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Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History

Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities... .

Contents

xi • What Is Alternate History? • (1998) • essay by Shelly Shapiro

1 • Must and Shall • (1995) • novelette by Harry Turtledove

44 • An Outpost of the Empire • [Roma Eterna] • (1991) • novelette by Robert Silverberg

71 • We Could Do Worse • (1988) • shortstory by Gregory Benford

80 • Over There • [Teddy Roosevelt] • (1991) • novelette by Mike Resnick

112 • Ink from the New Moon • (1992) • shortstory by A. A. Attanasio

130 • Southpaw • (1993) • shortstory by Bruce McAllister

147 • The West Is Red • (1994) • novelette by Greg Costikyan

181 • The Forest of Time • (1987) • novella by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ]

251 • Aristotle and the Gun • (1958) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp

299 • How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion • (1973) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 336
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780345421944
  • Genres
  • fiction, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 1998