Alternate Wars  Alternate Wars is an anthology of alternate history science fiction short stories edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg as the third volume in their What Might Have Been series. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Spectra in December 1991. It was later gathered together with "Alternate Americas" into the omnibus anthology "What Might Have Been: Volumes 3 & 4: Alternate Wars / Alternate Americas" (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, December 1992). The book collects twelve novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Benford.