Worlds That Weren't

In this collection of original novellas, four award-winning masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four brilliant excursions into what might have been. Under the influence of the philosopher Sokrates, the Athenian general Alkibiades leads his soldiers to victory over the Spartans in New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove's "The Daimon."...Set in the same universe as The Peshawar Lancers, "Shikari in Galveston" by national bestselling author S. M. Stirling features an Angrezi aristocrat's hunting expedition in the wilds of Texas-and his growing admiration for the natives who dwell there....In 1453, a rather different Turkish Empire took Constantinople. Four years later, European mercenaries find themselves stranded on the coast of North Africa-with an embarrassing corpse-in "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle....In New York Times bestselling author Walter Jon Williams's "The Last Ride of German Freddie," a mysterious figure stalks Tombstone, Arizona, trading philosophy-and lead-with the likes of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.Turtledove, Harry is the author of 'Worlds That Weren't', published 2005 under ISBN 9780451460547 and ISBN 0451460545.