Alternate Alternate History
I love history. I love alternate history. I love looking at our past through a cracked lens and imagining a different present. Often, when we think of alternate history, we think of World War Two; we think of Nazis; we think of Hitler. Growing up on Star Trek, I saw a lot of this. And I get that. It was, after all, a world war. It was fairly recent, it was huge, it was well documented, and the Nazis are a captivating, singularly terrifying baddie. So there’s quite a lot of WW2 Alternate History floating around.
But of course there was plenty of human history before Hitler made the scene. In fact, folks have been dreaming up alternate history for about as long as humans have been recording actual history. The first known example (thanks Wikipedia!) of alternate history is from around 26BC and it’s all…
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