What would have happened if history had been different -- if the major events that shaped our times had occurred in a different way ... or had not occurred at all? In this stellar collection, twelve of science fiction's most imaginative minds have altered the past to reveal a present of astonishing and startling possibilities...a rare glimpse of what might have been. From a Germany that won the war to a modern exodus from Egypt, from the death of ancient Greece to the true secret of the Soviets, these bold excursions in time depict bizarre new worlds -- oddly familiar, disturbingly different.

"In the House of Sorrows" (Poul Anderson)

"Remaking History" (Kim Stanley Robinson)

"Counting Potsherds" (Harry Turtledove)

"Leapfrog" (James P. Hogan)

"Everything But Honor" (George Alec Effinger)

"We Could Do Worse" (Gregory Benford)

"To the Promised Land" (Robert Silverberg)

"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant" (James Morrow)

"All Assassins" (Barry N. Malzberg)

"Game Night at the Fox and Goose" (Karen Joy Fowler)

"Waiting for the Olympians" (Frederik Pohl)

"The Return of William Proxmire" (Larry Niven)