Ucronia
English translation: Uchrony
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|  Selected response from: MarinaM Argentina Local time: 19:41 | ||||||
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| 5 +3 | Uchrony |
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| 5 | ucrony, ucronies |
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| 3 | Alternate history/ alternative history |
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Alternate history/ alternative history Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history Alternate history or alternative history[1] is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?" Most works in this genre are based on real historical events, yet feature social, geopolitical, or industrial circumstances that developed differently than our own. While to some extent all fiction can be described as "alternate history," the subgenre proper comprises fiction in which a change or point of divergence occurs in the past that causes human society to develop in a way that is distinct from our own. [2] http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucronía La Ucronía es un subgénero de la ciencia ficción que también podría denominarse novela histórica alternativa, ya que se caracteriza porque la trama transcurre en un mundo desarrollado a partir de un punto en el pasado en el que algún acontecimiento sucedió de forma diferente a como lo ha hecho en realidad (por ejemplo, los perdedores de determinada guerra son los ganadores, etc). Se relaciona con el término historia contrafactual o historia alterna, que es el proceso especulativo o elaboración de dicho "mundo alternativo" en el que se ambienta la ucronía. Es una palabra elaborada por similitud a la utopía de Tomás Moro, y está compuesta del griego ou, 'no' y cronos, 'tiempo', "tiempo que no existe". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 mins (2008-09-05 23:49:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Uchrony(transbellum) Uchrony(transbellum) Welcome to Alternative History "Uchrony" is the name given in Transbellum to what is popularly known as an alternate or divergent Earth. First-hand geological and astronomical observations have proven that every one of them are at the exact same time period and that apart from changes due to historical divergence, they are the same world. In the months following the event known as the Grand Unveiling, Scientists were hard at work trying to make some sense of what had happen. Lacking any other real sources, they turned to the uchronicaly displaced peoples that had been rounded up by the government. |
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peer agreement (net): +3Uchrony Explanation: son términos derivados del latín ... essayists preached in vain that the pervading philosophy was oriented toward refusal, .... AN EXAMPLE OF "UCHRONY": 1815 IN 1945 As early as the 1920s, ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0044-0078(2000)98%3C5%3ATRTILD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J - -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2008-09-05 23:47:00 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The uchrony attempts to describe one period of the past, but by being based on historical postulates completion different from those which we know. ... sfpanorama.com/index.php?page=article_fiche&numlang=1&idrubrique=16&titre=&nomauteur=... - 16k - -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 mins (2008-09-05 23:50:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Despite the traditional terminology, it is above all a crisis in temporalization which makes utopian thought illusory: utopia is above all a uchrony. ... www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/FalseConsciousnessAndId... - 118k But, prior to Renan's philosophy and continuing in it, ... presumption — as " Greek Kalends" or beateria. of placeless Utopia and timeless uchrony (HS, ... books.google.es/books?isbn=0826213537 |
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