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Other Earths
| Author: | Nick Gevers Jay Lake |
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DAW Books, 2009 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Eleven original stories about the different paths our world might've taken...
Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth, our reality the only one that exists? Or are there many parallel worlds and societies, some very similar to ours, some barely recognizable?
What if...
Lincoln had never become president, and the Civil War had never taken place?
Columbus never discovered America, and the Inca developed a massive, technologically advanced empire?
Magic was real and a half-faery queen ruled England?
Hitler and Germany won the war because America never got involved?
Many of the world's religions were totally commercialized, their temples run like casinos, religions deisgned purely for profit?
An author discovered a book written by an alternate version of himself?
These are just some of the possible pathways that you can take to explore the Other Earths that may be waiting just one event away...
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake
- This Peaceable Land; or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe - novelette by Robert Charles Wilson
- The Goat Variations - short story by Jeff VanderMeer
- The Unblinking Eye - short story by Stephen Baxter
- Csilla's Story - novelette by Theodora Goss
- Winterborn - short story by Liz Williams
- Donovan Sent Us - short story by Gene Wolfe
- The Holy City and Em's Reptile Farm - short story by Greg van Eekhout
- The Receivers - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
- A Family History - short story by Paul Park
- Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life - novella by Lucius Shepard
- Nine Alternate Alternate Histories - short story by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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