Tower of Iron Will

Lost Pages is a collection of short stories linked by the conceit of taking famous 20th century authors and placing them into different historical contexts. Not different time periods, just very different situations in their own time. It is essentially nine alternate history stories, each with a famous writer as the main character. I would love to spoil them all because the premises are very clever, but I will limit myself to a couple.

The story that may be the best in the collection, but also the most dubious, has Anne Frank escape the Holocaust and still write her famous diary but instead it is about her rise to stardom in Hollywood. In another story Antoine de Saint-Exupery is one of the last survivors after most of humanity is wiped out by a plague and he attempts to rebuild civilization based on air power. Some of the stories are more science fictional than others and several of them featured authors who were SF writers. There is no continuity running through the stories, each exists in its own world. There are some dark twists, but over all the stories are a lot of fun.