Ed Park’s first novel, “Personal Days,” took place in the offices of an unnamed company and satirized the hollow subterfuge of corporate-speak. Divided into three sections that each employ a different ...

There's something morbidly addictive about TV shows that take place in dark alternate timelines. These are the very best alternate history series of all time.

Francis Spufford's novel imagines a 1920s city in which Native Americans still hold territory and political power, and the "color line" doesn't exist — until a grisly murder disrupts everything. This ...

THEY MAY not have the cachet of the Pulitzer or the Booker, but the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History deserve respect. The what-if genre of fiction is growing fast, with work of startling quality ...

Alternate history TV shows are a unique blend of imagination and humanity's past. They invite you to explore what might have been. At the core of alternate history is a simple question: what if a key ...

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There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history over the years. Often it's a re-imagining of major events like wars, but ...

Alternate history is a genre of fiction in which a historical event or era either happened differently or did not happen at all, significantly changing how Earth's timeline plays out. This differs ...