num_pages: 424
description: Second in a series of anthologies featuring alternate histories. 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.Contents: Introduction (Alternate Heroes) (1990) • essay by Gregory Benford A Sleep and a Forgetting (1989) / short story by Robert Silverberg The Old Man and C (1989) / short story by Sheila Finch The Last Article (1988) / novelette by Harry Turtledove Mules in Horses' Harness (1990) / novelette by Michael Cassutt Lenin in Odessa (1990) / short story by George Zebrowski Abe Lincoln in McDonald's (1989) / short story by James Morrow Another Goddamned Showboat (1990) / short story by Barry N. Malzberg Loose Cannon (1990) / novelette by Susan Shwartz A Letter from the Pope (1990) / novelette by Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey Roncesvalles (1990) / novelette by Judith Tarr His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes (1989) / short story by Marc Laidlaw Departures (1989) / short story by Harry Turtledove Instability (1988) / short story by Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker No Spot of Ground (1989) / novella by Walter Jon Williams.
language: English
title: Alternate Heroes
titlecomplete: Alternate Heroes (What Might Have Been 2)
genres: Historical, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories, Alternate History, Fantasy
ratings_count: 103
series: What Might Have Been
publisher: UNKNO