A Choice of Destinies Author:Melissa Scott What might have happened had Alexander not marched into India, but turned back west? In an alternate universe Alexander the Great stops short of India and conquers Italy instead at the urging of a seer. Yet another revolt in Greece (even more serious than the historical revolt of King Agis of Sparta) forces Alexander to turn around a... more »nd march back home. Having been thwarted then in his bid for India, he turns his interest west instead, towards Italy, to Rome and Carthage..« less