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And with contributors like Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, and Turtledove himself, there's truly not a clunker in the bunch. All of these stories revolve around Turtledove's central beard-tugging question, but they vary wildly in style, mood, and approach. Many toy with how the future might be altered had some particular event turned out differently (what if the Confederates had won at Gettysburg, or the Enola Gay had crashed before making its fateful flight?), while others follow dimension-hoppers traveling through tangled branches of our timeline (as in Sterling's "Mozart in Mirrorshades," Anderson's "Eutopia," and Jack L. Chalker's surreal ferry ride through "Dance Band on the Titanic").
All but four of these stories were written in the last two decades of the century--before then, Turtledove suggests in part, we weren't scientifically certain about whether Martians and "oceans on Venus full of reptilian monsters" might exist, so we were satisfied by more conventional, planet-faring SF. But the ideas that the contributors wrestle with here, and that irresistible human urge to speculate about the implications of our actions (and whether our decisions matter at all), prove timeless. --Paul Hughes
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However, this is a fine anthology, coming in a bit below the magic 4.00 mark at 3.89.
Turtledove gives a brief introduction to the subgenre.
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : The Lucky Strike - Kim Stanley Robinson
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : The Winterberry - Nick DiChario
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Islands in the Sea - Harry Turtledove
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Suppose They Gave a Peace - Susan M. Shwartz
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : All the Myriad Ways - Larry Niven
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Through Road No Whither - Greg Bear
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Manassas Again - Gregory Benford
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Dance Band on the Titanic - Jack L. Chalker
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Bring the Jubilee - Ward Moore
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Eutopia - Poul Anderson
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : The Undiscovered
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Mozart in Mirrorshades - Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : The Death of Captain Future - Allen Steele
Best Alternate History Stories 20th Century : Moon of Ice - Brad Linaweaver
Japan nuke near miss punishment.
4.5 out of 5
Not quite dead president.
4 out of 5
Muslim, that is, Constantinople.
3.5 out of 5
Vietnam family politics.
4 out of 5
Murder maybe multiverse.
4.5 out of 5
I see bad things for the SS.
3.5 out of 5
Mech battle.
3 out of 5
Many worlds crew.
4 out of 5
Southron Indepence time physics ancestor shooting accident.
4 out of 5
Not my kinda place, boyfriend.
4 out of 5
Shakespeare good at shaking spears.
3 out of 5
Let them wear leather bikinis and crave recording deals.
4 out of 5
A poignant satire, if you will. A story of the hard graft of a spacer's life, and a deluded rich man that wants to be a hero, and just about believe he is Captain Future. Everyone thinks he is pretty much crazy, and won't work for him, so a man stuck for a job agrees to what he thinks is a one way trip.
It becomes more than that when they are the closest to an accident with a mass driver, and unless they do something about the distressed ship, something really big will hit Mars, wiping out most of the colony there.
Enter Captain Future. No dropoff for his new crewman/Futureman.
Finding the ship, the second mate realises :
“...There’s no such thing.” I bent over the keypad and went to work accessing the main computer, my fingers thick and clumsy within the suit gloves. “No Planet Police, no asteroid pirates. Just a ship whose air ducts are crawling with the Plague. You’re . . .”
“I’m Captain Future!” declaims his captain.
They manage to stop it, but Captain Future gets infected with the plague due to his lack of caution, but they eulogise him when they get back.
And as the end, in a story that really turns out to be quite moving, and well worth reading:
"Last night, some nervous kid-a cargo grunt off some LEO freighter, his union card probably still uncreased-sidled up to me at the bar and asked for my autograph. While I was signing the inside cover of his logbook, he told me a strange rumor he had recently heard: Captain Future managed to escape from the Fool’s Gold just before it blew. According to him, prospectors in the inner belt report spotting a gig on their screens, one whose pilot answers their calls as Curt Newton before transmissions are lost.
I bought the youngster a drink and told him the truth. Naturally, he refused to believe me, nor can I blame him.
Heroes are hard to find. We need to welcome them whenever they appear in our midst. You’ve just got to be careful to pick the right guy, because it’s easy for someone to pretend to be what they’re not.
Captain Future is dead.
Long live Captain Future."
5 out of 5
Goebbels daughter alliance.
3.5 out of 5
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