What Might Have Been, Volumes I & II and Volumes III & IV: Alternate Empires; Alternate Heroes; Alternate Wars; Alternate Americas

542; 453 pp. Four volumes in two. Jacket art by Pat Morrissey. A collection of reimaginings of important world events, with contributions by numerous popular science fiction authors: Includes: Introduction by Gregory Benford; In the House of Sorrows by Poul Anderson; Remaking History by Kim Stanley Robinson; Counting Potsherds by Harry Turtledove; Leapfrog by James P. Hogan; Everything But Honor by George Alec Effinger; We Could Do Worse by Gregory Benford; To the Promised Land by Robert Silverberg; Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant by James Morrow; All Assassins by Barry N. Malzberg; Game Night at the Fox and Goose by Karen Joy Fowler; Waiting for the Olympians by Frederik Pohl; The Return of William Proxmire by Larry Niven; Introduction by Gregory Benford; A Sleep and a Forgetting by Robert Silverberg; The Old Man and C by Sheila Finch; The Last Article by Harry Turtledove; Mules in Horses' Harness by Michael Cassutt; Lenin in Odessa by George Zebrowski; Abe Lincoln in McDonald's by James Morrow; Another Goddamned Showboat by Barry N. Malzberg; Loose Cannon by Susan Shwartz; A Letter from the Pope by Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey; Roncesvalles by Judith Tarr; His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes by Marc Laidlaw; Departures by Harry Turtledove; Instability by Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo; No Spot of Ground by Walter Jon Williams; Introduction by Gregory Benford; And Wild for to Hold by Nancy Kress; Tundra Moss by F.M. Busby; When Free Men Shall Stand by Poul Anderson; Arms and the Woman by James Morrow; Ready for the Fatherland by Harry Turtledove; The Tomb by Jack McDevitt; Turpentine by Barry N. Malzberg; Goddard's People by Allen Steele; Manassas, Again by Gregory Benford; The Number of the Sand by George Zebrowski; If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg by The Right Honourable Winston S. Churchill, M.P.; Over There by Mike Resnick; Introduction by Gregory Benford; Report of the Special Committee by Harry Turtledove; Ink from the New Moon by A.A. Attanasio; Vinland the Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson; If There Be Cause by Sheila Finch; Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail by James Morrow; Let Time Shape by George Zebrowski; Red Alert by Jerry Oltion; Such a Deal by Esther M. Friesner; Looking for the Fountain by Robert Silverberg; The Round-Eyed Barbarians by L. Sprague de Camp; Destination: Indies by Brad Linaweaver; Ship Full of Jews by Barry Malzberg; The Karamazov Capter by Gordon Eklund; The Sleeping Serpent by Pamela Sargent.