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The collection opens with "The Daimon," written by Harry Turtledove, AH's best-known practitioner. In Turtledove's turning point, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates chooses to accompany General Alkibiades to war instead of remaining in Athens, and sets Alkibiades on a triumphant, terrible new course.
Set in the British India-dominated alternate history of The Peshawar Lancers, S.M. Stirling's novella is a rousing old-fashioned adventure. "Shikari in Galveston" follows a hunting safari through a regressed American frontier that might have given even Daniel Boone pause.
A prequel to her Book of Ash tetralogy, Mary Gentle's novella "The Logistics of Carthage" concerns Christian warriors serving pagan Turks in a North Africa conquered by Visigoths instead of Vandals, and is the strongest story in Worlds That Weren't.
The collection concludes with "The Last Ride of German Freddie," in which Nebula Award winner Walter Jon Williams considers what might have happened if the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had taken himself and his superman theories to the Wild West. --Cynthia Ward
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Novellas by Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle and Walter Jon Williams present alternative versions of historical events. Turtledove writes about Alkibiades leading his soldiers to victory over the Spartans; Stirling has an Angrezi aristocrat exploring the wilds of Texas; Mary Gentle sets her story in a very different Turkish Empire in 1453, while Walter Jon Williams has an odd figure in Tombstone, Arizona. Published @ $21.95. Remainder Mark. Seller Inventory # 015656
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