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On July 27, Blizzard Entertainment will release Starcraft II, the sequel to the real-time strategy game so popular…

It's finally here — the biggest alternate timeline of all alternate timelines, the alternate history trope to top…

The Elizabethan era has everything: the mysterious lost years of William Shakespeare, his playwright/spy…

If I've learned anything from Alternate History fiction, it's that in 90% of all alternate universes are timelines…

We've got tons of alternate history books, comics, and video games, and yet we have so few committed alt-history…

The Roman Empire has given speculative fiction authors plenty of fodder for alternate history tales. There are…

This week we take a break from examining alternate timelines and recap the real-life origins of the alternate…

The Cold War, The Victorian Age, The Catholic Reformation... Is there anything Batman can't make better? This week…

Great presidents are the bread and butter of American history. But for every Lincoln or Washington, there's a ton…

It doesn't really matter to our dimension the British Empire never existed in another reality. At least it doesn't…

The Earth existed for four billion or so years before humans showed up and started recording history. Why limit…

Alternate history occurs when somebody makes a slightly different decision or a key event just gets lost in the…

WWI fought with dragons? England as the land of Faerie? A space flight that runs on mummy dust? It was only a matter…

Alien fleets, rayguns and...Winston Churchill? Sure, we haven't met any aliens yet in our timeline (or they're being…

The Declaration of Independence, Washington crossing the Delaware, the Constitutional Convention: all great moments…

In real life, Charles Babbage was a relatively unknown inventor who pioneered early computers. In modern alternate…

Even pets showed up in their finest attire for the Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, a three-day celebration of…