History's Left Turn: 30 Flash-Fiction Stories of Alternate History - Softcover

Waters, Ric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1539019853 ISBN 13: 9781539019855

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"History's Left Turn" is a collection of 30 alternate-history flash-fiction stories that span the globe and make stops at different points in time when some act led to a different outcome and explores the aftermath of decisions made. From an ancient Rome that fell to Hannibal in 218 B.C.E. to an English ship's captain and crew discovering something gruesome in Antarctica to what might have been if U.S. President John F. Kennedy's push to get the United States to the Moon.

About this title

About the Author

Ric Waters is a writer of short stories and novellas. He writes in a variety of genres, including alternate history, science fiction and historical fiction. Waters resides in the west suburbs of Chicago and participates in two writers groups in the area.

From the Back Cover

World History is riddled with turning points where a decision or pure chance could forge a new path and lead to a vastly different outcome.

What if ...

someone aware of John Wilkes Booth's plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln had tipped off the authorities the night the president attended "My American Cousin" at Ford's Theater?

the telephone conversation between Boris Pasternak and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hadn't ended with Stalin dismissing the author as harmless?

the hurricane that devastated western Cuba had moved more than 500 miles east and ravaged the sugar-cane fields of Provincía Oriente, inadvertently killing one or both of Fidel Castro's parents and left anti-Communist General Fulcigenio Bautista in control of Cuba?

the Chinese Nationalist Party had pressed its advantage against the Communist insurgents, leading to a Nationalist victory during the Communist revolt and the country developed more along the lines of its Western allies?

the Black Death had ravaged India rather than the Crimean Peninsula about the time Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives and he fails to heed warnings from the natives at Kappadu?

These are just a few of the scenarios explored in History's Left Turn. Some of the stories within this book explore the point at which history diverged; others look at the aftermath of events.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1539019853
• ISBN 13: 9781539019855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140