Alternate history
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Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events happen differently than they did in reality.
A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternative history of the 1920s in Scythe, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.
Title page of the first Spanish-language translation of Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanch (originally in Catalan)
A parallel universe, also known as an alternate universe, world, or dimension, is a plot device in fiction which uses the notion of a hypothetical universe co-existing with another, typically to enabl
Alternate history
…or historical fiction. Since the 1950s, many works in the genre have incorporated tropes such as time travel between timelines, psychic awareness of parallel universes, or the splitting of history into separate timestreams. Alternate history (also called alternative history) is a genre of speculative fiction in which…
Stereotypical sci-fi multiverse inhabited by a multitude of Wikipe-tans
Artistic representation of the concept of parallel worlds