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A story set in a modern CSA, in which a history professor in the South writes an alternate history in which the North was victorious. "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster. An alternate history in which the South won the American Civil War is briefly touched on, but is not the main focus of the story. Published in 1934. [4] "1862" by Robert ...
The novel attracted praise for exploring racism through the alternate-history mechanism. In Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South (1900) by Frank Williams, the earliest known Civil War alternate history, the Confederacy won by mobilizing black slaves to its army, their participation turning the tide at Gettysburg. Thirty years later ...
Dixie, subtitled "The Second War Between the States", is a board wargame designed by Redmond A. Simonsen and published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1976 that simulates an alternate world where the Union lost the first American Civil War, and there is a second war between the North and the South in the early part of the 20th century.
This series was set in Joseon era of Korea and made extensive use of alternate history. In this alternate world, Joseon is besieged by the Fallen Angel "Azazel" from the Vatican religion. The King of Joseon called for a Vatican priest to help defeat Azazel through exorcism, and stop his demons from possessing people through a physical disease.
Dixie Dugan first appeared in two slightly risqué novels written by J. P. McEvoy, serialized in 1928-29 in the pages of Liberty. McEvoy's novels were then published in book form by Simon & Schuster as Show Girl (1928) and Hollywood Girl (1929). In the first story, Dixie begins as a Broadway chorus girl, and in the second she moves to Hollywood ...
It generated such a response that it was published in 1961 as a book. The book is written in the manner of a history text published in the alternate reality of 1961 and describing the developments of the past century, in which the Confederate States of America had existed as a separate nation-state. It includes numerous footnotes and quotations ...
After he got an MBA, Conroy was a professor at Macomb Community College and taught business and economic history.. Following his early retirement, Conroy first became interested in alternate history after studying recently discovered Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United States by Kaiser Wilhelm II, which formed the basis for his first novel, 1901.
Publishers Weekly also gave a positive review, saying that the book was a "satisfying if predictable conclusion" to the series. [5] SF Site's review was also positive, saying that " In at the Death forms an excellent coda to this massive series of eleven novels".