Synopses & Reviews
Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities. . . .
"An Ink from the New Moon" by A. A. Attanasio
"We Could Do Worse" by Gregory Benford
"The West Is Red" by Greg Costikyan
"The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn
"Southpaw" by Bruce McAllister
"Over There" by Mike Resnick
"An Outpost of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg
"Aristotle and the Gun" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove
"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe
With these dazzling stories, discover just how different things might have been!
Synopsis
With these dazzling stories, discover just how different things might have been
Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities. . . .
"An Ink from the New Moon" by A. A. Attanasio
"We Could Do Worse" by Gregory Benford
"The West Is Red" by Greg Costikyan
"The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn
"Southpaw" by Bruce McAllister
"Over There" by Mike Resnick
"An Outpost of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg
"Aristotle and the Gun" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove
"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe
Synopsis
An outstanding introduction to the increasingly hot Alternate History genre. Featuring stories by ten notable and award-winning authors
About the Author
Gardner Dozois is the Hugo Award-winning editor of
Asimov's Science Fiction.Stanley Schmidt is the longtime editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Table of Contents
What is alternate history? / by Shelly Shapiro -- Must and shall / by Harry Turtledove -- An outpost of the Empire / by Robert Silverberg -- We could do worse / by Gregory Benford -- Over there / by Mike Resnick -- Ink from the new moon / by A. A. Attanasio -- Southpaw / by Bruce McAllister -- The West is red / by Greg Costikyan -- The forest of time / by Michael F. Flynn -- Aristotle and the gun / by L. Sprague de Camp -- How I lost the Second World War and helped turn back the German invasion / by Gene Wolfe.