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Alternate Heroes (What Might Have Been, Vol 2)
Alternate Heroes - What Might Have Been, Vol 2 Author:Gregory Benford (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) Second in a series of anthologies featuring alternate histories. What would have happened if history had been different: if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way, or not at all? From a Confederacy that won the Civil War to a Europe converted to Viking paganism, these bold excursions in time depict biz... more »arre new worlds, oddly familiar, disturbingly different, a glimpse of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Contents:
Introduction (Alternate Heroes) (1990) • essay by Gregory Benford
A Sleep and a Forgetting (1989) / short story by Robert Silverberg
The Old Man and C (1989) / short story by Sheila Finch
The Last Article (1988) / novelette by Harry Turtledove
Mules in Horses' Harness (1990) / novelette by Michael Cassutt
Lenin in Odessa (1990) / short story by George Zebrowski
Abe Lincoln in McDonald's (1989) / short story by James Morrow
Another Goddamned Showboat (1990) / short story by Barry N. Malzberg
Loose Cannon (1990) / novelette by Susan Shwartz
A Letter from the Pope (1990) / novelette by Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey
Roncesvalles (1990) / novelette by Judith Tarr
His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes (1989) / short story by Marc Laidlaw
Departures (1989) / short story by Harry Turtledove
Instability (1988) / short story by Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker
No Spot of Ground (1989) / novella by Walter Jon Williams
Explores what would have happened if hisory had been different- if the major events that shaped our times had occured in a different way, or not at all. Intriguiging. Features the writings of fifteen of science fiction's most imaginitive minds....