Departures (story)

Departures is a short story published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in January, 1989. It was reprinted in Alternate Heroes, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Gregory Benford in 1990 and in the Turtledove collection Departures in 1993. Although it stands on its own, it also provides background to the stories which make up the fix-up novel Agent of Byzantium.