Alternate Heroes

{{Short description|1990 anthology edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = Alternate Heroes

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| image = Alternate Heroes.jpg

| caption = Cover of first edition

| editors = Gregory Benford
Martin H. Greenberg

| cover_artist = Paul Swendsen

| country = United States

| language = English

| series = What Might Have Been

| genre = Science fiction

| publisher = Bantam Spectra

| release_date = January 1990

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| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = viii, 354 pp.

| isbn = 0-553-28279-4

| preceded_by = Alternate Empires

| followed_by = Alternate Wars

}}

Alternate Heroes is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the second volume in their What Might Have Been series.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uchronia.net/label/benfwhatmi.html|title=Uchronia: What Might Have Been|website=www.uchronia.net}} It was first published in paperback by Bantam Spectra in January 1990, and in trade paperback by BP Books in June 2004. It was also gathered together with Alternate Empires into the omnibus anthology What Might Have Been: Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires / Alternate Heroes (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, July 1990).{{isfdb title|id=27170}}

The book collects fourteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Benford.