THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR

What would have happened if history had been different - if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way... or had not occurred at all?

In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing and startling possibilities - a rare glimpse of what might have been. From a Germany that won the war to a modern exodus from Egypt, from the death of ancient Greece to the true secret of the Soviets, these bold excursions in time depict bizzare new worlds - oddly familiar, disturbingly different.

Contains:

• Introduction by Gregory Benford
• In the House of Sorrows by Poul Anderson
• Remaking History by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Counting Potsherds by Harry Turtledove
• Leapfrog by James P Hogan
• Everything but Honor by George Alec Effinger
• We Could Do Worse by Gregory Benford
• To the Promised Land by Robert Silverberg
• Bible Stories for Adults No. 31: The Covenant by James Morrow
• All Assassins by Barry N. Malzberg
• Game Night at the Fox and Goose by Karen Joy Fowler
• Waiting for the Olympians by Frederik Pohl
• The Return of William Proxmire by Larry Niven

Edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg