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Fifteen original tales of "what if" Some of today's top science fiction writers explore the futures that might have been, including original stories from Julie E. Czerneda and other great names in the genre.Contents:The resonance of light / by Geoffrey Landis --Out of China / by Julie E. Czerneda --Site Fourteen / by Laura Anne Gilman --Silent Leonardo / by Kage Baker --A call from the wild / by Dorranna Durgin --Axial axioms / by James Alan Gardner --The terminal solution / by Robin Wayne Bailey --The Ashbazu effect / by John G. McDaid --A word for heathens / by Peter Watts --A ghost story / by Jihane Noskateb --The executioner's apprentice / by Kay Kenyon --Swimming upstream in the wells of the desert / by Mike Resnick and Susan R. Matthews --Unwirer / by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross --When the morning stars sang together / by Isaac Szpindel --Herd mentality / by Jay Caselberg
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