Worlds That Weren't - Softcover

Stirling, S. M.; Gentle, Mary; Williams, Walter Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451528980 ISBN 13: 9780451528988

Publisher: Ace Books, 2003

Synopsis

Four award-winning authors.

Four amazing alternate histories.

In this collection of novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been.

Bestselling author Harry Turtledove imagines a different fate for Socrates (now Sokrates); S. M. Stirling envisions life "in the wilds of a re-barbarized Texas" after asteroids strike the earth in the 19th century; Sidewise winner Mary Gentle contributes a story of love (and pigs) set in the mid-15th century, as European mercenaries prepare to sack a Gothic Carthage; and Nebula nominee Walter Jon Williams pens a tale of Nietzsche intervening in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

About this title

Review:

"These novellas are superior works...well worth the attention of science fiction and historical fiction readers."
-Strange Horizons

About the Author:

Harry Turtledove--the New York Times bestselling author of numerous alternate history novels, including The Guns of the South, How Few Remain, and the Worldwar quartet--has a Ph.D. in Byzantine history. Nominated numerous times for the Nebula Award, he has won the Hugo, Sidewise, and John Esthen Cook Awards. He lives with his wife and children in California.

S. M. Stirling is the author of numerous novels, both on his own and in collaboration. A former lawyer and an amateur historian, he lives in the Southwest with his wife, Jan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0451528980
• ISBN 13: 9780451528988
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Turtledove Harry