Premise
What if history had gone differently?
Also known as: alternate history premise, point of divergence
An alternate-history premise that changes a pivotal past event and follows the world that results.
What if history had gone differently? in fiction: 3 works
The Axis won World War II, and the novel inhabits the divided America that resulted.
A woman samples the lives she might have led had she chosen differently.
The heroine accesses the skills of the lives she'd have led across countless divergent universes.
More premises
- What if machines could think?
- What if we could travel through time?
- What if we met an alien intelligence?
- What if we could create life?
- What if reality were a simulation?
- What if we could live forever?
- What if civilization collapsed?
- What if we could edit the mind?
- What if the state controlled everything?
- What if we could engineer humanity?
- What if we settled other worlds?