Alternate Empires

✍ Scribed by Greenberg, Martin Harry;Benford, Gregory

• Book ID: 100591915
• Publisher: Spectra; Bantam Books
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Series: What Might Have Been 1
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0553278452

✦ Synopsis

What would have happened if history had been different -- if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way ... or had not occurred at all? In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing and startling possibilities...a rare glimpse of what might have been. From a Germany that won the war to a modern exodus from Egypt, from the death of ancient Greece to the true secret of the Soviets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds -- oddly familiar, disturbingly different.

• "In the House of Sorrows" (Poul Anderson)
• "Remaking History" (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• "Counting Potsherds" (Harry Turtledove)
• "Leapfrog" (James P. Hogan)
• "Everything But Honor" (George Alec Effinger)
• "We Could Do Worse" (Gregory Benford)
• "To the Promised Land" (Robert Silverberg)
• "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant" (James Morrow)
• "All Assassins" (Barry N. Malzberg)
• "Game Night at the Fox and Goose" (Karen Joy Fowler)
• "Waiting for the Olympians" (Frederik Pohl)
• "The Return of William Proxmire" (Larry Niven)

✦ Subjects

alternative histories (Fiction)