Alternate History on the Web

Welcome to a list of various interesting websites, blogs and other online projects and sources on the topic of the alternate history genre.

• AH.com, what else :)
  • The Alternate History Web Guide of AH.com
  • The AH.com Discussion Board (which you've probably visited, if you're reading this wiki)
• Uchronia.net : The Complete List of Alternate History Books - Highly recommended. This database is an exhaustive overview of works of fiction or speculative non-fiction which fit within the alternate history genre. If you're looking for alternate history literature, this place is as good as any to start.
• Sea Lion Press - Founded in 2015, SLP is the first publishing house dedicated to alternate history fiction by new talented authors, specialising in publishing their works in e-book formats and as paperbacks.
  • Sea Lion Press Forums - The discussion forums of Sea Lion Press, for discussing alternate history literature (including works published by SLP) and alternate history fiction and writing in general.
• Alternate-History-Fiction.com - A medium-sized site dedicated to alternate history fiction, operated by Grey Wolf.
  • AHF Magazine - An anthology periodical dedicated to alternate history fiction and other AH content, published by the site. Available in various e-book formats and print-on-demand.
• Alternate History Weekly Update - A blog that ran from 2011 to 2016 and currently has a successor in…
  • The Alternate Historian - Website and video blog that serves as a successor to Alternate History Weekly Update. Managed by the same staff as the previous blog.
• The Ill Bethisad Project - Famous and long-lived alternate worldbuilding project, which originally started out as a project of alternate linguistics back in the late 1990s.
• Infinite Worlds Wiki (for GURPS) (dead since end of 2008)
  • Replaced by GURPS Infinite Worlds
• Virtual Verduria
• The Bull Spec Blog/E-zine (until 2012 here)
• Changing the Times (also named “Today in AH”)
• Alternate History Fandom Wiki (ex-wikia)
• Alt Hist: Historical Fiction and Alternate History Blog (“Temporarily Closed to Submissions” since 2020)
• The Naval Fiction Board (historical and alternate history naval fiction)
  • The Saga of Tarrantry Project (first created on the naval fiction board, this separate official site is now archived via archive.org) + a page about the Terrentrian naval air service
• Letterstime (WWI era naval alternate history)
• Alternate Timelines discussion forum - Lordroel's own personal AH forum (founded in 2015) where most of his timelines are posted, but is also in use as a general AH site as well. Some of the most interesting threads there are those ones about each World War - both in real time. That is, every day Lord Roel will post a summary about the day gone by.
• AH group on (*sigh*) Facebook
• Speculative History on Historum

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• Jared's Decades of Darkness and Lands of Red and Gold - Hosted on AH.com, home to the aforementioned two timelines.
• Ian Montgomerie's AH site - Hosted on AH.com, includes Ian's timelines, AH essays and AH book reviews. (archived version)
• The Tony Jones Alternate History Page - The home site of Cliveless World, Monarchy World, Puritan World, Mughal World aka Gurkani Alam, Tellus and Wolfworld.
• Dale Cozort's Alternate History Page (part of his main site)
• David Johnson's Webpage - The home of Trolley World, AH book reviews and lots more.
• Anthony Mayer's Alternate History Site - One oldie from the early 2000s that's still around.
• Matthew White's Alternate Histories
• UCHRONIQUES - LSCatilina's AH blog (in French)
• Grey Wolf's site - Grey Wolf's personal site as an author, in addition to his larger Alternate History Fiction site.
• Alternate History Inquirer - Yelnoc's AH blog (not updated since 2013)
• The Weekly Chrononaut - Eckener's AH blog
• Other Times : Adventures in Alternate History - Sean Sherman's AH blog (not updated since 2016)
• Steve's AH Place - CaliBoy1990's own personal AH site. Mainly used for hosting works of his (such as Stars & Stripes and La Tierra Afortunada), but also functions as a general AH site as well.

• Parallel Earths - Dinosaurs survive, Alternate Biology.
• Sixth Sun: Wasteland of Flint, House of Reeds, Land of the Dead, Rising Wind (no updates since 2008)
• The New World - China discovers the Americas.
• 1632.org - For the book series by Eric Flint.

