What Might Have Been? Volume 1: Alternate Empires
Author: | Gregory Benford Martin H. Greenberg |
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Bantam Books, 1989 |
Series: | What Might Have Been?: Book 1 |
1. What Might Have Been? Volume 1: Alternate Empires |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Startling alternative history has been a popular sub-genre of military history and science fiction for years and has recently reached new heights of popularity with Harry Turtledove's epic alternative histories of WWII and the American Civil War. Gregory Benford, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author, here collects original stories by such luminaries as Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson and Robert Silverberg in alternative histories from ancient times to the 20th century.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Gregory Benford
- In the House of Sorrows - novelette by Poul Anderson
- Remaking History - (1988) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Counting Potsherds - (1989) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
- Leapfrog - novelette by James P. Hogan
- Everything But Honor - (1989) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
- We Could Do Worse - (1988) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
- To the Promised Land - (1989) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
- Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant - shortstory by James Morrow
- All Assassins - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
- Game Night at the Fox and Goose - (1989) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
- Waiting for the Olympians - (1988) - novelette by Frederik Pohl
- The Return of William Proxmire - shortstory by Larry Niven
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