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What might have been. Volumes 1 & 2 / edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction, American.
- Alternative histories (Fiction), American.
- Science fiction, American.
- Time travel--Fiction.
- Time travel.
- Genre:
- Fantasy fiction, American.
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes in 1 (1 unnumbered leaf, 542 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Other Title:
- What might have been. Volumes I & II
- What might have been. Volumes 1 and 2
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books ; [Place of publication not identified] : [Science Fiction Book Club], [1990]
- Contents:
- v. 1. Alternate empires
- v. 2. Alternate heroes.
- (Vol.1) Introduction (Alternate Empires): In the house of sorrows / Poul Anderson
- Remaking history / Kim Stanley Robinson
- Counting potsherds / Harry Turtledove
- Leapfrog / James P. Hogan
- Everything but honor
- George Alec Effinger
- We could do worse / Gregory Benford
- To the Promised Land / Robert Silverberg
- Bible stories for adults, no. 31: the covenant / James Morrow
- All assassins / Barry N. Malzberg
- Game night at the Fox and Goose / Karen Joy Fowler
- Waiting for the Olympians / Frederik Pohl
- The return of William Proxmire / Larry Niven.
- (Vol.2) Introduction (Alternate heroes): A sleep and a forgetting / Robert Silverberg
- The old man and C / Sheila Finch
- The last article / Harry Turtledove
- Mules in horses' harness / Michael Cassutt
- Lenin in Odessa / George Zebrowski
- Abe Lincoln in McDonald's / James Morrow
- Another goddamned showboat / Barry N. Malzberg
- Loose cannon / Susan Schwartz
- A letter from the Pope / Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey
- Roncesvalles / Judith Tarr
- His powder'd wig, his crown of thornes / Marc Laidlaw
- Departures / Harry Turtledove
- Instability / Rudy Rucker and Paul Di Filippo
- No spot of ground / Walter Jon Williams.
- Notes:
- "Jacket art by Pat Morrissey."--Bookjacket.
- Co-publisher statement and date of publication taken from Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 205189.
- OCLC:
- 945554308
- Publisher Number:
- 17261 Science Fiction Book Club
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