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Worlds That Weren't: An Anthology of Four Novellas of Alternate History by Harry Turtledove, S. M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams (July 2002)
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Overview: Alternate History is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history had taken a different turn. The obvious changes, like the Nazis winning World War II, have filled innumerable novels. Fortunately, the anthology Worlds That Weren't avoids the obvious with its four fine new novellas from four superior authors: Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams.
Genre: Fiction, Speculative Fiction

* The Daimon, written by Harry Turtledove, AH's best-known practitioner. In Turtledove's turning point, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates chooses to accompany General Alkibiades to war instead of remaining in Athens, and sets Alkibiades on a triumphant, terrible new course.
* Shikari in Galveston, set in the British India-dominated alternate history of The Peshawar Lancers. S.M. Stirling's novella is a rousing old-fashioned adventure that follows a hunting safari through a regressed American frontier that might have given even Daniel Boone pause.
* The Logistics of Carthage, Mary Gentle's prequel to her novel, Ash, concerns Christian warriors serving pagan Turks in a North Africa conquered by Visigoths instead of Vandals, and is the strongest story in Worlds That Weren't.
* The Last Ride of German Freddie, in which Nebula Award winner Walter Jon Williams considers what might have happened if the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had taken himself and his superman theories to the Wild West.

"What if, in any single moment, history had taken a different turn? In the engaging Worlds That Weren't, bestselling author Harry Turtledove imagines a different fate for Socrates (which he spells Sokrates); S.M. Stirling envisions life "in the wilds of a re-barbarized Texas" after asteroids strike the earth in the 19th century; Sidewise winner Mary Gentle contributes "a piece of flotsam" from her epic Ash a story of love (and pigs) set in the mid-15th century, as European mercenaries prepare to sack a Gothic Carthage; and Nebula nominee Walter Jon Williams pens the tale of Nietzsche intervening in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral." ~Publishers Weekly

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