What happens when your twin from an alternate universe tries to influence your life in your own dimension? What if animals were secretly plotting to take over the world? What type of bloody battles would take place when droids and humans share the planet....and go to war to gain control? These are just a couple of questions addressed in the short stories of ALTERNATE. The six young authors who contributed the short stories that make up ALTERNATE imagined what our reality could be if technology and scientific development move forward without passing through the filter of "We can - but should we?"