might interest you.
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+==== Types of ISOT scenarios ====
+Similarly to other ASB scenarios, ISOTs have gradually developed into something of a mini-genre, big enough to even have subgenres of its own. Here are some of the popular and common types (or subgenres) of ISOTs:
+  - **ISOTing small pieces of territory**, usually from a more technologically advanced era to a less advanced era, or to a noticably alternate timeline or fictional world
+  - **ISOTing entire sovereign countries** (or other self-governing areas), either individually or in groups, to a different historical era (commonly also from the future to the past), or a different timeline, or a fictional world
+  - **ISOTing a group of people**, either purely civilians or military personnel or even both, to a different historical era, different timeline, or a fictional world, usually with enough equipment for basic survival and getting by in the early days after the ISOT
+  - **ISOTing individual items** (tools, machinery, plans and blueprints, textbooks, powerful artefacts, etc.) rather than people from one era to another era, or to different timeline or fictional world
+  - **personal ISOTs**, where only a single person is ISOTed to a different era, or a different timeline or fictional world, instead of a whole group of people (usually, the individual gets ISOTed with minimum possessions)
+  - various plausible **combinations of the above** scenarios
+  - the '**self-insert**' (**SI**), where a mundane person or some historical personality wakes up in the body and mind of a (different) historical personality from another period, or a fictional character from a fictional setting
+Many of these ISOT types are not unique to AH.com works, having also appeared in many published non-AH.com works by various authors of speculative fiction. However, some occur on AH.com scenarios, timelines and stories with much greater regularity than in non-AH.com works.
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 ==== See Also ====
-**[[AH.com's AH Writing Slang]]**
+**[[alternate_history:ah_slang_and_acronyms|AH.com's AH Writing Slang]]**
 **[[Max's First Law]]** - A theoretical postulate dealing with the general results of an ISOT.