Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
Explore fascinating, often chilling what if accounts of the world that could have existed-and still might yet …
Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including:
- The Lucky Strike When The Lucky Strike is chosen over The Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson’s gripping tale.
- Bring the Jubilee Ward Moore’s novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War … and all of American history.
- Through Road No Wither After Hitler’s victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear’s apocalyptic vision of the future.
- All the Myriad Ways Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon’s death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven’s brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.
- Mozart in Mirrorshades Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past-with disastrous results.
… as well as works by Poul Anderson - Gregory Benford - Jack L. Chalker - Nicholas A. DiChario - Brad Linaweaver - William Sanders - Susan Shwartz - Allen Steele - and Harry Turtledove himself!
The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder.
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