Down in the Bottomlands and Other Places

Down in the Bottomlands and Other Places (published 1999 by Baen Books) is a collection of three novella. The title story, Down in the Bottomlands by Harry Turtledove concerns an Alternate History where the Straits of Gibraltar did not open up leaving the Mediterranean Sea a sub-sealevel desert. The other two novella, The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp and a sequel The Pugnacious Peacemaker by Turtledove, concern an OTL lawyer thrust into a parallel world where Vikings colonized North America.