''Alternate Wars'' is an
anthology
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of
alternate history
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science fiction short stories edited by
Gregory Benford and
Martin H. Greenberg as the third volume in their
What Might Have Been
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series.
It was first published in paperback by
Bantam Spectra in December 1991. It was later gathered together with ''
Alternate Americas'' into the omnibus anthology ''What Might Have Been: Volumes 3 & 4: Alternate Wars / Alternate Americas'' (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, December 1992).
The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Benford.
Contents
*"Introduction" (
Gregory Benford)
*"And Wild for to Hold" (
Nancy Kress
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)
*"Tundra Moss" (
F. M. Busby)
*"When Free Men Shall Stand" (
Poul Anderson)
*"Arms and the Woman" (
James Morrow)
*"Ready for the Fatherland" (
Harry Turtledove)
*"The Tomb" (
Jack McDevitt)
*"Turpentine" (
Barry N. Malzberg
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Biography
Malzberg originated from a Jewish family and graduated from Syracuse University in 1960. He worked as an investi ...
)
*"Goddard's People" (
Allen Steele
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Background
Steele was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 19, 1958. He was introduced to science fiction fandom attending meetings o ...
)
*"Manassas, Again" (
Gregory Benford)
*"The Number of the Sand" (
George Zebrowski
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)
*"If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg" (
Winston S. Churchill
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)
*"Over There" (
Mike Resnick)
References
{{Gregory Benford
1991 anthologies
Science fiction anthologies
Alternate history anthologies
Martin H. Greenberg anthologies
American Civil War alternate histories
World War II alternate histories
Bantam Spectra books