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Article: Turtledove, Harry, et al. Worlds that weren't.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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Penguin Putnam, Roc. 298p. c2003. 0-451-52898-0. $14.00. SA
Four novellas are included here: "The Daimon" by Harry Turtledove, "Shikari in Galveston" by S. M. Stirling, "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle, and "The Last Ride of German Freddie" by Walter ion Williams. In Turtledove's Greece. Sokrates influences General Alkibiades to prevail over the Spartans. In Williams' Tombstone, Arizona of the Earps and O.K. Corral, Friedrich Nietzsche tests his theories of destruction. Stirling transplants his characters from The Peshawar Lancers into the US of his alternative view of history, while Gentle introduces the antecedents of her Ash series characters into ...