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== Relationship to the science fiction genre? ==
== Relationship to the science fiction genre? ==
Is there a reasonable parallel to the alternate history genre? --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 21:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Is there a reasonable parallel to the alternate history genre? --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 21:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
:No. [[Robert A. Heinlein|Heinlein]] was writing fiction; Historians who practice counterfactual history are writing history but (as I wrote in the article) are arguing from analogy.  [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 21:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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Relationship to the science fiction genre?

Is there a reasonable parallel to the alternate history genre? --Howard C. Berkowitz 21:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

No. Heinlein was writing fiction; Historians who practice counterfactual history are writing history but (as I wrote in the article) are arguing from analogy. Russell D. Jones 21:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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