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. .