Alternate Presidents Author:Mike Resnick (Editor) Jody Lynn Nye, Jayge Carr, Thomas A. Easton, Judith Moffett, Ralph Roberts, Jack L. Chalker, Bill Fawcett, Laura Resnick, Tappan King, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Janet Kagan, Martha Soukup, Mike Resnick, Jack Nimersheim, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lawrence Watt-Evens, Barry N. Malzberg, Barbara Delaplace, Glen E. Cox, David Gerrold, Eileen... more » Gunn, Pat Cadigan, Susan Shwartz, Brian Thomsen, Alexis A. Gilliland, Lawrence Person, Robert Sheckley
What if...
...Benjamin Franklin had been elected the first president of the United States?
...Abraham Lincoln had lost the 1860 election, and became one of the great generals of the Civil War?
...Suffragist Victoria Chaflin Woodhull had become President in 1872--and transformed the morals and mores of Gilded Age America?
...Adlai Stevenson had beaten Dwight D. Eisenhower twice in a row--only to be impeached?
...President Goldwater had used nuclear weapons in Vietnam?
Every four years, America makes a choice of futures. Here, from some of today's strongest SF storytellers, are twenty-eight Americas that never happened, but could have. From Benjamin Franklin to Michael Dukakis---200 years of Alternate Presidents.« less