num_pages: 354
description: 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' HarnessSheila Finch's Old Man and C Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey's Letter from the PopeM. Laidlaw's His Powder'd Wig His Crown of ThornesBarry N. Malzberg's Another Goddamned ShowboatJames Morrow's Abe Lincoln in McDonald'sRudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo's Instability Susan Shwartz's Loose Cannon Robert Silverberg's A Sleep and a ForgettingJudith Tarr's RoncesvallesHarry Turtledove's DeparturesWalter Jon Williams's No Spot of GroundGeorge Zebrowski's Lenin in Odessa.
language: English
title: Alternate Heroes
publisher: Spectra