Contents: Introduction · Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg · in 11 · Mellonta Tauta · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Feb, 1849 21 · In the Year 2889 · Jules Verne · ss The Forum Feb, 1889 32 · Sold to Satan [written Jan 1904] · Mark Twain · ss Europe and Elsewhere, Harper Bros., 1923 39 · The New Accelerator · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Dec ’01 49 · Finis · Frank Lillie Pollock · ss Argosy Jun ’06 58 · As Easy as A.B.C. · Rudyard Kipling · nv The London Magazine Mar ’12 (+1) 78 · Dark Lot of One Saul · M. P. Shiel · nv The Grand Magazine Feb ’12 96 · R.U.R. · Karel Capek · pl, 1921 144 · The Tissue-Culture King · Julian Huxley · ss The Yale Review Apr ’26; Amazing Aug ’27 160 · The Metal Man · Jack Williamson · ss Amazing Dec ’28 169 · The Gostak and the Doshes · Miles J. Breuer · ss Amazing Mar ’30 182 · Alas, All Thinking! · Harry Bates · nv Astounding Jun ’35 210 · The Mad Moon · Stanley G. Weinbaum · nv Astounding Dec ’35 227 · As Never Was · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Astounding Jan ’44 239 · Desertion [City (Websters)] · Clifford D. Simak · ss Astounding Nov ’44 249 · The Strange Case of John Kingman · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding May ’48 261 · Dreams Are Sacred · Peter Phillips · nv Astounding Sep ’48 279 · Misbegotten Missionary · Isaac Asimov · ss Galaxy Nov ’50 291 · Dune Roller · Julian May · nv Astounding Dec ’51 321 · Warm · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Jun ’53 328 · A Bad Day for Sales · Fritz Leiber · ss Galaxy Jul ’53 334 · Man of Parts · H. L. Gold · ss 9 Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healey, Holt, 1954 344 · The Man Who Came Early · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Jun ’56 363 · The Burning of the Brain · Cordwainer Smith · ss If Oct ’58 371 · The Men Who Murdered Mohammed · Alfred Bester · ss F&SF Oct ’58 381 · The Man Who Lost the Sea · Theodore Sturgeon · ss F&SF Oct ’59 391 · Goodlife [Berserker] · Fred Saberhagen · nv Worlds of Tomorrow Dec ’63 408 · The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World · Philip José Farmer · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 420 · Gehenna · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Galaxy Mar ’71 424 · A Meeting with Medusa · Arthur C. Clarke · nv Playboy Dec ’71 455 · Painwise · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv F&SF Feb ’72 470 · Nobody’s Home · Joanna Russ · ss New Dimensions II, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1972 482 · Think Only This of Me · Michael J. Kurland · nv Galaxy Nov ’73 499 · Capricorn Games · Robert Silverberg · ss The Far Side of Time, ed. Roger Elwood, Dodd Mead, 1974 513 · “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fellowship of the Stars, ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster, 1974 519 · Travels · Carter Scholz · ss IASFM Apr ’80 528 · Doing Lennon · Gregory Benford · ss Analog Apr ’75

A collection of mystery stories by such authors as P.D. James, Edward D. Hoch, Ruth Rendell, Edgar Wallace, and others

In the 80s, writer/wiseman Richard A. Lupoff came out with two volumes of what was to be a series: the WHAT IF? books. Each volume took a half-dozen or so years from the 60s and 70s and discussed, with Richard's 20-20 hindsight, the state of SFdom during those years. To illustrate his many points, he provided us with brilliant short stories by the best writers of the period in question, stories that DIDN'T win the Hugo that year, but maybe should have. As we know, because of politics and other often irrelevant things, the best works don't always end up winning. That's the sort of thing that is discussed in Richard's text for each year. The first two volumes were published in the 80s to great acclaim but due to some politics (or something) the third volume was never published, even though it was finalized. Fast forward to 2013 when Richard A. Lupoff, the major domo of Surinam Turtle Press, can ignore petty politics and pretty much publish what he damn well pleases. And it pleases him immensely to see WHAT IF? #3 finally see the light of day. These are the stories and authors featured in this volume. Read it and salivate. 1966 - Light of Other Days - Bob Shaw 1967 - The Star-Pit - Samuel R. Delany 1968 - The Barbarian - Joanna Russ 1969 - Sundance - Robert Silverberg 1970 - The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe 1971 - Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 - Painwise - James Tiptree, Jr. 1973 - My Brother Leopold - Edgar Pangborn