Alternate Wars

Alternate Wars

Cover of first edition
Author	edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg
Cover artist	Paul Swendsen
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	What Might Have Been
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Bantam Spectra
Publication date	1991
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	viii, 296 pp.
ISBN	0-553-29008-8
Preceded by	Alternate Heroes
Followed by	Alternate Americas

Alternate Wars is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the third volume in their What Might Have Been series. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Spectra in December 1991. It was later gathered together with Alternate Americas into the omnibus anthology What Might Have Been: Volumes 3 & 4: Alternate Wars / Alternate Americas (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, December 1992).^[1]

The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Benford.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Gregory Benford)
• "And Wild for to Hold" (Nancy Kress)
• "Tundra Moss" (F. M. Busby)
• "When Free Men Shall Stand" (Poul Anderson)
• "Arms and the Woman" (James Morrow)
• "Ready for the Fatherland" (Harry Turtledove)
• "The Tomb" (Jack McDevitt)
• "Turpentine" (Barry N. Malzberg)
• "Goddard's People" (Allen Steele)
• "Manassas, Again" (Gregory Benford)
• "The Number of the Sand" (George Zebrowski)
• "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" (Winston S. Churchill)
• "Over There" (Mike Resnick)

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