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A collection of eleven tales of alternate history by leading science fiction authors explores a world that might have been, from a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders or a Civil War fought by robots to a World War II in which participants race to achieve orbital rockets rather than atomic weapons, accompanied by a nonfiction essay by Winston Churchill on the American Civil War. Reprint.
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What would have happened if history had been different: if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way-or not at all? From a Trojan War in which Helen surrenders to a Civil War fought with robots, from a World War I in which Teddy Roosevelt tries to recapture the glory of San Juan Hill to a World War II in which the race is not for atomic weapons but for orbital rockets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds-oddly familiar, disturbingly different.
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