Welcome to Althistory@Lemmy.World your place for all things related to Alternate history all on Lemmy
You’ll notice our Lemmy logo on our banner looks different than normal that is on purpose this logo is from a timeline where a cat became the Lemmy logo instead of the what we have now
Rules
In general, I care more about quality writing and an entertaining story than I do about the plausibility of the story’s point of departure.
I enjoyed Turtledove’s Worldwar series, despite the implausibility of not just an alien invasion, but an invasion by aliens who were culturally resistant to change.
I like alt-history where it looks like effort was put in to tell the story in a way that makes sense.
Not all historical events were "realistic", so expecting all alt-hist to be would be unfair, but the reason for the deviation from sense needs to be well justified in the text and world building for it to read like anything other than "X-aboo makes everything go right for X" power fantasy fiction.