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Alternative Histories
''Alternative Histories : Eleven Stories of the World as It Might Have Been'' is an anthology of alternate history short stories, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. It was first published in hardcover by Garland Publishing in December 1986. Summary The book collects eleven novellas, novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an afterword by Gordon B. Chamberlain and a bibliography by Chamberlain and Barton C. Hacker. Contents * "Hands Off" (1881) (Edward Everett Hale) * " Delenda Est" (1955) (Poul Anderson) * "The Wheels of If" (1940) (L. Sprague de Camp) * "In the Circle of Nowhere" (1954) (Irving E. Cox, Jr.) * "The Lady Margaret" (1968) (Keith Roberts) * " He Walked Around the Horses" (1948) (H. Beam Piper) * "Custer's Last Jump" (1976) (Steven Utley) and f(Howard Waldrop) * "The Curfew Tolls" (1935) (Stephen Vincent Benét) * "Hush My Mouth" (1986) (Suzette Haden Elgin) * "Interurban Queen" (1970) ( R. A. Lafferty) * "The Lucky Strike" (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson ( ; November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001. Anderson also wrote historical novels. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, and was nominated many more times for awards. Biography Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania to Danish parents. Soon after his birth, his father, Anton Anderson, relocated the family to Texas, where they lived for more than ten years. After Anton Anderson's death, his widow took the children to Denmark. The family returned to the United States after the beginning of World War II, settling eventually on a Minnesota farm. While he was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, Anderson's first stories were published by editor John W. Campbell in the magazine ''Astounding Science Fiction'': "Tomorrow's Children" by Anderson and F. N. Waldrop in March 1947 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer best known for his ''Mars'' trilogy. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. ''The Atlantic'' has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to an article in ''The New Yorker'', Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers." Early life and education Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois. He moved to Southern California as a child. In 1974, he earned a B.A. in literature from the University of California, San Diego. In 1975, he earned an M.A. in English from Boston University. In 1978 Robinson moved to Davis, California, to take a break from his graduate studies at the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzette Haden Elgin
Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins; November 18, 1936 – January 27, 2015) was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. Her best-known non-fiction includes her ''Verbal Self-Defense'' series. Life Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins was born in 1936 in Jefferson City, Missouri. She attended the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the 1960s, and began writing science fiction in order to pay tuition. She gained a PhD in linguistics, and was the first UCSD student ever to write two dissertations (on English and Navajo). She created the engineered language Láadan for her '' Native Tongue'' science fiction series. A grammar and dictionary was published in 1985. She supported feminist science fiction, saying "women need to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét ( ; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, '' John Brown's Body'', published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories " The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and " By the Waters of Babylon", published in 1937. In 2009, Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats", published in 1929, for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of '' American Fantastic Tales'', edited by Peter Straub. Early life and education Benét was born on July 22, 1898, in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley The Lehigh Valley () is a geography, geographic and urban area, metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh and Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania. It is a co ... region of eastern Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Waldrop
Howard Waldrop (September 15, 1946 – January 14, 2024) was an American science fiction author who worked primarily in short fiction. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2021. Early life Born in Houston, Mississippi, Waldrop spent most of his life in Texas. He moved to Washington state for several years, but returned to Austin. As a child, he corresponded with ''A Game of Thrones'' author George R. R. Martin about their shared love of comic books. He was an avid fly fisherman. He was a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop, attended the Rio Hondo Writing Workshop, and taught at the Clarion Workshop. Career Waldrop was a frequent attendee of ArmadilloCon, the local science fiction convention held annually in Austin. He was the Toastmaster at the inaugural ArmadilloCon #1 (1979) and again at ArmadilloCon #29 (2007); he was Guest of Honor at ArmadilloCon #5 (1983). Waldrop was one of three writer Guests of Honor at the 1995 World Fantasy C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Utley
Steven Utley (November 10, 1948—January 12, 2013) was an American writer. He wrote poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but was best known for his science fiction stories. Biography Utley was born in the family of an United States Air Force, Air Force non-commissioned officer and grew up on Air Force bases in the United States, Great Britain, and Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa. During the 1970s, he joined a group of science fiction writers in Austin, Texas, which included Lisa Tuttle, Howard Waldrop, and Bruce Sterling; the group was later formalized as Turkey City Writer's Workshop. Utley's first professionally published story, "The Unkindest Cut of All," a parody of Hugo Gernsbackian scientifiction, appeared in 1972. Since then he published widely in and out of the science-fiction field, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' calls him "a figure of edgy salience," and Gardne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He Walked Around The Horses
"He Walked Around the Horses" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. Beam Piper. It is initially based on the true story of diplomat Benjamin Bathurst, who mysteriously disappeared in 1809. It was first published in the April 1948 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction'' magazine (now ''Analog''). The story is told in epistolary style, as a series of reports, statements and memoranda by various government, army and police officials, and inn servants, stating what they know of the matter. Plot Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, disappears while staying at an inn in Prussia. Piper describes Bathurst in the story as "a rather stout gentleman, of past middle age" (although the real Bathurst was only 25 years old at the time of his disappearance). This story posits that Bathurst slipped into a parallel universe. This event was referenced in the '' Paratime'' story "Police Operation", also written by Piper. The point of divergence from our history is the Battl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Roberts
Keith John Kingston Roberts (20 September 1935 – 5 October 2000) was an English science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in the September 1964 issue of ''Science Fantasy'' magazine, "Anita" (the first of a series of stories featuring a teenage modern witch and her eccentric granny) and "Escapism". Several of his early stories were written using the pseudonyms Alistair Bevan and David Stringer. His second novel ''Pavane'', first published in 1968, which is a collection of linked stories, may be his most famous work: an alternate history novel in which the Catholic Church takes control of England following the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I.Cox, F. Brett. "Keith Roberts". ''British fantasy and science-fiction writers since 1960''. 261 (2002): 336. Roberts wrote numerous novels and short stories and worked as an illustrator. His artistic contributions include covers and interior artwork for '' New Worlds'' and ''Science Fantasy'', later renamed ''Impul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wheels Of If
"The Wheels of If" is an alternate history science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the magazine ''Unknown (magazine), Unknown Fantasy Fiction'' for October, 1940,Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. ''De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography''. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, page 261. and first appeared in book form in de Camp's collection ''The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction'' (Shasta Publishers, Shasta, 1940).Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. ''De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography''. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, pages 104, 261. It later appeared in the paperback edition of the collection published by Berkley Books in 1970,Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. ''De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography''. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, page 104. in de Camp's subsequent collections ''The Virgin & the Wheels'' (Popular Library, 1976)Laughlin, Charlotte, and Leva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delenda Est
is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson, part of his Time Patrol series. It was originally published in '' The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' of December 1955. It was first reprinted in the first edition of the "Time Patrol" series collection ''Guardians of Time'' (Ballantine Books; September 1960). It was also a selection in the alternate history anthology ''Worlds of Maybe'' (Thomas Nelson; 1970) edited by Robert Silverberg. The title alludes to the Latin phrase ("Carthage must be destroyed") from the Third Punic War. Plot summary Renegade time travelers meddle in the outcome of the Second Punic War, bringing about the premature deaths of Publius Cornelius Scipio and Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Ticinus in 218 BC and so creating a new timeline in which Hannibal destroys Rome in 210 BC. That made Western European civilization come to be based on a Celtic- Carthaginian cultural synthesis (rather than a Greco-Roman, as in actual hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Books
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