cover image One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Gordon Van Gelder. Four Walls Eight Windows, $15.95 (434pp) ISBN 978-1-56858-276-4

One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, reprints 14 ""what if?"" tales from such SF luminaries as C.M. Kornbluth, Poul Anderson, Alfred Bester and Harry Turtledove. As Van Gelder notes in his introduction, the American Civil War and WWII remain the most common subjects in this popular subgenre.