alternate history
English
Noun
alternate history (usually uncountable, plural alternate histories)
- Contrafactual history, a form of scientific speculation used by historians.
- A genre of historical romance and usually science fiction, with a story background involving ahistorical events occurring after a point of divergence from real history.
See also
- alternate timeline
- gaslight romance
- point of divergence
- parallel universe
- retro futuristic
- steampunk
- what if