Exploring the Benefits of the Alternate History Genre/W poszukiwaniu pożyteczności gatunku historii alternatywnych

By its nature, literature is a form of alternate construal. It deals with imaginative alternatives to the status quo, projecting narrative accounts which in one way or another engage the real and the imagined. Among the many types of alternate construals offered by literature is a refiguring of history also known as the genre(s) of alternate history, alternate universes, allohistories or uchronias.