What Might Have Been, Vol. 4

By Ginger Scott

Book Overview

Fourteen of science fiction's most popular writers--including L. Sprague de Camp, Robert Silverberg, and Kim Stanley Robinson--offer their visions of an America that might have been. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055329007X
• ISBN13: 9780553290073
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

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This is not so much alternate Americas as the title would suggest, as alternate New Worlds. I think some of the stories in this collection make it the best of the volumes, and it is nice to see four female authors. The stories continue to make you think and contemplate on the way things could be, and therefore the way things are.But there are too few historical contingencies. Six stories deal with Columbus and three with...

some great stories of alternate history, some so-so.

I love Asian history so "Round Eyed Barbarbarians", "Ink from the New Moon", & "The Sleeping Serpent" were my favorites. De Camp (Round Eyed Barbarians) is the master of the humorous alternate history story so William Sanders & Connie Willis are ,perhaps, more in his tradition than Turtledove. Turtledove's tried to be funny, but I wasn't impressed. Years after reading this I'd realize he has written some great stuff though...