Full name: Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History

Authors: Gardner Dozois, Stanley Schmidt Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Alternate History, Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780345421944 0345421949

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