''Alternate Tyrants'' is a 1997
Tor alternate history anthology, edited by
Mike Resnick
Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct ma ...
. The anthology contains 20 short stories, with each story by a different author, and presents a scenario where an individual becomes a
tyrant
A tyrant (), in the modern English usage of the word, is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty. Often portrayed as cruel, tyrants may defend their positions by resorting to re ...
or
dictator
A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a small clique. The word originated as the title of a Roman dictator elected by the Roman Senate to rule the republic in tim ...
in a way that did not occur in real life.
Contents
See also
*
List of works by Mike Resnick
* ''
Alternate Generals''
References
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External links
*
Alternate Tyrants' at
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1997 anthologies
Alternate history anthologies
Tor Books books
Cultural depictions of Augustus
Cultural depictions of John Wilkes Booth
Cultural depictions of George H. W. Bush
Cultural depictions of Julius Caesar
Cultural depictions of Caligula
Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill
Cultural depictions of Cleopatra
Cultural depictions of Albert Einstein
Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi
Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
Cultural depictions of Douglas MacArthur
Cultural depictions of Nelson Mandela
Cultural depictions of Napoleon
Cultural depictions of Horatio Nelson
Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley
Cultural depictions of Ronald Reagan
Cultural depictions of Pierre Trudeau
American Civil War alternate histories
World War II alternate histories
Novels set during World War III
Works set in the 1st century BC
Works set in the 1st century
Fiction set in 1970
Fiction set in 1981