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Alternate History on the Web
Welcome to a list of various interesting websites, blogs and other online projects and sources on the topic of the alternate history genre.
Major alternate history websites
- AH.com, what else :)
- The AH.com Discussion Board (which you've probably visited, if you're reading this wiki)
- Uchronia.net : The Complete List of Alternate History Books - Highly recommended. This database is an exhaustive overview of works of fiction or speculative non-fiction which fit within the alternate history genre. If you're looking for alternate history literature, this place is as good as any to start.
- The Writer's Ark - Discussion forum for readers and writers of speculative fiction. Online and active since early 2016, the forum serves as a refocused spiritual successor to AH.com's defunct cousin, Counter-factual.net.
- Sea Lion Press - Founded in 2015, SLP is the first publishing house dedicated to alternate history fiction by new talented authors, specialising in publishing their works in e-book formats and as paperbacks.
- Sea Lion Press Forums - The discussion forums of Sea Lion Press, for discussing alternate history literature (including works published by SLP) and alternate history fiction and writing in general.
- Alternate-History-Fiction.com - A medium-sized site dedicated to alternate history fiction, operated by Grey Wolf.
- AHF Magazine - An anthology periodical dedicated to alternate history fiction and other AH content, published by the site. Available in various e-book formats and print-on-demand.
- Alternate History Weekly Update - A blog that ran from 2011 to 2016 and currently has a successor in…
- The Alternate Historian - Website and video blog that serves as a successor to Alternate History Weekly Update. Managed by the same staff as the previous blog.
- The Ill Bethisad Project - Famous and long-lived alternate worldbuilding project, which originally started out as a project of alternate linguistics back in the late 1990s.
- Infinite Worlds Wiki (for GURPS) (dead since end of 2008)
- Replaced by GURPS Infinite Worlds
- Changing the Times (also named “Today in AH”)
- This Day In Alternate History (aka othertimelines.com)
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- The Naval Fiction Board (historical and alternate history naval fiction)
- The Saga of Tarrantry Project (first created on the naval fiction board, this separate official site is now archived via archive.org) + a page about the Terrentrian naval air service
- Letterstime (WWI era naval alternate history)
- Alternate Timelines discussion forum - Lordroel's own personal AH forum where most of his timelines are posted, but is also in use as a general AH site as well.
- Althistoria discussion forum - Run by Krall, another forum.
Personal alternate history websites
- Jared's Decades of Darkness and Lands of Red and Gold - Hosted on AH.com, home to the aforementioned two timelines.
- Ian Montgomerie's AH site - Hosted on AH.com, includes Ian's timelines, AH essays and AH book reviews. (archived version)
- The Tony Jones Alternate History Page - The home site of Cliveless World, Monarchy World, Puritan World, Mughal World aka Gurkani Alam, Tellus and Wolfworld.
- David Johnson's Webpage - The home of Trolley World, AH book reviews and lots more.
- Anthony Mayer's Alternate History Site - One oldie from the early 2000s that's still around.
- Anthony Wells' "What if Gordon Banks had played ?" TL (archived version)
- J.T.'s Alternate History Site (dead since 2016)
- UCHRONIQUES - LSCatilina's AH blog (in French)
- Grey Wolf's site - Grey Wolf's personal site as an author, in addition to his larger Alternate History Fiction site.
- Alternate History Inquirer - Yelnoc's AH blog (not updated since 2013)
- The Weekly Chrononaut - Eckener's AH blog
- Other Times : Adventures in Alternate History - Sean Sherman's AH blog (not updated since 2016)
- Steve's AH Place - CaliBoy1990's own personal AH site. Mainly used for hosting works of his (such as Stars & Stripes and La Tierra Afortunada), but also functions as a general AH site as well.
Smaller alternate history websites
- Texas Sports Column - Sports Columns with several alternate sports histories.
- Parallel Earths - Dinosaurs survive, Alternate Biology.
- 1933: What If? - About a Nazi Germany-Britain alliance.
- Enigma - Future History - An interesting future history project written by a group of students in 1990 - it is now hilariously outdated, but is a good example of former futurologic stories becoming honorary alternate history over time.
- The New World - China discovers the Americas.
- 1632.org - For the book series by Eric Flint.
- Other History - A newer AH site with a significant amount of promise already! Two longstanding members of AH.com are currently amongst the top staff, and was originally founded by Melkor from CF.Net.
Defunct alternate history websites
- The Google Alternate History Group - The original home of soc.history.what-if, one of the first ever places dedicated to discussing the alternate history genre and alternate history fiction on the Internet. The discussion group's history goes back to the days of Usenet, and in the 2000s, it became a Google group. However, by the mid 2000s at the latest, much of SHWI had already been abandoned due to more modern ways of discussing and releasing AH fiction online. The final demise of the Google group incarnation of SHWI was confirmed in April 2018, due to years of neglect and damage by spambots.
- The web page of Alison Brooks and David Flin - The site of the late, great AH fan (and SHWI discussion member) who helped coin the term "Alien Space Bat". The site now exists only as an archived version, archived since September 2014.
- Althist.com - Doug Hoff's Alternate History Site - The website of the author of Empty America and other timelines from the early days of the online AH community, originally posted at the SHWI newsgroup. Archived via Archive.org's WaybackMachine.
- Bronze Age New World - A famous older AH project from the earlier days of the online AH fandom, also from the SHWI stable. Parts of the site survive as an archived version, archived since August 2016.
- A Loose Bandage by Walter Kaufmann and Beck Reilly
- robertp6165's Alternate History Site - Archived version, archived since early 2014.
- CounterFactual.net - AH.com's friendly rival cousin, created in the 2000s and administered by Midgard, until it ceased operations in early 2016. Often nicknamed “The Other Side of the AH.com Revolving Door” back in the day. Has a smaller and more specialised spiritual successor in The Writer's Ark forum, a more general speculative fiction forum (see list of major sites).
- The CF.net Discussion Board - With links to both the old and new versions of the board. Ceased operations in early 2016, along with the rest of the site.
- The CF.Net E-zine - Ceased operations in early 2016, along with the rest of the site.
- OtherHistory discussion forum - Run by members of CF.net upon the latter's announcement of shutdown. Now seems to be defunct as well.
Non-English alternate history websites and forums
- Uchronie.com - One of the longer lived French AH sites. Short TLs. More about experimentation than real followed alternate history, of a really irregular quality. Some TLs are interesting, some are totally ASB but still good, and an important part is just boring.
- Forum des Uchronies Francophones - “Forum francophone consacré à l'uchronie. L'Histoire est notre terrain de jeu.” French language alternate history forum.
- La Porte des Mondes - No longer updated, this interesting website is about published French alternate history and uchronie and French editions/translations of foreign AH works.
- Prix Actusf de l’uchronie - The Award for Francophone Alternate History Works.
- La France Continue - Official website of the France Fights On WWII project/timeline.
- Ukrainian Alternate History Forum (mostly in Russian)
Overview and checklists of AH literature by nation
See Also
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