Alex Davis
In other articles in these pages we’ve often explored the idea of science-fiction being the fiction of the future, the fiction of dreaming what might yet happen, being either bold predictions or stark warnings of what the future might hold for humanity. While that still holds true for much science-fiction, there is another, lively branch of the genre that eschews looking into the future for a look into the past – and rather than thinking what might be, it considers things that might have been had things worked out differently in the past.