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The stories in this anthology cover a wide range of other pasts and presents. Highlights include "Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternative history. His fictional present stems from an alternative Civil War, one that the North still won, but in a very different manner. Gene Wolfe presents a timeline in which World War II is settled by an automobile race, and Robert Silverberg looks at a modern-day world in which the Roman Empire never fell. This anthology will definitely appeal to those who enjoy the curious mental frisson that comes from exploring worlds that are in many ways similar to our own, but also quite different. --Brooks Peck
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"An Ink from the New Moon" by A. A. Attanasio
"We Could Do Worse" by Gregory Benford
"The West Is Red" by Greg Costikyan
"The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn
"Southpaw" by Bruce McAllister
"Over There" by Mike Resnick
"An Outpost of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg
"Aristotle and the Gun" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove
"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe
With these dazzling stories, discover just how different things might have been!
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"Must and Shall" appeared in the November 1995 issue of Asimov's, with an illustration by Steve Cavallo. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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The almost-inevitable Turtledove story is "Must and Shall". Like many of his other works, this tells about the results of an alternate American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while touring the front in 1864. The North still wins, but Lincoln's successor institutes a harsh, vengeful Reconstruction. In the 1940s, the Southern States are still under military occupation, and full of resentment. Surprisingly, this one of the least interesting stories in the book. The premise is good and the story is readable, but the plot is below Turtledove's usual standards.
There is also a Robert Silverberg tale ("An Outpost of the Empire") in which the Roman Empire never fell. The protagonist, a Venetian woman of Byzantine descent, must come to terms with her new Roman governor. It is a decent love story with a good sense of "otherness", but nothing special as far as AH goes.
Most of the stories, however, explore less conventional themes. A. A. Attanasio's atmospheric "Ink from the New Moon" tells the tale of an alternate 15th century in which North America has been extensively colonized by Chinese religious outcasts. The protagonist, in a letter to his dead wife, tells of his encounter with three ships bearing strange, bearded men.
In "We Could do Worse", Gregory Benford tells the chilling tale of a dystopian alternate USA ruled by Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
One of the strangest of the stories, and one of the best, is "The West is Red", by Greg Costikyan. Due to a slight difference in human nature, Communism turns out to be much more effective than Capitalism. As the Cold War draws to a close, Russia and China have become the most prosperous countries in the world, while the poverty-stricken US finally prepares to go Communist. The fundamental difference in the nature of the world also leads to some interesting and unexpected changes in fields like computer science. Very imaginative. I'm capitalist to the core, but I loved it all the same!
"How I Lost the Second World War", by Gene Wolfe, makes a great closing story. The plot is too weird to describe, but suffice to say that it takes place in an alternate version of the '30s, and involves Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Dwight Eisenhower, an automobile race, a strategic wargame, and an early invention of the transistor.
The above is just a sample of what this anthology has to author. There are many other fine stories by many other fine authors. All of them are well worth reading. Go buy it today!
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