Implausable Alternate History Wiki:Alternate History

You maybe familiar with the term "alternate history" and you see many examples of it, but don't quite get the definition right. Well, this page may help you more with the knowledge of the concept. Alternate History, also known as "alternative history", "allohistory" "AltHist", "AH" or "uchronie" is a type of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction in general is a genre of science fiction in which describes history as guessed, and it also includes future history and alternate future history. Alternate history describe a change in a certain point in the past that causes great change later on in history up to the present or recent past. The point of the first alternation in history that branches out later events different form our timeline is known as the point of divergence or POD in the phenomenon of giving rise of possible branches of possibilities known as the many-world interpretation. After the POD has occur, any events that arrive from the change go to the alternate timeline (ATL or simply TL). Prior to the POD history remains the same as in our timeline (or OTL).