Talk:Alternate history

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 * There are no correct alternate histories; there are only plausible alternate histories.
 * Will Shetterly


 * Science fiction is the history that we cannot know.
 * Kim Stanley Robinson


 * Science fiction fans like history.
 * William Sanders


 * Science fiction writers write it. And it uses a very science fictional technique: change one thing and extrapolate from that.
 * Harry Turtledove


 * Some years ago I used the term "alternate worlds" in front of Brian Aldiss, who took me to task for it. "They should be called alternative worlds," he said. "Calling them alternate worlds makes it sound as if they somehow take turns."
 * Brian Stableford