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Originally Posted by Strolls
I can't believe you all missed this! This would surely be called alternate history, wouldn't it? |
Yes, but it leads to the trickier question of whether that's SF.
For example, consider Robert Harris's _Fatherland_. It's a mystery set in 1964. A police inspector is investigating the death of a government official. He finds himself involved in high level conspiracies as another government agency takes over the case and rules the death suicide.
The inspector works for a German police agency. The group that takes over the investigation is the Gestapo. In Fatherland's timeline, The Axis won WWII, and Nazi Germany dominates Europe, in a tense nuclear standoff with the United States.
It's certainly alternate history. You can make a case that it's
not SF.
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Dennis