
The failure of the Trinity test in June 1945 leads to an American invasion of Japan.ĭue to the assassination of Winston Churchill in 1940, Nazi Germany wins World War II and is locked in a cold war with the United States. The Bomb That Failed (British, The Last Year of the Old World) Queen Elizabeth I of England is assassinated, and in the ensuing disorder, the Spanish Armada is successful in suppressing Protestantism. Jesus Christ becomes a revolutionary agitator and assembles an army to overthrow the Roman Empire and establish a theocracy, which has lasted until the present day. Seven centuries later, the main powers are Russia, Turkey, the Aztecs, the Incas, and Japan. The Black Death of the 14th century kills three-quarters of the European population.

The South is not defeated in the American Civil War because it wins the Battle of Gettysburg.Īn Iroquois combat pilot finds himself in a world where the New World is underwater and Native Americans settled in Eastern Europe. The earliest settlers in Virginia discover a reef made of solid gold and are able to build a Utopian society in North America.Ī collection of alternate history essays.Īn American archaeologist is transported to 6th century Rome (AD 535).Ī British naval lieutenant awakens in a Nazi controlled world 102 years on from World War II.

The Nerva–Antonine emperors ban Christians. Napoleon's First French Empire emerges victorious in the French invasion of Russia in 1811 and in an invasion of England in 1814, later unifying the world under Bonaparte's rule.Ī New Englander is treated as a madman because of being able to perceive a different reality in which long-dead famous people are still alive (though not necessarily well) in 1845: the poets Burns, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, the actor Edmund Kean, the British politician George Canning and even Napoleon Bonaparte.

A knight from Brittany stops the Turks from taking Constantinople.
