Sci-Fi, Anthology

edited by Andrea D. Lobel & Mark Shainblum

What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams?

Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.

Contributors include Robert Silverberg, Gillian Polack, Seymour Mayne, Matthew Kressel, Max Sparber, James Goldberg, C.L. McDaniel, Eric Choi, Rivqa Rafael, Lavie Tidhar, Gwynne Garfinkle, Seth Alter, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Elana Gomel, Harry Turtledove, Hunter C. Eden, Allan Weiss, David Nurenberg, Patrick A. Beaulier, Alex Shvartsman, Claude Lalumière, Jessica Reisman, Allan Dyen-Shapiro, D.K. Latta, Jack Nicholls, Isak Bloom, Bogi Takács, Milton Verskin, Jane Yolen and Jack Dann. 

This collection of books featuring Jewish main characters is decidedly non-comprehensive. As we come across books that are described as having Jewish main characters, we add them to this database. The creators of the Jewish Genre Reading Challenge have not read all (or even most) of the books in this database. We have gathered information from many sources and not all may be accurate. Inclusion of a book in our database does not imply endorsement or approval. There is always the possibility that antisemitism may be present in a book, either written into a character's experience or through malicious or ignorant caricature or stereotypical portrayal of Jewish characters and culture. Please take care of yourselves as you read. 

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