uchronic adj.

Returning from Uchronic speculations to a consideration of actuality, we find that in Russia the original aim of the revolutionaries was the creation of a society enjoying the maximum possible amount of self-government in every field of activity.

By exporting information technology into a version of the historical past, we had a laboratory situation. We could turn it loose on a known quantity. The ‘uchronic’ novel…is a very, rigorous form.

If Burroughs' Cities of the Red Night had only penetrated the collective subconscious more fully when it appeared, the whole course of the AIDS plague might have been radically different—and that’s a hot topic in Uchronic Studies which one of my doctoral students is currently pursuing.

Paul’s book Lost Pages is a collection of uchronic fiction, each story dealing with a different alternate history, a different vision of what might have been.