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• vii • Introduction (Alternate Heroes) • essay by Gregory Benford
• 1 • A Sleep and a Forgetting • (1989) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 25 • The Old Man and C • (1989) • short story by Sheila Finch
• 41 • The Last Article • (1988) • novelette by Harry Turtledove
• 77 • Mules in Horses' Harness • novelette by Michael Cassutt
• 101 • Lenin in Odessa • short story by George Zebrowski
• 123 • Abe Lincoln in McDonald's • (1989) • short story by James Morrow
• 137 • Another Goddamned Showboat • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 145 • Loose Cannon • novelette by Susan Shwartz
• 185 • A Letter from the Pope • novelette by Harry Harrison and Tom Shippey
• 215 • Roncesvalles • novelette by Judith Tarr
• 243 • His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes • (1989) • short story by Marc Laidlaw
• 261 • Departures • (1989) • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 275 • Instability • (1988) • short story by Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker
• 291 • No Spot of Ground • (1989) • novella by Walter Jon Williams