Alternate Americas


Alternate Americas is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the fourth volume in their What Might Have Been series. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Spectra in October 1992. It was later gathered together with Alternate Wars into the omnibus anthology What Might Have Been: Volumes 3 & 4: Alternate Wars / Alternate Americas.
The book collects fourteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Benford.

Contents

  • "Introduction"
  • "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life"
  • "Ink from the New Moon"
  • "Vinland the Dream"
  • "If There Be Cause"
  • "Isabella of Castile Answers Her Mail"
  • "Let Time Shape"
  • "Red Alert"
  • "Such a Deal"
  • "Looking for the Fountain"
  • "The Round-Eyed Barbarians"
  • "Destination Indies"
  • "Ship Full of Jews"
  • "The Karamazov Caper"
  • "The Sleeping Serpent"