After a narrow Confederate victory at Antietam in 1862, the American Civil War became stalemated, until European recognition - and military action - on behalf of the South finally forced the Union to accept an armistice "on the basis of separation" in April 1865. Among the treaty's terms: A plebiscite to decide the fate of Kansas and Missouri, two bitterly contested states swarming with Unionist and Confederate guerrillas, for whom the war is far from over.Back on the family farm i...

The life of Eric Arthur Blair greatly impacted the work he wrote under the name 'George Orwell'. The Spanish Civil War, wartime Britain, and the rise of totalitarianism all fed into seminal works like Animal Farm and 1984 whose impact is still felt today.But what would Orwell have written had he lived in another timeline? A world where his experiences in Spain were different, and the Second World War broke out over Czechoslovakia, not Poland?Mark Ciccone weaves a tale that'...

What will the end of the world be like?Plague or nuclear fire? Asteroids or floods?Divine wrath or people meddling with what should have been left alone?The apocalypse may come in the future, but what apocalypses might have occurred if history had played out differently? What if nukes had flown during the Cuban Missile Crisis? What if an asteroid had been on a collision course with Earth before the first person could set foot on the Moon? What if humanity destroyed it...