Summary (From the publisher):

Original title: The Lucky Strike
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ World Versions→ Alternate Histories

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection, the (1985) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , William Gibson , Tanith Lee , Octavia E. Butler , Frederik Pohl , Bruce Sterling , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lucius Shepard , Pat Cadigan , John Varley , Nancy Kress , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Lewis Shiner , John Kessel , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , James Patrick Kelly , Jack McDevitt , Jack Dann , Elizabeth A. Lynn , R. A. Lafferty , Molly Gloss , Richard Cowper , Rena Yount
     Norton Book of Science Fiction, the (1993) [Anthology]
      Authors: Marion Zimmer Bradley , Ursula K. Le Guin , Roger Zelazny , Orson Scott Card , Philip K. Dick , William Gibson , Harlan Ellison , Octavia E. Butler , Frederik Pohl , Samuel R. Delany , Cordwainer Smith , Greg Bear , Barry N. Malzberg , Bruce Sterling , Kim Stanley Robinson , Gregory Benford , Poul Anderson , James Blish , Pat Cadigan , John Varley , James Tiptree, Jr. , Clifford D. Simak , Joe Haldeman , Fritz Leiber , Damon Knight , Nancy Kress , Pat Murphy , Vonda N. McIntyre , Mike Resnick , Robert Sheckley , Robert Silverberg , Michael Swanwick , Theodore Sturgeon , Lewis Shiner , Margaret Atwood , Avram Davidson , John Kessel , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , Ed Bryant , Karen Joy Fowler , Michael Bishop , Joanna Russ , Lisa Goldstein , James Patrick Kelly , Kate Wilhelm , David R. Bunch , Pamela Sargent , R. A. Lafferty , Candas Jane Dorsey , John Crowley , Carol Emshwiller , Sonya Dorman , Michael Blumlein , Michael Coney , Katherine MacLean , James H. Schmitz , Eileen Gunn , Andrew Weiner , Eleanor Arnason , Molly Gloss , Suzette Haden Elgin , Zenna Henderson , Phyllis Gotlieb , Paul Preuss , Diane Glancy
     Way It Wasn't, the (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Greg Bear , Barry N. Malzberg , Kim Stanley Robinson , Gregory Benford , Larry Niven , Fritz Leiber , Mike Resnick , Robert Silverberg , Harry Turtledove , Howard Waldrop , Susan M. Shwartz , Pamela Sargent , Nick (Nicholas A.) DiChario
     Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, the (2001) [Anthology]
      Authors: Greg Bear , Bruce Sterling , Kim Stanley Robinson , Gregory Benford , Poul Anderson , Larry Niven , Lewis Shiner , Harry Turtledove , Jack L. Chalker , Susan M. Shwartz , Brad Linaweaver , Allen M. Steele , Nick (Nicholas A.) DiChario , William Sanders , Ward Moore
     ParaSpheres (2006) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Kim Stanley Robinson , Michael Moorcock , Jeffrey Ford , Rudy Rucker , Jeff VanderMeer , Angela Carter , Janice Law , Alasdair Gray , Carol Schwalberg , Mary Mackey , Stepan Chapman , Leena Krohn , Rikki Ducornet , Brian Evenson , Ira Sher , Kate Kasten , William Luvaas , Maureen N. McLane , Carole Rosenthal , Stephen Shugart , Justin Courter , Tom La Farge , Shelley Jackson , Paul Pekin , L. Timmel Duchamp , Randall Silvis , Anna Tambour , Karen Heuler , K. Bannerman , Bradford Morrow , Laura Moriarty , Kevin W. Reardon , Noelle Sickels , Terry Gates-Grimwood , Gladys Swan , Michael Andre-Driussi , Charlie Anders , Mercedes Sanchez , Robin Caton , Laird Hunt , Mark Wallace , Michael Constance , Laura Mullen