Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 09:43:49 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Counterfactuals, was Texas, more than you thought
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/09/02 07:56AM
>	Sam, I understand your point of view and agree with it in part.
>However, I think we should reserve the term "alternate history" for
>universes where objective history differs one from another.

Or as the professional historians like to say, "Counterfactuals"; cain't =
use no mongrel sci-fi term, no sirree.

See: "What If? : The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What     =
             Might Have Been" edited by Robert Cowley & "Virtual History: =
Alternatives and Counterfactuals" by Niall Ferguson.

mjw