Sterling, Bruce. "Dori Bangs"
Divergence: 1982 CE
What if: Rock music critic Lester Bangs lived longer.
Summary: He links up with cartoonist Dori Seda.
Published: In Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1989; The Year's Best Science Fiction, Seventh Annual Collection (ed. Gardner Dozois), St. Martin's 1990 (0312044518, 0312044526), v.t. Best New SF 4, Robinson 1990 (1854870572); The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three (ed. David S. Garnett) Orbit 1990; The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (eds. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling), St. Martin's, 1990; The Legend Book of Science Fiction (ed. Gardner R. Dozois), Legend 1991; Globalhead, Ziesing 1992 (0929480694), Bantam/Spectra 1994 (0553562819); and Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, Subterranean 2007 (1596061138).
Original in: English.
Translation: Greek by Christodoulos Litharis as "Dori Bangs", in Apagorevmenos Planitis #9 (April-May 1999).
Translation: Portuguese by Bráulio Tavares as "Dori Bangs", in Isaac Asimov Magazine de Ficção Científica #2 (November 1990).