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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. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Excellent!
These are not your typical, predictable "what if someone went back in time and gave General Lee machine guns?" type of historical revision tales.Instead, they are based in real science, and speculate about how real, historical (or scientific) events could have changed the world if they happened in a just slightly (and realistically) different way.Brilliantly written, and very fun to read.

Delightful New Alternate History Shorts...
Unlike most alternate history anthologies, ReVisions consists of all new and original stories, a great change from the constantly re-hashed collections. All of the stories in ReVisions deal with some sort of technological, social, or anthropological change. There's everything from Nikola Tesla inventing the laser to the Sumerians creating the printing press, to what might have happened if dogs had never been domesticated or if Da Vinci's inventions had actually been put into effect.

The stories themselves, while creative and original, do not seem to have been edited as well as they might have been, keeping me from giving ReVisions a full five stars. It's a new release, and so you probably won't find it in used bookstores. That being said, I have no regrets about spending the full price to buy from Amazon.

The topics featured for diversion are best-suited for scientific and engineering types, but there are a few to satisfy those preferring socially-based or even anthropological stories.

delightful what if alternate history tales
This fifteen short story collection contains what if alternate history tales that will delight genre fans.Each tale takes a key scientific or technological element and changes when it occurred so that it either intersects at an earlier pivotal moment in history such as the Sumerians inventing the printing press in BC or never materialized such as Galileo fails to release his findings.The tales are all well written and the explanation of the REVISION point is fun to follow to ascertain whether the reader agrees with the author's logic.Intriguing are those with a modern aspect to include Tesla inventing a laser in the nineteenth century, Livingstone bringing AIDS out of Africa in the nineteenth century and the government pushing aquanauts over astronauts and banning the Internet.Mindful of the Marvel Comics What If series, this terrific collection will have the audience thinking of new ones such as what if an underpaid over paid book reviewer was given a guitar instead of Narnia?

Harriet Klausner
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Ibsen's last play in verse. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Conscience, published by Catholics for a Free Choice on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 3434 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The ban that kills: the Vatican's allegations about condoms deny scientific fact and cost some people their lives.
Author: Anna Foss
Publication: Conscience (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Catholics for a Free Choice
Volume: 26Issue: 1Page: 32(5)

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