What Might Have Been; Volume 1

by Gregory Benford; Martin Greenberg

• ISBN13: 9780743487290
• ISBN10: 074348729X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-03-30
• Publisher: I Books

Summary

What would have happened if history had been different -- if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way ... or had not occurred at all? In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing and startling possibilities -- a rare glimpse of what might have been. From a Germany that won the war to a modern exodus from Egypt, from the death of ancient Greece to the true secret of the Soviets, these hold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds -- oddly familiar, disturbingly different. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION:	vii
Gregory Benford
IN THE HOUSE OF SORROWS	1	(34)
Poul Anderson
REMAKING HISTORY	35	(16)
Kim Stanley Robinson
COUNTING POTSHERDS	51	(2)
Harry Turtledove
LEAPFROG	53	(52)
James P. Hogan
EVERYTHING BUT HONOR	105	(34)
George Alec Effinger
WE COULD DO WORSE	139	(8)
Gregory Benford
TO THE PROMISED LAND	147	(24)
Robert Silverberg
BIBLE STORIES FOR ADULTS, NO. 31: THE COVENANT	171	(10)
James Morrow
ALL ASSASSINS	181	(10)
Barry N. Malzberg
GAME NIGHT AT THE FOX AND GOOSE	191	(14)
Karen Joy Fowler
WAITING FOR THE OLYMPIANS	205	(46)
Frederik Pohl
THE RETURN OF WILLIAM PROXMIRE	251
Larry Niven