Sounds amusing. What exactly is We Could Do Worse, though? The title intrigues me. Turtle Fan 04:26, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Wait, I looked it up. Sounds kinda dopey. I'm tempted just the same. Turtle Fan 04:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- The story is worth a look. JFK goes back to the more "historical" version of Camelot, rather than Mallory's romanticism. Tends to support my belief that HT doesn't respect JFK all that much.
- No idea what We Could Do Worse is, actually. I just pulled that of the official HT site. TR 04:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- It's a book-on-tape that's now availabe in MP3 format. Nine different AHs by nine authors. Amazon didn't list them all but the ones it did mostly sound silly: this one, one where Mark Twain toils in obscurity till he covers the assassination of President Custer, and one where Eisenhower and Patton become jazz musicians and Presley becomes a Senator. Also something that shows promise of being taken more seriously involving a slave uprising in the antebellum South. One would expect a "Millennial Collection of Alternate Histories" to take itself a little more seriously, but . . . Turtle Fan 06:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- I find it odd that this story is part of a AH collection, as there is nothing AH about it. JFK doesn't change anything in the past, other than leaving a dime behind to puzzle British archeologists. TR 16:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
- I assume it was included because of the author's byline. As I said, it's not a very serious AH collection; I can envision the editor saying "I need something from Turtledove" and Turtledove agreeing to give him this story because he didn't want any of his good ones associated with this. Turtle Fan 18:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)