• The Google Alternate History Group - The original home of soc.history.what-if, one of the first ever places dedicated to discussing the alternate history genre and alternate history fiction on the Internet. The discussion group's history goes back to the days of Usenet, and in the 2000s, it became a Google group. However, by the mid 2000s at the latest, much of SHWI had already been abandoned due to more modern ways of discussing and releasing AH fiction online. The final demise of the Google group incarnation of SHWI was confirmed in April 2018, due to years of neglect and damage by spambots.
• The web page of Alison Brooks and David Flin - The site of the late, great AH fan (and SHWI discussion member) who helped coin the term "Alien Space Bat". The site now exists only as an archived version, archived since September 2014.
• Althist.com - Doug Hoff's Alternate History Site - The website of the author of Empty America and other timelines from the early days of the online AH community, originally posted at the SHWI newsgroup. Archived via Archive.org's WaybackMachine.
• Bronze Age New World - A famous older AH project from the earlier days of the online AH fandom, also from the SHWI stable. Parts of the site survive as an archived version, archived since August 2016.
• Alison Bridge: Alternate history game
• A Loose Bandage by Walter Kaufmann and Beck Reilly
• Stephen's AH website
• robertp6165's Alternate History Site - Archived version, archived since early 2014.
• The Path Not Taken
• Latest posts from the newsgroup soc.history.what-if
• ITA Member World: Tripartite Alliance Earth
• CounterFactual.net - AH.com's friendly rival cousin, created in the 2000s and administered by Midgard, until it ceased operations in early 2016. Often nicknamed “The Other Side of the AH.com Revolving Door” back in the day. Has a smaller and more specialised spiritual successor in The Writer's Ark forum, a more general speculative fiction forum (see list of major sites).
  • The CF.net Discussion Board - With links to both the old and new versions of the board. Ceased operations in early 2016, along with the rest of the site.
  • The CF.Net E-zine - Ceased operations in early 2016, along with the rest of the site.
• OtherHistory discussion forum - Run by members of CF.net upon the latter's announcement of shutdown. Now seems to be defunct as well, since 2017 to be precise.
• Anthony Wells' "What if Gordon Banks had played ?" TL (archived version, dead since 2007)
• J.T.'s Alternate History Site (dead since 2016)
• Nezza's new alternate television project website (Dead since 2012)
• Texas Sports Column - Sports Columns with several alternate sports histories. (Dead since 2011)
• 1933: What If? - About a Nazi Germany-Britain alliance. (Dead since 2011)
• Enigma - Future History - An interesting future history project written by a group of students in 1990 - it is now hilariously outdated, but is a good example of former futurologic stories becoming honorary alternate history over time. (Dead since 2008)
• A geological WI (Dead since 2017)
• Althistoria discussion forum (Run by Krall, another forum. Archived in 2020.)
• Diverging Universes discussion forum (Run by Ismailov. Inactive since 2018.)
• The Writer's Ark - Discussion forum for readers and writers of speculative fiction. Online and active since early 2016, the forum serves as a refocused spiritual successor to AH.com's defunct cousin, Counter-factual.net. Meanwhile also dead, sadly.
• This Day In Alternate History (aka OtherTimelines.com - dead since 2021)
• The Yahoo! Alternate History Group (hell knows what happened to them)
  • The Alternate History Travel Guides

• Uchronie.com - One of the longer lived French AH sites. Short TLs. More about experimentation than real followed alternate history, of a really irregular quality. Some TLs are interesting, some are totally ASB but still good, and an important part is just boring. (Dead since 2011)
• Forum des Uchronies Francophones - “Forum francophone consacré à l'uchronie. L'Histoire est notre terrain de jeu.” French language alternate history forum.
• La Porte des Mondes - No longer updated, this interesting website is about published French alternate history and uchronie and French editions/translations of foreign AH works. (Dead since 2015)
• Prix Actusf de l’uchronie - The Award for Francophone Alternate History Works.
• La France Continue - Official website of the France Fights On WWII project/timeline.
  • Jour J - French AH Comics Collection
• Russian Alternate History Forum
• Ukrainian Alternate History Forum (mostly in Russian - dead since 2015+x)
• German Alternate History Site
  • with Forum (dead since 2003/05)
• Various non-English versions of the Alternate History Fandom Wiki (ex-wikia):
  • Portada (Spanish)
  • Hauptseite (German)
  • Alternativnaya Istoriya (Russian)
  • Página principal (Portuguese)
  • Strona główna (Polish)

• Checklist of English-Language Sci Fi Concerning Canadian Separatist Conflicts
• French and Italian AH recommendations thread
• Sampling of AH books in Russia thread
• Fyodor Berezin – The Ukraine’s Dale Brown
• AH novel from Hong Kong: Victorious Nationalist China 1949-1979
• Uchronia.net's Foreign Language Search Function (in the main menu, to the left)

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