title: Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History
text: # Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History
  
  Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History is an anthology of alternate history short works edited by Gardner Dozois and Stanley Schmidt. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine in July 1998.
  
  ## Summary
  
  The book collects ten short stories by various authors, together with an introductory essay by Shelly Shapiro.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * "What Is Alternate History?" [essay] (Shelly Shapiro)
  * "Must and Shall" (Harry Turtledove)
  * "An Outpost of the Empire" (Robert Silverberg)
  * "We Could Do Worse" (Gregory Benford)
  * "Over There" (Mike Resnick)
  * "Ink from the New Moon" (A. A. Attanasio)
  * "Southpaw" (Bruce McAllister)
  * "The West Is Red" (Greg Costikyan)
  * "The Forest of Time" (Michael Flynn)
  * "Aristotle and the Gun" (L. Sprague de Camp)
  * "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" (Gene Wolfe)
  