Alternate Empires
Alternate Empires is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the first volume in their What Might Have Been series. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Books in August 1989, and in trade paperback by BP Books in March 2004. It was also gathered together with Alternate Heroes into the omnibus anthology What Might Have Been: Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires / Alternate Heroes.
The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Benford.Contents
- "Introduction"
- "In the House of Sorrows"
- "Remaking History"
- "Counting Potsherds"
- "Leapfrog"
- "Everything But Honor"
- "We Could Do Worse"
- "To the Promised Land"
- "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant"
- "All Assassins"
- "Game Night at the Fox and Goose"
- "Waiting for the Olympians"
- "The Return of William Proxmire"
