Alternative Histories
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| caption = Dust cover of first edition
| editors = Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg
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| cover_artist = M. C. Escher
| country = United States
| language = English
| series = Garland Reference Library of the Humanities no. 623
| genre = Alternate history short stories
| publisher = Garland Publishing
| release_date = 1986
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| media_type = Print (Hardcover)
| pages = 363 pp
| isbn = 0-8240-8659-7
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| oclc = 13333538
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Alternative Histories : Eleven Stories of the World as It Might Have Been is an anthology of alternate history short stories, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. It was first published in hardcover by Garland Publishing in December 1986.{{isfdb title|id=307510}}
Summary
Contents
- "Hands Off" (1881) (Edward Everett Hale)
- "Delenda Est" (1955) (Poul Anderson)
- "The Wheels of If" (1940) (L. Sprague de Camp)
- "In the Circle of Nowhere" (1954) (Irving E. Cox, Jr.)
- "The Lady Margaret" (1968) (Keith Roberts)
- "He Walked Around the Horses" (1948) (H. Beam Piper)
- "Custer's Last Jump" (1976) (Steven Utley) and f(Howard Waldrop)
- "The Curfew Tolls" (1935) (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- "Hush My Mouth" (1986) (Suzette Haden Elgin)
- "Interurban Queen" (1970) (R. A. Lafferty)
- "The Lucky Strike" (1984) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
- "Afterword: Alt History in Science Fiction" (Gordon B. Chamberlain)
- "Pasts That Might Have Been, II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History" (Gordon B. Chamberlain) and (Barton C. Hacker)