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An anthology of stories edited by Esther M. Freisner and Martin Harry Greenberg

In a collection of fantasy stories, warrior women take on pirates invading a charity ball, bring an obnoxious loremaster to justice, protect children from magically-summoned barbarian hordes, and rescue Tokyo from destructive reptiles.

William Sanders, author of fifteen published books, is best known to science fiction fans for the alternate-history comedies and and for his short stories based on Cherokee tradition. (Two of these stories have appeared in the twelfth and thirteenth editions of the Year’s Best Science Fiction.) In his first tale for Mr. Sanders works both veins at once…

Прославленные мастера жанра, такие как Майкл Суэнвик, Брюс Стерлинг, Джо Холдеман, Джин Вулф, Гарри Тертлдав и многие другие, приглашают читателей в увлекательные путешествия по далекому будущему и альтернативному прошлому. Тайны инопланетных миров и величайшие достижения научной мысли представлены на страницах знаменитого ежегодного сборника, обладателя многочисленных престижных наград. Только самое новое и лучшее достойно оказаться под обложкой «The Year's Best Science Fiction», признанного бренда в мире фантастики!

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• “The Lucky Strike”: When is chosen over to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson’s gripping tale.

• “Bring the Jubilee”: Ward Moore’s novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War… and all of American history.

• “Through Road No Wither”: After Hitler’s victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear’s apocalyptic vision of the future.

• “All the Myriad Ways”: Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon’s death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven’s brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences.

• “Mozart in Mirrorshades”: Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past–with disastrous results.

…as well as works by Poul Anderson • Gregory Benford • Jack L. Chalker • Nicholas A. DiChario • Brad Linaweaver • William Sanders • Susan Shwartz • Allen Steele • and Harry Turtledove himself!

The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder