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名詞

alternative history (usually uncountable, plural alternative histories)

1. Counterfactual history, a form of scientific speculation used by historians.
   • 2014 May, Konstantin Sheiko, Stephen Brown, History as Therapy: Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia:

     One of the many criticisms that can be directed at alternative historians is their failure to think historically. For alternative history, the past is not a ‘foreign country’, but rather a country that closely resembles the Russian Empire of recent times.

2. (fiction) A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history).

同意語

• alternate history, allohistory (both senses)

上位語

• speculative fiction

参考

Further reading

• alternative history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• counterfactual history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia