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• ix • Introduction: Playing the Game of WHAT IF? • essay by Mike Resnick
• 1 • The Father of His Country • short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• 7 • The War of '07 • novelette by Jayge Carr
• 29 • Black Earth and Destiny • (1991) • short story by Thomas A. Easton
• 42 • Chickasaw Slave • (1991) • novelette by Judith Moffett
• 69 • How the South Preserved the Union • novelette by Ralph Roberts
• 91 • Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night • short story by Jack L. Chalker
• 111 • Lincoln's Charge • short story by Bill Fawcett
• 131 • We Are Not Amused • short story by Laura Resnick
• 141 • Patriot's Dream • novelette by Tappan King
• 168 • I Shall Have a Flight to Glory • novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• 191 • Love Our Lockwood • short story by Janet Kagan
• 201 • Plowshare • short story by Martha Soukup
• 215 • The Bull Moose at Bay • (1991) • short story by Mike Resnick
• 227 • A Fireside Chat • short story by Jack Nimersheim
• 246 • Fighting Bob • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 262 • Truth, Justice, and the American Way • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 270 • Kingfish • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 286 • No Other Choice • short story by Barbara Delaplace
• 297 • The More Things Change ... • short story by Glen Engel-Cox [as by Glen E. Cox]
• 303 • The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson • short story by David Gerrold
• 318 • Heavy Metal • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 336 • Fellow Americans • (1991) • short story by Eileen Gunn
• 352 • Dispatches from the Revolution • (1991) • novelette by Pat Cadigan
• 377 • Suppose They Gave a Peace ... • novelette by Susan Shwartz
• 409 • Paper Trail • short story by Brian M. Thomsen [as by Brian Thomsen]
• 421 • Demarche to Iran • short story by Alexis A. Gilliland
• 439 • Huddled Masses • novella by Lawrence Person
• 453 • Dukakis and the Aliens • (1992) • short story by Robert Sheckley