The Way It Wasn't
Subtitle: Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: July 10, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780806517698
Subjects: Modern fiction; Science Fiction - Alternative History; Fantasy fiction, American; American Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction - Science Fiction; Historical fiction, American; Fiction; Historical fiction; Science Fiction - Anthologies; Fiction-Science Fiction - Anthologies; Imaginary histories; Alternative histories (Fiction), American; Fantasy - Historical; Alternative histories (Fiction; Fantasy fiction
First sentence: In the dry stifling days of early summer, the Emir lay dying, the king, the imam, Big Father of the Songhay, in his cool, dark mud-walled palace in the Sankore quarter of Old Timbuctoo.