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Old 09-22-2010, 10:04 PM   #148
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Originally Posted by Solitaire1 View Post
- Superpowers ("Psi Powers" could be a subcategory of this)
- Tangent history (a history that is identical to ours until the point it diverges)
Certainly Tangent History, better known as Alternate History in the genre. That's become so widely accepted that we are seeing things that arguably aren't SF, set in a present day in which history turned out differently than ours has, and the only difference is that diverging path.
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