Steele, Allen. Alternate Space
Divergence: 1941 CE
What if: Germany began development of the rocket-launched Silbervogel as the Amerika Bomber in
1941, and learning of the project, the US started a crash rocket development program headed
by Robert Goddard.
Series note: Series containing V-S Day (expanded from "Goddard's People"), "John Harper Wilson",
and The Tranquillity Alternative.
Steele, Allen. V-S Day: A Novel of Alternate History
Divergence: 1941 CE
Summary: A history of Project Blue Horizon and its critical race to prevent a Nazi
rocket-boosted aircraft from bombing New York. .
Series note: An Alternate Space novel.
Published: Ace 2014 (0425259749BUY, 0425259757BUY).
Published: Expanded and revised from "Goddard's People", in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction
Magazine, July 1991; What Might Have Been? Volume 3: Alternate Wars
(eds. Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg), q.v.; and Rude Astronauts: Real and
Imagined Stories, Legend 1992 (0099260018), Old Earth 1993 (1882968018BUY), Ace 1995
(044100184XBUY).
Published: "Goddard's People" revised from "Operation Blue Horizon", in Worcester Monthly,
September 1988.
Awards: Finalist: 2014 Sidewise Award for best long-form alternate history.
Steele, Allen. "John Harper Wilson"
Divergence: 1941 CE
Summary: In 1969, the US government plans to claim the moon, but the commander of the first
manned landing goes in peace for all mankind.
Series note: An Alternate Space story.
Published: In Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1989; and Rude Astronauts: Real
and Imagined Stories, Legend 1992 (0099260018), Old Earth 1993 (1882968018BUY), Ace 1995
(044100184XBUY).
Steele, Allen. The Tranquillity Alternative
Divergence: 1941 CE
Summary: In 1995, the U.S. is about to decommission its nuclear missiles at Tranquillity Base
and sell the installation to the Germans, but saboteurs are at work.
Series note: An Alternate Space novel.
Published: Ace 1996 (0441002994BUY), 1997 (0441004334BUY).
Original in: English.
Translation: Italian by Roberto Marini as La fortezza sulla Luna, Mondadori 1996 (8804425350).
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