Sub Genre Selection: Alternate History Science Fiction

Primary Source: Watchmen (2009)  or 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Secondary Sources:

Gallagher, Catherine. “War, Counterfactual History, and Alternate-History Novels.” Field Day Review 3 (2007): 52-65. JSTOR. Web. 04 Sept. 2015.

Rosenfeld, Gavriel. “Why Do We Ask “What If?” Reflections on the Function of Alternate History.” History and Theory 41.4 (2002): 90-103. Web.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel.” American Studies 50.3-4 (2009): 63-83. Web.

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey. “Fallacies and Thresholds: Notes on the Early Evolution of Alternate History.” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 34.2 (128), Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method / Kontrafaktisches Denken Als Wissenschaftliche Methode (2009): 99-117. JSTOR. Web. 04 Sept. 2015.