Contents: * A.M. Dellamonica, "A Key to the Illuminated Heretic" * James Fiscus, "The Road to Endless Sleep" * William Sanders, "Not Fade Away" * John Mina, "I Shall Return" * Harry Turtledove, "Shock and Awe" * Brad Linaweaver, "A Good Bag" * Mike Resnick, "The Burning Spear at Twilight" * Roland Green, "It Isn't Every Day of the Week" * Judith Tarr, "Measureless to Man" * Lillian Stewart Carl, "Over the Sea from Skye" * Esther Friesner, "First, Catch Your Elephant" (a Monty Python-style satire replete with humorous anachronisms, rather than proper alternate history) * Lee Allred, "East of Appomattox" * Chris Bunch, "Murdering Uncle Ho"