Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!osiris.giss.nasa.gov!valinor.giss.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov (Robert Schmunk) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.history.what-if,rec.answers,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: LIST: Alternate History Stories, 8 of 8 Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.written Date: 12 Apr 1994 11:01:39 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NYC Lines: 114 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Message-ID: <2oed4j$d0j@valinor.giss.nasa.gov> Reply-To: pcrxs@nasagiss.giss.nasa.gov (R.B. Schmunk) NNTP-Posting-Host: valinor.giss.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu rec.arts.sf.written:45611 alt.history.what-if:5118 rec.answers:4858 alt.answers:2420 news.answers:17973 Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part8 Rec-arts-sf-written-archive-name: alt_history/part8 Version: 18 Posting-Frequency: Quarterly THE USENET ALTERNATE HISTORY LIST Version 18 - 12 April 1994 APPENDIX III - OLDEST ALTERNATE HISTORIES This appendix lists Alternate Histories written before that genre of writing could be considered a genre. Arguments can be made for a number of possible dates marking a possible beginning point, from the 1931 publication of Squire's anthology IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE to the 1953 publication of Ward Moore's BRING THE JUBILEE. The date chosen here is 1939, the year that de Camp's original short story of "Lest Darkness Fall" saw publication. The increasing number of alternate histories which saw publication from the mid-1930s on are presumably a result of the respectful treatment given the subject by the essayists in J.C. Squire's anthology IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE and by historian Albert Toynbee in his A STUDY OF HISTORY. The first undisputable AH *novel* is Geoffroy-Chateau's NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE (1836), and the earliest novel in English Holford Costello's ARISTOPIA (1895). Other pre-1850 book-length items listed below are not themselves alternate history but contain AH digressions. The earliest AH short story is apparently Hawthorne's "P.'s Correspondence" (1845). Titles are presented here by date of first known *publication*, although some items are known to have been written several years in advance of that date. c 1 Livy (Titus Livius), AB URBE CONDITA 1732 Lesage, Alain-Rene, LES AVENTURES DE MONSIEUR ROBERT CHEVALIER, DIT DE BEAUCHENE, CAPITAINE DE FILIBUSTIERS DANS LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE 1791 Delisle de Sales, Jean Claude Izouard, MA REPUBLIQUE 1813 Pignotti, Lorenzo, STORIA DELLA TOSCANA SINO EL PRINCIPATO: CON DIVERSI SAGGI SULLE SCIENZE, LETTERE E ARTI 1836 Geoffroy-Chateau, Louis-Napoleon, NAPOLEON ET LA CONQUETE DU MONDE, 1812-1823: HISTOIRE DE LA MONARCHIE UNIVERSELLE 1845 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, "P.'s Correspondence" 1849 Disraeli, Isaac, "Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened" 1872 Blanqui, Louis-Auguste, L'ETERNITE PAR LES ASTRES: HYPOTHESE ASTRONOMIQUE 1876 Renouvier, Charles, UCHRONIE (L'UTOPIE DANS L'HISTOIRE), ESQUISSE HISTORIQUE APOCRYPHE DU DEVELOPMENT DE LA CIVILISATION EUROPEENNE TELQU'IL N'A PAS ETE, TEL QU'IL AURAIT PU ETRE 1881 Hale, Edward Everett, "Hands Off" 1895 Holford, Costello, ARISTOPIA. A ROMANCE-HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD 1899 Lawrence, Edmund, IT MAY HAPPEN YET: A TALE OF BONAPARTE'S INVASION OF ENGLAND 1900 Williams, Frank Purdy, HALLIE MARSHALL: A TRUE DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH 1904 Beerbohm, Max, "A Panacea" 1905 Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA 1907 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, THE IFS OF HISTORY Trevelyan, G.M., "If Napoleon had Won the Battle of Waterloo" 1920 Beck, James M., "It Might Have Been" 1921 Rigaut, Jacques, "Un brillant sujet" 1922 Baring, Maurice, "The Alternative" 1924 Slonimski, Antoni, TORPEDA CZASU: POWIESC FANTASTYCZNA 1926 Dent, Guy, EMPEROR OF THE IF 1926 Petrie, Charles, "If: A Jacobite Fantasy" Waldron, Webb, "If Lincoln had Yielded" 1927 Motta, Luigi, IL TONNEL SOTTOMARINO 1929 Doyle, Arthur Conan, "The Death Voyage" Hearnshaw, F.J.C., THE "IFS" OF HISTORY Laumann, E.M., & Rene Jeanne, SI, LE 9 THERMIDOR...: HYPOTHESE HISTORIQUE 1930 Churchill, Winston S., "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" Thurber, James, "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox" Waldman, Milton, "If Booth had Missed Lincoln" 1931 Squire, J.C. (ed), IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE: LAPSES INTO IMAGINARY HISTORY Belloc, Hilaire, "If Drouet's Cart had Stuck" Chesterton, G.K., "If Don John of Austria had Married Mary Queen of Scots" Fisher, H.A.L., "If Napoleon had Escaped to America" Guedalla, Philip, "If the Moors in Spain had Won" Knox, Ronald, "If the General Strike had Succeeded" Ludwig, Emil, "If the Emperor Frederick had not had Cancer" Maurois, Andre, "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness" Nicolson, Harold, "If Byron had Become King of Greece" Squire, J.C., "If It Had Been Discovered in 1930 that Bacon Really Did Write Shakespeare" Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, "If the Dutch had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam" 1932 Goodman, Arthur, IF BOOTH HAD MISSED: A DRAMA OF THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD 1933 Schachner, Nat, "Ancestral Voices" Squire, J.C., "What Might Have Happened" 1934 Leinster, Murray, "Sideways in Time" Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Eastern Christian Civilization" Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Far Western Christian Civilization" Toynbee, Arnold J., "The Forfeited Birthright of the Abortive Scandinavian Civilization" 1935 Benet, Stephen Vincent, "The Curfew Tolls" Daniels, David R., "The Branches of Time" Rolfe, Frederick William, & C.H. Pirie-Gordon, HUBERT'S ARTHUR: BEING CERTAIN CURIOUS DOCUMENTS FOUND AMONG THE LITERARY REMAINS OF MR. N.C. 1936 Dabney, Virginia, "If the South had Won the War" 1937 Aron, Robert, VICTOIRE A WATERLOO 1938 Bopp, Leon, LIAISONS DU MONDE: ROMAN Sell, William, "Other Tracks" Villard, Oswald Garrison, "Issue and Men" 1939 de Camp, L. Sprague, "Lest Darkness Fall" -- R.B. Schmunk Email: pcrxs@valinor.giss.nasa.gov Smail: NASA/Goddard Institute, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 USA Vox: 212-678-5637