A Very, Very Different World

The Collins English Dictionary defines alternative history as "a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome." According to Steven H Silver, an American science fiction editor, alternate history requires three things: a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing; a change that would alter history as it is known; and an examination of the ramifications of that change. This timeline features lots and lots of changes, point of divergences. For example; what if whites were the majority in South Africa; what if Israel, Britain, and France won the Suez Canal Crisis; what if the Confederate States won the independence; what if Ireland stayed in the UK; and so much more