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Alternate Empires (What Might Have Been, Vol 1)
Alternate Empires - What Might Have Been, Vol 1 Author:Gregory Benford (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR — What would have happened if history had been different...if the major events that shaped our times had occured in a different way...or had not occurred at all? In this stellar anthology collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing a... more »nd startling possibilities, a rare glimpse of what might have been. From a Germany that won the war to a modern exodus from Egypt, from the death of ancient Greece to the true secret of the Soviets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds, oddly familiar, disturbingly different.
Contents:
Introduction (Alternate Empires) • essay by Gregory Benford
In the House of Sorrows by Poul Anderson
Remaking History by Kim Stanley Robinson
Counting Potsherds by Harry Turtledove
Leapfrog by James P. Hogan
Everything But Honor by George Alec Effinger
We Could Do Worse by Gregory Benford
To the Promised Land by Robert Silverberg
Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant by James Morrow
All Assassins by Barry N. Malzberg
Game Night at the Fox and Goose by Karen Joy Fowler