What if John F. Kennedy hadn’t been killed or Eisenhower had become a
clarinettist with Louis Armstrong or the Ottoman Empire still ruled most of
Europe? The Way It Wasn’t: Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternative History
by Martin Greenberg (Citadel Twilight, $14.95, ISBN 0 8065 1769 7) has
two or three gems, but is generally a fairly standard and predictable anthology
in this most fascinating subgenre of science fiction.
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