 Edition: ISBN: 9780345449511 Year of publication: 2001 |
The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th CenturyAuthor: Larry Niven Martin H Greenberg Poul Anderson Bruce Sterling Gregory Benford Greg Bear Harry Turtledove Susan Shwartz William Sanders Brad Linaweaver Jack L Chalker Kim Stanley Robinson Allen Steele Nicholas A DiChario Ward Moore Lewis Shiner Genre: Alternative history Read a fragment illustrations Annotation: THE BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY STORIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY Edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg INTRODUCTION Harry Turtledove WHAT IF… Most science-fiction ideas don’t come naturally. Most take a degree of intellectual sophistication that came only with the Industrial Revolution. It’s hard to write about the effects of technology before there’s much in the way of technology to write about. But alternate history isn’t like that. It’s as natural as those two mournful little words up there. What if… What if I’d married Lucy instead of Martha, George instead of Fred? What would my life be like? Would I be richer? Happier? What would our kids have been like, if we’d had kids? What if there hadn’t been that traffic accident that clogged three lanes of the freeway, so I wasn’t late to the interview? How would things have looked if I’d got that job? Or—let’s not think small—what if I won the lottery? How would I live if I had sixty million... |
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