''Alternate Tyrants'' is a 1997
Tor alternate history
Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, altern ...
anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors.
In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...
, edited by
Mike Resnick. The anthology contains 20 short stories, with each story by a different author, and presents a scenario where an individual becomes a
tyrant or
dictator in a way that did not occur in real life.
Contents
See also
*
List of works by Mike Resnick
List of works by American science fiction author Mike Resnick.
Series Birthright Universe
Most of Mike Resnick's science fiction novels and series fit into an overarching future history, the Birthright universe. In the Birthright universe, 2908 A. ...
* ''
Alternate Generals
Bibliography of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction and nonfiction writer Harry Turtledove:
Writing as Eric Iverson ''Elabon''
* ''Wereblood'' (1979)
* ''Werenight'' (1979, revised in 1994 to include ''Wereblood'')
* ''Prince of the North ...
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References
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External links
*
Alternate Tyrants' at
Google Books
1997 anthologies
Alternate history anthologies
Tor Books books
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