What would have happened if history had been different: if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way - or not at all? In this thought-provoking volume, eleven outstanding science-fiction writers and one legendary statesman alter the past to better see the present.

From a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders to a Civil War fought with robots, from a World War I in which Teddy Roosevelt tries to recapture the glory of San Juan Hill to a World War II in which the race is not for atomic weapons but for orbital rockets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds - oddly familiar, disturbingly different. A rare glimpse of What Might Have Been...

Contents:

• Introduction
• And Wild For To Hold by Nancy Kress
• Tundra Moss by F.M. Busby
• When Free Men Shall Stand by Poul Anderson
• Arms and the Woman by James Morow
• Ready for the Fatherland by Harry Turtledove
• The Tomb by Jack McDevitt
• Turpentine by Barry N. Malzberg
• Goddard's People by Allen Steele
• Manassas, Again by Gregory Benford
• The Number of the Sand by George Zebrowski
• If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg by The Right Honourable Winston S. Churchill, MP
• Over There by Mike Resnick

Edited by Gregory Benford and Martin Greenberg.