The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, 9781845297794
Paperback
What if history took a different turn? Worlds transformed.

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

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  • Paperback

    608 pages

  • Release Date

    19 October 2002

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Summary

Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson’s story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781845297794
ISBN-10:1845297792
Author:Ian Watson, Ian Whates
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Robinson Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:608
Release Date:19 October 2002
Weight:475g
Dimensions:198mm x 152mm x 40mm
Series:Mammoth Books
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.

Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable. - The Times

One of Britain’s consistently finest science fiction writers. - New Scientist

About The Author

Ian Watson

Ian Watson is a veteran SF author. He co-edited Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis with Michael Bishop, and Afterlives: Stories about Life after Death with Pamela Sargent.

Ian Whates is a rising SF author who founded NewCon Press in 2006 to publish the original anthologies TimePieces, disLOCATIONS and, more recently, the all-women anthology Myth-Understandings, and also Celebration, a collection to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, of which he is Development Director as well as editor of its on-line news and reviews magazine Matrix.

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