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Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #161265 in Books
- Published on: 1999-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 336 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
A collection of alternative history stories includes works by Gregory Benford, Robert Silverberg, and Harry Turtledove, that blend fiction and fact to recast history's most dramatic events.
Customer Reviews
Rather US-biased
A bit of a mixed bag: some I'd read again but others not. Most are based in US history, which I found a turn-off, not knowing enough about what had really happened.
Some stories are inovative, some could be better.
Thanks to Dozois and Schmidt here is yet another collection of possible futures. Great reading though some stories could be better. Hope that some authors will continue the exploration of alteranate worlds and history.
Great intro to Uchronia for me
By far, the two best stories were among the book's longest: Michael F. Flynn's "The Forest of Time" and L. Sprague de Camp's "Aristotle and the Gun." A couple of the shorter ones were forgettable or incomprehensible. Several were merely above average. I loved the premise of Harry Turtledove's "Must and Shall," but the execution was not on par with the ones I cited above.
