Darwin anathema / Stephen Baxter. Sidewinders / Ken MacLeod -- The wandering Christian / Eugene Byrne, Kim Newman -- Hush my mouth / Suzette Hayden Elgin -- A letter from the Pope / Harry Harrison, Tom Shippey -- Such a deal / Esther M. Friesner -- Ink from the new moon / A. A. Attanasio -- Dispatches from the revolution / Pat Cadigan -- Catch that Zeppelin / Fritz Leiber -- A very British history / Paul McAuley -- The imitation game / Rudy Rucker -- Weinachtsabend / Keith Roberts -- The lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson -- His powder'd wig, his crown of thrones / Marc Laidlaw -- Roncesvalles / Judith Tarr -- The English mutiny / Ian R. MacLeod -- O one / Chris Roberson -- Islands in the sea / Harry Turtledove -- Lenin in Odessa / George Zebrowski -- The Einstein gun / Pierre GeĢvart -- Tales from the Venia Woods / Robert Silverberg -- Manassa, again / Gregory Benford -- The sleeping serpent / Pamela Sargent -- Waiting for the Olympians / Frederik Pohl -- Darwin anathema / Stephen Baxter.
Summary:
Every short story in this varied collection has one thing in common: each features some altercation in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today.
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