Journal Entry 1 by krin511 from Olney, Maryland USA on Sunday, June 18, 2006

"Alternate History: The What-If? fiction that has finally come into its own! Shedding light on the past by exploring what could have happened, this bold genre tantalizes your imagination and challenges your perceptions with thrilling reinventions of humanity's most climactic events. Enter worlds that are at once fanciful and familiar, where fact and fiction meld in a provocative landscape of infinite possibilities. . . .

"An Ink from the New Moon" by A. A. Attanasio
"We Could Do Worse" by Gregory Benford
"The West Is Red" by Greg Costikyan
"The Forest of Time" by Michael F. Flynn
"Southpaw" by Bruce McAllister
"Over There" by Mike Resnick
"An Outpost of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg
"Aristotle and the Gun" by L. Sprague de Camp
"Must and Shall" by Harry Turtledove
"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" by Gene Wolfe

With these dazzling stories, discover just how different things might have been!" 

Journal Entry 2 by krin511 from Olney, Maryland USA on Friday, August 11, 2006

I enjoyed these stories of alternate history. I especially liked the alternate America where the states never joined in a union and were still fighting each other.

Mailed to QueenBoadicia. 

Journal Entry 3 by QueenBoadicea from Brooklyn, New York USA on Tuesday, August 15, 2006

I received this book on Saturday, 8/12/06. Thanks for sending this (did I request it?). From your description, it sounds interesting. I hope to get to it soon. 

Journal Entry 4 by QueenBoadicea from Brooklyn, New York USA on Tuesday, September 05, 2006

This book takes the old idea of "what if" and goes deeply into its subject. The idea that history is mutable and that we could be living in very different times and regimes is probed again and again. If I had to pick a favorite story, it would have to be "Aristotle and the Gun." This touches on the most obvious of history-changing devices: time travel. If you went back in time and interacted with the people from a previous era, what changes would you make? How would you avoid doing anything disastrous that might alter your future? What would happen if you screwed up?

"Aristotle and the Gun" shows a MAJOR screw-up and the memoirs of a misanthrope at the end of a bitter, failed existence.

For now I list this as part of my PC. However, I might be willing to send it on to somebody else if they show an avid interest for it.