Alternate History: The what-if fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your preconceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climatic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities...

This anthology contains the following:

• What is Alternate History by Shelly Shapiro
• Must and Shall by Harry Turtledove
• An Outpost of the Empire by Robert Silverberg
• We Could Do Worse by Gregory Benford
• Over There by Mike Resnick
• Ink from the New Moon by A. A. Attanasio
• Southpaw by Bruce McAllister
• The West is Red by Greg Costikyan
• The Forest of Time by Michael F. Flynn
• Aristotle and the Gun by L. Sprague de Camp
• How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion by Gene Wolfe

Edited by Gardner Dozois and Stanley Schmidt