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Alternate Wars

What Might Have Been seriesbook 3

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? 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 recapture 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.

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Summary:

Poul Anderson's "When Free Men Shall Stand"

Gregory Benford's "Manassas, Again"

F.M. Busby's "Tundra Moss"

Winston S. Churchill's "If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg"

Nancy Kress's "And Wild for to Hold"

Barry N. Malzberg's "Turpentine"

Jack McDevitt's "The Tomb"

James Morrow's "Arms and the Woman"

Mike Resnick's "Over There"

Allen Steele's "Goddard's People"

Harry Turtledove's "Ready for the Fatherland"

George Zebrowski's "The Number of the Sand".

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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