Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History

Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History

Cover of first edition
Author	edited by Gardner Dozois, Stanley Schmidt
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Del Rey/Ballantine
Publication date	1998
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	xiv, 322 pp.
ISBN	0-345-42194-9

Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History is an anthology of alternate history short works edited by Gardner Dozois and Stanley Schmidt. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine in July 1998.^[1]

Summary

The book collects ten short stories by various authors, together with an introductory essay by Shelly Shapiro.

Contents

• "What Is Alternate History?" [essay] (Shelly Shapiro)
• "Must and Shall" (Harry Turtledove)
• "An Outpost of the Empire" (Robert Silverberg)
• "We Could Do Worse" (Gregory Benford)
• "Over There" (Mike Resnick)
• "Ink from the New Moon" (A. A. Attanasio)
• "Southpaw" (Bruce McAllister)
• "The West Is Red" (Greg Costikyan)
• "The Forest of Time" (Michael Flynn)
• "Aristotle and the Gun" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" (Gene Wolfe)

Notes

1. Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database