allohistory
English
Etymology
From allo- + history.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/, /alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /æləˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/, /æloʊˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/
Noun
allohistory (usually uncountable, plural allohistories)
- Synonym of alternate history
- 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102-103:
- But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.
- 2015 July 19, Nader Elhefnawy, After the New Wave: Science Fiction Today, pages 46-47:
- […] the early twenty-second century in a timeline where the atomic bomb that instilled such dread in Royland never materialized, resulting in an Axis victory. Over fifty years old now, "Two Dooms" predated Philip K. Dick's more famous World War II allohistory, The Man in the High Castle by three years.
- 2018 January 19, Brett Carol Young, “"The great change in human history": The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His Dark Materials”, in Sara K. Day, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, editors, The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 36:
- I define alloliterature as the alteration of known literary texts to present an alternate outcome from the original text. As with allohistory, a large range of texts can be deemed alloliterary in nature, with the three primary types of alloliterature aligning with the three types of allohistory: […]
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Synonyms
- alternate history, alternative history (both senses)
Related terms
- allohistorical