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Alternate Wars (What Might Have Been, Vol 3)
Alternate Wars - What Might Have Been, Vol 3 Author:Gregory Benford (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) 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? In this thought-provoking volume 3 in the What Might Have Been anthology series, twelve outstanding science fiction writers and one legendary statesman alter the past in order to better see the... more » present.
From a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders, to a Civil War fought with robots, from a World War I in which Teddy Roosevelt tries to capture the glory of San Juan Hill, to a World War II in which the race is not for atomic weapons but for orbital rockets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds, oddly familiar, disturbingly different, a rare glimpse of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Contents:
Introduction (Alternate Wars) • essay by Gregory Benford
And Wild for to Hold / Nancy Kress
Tundra Moss / F. M. Busby
When Free Men Shall Stand / Poul Anderson
Arms and the Woman / James Morrow
Ready for the Fatherland / Harry Turtledove
The Tomb / Jack McDevitt
Turpentine / Barry N. Malzberg
Goddard’s People / Allen Steele
Manassas, Again / Gregory Benford
The Number of the Sand [Cliometricon] / George Zebrowski
If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg / Winston S. Churchill