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

Worlds That Weren’t

By Harry Turtledove, S. M. Stirling, Mary Gentle and Walter Jon Williams

By Harry Turtledove, S. M. Stirling, Mary Gentle and Walter Jon Williams

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Sep 02, 2003 | 304 Pages

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

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.

About Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the… More about Harry Turtledove

About S. M. Stirling

S. M. Stirling is the author of many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Novels of the Change and… More about S. M. Stirling

About Mary Gentle

Mary Gentle was born in 1956 and is one of the most highly praised writers of fantasy and science fiction…. More about Mary Gentle

About Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is the Nebula Award–winning author of thirty volumes of fiction, as well as screenplays for film and television…. More about Walter Jon Williams

Product Details

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Paperback | $16.00
Published by Ace
Sep 02, 2003 | 304 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780451528988

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Praise

“These novellas are superior works…well worth the attention of science fiction and historical fiction readers.”
–Strange Horizons

Table Of Contents

Worlds That Weren’tThe Daimon
Harry Turtledove

Shikari in Galveston
S. M. Stirling

The Logistics of Carthage
Mary Gentle

The Last Ride of German Freddie
Walter Jon Williams

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