Contents: * James Fiscus, "American Mandate" * Michael F. Flynn, "Southern Strategy" * Harry Turtledove, "Uncle Alf" * Noreen Doyle, "Horizon" * Judith Tarr, "Devil's Bargain" (later expanded into a novel by this author) * Roland Green, "George Patton Slept Here" * Chris Bunch, "Tarnished Glory" * S.M. Stirling & Richard Foss, "Compadres Compadres" * Susan Shwartz, "And the Glory of Them" * R.M. Meluch, "Twelve Legions of Angels" * Joel Richards, "In the Prison of His Days" * Esther Friesner, "Labor Relations" * William Sanders, "Empire"