Worlds That Weren't by Harry Turtledove, Mary Gentle, S. M. Stirling, Walter Jon Williams

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  • Pub. Date: July 2002
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    • Pub. Date: July 2002
    • Publisher: Roc Hardcover
    • Format: Hardcover, 295pp

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    Four award-winning authors.

    Four amazing alternate histories.

    In this collection of novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been.

    Bestselling author Harry Turtledove imagines a different fate for Socrates (now 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 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 a tale of Nietzsche intervening in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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    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. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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    Biography

    Harry Turtledove, a native of Los Angeles, is the New York Times bestselling author of Guns of the South and Ruled Britannia, and has a Ph.D. in Byzantine history from UCLA.

    S.M. Stirling was born in Metz, France, and raised in Europe, Africa, and North America.

    Mary Gentle is the author of ASH, and has two MA degrees, in seventeenth-century studies and war.

    Walter Jon Williams is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way.

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    June 01, 2002: ?The Daimon? by Harry Turtledove. Though his admirers inform Sokrates that he has done his public duty and need not accompany the Army in the Sicily campaign, he insists on joining General Alkibiades. War with Sparta is inevitable and with Sokrates to guide him, General Alkibiades might be able to lead Athens to the victory.

    ?Shikari in Galveston? by S.M. Stirling. Several years have passed since the comet changed the earth. Now Peshawar Lance Eric King is hunting in barbaric Texas where one mistake could lead to him being on the menu.

    ?The Logistics of Carthage? by Mary Gentle. A few years have passed since the Turks conquered Constantinople, but now they target the Gothic capital Carthage. Though the present looks bleak, Yolande sees her city-state surviving into the twentieth century and beyond, but how to endure the ashes of the fifteenth century is the question?

    ?The Last Ride of German Freddie? by Walter Jon Williams. On the eve of the street brawl between the Earps and the Cowboys, Frederich Nietzsche arrives in Tombstone. He quickly debates philosophical issues with the participants of the upcoming gunfight.

    All four of these short novellas are well written hooking readers as each tale feels genuine due to the real figures fitting smoothly in their substitute environs. The award winning authors provide alternate historical readers with quite a quartet in WORLDS THAT WEREN?T to include continuity from previous books (at least on the parts of Stirling and Gentle). This is a strong anthology that takes readers on a brilliant what if trek.

    Harriet Klausner