"In this all-new collection of original novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been by traversing Worlds That Weren't." "Under the influence of the philosopher Sokrates, the Athenian general Alkibiades leads his soldiers to victory over the Spartans in Harry Turtledove's "The Daimon."" "Set in the same universe as The Peshawar Lancers, "Shikari in Galveston" by S. M. Stirling features an Angrezi aristocrat's hunting expedition into the wilds of Texas - and his growing admiration for the natives who dwell there." "In 1453, a rather different Turkish Empire raised the flag of Astarte's Bloody Crescent over Constantinople. Four years later, European mercenaries find themselves stranded on the coast of North Africa - with an embarrassing corpse- in "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle." "In Walter Jon Williams's "The Last Ride of German Freddie," a mysterious Old World figure stalks Tombstone, Arizona, as a cardsharp, trading philosophy - and lead - with the likes of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved