Alternative Histories

The book collects eleven novellas, novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an afterword by Gordon B. Chamberlain and a bibliography by Chamberlain and Barton C. Hacker.^[1]

• "Hands Off" (1881) (Edward Everett Hale)
• "Delenda Est" (1955) (Poul Anderson)
• "The Wheels of If" (1940) (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "In the Circle of Nowhere" (1954) (Irving E. Cox, Jr.)
• "The Lady Margaret" (1968) (Keith Roberts)
• "He Walked Around the Horses" (1948) (H. Beam Piper)
• "Custer's Last Jump" (1976) (Steven Utley) and f(Howard Waldrop)
• "The Curfew Tolls" (1935) (Stephen Vincent Benét)
• "Hush My Mouth" (1986) (Suzette Haden Elgin)
• "Interurban Queen" (1970) (R. A. Lafferty)
• "The Lucky Strike" (1984) (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• "Afterword: Alt History in Science Fiction" (Gordon B. Chamberlain)
• "Pasts That Might Have Been, II: A Revised Bibliography of Alternative History" (Gordon B. Chamberlain) and (Barton C. Hacker)