Short Stories and Novellas
- 1934. Sidewise in Time by Murray Leinster, sections of the Earth's surface begin changing places with their counterparts in alternate timelines.
- 1937. The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benét, a portrait of Napoleon if he had been born in the 1730s.
- 1948. He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper, diplomat Benjamin Bathurst arrives in a timeline where the British defeated the American rebels.
- 1952. Sail On! Sail On! by Philip José Farmer, the Earth is flat and Aristotle's axiom that objects of different weights drop with different velocities is true.
- 1958. Two Dooms by C. M. Kornbluth, the Axis powers win the Second World War.
- 1960. Delenda Est by Poul Anderson, renegade time travelers meddle in the outcome of the Second Punic War, bringing about the premature deaths of Publius Cornelius Scipio and Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Ticinus in 218 BC, and thus creating a new timeline in which Hannibal destroys Rome in 210 BC.
- 1987. The Forest of Time by Michael Flynn, the Thirteen Colonies, after getting independent of Britain, did not succeed in creating the United States but developed into separate and mutually hostile nation-states which often fight bitter wars with each other.
- 1987. Thor Meets Captain America by David Brin, the Nazis are championed by the Norse Pantheon.
- 1987. Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt-Evans, a young man tells his story about growing up working at a greasy spoon diner to travelers from alternate versions of Earth.
- 1988. The Last Article by Harry Turtledove, a Nazi invasion of India and the brutal reaction of the Germans to the nonviolent resistance and pacifism of Gandhi and his followers.
- 1991. Red Reign by Kim Newman, the original short story that Anno Dracula is based on.
- 1997. The Undiscovered by William Sanders, William Shakespeare lives among the Cherokee and tries to produce a version of Hamlet for them.
- 1998. The Twelfth Album by Stephen Baxter, The Beatles don't split up and produce twelfth album called God.
- 2000. A Colder War by Charles Stross, the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos.
- 2000. Watching Trees Grow by Peter F. Hamilton, the Roman Empire never fell.
- 2002. The Daimon by Harry Turtledove, Greek philosopher Socrates aids the Athenian general Alkibiades in defeating the Spartans.
- 2002. Shikari in Galveston by S. M. Stirling, set in the same background as The Peshawar Lancers, but occurs several years earlier.
- 2003. The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust by Robert L. O'Connell, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis developed into war.
- 2008. A Murder in Eddsford by S. M. Stirling, a murder mystery set in Post-Change Britain in The Emberverse series.
- 2008. Something for Yew by S. M. Stirling, another Rutherston and Bramble mystery.
- 2008. Beatle Rhett by Walter Rimler, The Beatles on another timeline
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