Space Bats & Butterflies pulls together an eclectic collection of seventeen of the best alternate history or time-travel stories, book excerpts, essays and world-building exercises from the ninety-plus issues of a long-running Alternate History zine. •An alternate World War II-The Moscow Option-1942. •Was a Japanese invasion of Hawaii possible? •Could you do a better job than Roosevelt in the lead-up to Pearl Harbor? •Alternate timelines and the Prime Directive Fiction stories and excerpts: •Modern-day US finds an alternate timeline where the Roman Empire stagnated and Europe never reached the New World. It’s 1492 all over again, but this time with an entire new world to exploit. •Outnumbered four to one, New England’s Indians make one last doomed attempt to push the English into the see, but this time they have a dangerous ally who may help them win. •The Space Bats don’t want to invade Earth. They just collect unique human minds the way we collect rare coins. •Red Potter is unemployed, homeless and humanity’s last desperate chance in a time war that has lasted a million years. •World War II Europe meets an alternate North America cut off from the rest of the world since the middle of the American Revolution. •A boy and girl from alternate realities become friends, but they can’t both be real. Read more