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Alternate History

Date Submitted: 09/28/2004 10:05:18
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 5 pages (1473 words)
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"Alternate History or Alternate Earth narratives such as Baxter's 'Moon Six' are simple explorations of 'what if' scenarios, interesting the reader through speculations on the large results of minor changes." Alternate Histories, a branch of the science fiction genre, explores worlds very similar to our own, some with only subtle differences, others very different indeed. There is a variety of strategies used in writing Alternate History stories to convey a believable picture of what our …

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…Alternate Histories play far too big a role in our day to day lives to ever go out of fashion. Bibliography Star Trek: First Contact. (Video) 1996. Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Produced by Rick Berman. With Patrick Stewart, Alice Krige, Alfred Woodard, James Cromwell. Paramount Pictures 1996. Timescape. (Video) 1991. Directed by David N. Twohy. Produced by John A. O'Connor. With Jeff Daniels. Medusa Pictures, 1991. Stephen Baxter 1997, 1998. Moon Six. This short story first appeared in Science Fiction Age.

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