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The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century: Stories
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ISBN10: 0345439902
ISBN13: 9780345439901
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: Oct 2 2001
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345439901
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: Oct 2 2001
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Explore fascinating, often chilling what if accounts of the world that could have existed--and still might yet . . . Science fiction's most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you'll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including: - The Lucky Strike When the Lucky Strike is chosen over the Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson's gripping tale.
- Bring the Jubilee Ward Moore's novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War . . . and all of American history.
- Through Road No Wither After Hitler's victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear's apocalyptic vision of the future.
- All the Myriad Ways Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon's death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven's brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.
- Mozart in Mirrorshades Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past--with disastrous results. . . . as well as The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario - Islands in the Sea by Harry Turtledove - Suppose They Gave a Peace by Susan Shwartz - Manassas, Again by Gregory Benford - Dance Band on the Titanic by Jack L. Chalker - Eutopia by Poul Anderson - The Undiscovered by William Sanders - The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele - and Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver
The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder.
- Through Road No Wither After Hitler's victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear's apocalyptic vision of the future.
- All the Myriad Ways Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon's death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven's brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.
- Mozart in Mirrorshades Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past--with disastrous results. . . . as well as The Winterberry by Nicholas A. DiChario - Islands in the Sea by Harry Turtledove - Suppose They Gave a Peace by Susan Shwartz - Manassas, Again by Gregory Benford - Dance Band on the Titanic by Jack L. Chalker - Eutopia by Poul Anderson - The Undiscovered by William Sanders - The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele - and Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver
The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder.
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