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Originally Posted by ApK
If merely being alternate history makes it SF, does that mean that any contemporary story where something happens that didn't happen in the real word (essentially ANY fiction, by definition) is therefore SF because the reality in the story is not the same as ours?
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One could make that argument, certainly, but I think personally there's a reasonably clear distinction between a fictional event set in a world that's plainly ours, and "alternative history", which is more radically different. Some may of course disagree.