Alien fleet , rayguns and … Winston Churchill ? Sure , we have n’t meet any aliens yet in our timeline ( or they ’re being very discreet about stuffy showdown ) , but substitute history writer wo n’t get that stop them . First contact lens is n’t just for the future anymore !
Harry Turtledove is , as usual , all over this alternate history figure and his Tosev timeline novels are belike the most well love reading of the idea . In 1942 , the right way as the 2nd World War is heating up , an foreign fleet from Tau Ceti arrives to take over the globe . The war with the invading aliens ( known as The Race ) speeds the development of dry land engineering and results in a radically unlike post - war balance of power with Nazi Germany live the warfare . Beginning with In the equalizer , the first four novels in the series discuss the substitute second public war but later Holy Writ in the series keep search the timeline up to , and past , the present day . As the timeline continues to diverge Humanity and The Race end up in a sort of substitute interstellar Cold War .
But not every alien has to travel loose twelvemonth to get here . Turtledove is also the author of A World of Difference where Mars is instead Minerva , the blue satellite , a piddle - fat world with its own form of levelheaded living . story remain largely unchanged by this transmutation in the timeline but by the eighties the US and Russia have both drastically ramped up their outer space programs to lie title to Minerva . A exchangeable political situation has arisen in S.M. Stirling ’s The Lords of Creation series , but the state of our neighboring planets is very different . In Stirling ’s macrocosm , both Mars and Venus are inhabit but not by species native to those worlds . Instead , they ’ve both been seeded with life by an unknown alien slipstream – Venus is brood with humans , dinosaurs , and Neanderthals shuttle over from Earth while Mars has its own race of humanoid aliens .
Finally , there ’s the Church Father of all first striking fiction – The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells . You ’ll probably protest – and justifiedly so – that the original book was only science fiction jell in Well ’s contemporary England , but a legion of authors have bring the novel as the full point of divergence for a timeline where England adapts the Martian technology to research the solar scheme and defend against further martian attacks . Prominent example include the comic Scarlet Traces by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli where the “ Martians ” turn out to be from the asteroid belt ammunition and they ’re just one of many alien races in our solar system . Or this year ’s War of the Worlds : Goliath , a steampunk recreate film where an elect team fights off a second Martian invasion using giant mechs . This melodic theme is almost as former as The War of the Worlds itself . In 1898 , the same year the original was published , an unauthorized sequel , Edison ’s Conquest of Mars by Garret P. Serviss was serialized . The title kind of gives away the plot , as the storey is mainly Edison traveling to Mars and using his conception to conquer the satellite .
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