"SF collection contains delightful alternate histories"
This fifteen short story collection contains what if
alternate history tales that will delight genre fans. Each
tale takes a key scientific or technological element and
changes when it occurred so that it either intersects at an
earlier pivotal moment in history such as the Sumerians
inventing the printing press in BC or never materialized
such as Galileo fails to release his findings. The tales
are all well written and the explanation of the REVISION
point is fun to follow to ascertain whether the reader
agrees with the author's logic. Intriguing are those with a
modern aspect to include Tesla inventing a laser in the
nineteenth century, Livingstone bringing AIDS out of Africa
in the nineteenth century and the government pushing
aquanauts over astronauts and banning the Internet. Mindful
of the Marvel Comics What If series, this terrific
collection will have the audience thinking of new ones such
as what if an underpaid over paid book reviewer was given a
guitar instead of Narnia? Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 8, 2004
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 24, 2007
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