ONE LAMP
Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Edited by Gordon Van Gelder
The alternate history story is probably the purest form of "what if" speculation. From earthshaking encounters, such
as Gandhi's pacifists facing down the Nazis, to absurd ones, such as Philip K. Dick hobnobbing with Richard M. Nixon,
this book explores what-might-have-been, pasts that never were. If Mark Twain had encountered Quantrill's Raiders… if
Rome never fell… if the past could be re-made, reshaped to our desires.
The fifteen stories gathered here were written from the 1950s to just last year, demonstrating why alternate history
has grown more popular than ever. They appeared in the pages of the most respected magazine in the SF
genre—The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction—and were selected by that magazine's editor,
Gordon Van Gelder. The table of contents is studded with classic SF/fantasy names, including C.M. Kornbluth,
Ben Bova, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, Alfred Bester, and Poul Anderson. And what they have written will
not fail to enthrall any reader inclined to the fantastic, the meta-real, the might-have-been …
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| Table of Contents | | | | |
| Introduction | – | Gordon Van Gelder |
| Two Dooms | – | C. M. Kornbluth |
| The Lincoln Train | – | Maureen F. McHugh |
| A Hero of the Empire | – | Robert Silverberg |
| The Green Moon | – | Dana Wilde |
| The Two Dicks | – | Paul McAuley |
| We Come Not to Praise Washington | – | Charles Coleman Finlay |
| Auspicious Eggs | – | James Morrow |
| Delenda Est | – | Poul Anderson |
| The Men Who Murdered Mohammed | – | Alfred Bester |
| The Last Article | – | Harry Turtledove |
| The Secret History of the Ornithopter | – | Jan Lars Jensen |
| The Café Coup | – | Ben Bova |
| And I Think to Myself, What a Wonderful World | – | Paul Di Filippo |
| The Territory | – | Bradley Denton |
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