[What Might Have Been 03] • Alternate Wars

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? In this thought-provoking volume 3 in the What Might Have Been anthology series, twelve outstanding science fiction writers and one legendary statesman alter the past in order to better see the present. 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 capture 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, a rare glimpse of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

Contents:

Introduction (Alternate Wars) • essay by Gregory Benford

And Wild for to Hold (1991) / Nancy Kress

Tundra Moss (1991) / F. M. Busby

When Free Men Shall Stand (1991) / Poul Anderson

Arms and the Woman (1991) / James Morrow

Ready for the Fatherland (1991) / Harry Turtledove

The Tomb (1991) / Jack McDevitt

Turpentine (1991) / Barry N. Malzberg

Goddard’s People (1991) / Allen Steele

Manassas, Again (1991) / Gregory Benford

The Number of the Sand (1991) [Cliometricon] / George Zebrowski

If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg (1930) / Winston S. Churchill

* Over There (1991) [Teddy Roosevelt] / Mike Resnick.

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