Alternate Generals III
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Editor | Harry Turtledove |
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Cover artist | Jeff Easley |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Alternate Generals |
Genre | Alternate history, satire |
Publisher | Baen Books |
Publication date | April 1, 2005 |
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Preceded by | Alternate Generals II |
Alternate Generals III, Baen, 2005, is a collection of short alternate history stories, edited by Harry Turtledove.[1] The novel includes includes 13 short stories, including Turtledove's own "Shock and Awe".
The collection followed two earlier books in the series, Alternate Generals in 1998 and Alternate Generals II in 2002.
Stories
Title | Author | Scenario |
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"A Key to the Illuminated Heretic" | A.M. Dellamonica | Joan of Arc is spared the death penalty in 1431 and returns to social activism in the 1450s. She founds a new sect of Christianity and leads her followers in a war against Charles VII of France and the Catholic Church. |
"The Road to Endless Sleep" | James Fiscus | Mark Antony and Cleopatra defeat Caesar Augustus at the Battle of Actium and become the rulers of the Roman Republic. |
"Not Fade Away" | William Sanders | Douglas MacArthur is captured by the Japanese in the Philippines and becomes a prisoner of war. |
"I Shall Return" | John Mina | Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton and Jimmy Doolittle garrison the Philippines in December 1941. |
"Shock and Awe" | Harry Turtledove | Roman soldiers are sent to Jerusalem to suppress the Son of God's terrorist band. |
"A Good Bag" | Brad Linaweaver | |
"The Burning Spear at Twilight" | Mike Resnick | Jomo Kenyatta escapes from prison in 1955 and wages a propaganda war against the British Empire. |
"It Isn't Every Day of the Week" | Roland J. Green | Stephen Decatur's actions in the War of 1812 diverge from reality. |
"Measureless to Man" | Judith Tarr | Genghis Khan converts to Judaism. |
"Over the Sea from Skye" | Lillian Stewart Carl | Under Bonnie Prince Charlie's leadership, Scotland successfully secedes from Great Britain in 1746. |
"First, Catch Your Elephant" | Esther Friesner | A satire story through the grunt's eye view of the Carthaginian attempt to capture Rome during the Second Punic War. |
"East of Appomattox" | Lee Allred | Five years after the Confederate States won its independence following its victory in the American Civil War, Robert E. Lee travels to London to secure diplomatic recognition for his nation. |
"Murdering Uncle Ho" | Chris Bunch | During President John F. Kennedy's second term, American participation in the Vietnam War surged with disastrous results. In April 1969, his successor President Nelson Rockefeller approves a mission to assassinate Ho Chi Minh, which doesn't go according to plan. |
See also
References
- ^ "Baen.com Alternate Generals III". 16 February 2020.
External links
- Review, sfsite.com, by Steven H Silver]
- "A Key to the Illuminated Heretic"
- "The Road to Endless Sleep"
- "Not Fade Away"
- "I Shall Return"
Categories:
- 2005 short story collections
- Alternate history anthologies
- Cultural depictions of Mark Antony
- Cultural depictions of Augustus
- Cultural depictions of Cleopatra
- Cultural depictions of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Cultural depictions of Hannibal
- Cultural depictions of Jesus
- Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc
- Cultural depictions of Judas Iscariot
- Cultural depictions of Andrew Jackson
- Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy
- Cultural depictions of Genghis Khan
- Cultural depictions of Robert E. Lee
- Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
- Cultural depictions of Douglas MacArthur
- Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon
- Cultural depictions of George S. Patton
- Cultural depictions of Saint Peter
- Cultural depictions of Pontius Pilate
- Alternate history novels set in ancient Rome
- American Civil War alternate histories
- World War II alternate histories
- Works by Harry Turtledove
- Vietnam War fiction
- War of 1812 fiction
- Novels set in the 3rd century BC
- Works set in the 1st century BC
- Works set in the 1st century
- Fiction set in the 1430s
- Fiction set in the 1450s
- Fiction set in 1746
- Fiction set in 1773
- Fiction set in 1812
- Fiction set in 1868
- Fiction set in 1941
- Fiction set in 1955
- Fiction set in 1969
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