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Alternative stories are stories or scenarios that happens the question, what in the past have gone differently regarded. For example, if the Confederacy had won the civil war when the Germans had won World War II, that if Al Gore had won the U.S. presidential elections of 2000. or what if Michael Portillo had joined the British prime minister.

In most (but not all) stories alternative history is usually assumed that, following the same path that our true history, to a certain point (known as “point of difference”), provided you have an event to another result. Sometimes the event can be important, and since that time (for example, is a different battle), while, in other stories alternative history, even subtle changes to profound changes in the management history, because the butterfly effect.

Certain stories of replacement (usually called “counterfactual” called) serious attempts have to think what would happen if the leaders of the past, different decisions, or had when chance led him to various events – and given this scenario they are often also help explain the history of our really happened.

On the other hand, there are many about alternate history novels and short stories that are intended primarily to entertain. Sometimes, in these works, changes to the story (and how they came about) the main theme of the story, but in other cases, they simply have a background (as the reader chain and carrier could be in a History of Science Fiction) against which the story unfolds.