Departure point (literary term) and Divergence point (literary term) both redirect to here.
In discussion of counterfactual history, a divergence point (DP), also referred to as a departure point or point of divergence (POD) is a historical event, with two possible postulated outcomes. Counterfactual history, also sometimes referred to as virtual history, is a recent form of Historiography which attempts to answer "what if" questions Typically these represent the actual course of historical events (Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo) and another, such as Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo Belgium
In alternate history fiction, the POD is used as the starting point for the extrapolation, as it is indeed in much of the science fiction genre. Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of Speculative fiction (or Science fiction) and Historical fiction In Mathematics, extrapolation is the process of constructing new data points outside a Discrete set of known data points
In Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the point of divergence is Franklin D. Roosevelt's fictional assassination in 1933 (q. Philip Kindred Dick (December 16 – March 2) was an American Science fiction Novelist and Short story Writer. The Man in the High Castle is a 1962 Alternate history Novel by Science fiction writer Philip K Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. v. Giuseppe Zangara). Giuseppe Zangara ( September 7, 1900 &ndash March 20, 1933) attempted to kill United States President -elect Franklin Delano In Eric Flint's alternate history (a time travel variation) he postulates an Assiti Shard event which juxtaposes parts of our planet including the town of Grantville, West Virginia in both space and time—a twist on scientist's referring to a space-time continuum in relativisic (Einsteinian) physics. Eric Flint (born 1947 is an American Alternate history and Fantasy author, editor, and e-publisher. See also 1632 series, The Grantville Gazettes Grantville is a fictional town modeled after the real town of Mannington, West Virginia SpaceTime is a patent-pending three dimensional graphical user interface that allows end users to search their content such as Google Google Images Yahoo! YouTube eBay Amazon and RSS
One Multiverse (science) theory posits that PODs are occurring all the time, with an infinite variety of possible outcomes that each creates a universe, this having been used as a premise to the 1990s U.S. television series Sliders. The multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible Universes (including our universe that together comprise all of Reality. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Sliders is an American Science fiction television series that ran for five seasons from 1995 to 2000. Speculative fiction is full of universes based loosely on the concept of multiple universes, including many fantasy milieus. Speculative fiction is a term used as an inclusive descriptor covering a group of Fiction Genres that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real world in
Point of Divergence is also the title of an amateur press association for Alternate History fiction and the discussion of topics related to it, which published its 51st issue in May 2008. An Amateur Press Association or APA is a group of people who produce individual pages or Magazines that are sent to a Central Mailer for collation and distribution to all International holidays May 1 - Labour Day ( Pakistan) May 1 - Labour Day ( Singapore) Dale Cozort and Robert Alley are the Official Editors of the APA and the contact points for prospective members.
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