Alternate Empires

THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR What would have happened if history had been different -- if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way ... or had not occurred at all? In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing and startling possibilities...a rare glimpse of what might have been. From a Germany that won the war to a modern exodus from Egypt, from the death of ancient Greece to the true secret of the Soviets, these hold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds -- oddly familiar, disturbingly different. Summary: Poul Anderson's "In the House of Sorrows" Gregory Benford's "We Could Do Worse" George Alec Effinger's "Everything but Honor" Karen Joy Fowler's "Game Night at the Fox and Goose" Barry N. Malzberg's "All Assassins" James Morrow's "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant" Larry Niven's "The Return of William Proxmire" Frederick Pohl's "Waiting for the Olympians" Kim Stanley Robinson's "Remaking History" Robert Silverberg's "To the Promised Land" Harry Turtledove's "Counting Potsherds". Also includes one non-allohistorical work by James P. Hogan.