"History's Left Turn" is a collection of 30 alternate-history flash-fiction stories that span the globe and make stops at different points in time when some act led to a different outcome and explores the aftermath of decisions made. From an ancient Rome that fell to Hannibal in 218 B.C.E. to an English ship's captain and crew discovering something gruesome in Antarctica to what might have been if U.S. President John F. Kennedy's push to get the United States to the Moon.