An Alternative History of the Grail Quest by Anastasija Ropa

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L’important n’est pas la destination, mais les seuils que l’on franchit. L’exemple des mondes possibles dans Fringe by Elaine Després

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Le Roman de l’Uranium by Hugues Chabot

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The ancient past and fiction, or about the construction of worlds by humanities scholars: A review of books by D.E. Martynov

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Archival Suspicion and Authorial Desire in The Dalkey Archive by Gülden Hatipoğlu

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A War at the End of Empire: The Militarization of America and Matt Gallagher’s Empire City by Ari Räisänen

“…The novel’s use of alternate history allows it to interrogate the domestic implications of the War on Terror and foreground the repressed imperiality of U.S. history. …”
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Myth-making and Uchronia: The Advent of a Fascist America in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) by Frank Conesa

“…I will argue that in the context of the Depression, A Cool Million emerges as a uchronia, an alternate history dramatizing the advent of a dictator who decides to exterminate all that is un-American, seizing upon Lemuel Pitkin’s martyr to forge and enunciate the official mythology of the new political regime.…”
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Śladami „złotej kohorty” (Dmitrij Bykow, „Uniewinnienie”) by Aleksandra Zywert

“…Dmitry Bykov’s novel Justification, created within the convention of alternative history, is a story about a fruitless attempt to justify Stalin’s crimes. …”
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Archiver ailleurs, archiver autrement ? by Stefanie Baumann

“…It was founded by a group of artists who wanted to establish a kind of alternative history of photography—which would counter European and American textbooks on the history of photography, in which photographic representations of the Arab world are often constructed from an orientalist point of view. …”
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STRATEGY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD WARS IDEAL POLITICAL MAP OF THE WORLD, FROM 195 TO 21 MEGA-FEDERATIONS by Luca DIACONESCU, Angelica NECȘULEA

“…Wars have always caused millions and millions of dead, destroyed peoples' wealth and held development back. Geopolitics, alternative history, futurology or nationalist politics tackle this problem by creating regional paintings, but the results are low compared to expectations, the war due to border disorder is still intense. …”
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The Politics of Waiting: Transnational Identity and Exile in Achy Obejas’ Ruins by Kevin Concannon

“…By constructing this alternative history, Obejas expresses the U.S. expatriate connection to Cuba not in terms of remittances or political debate, but within the larger context of diaspora, separation and forgetfulness, and by doing so, defines Cuban identity through a transnational prism of historical difference and denial.…”
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The Millenium of Lithuania: Two Eliminated Alternatives by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“… The article considers the following two events in the history of Lithuania of the 19th-20th century from the point of view of the conception of alternative history formulated by Alexander Demandt: 1) the fatal meeting with the last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanislaw August Poniatowski held in Warsaw on 23 July 1792, in which the decision was taken to put up no more resistance to the Russo-Polish War - everything was determined by a seven-to-five majority of votes; 2) on 24 December 1921, the Government of Lithuania informed the League of Nations that it refused the proposed Paul Hymans' second project on Vilnius, though on the 4th of November 1921 the political elite of Lithuania spoke in support of that project. …”
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