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* ''Literature/BattleRoyale''. It's set in an alternate timeline where Imperial Japan won World War II and remained a fascist dictatorship. The first "Battle Royale Program" was held as early as 1947. It should be noted that TheFilmOfTheBook didn't give politics as large a part in its story as the book. Instead, it takes place [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Twenty Seconds Into The Future]].

* C. J. Sansom's novel ''Literature/{{Dominion}}'' is set in Britain an alternate 1952 after a German victory in World War II. [[spoiler: The [=PoD=] here is that Germany triumphed at Dunkirk and Britain and France sued for peace. Although independent, Britain is very much under the Reich's influence (and it is made clear that all of Europe not directly annexed by Germany is much the same, or even worse). Oswald Mosley is Home Secretary, and there is no Opposition in Parliament. Germany remains in an unwinnable war with the Soviet Union after eleven years, and Hitler is dying. In the end, without Hitler to hold the Nazi state together, it disintegrates within a year. Unusually for a lot of "Nazis win World War II" settings, Germany has yet to develop a nuclear weapon.]]

* C. J. Sansom's novel ''Literature/{{Dominion}}'' is set in Britain an alternate 1952 after a German victory in World War II. [[spoiler: The PoD here is that Germany triumphed at Dunkirk and Britain and France sued for peace. Although independent, Britain is very much under the Reich's influence (and it is made clear that all of Europe not directly annexed by Germany is much the same, or even worse). Oswald Mosley is Home Secretary, and there is no Opposition in Parliament. Germany remains in an unwinnable war with the Soviet Union after eleven years, and Hitler is dying. In the end, without Hitler to hold the Nazi state together, it disintegrates within a year. Unusually for a lot of "Nazis win World War II" settings, Germany has yet to develop a nuclear weapon.]]

* L. Neil Smith's ''Literature/TheProbabilityBroach'' features a "North American Confederacy" which diverged from our timeline when Albert Gallatin, rather than brokering a peace to end the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion]], leads an army against Washington and overthrows the U.S. government. The result is a government requiring the "unanimous consent" of the governed, relegating the state to only a few sparse actions taken in defense of the NAC throughout its history. Essentially the point of divergence is the Declaration of Independence, where the [[ForWantOfANail unanimous consent]] is stipulated, which Gallatin also applies to the whiskey taxation.

* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfStefonRudel'', history up to TheSeventies seems to have taken some different turns, with apparently a full nuclear war and first human settlements in space since the Second World War.

* ''Literature/RedPlenty'' by Francis Spufford postulates that the Soviet Union decided to outdo their capitalist rivals by creating an efficient planned economy with the help of computers and linear programming. Subverted however in that we never see the bountiful communist society of TheEighties; after [[UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev Premier Khrushchev]] is forced into retirement his successors are more interested in maintaining the status quo than carrying out risky economic reforms, and therefore history proceeds similar to our own.

* Robert Conroy has written several alternate history novels, each of which has its own distinct timeline despite the [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeTitling Idiosyncratic Titles]]:

* Shelley Jackson's 2006 novel ''Literature/HalfLife'' takes place in an America that tested nuclear weapons on native soil much longer and more extensively. The result has been a sharp spike in mutation. Specifically, conjoined twins have become a large and proud minority somewhat analogous to LGBT people in our timeline.

* In [[Literature/{{Discworld}} ''TheScience of Discworld 2 and 3]] the wizards of Unseen University have to fix history gone wrong. In Book 2 it's the non-existence of Shakespeare's works. In Book 3 it's the matter of Darwin having written ''Natural Theology'' instead of ''The Origin of Species''.