Alternate Apollos collects three short stories by Vaughan Stanger on the theme of counterfactual moon-landing missions. Rather than focus on the details of Apollo missions that never happened or turned out differently to those described in our history books, these stories show how the participants might have felt when recalling those momentous events many years later. Alternate Apollos is dedicated to the brave men who really did fly to the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Twelve sets of boot-prints remain in place, testimony to events that actually occurred.

Having trained as an astronomer and subsequently managed various research projects in the defence and aerospace industry, Vaughan Stanger now writes speculative fiction full-time. He has seen fifty-seven of his short stories published, including in the BSFA Award-winning Best of British Science Fiction 2022, Nature Futures, Interzone, and Daily Science Fiction. Many of his stories have been reprinted, including ten in foreign translations, and recorded for podcasts. His most recent collection is "Those We Leave Behind and other stories". He posts about his writing adventures at https://www.vaughanstanger.com and @VaughanStanger on BlueSky and Mastodon.