Other Earths

Dog-eared Paperback of My Life by Lucius Shepard: The main premise behind this story isn't that a significant event (or insignificant, even) happened differently, but instead that a bunch of alternate Earths have converged. An author discovers a book by himself that he never wrote, which is the beginning of his discovery that these different versions of the Earth sometimes meet, sometimes briefly, sometimes not. This is a 90 page "short" story, and I felt that the beginning could have moved a little faster. Mostly, though, the main character isn't really someone that you're supposed to like all that much, which makes it hard to be concerned about him. You're mostly reading to discover what happens with the idea of the story, not the character.

Nine Alternate Alternate Histories by Benjamin Rosenbaum: This isn't so much a story as it is a potential list of ways in which we could interpret the idea of an "alternate" history. It was interesting reading, and the different types of alternate histories presented were interesting to think about, but I still wouldn't call it a "story" per se.