The story genres represented include alternate history, time travel, fantasy, straight historical fiction, and more.

A 40-year-old computer genius named Justin Kloster invents a time machine based on string theory and virtual reality.

Unfortunately for Justin's plan, he finds that his older self is even less successful than his younger counterpart, and his girlfriend leaves him, much sooner than she did in the original timeline.

When he awakes in his original time, he discovers that he has successfully founded his own string-theory company, and is happily married to another woman and has two sons.

On July 12, 1864, while the United States is being torn apart by the Great Rebellion, President Abraham Lincoln is killed by a sharpshooter at Fort Stevens while inspecting the ramparts.

Many Confederate leaders such as Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Joseph E. Johnston are condemned for high treason and executed by hanging.

However, on August 11, 1942, a Nazi transport is caught smuggling weapons into New Orleans, Louisiana to help the Southerners start a Neo-Confederate uprising in order to keep the US out of the European Theater.

In his Nebula Awards acceptance letter for this story, Turtledove describes it as an allegory of a "Northern Ireland in North America".

On February 19, 1943, Wehrmacht Field Marshal Erich von Manstein assassinates Adolf Hitler in response to an insult.

In truth, the Brits are there to entrap the man, and arrange for his capture and arrest by the Croatian Ustase authorities, in exchange for the UK being allowed access to German oil wells in the North Sea.

In addition, Operation Barbarossa began in May 1941, rather than June as in real history, giving Nazi Germany more time to fully exploit the surprise attack on the disorganized Red Army.

When he finds himself unable to secure a position at a university or even as a technical writer, the young doctor rather arbitrarily decides to apply for a job with a "road deconstruction gang."

It follows the same basic plot of Hammett's novel, only it is in short story form and the MacGuffin is a living, breathing elephant rather than a falcon statue.

There is also a sentient semi-humanoid native life form with unusual reproductive procedures and a louse-like parasite, which infests all alike.

Assuming that they are newfangled German weapons and that their own senses are addled by poison gas, they blast away the supernatural creatures with nary a second thought.

In this spoof of Arthurian legend and fairy tales, a knight who is a wanton ladies' man is able to ride a unicorn, a beast that supposedly lets only virgins touch it.

Retelling of an anecdote from Book I of Herodotus's Histories from the viewpoint of the young woman who played the role of Athena in the triumphal parade of the Athenian tyrant Peisistratos in the 6th century BC.