[What Might Have Been 02] • Alternate Heroes

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 Confederacy that won the Civil War to a Europe converted to Viking paganism.These bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different-a glimpse of WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

Summary:

Michael Cassutt's "Mules in Horses' Harness"

Sheila Finch's "Old Man and C",

Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey's "Letter from the Pope"

M. Laidlaw's "His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes"

Barry N. Malzberg's "Another Goddamned Showboat"

James Morrow's "Abe Lincoln in McDonald's"

Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo's "Instability"

Susan Shwartz's "Loose Cannon"

Robert Silverberg's "A Sleep and a Forgetting"

Judith Tarr's "Roncesvalles"

Harry Turtledove's "Departures"

Walter Jon Williams's "No Spot of Ground"

George Zebrowski's "Lenin in Odessa".