Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:26:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Alternate History.
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Madeleine Yeh wrote:

> Alternate History as a SF fad is amazing.  It comes and it
> goes and it comes back again.  I thought the current tide
> was ebbing out again. I was getting a little tired of it.

What is now classified as "Sciencae Fiction" was at one time partly
covered by a library classification "Imaginary Wars and Battles".  The
Library of Congress still has some late +XIX - early +XX books filed under
this heading.

-- Dick Eney