Those minutes in the car together, parked in the driveway after grocery shopping in a snowstorm, are a blur lost to this timeline. What I do remember is that my co-editor Mark Shainblum and I wanted to wait for the snowfall to cease being horizontal. Canadians that we are, hope springs eternal. While waiting, one of us—and to this day, neither of us recalls who—came up with the idea for a Jewish alternate history anthology, and the other replied “I know what the title would be: Other Covenants!”
A household move, a baby, and a few years later, we attended a science fiction convention where the late, great Tor Books Senior Editor David G. Hartwell was in attendance. He knew Mark well, and was kind enough to treat me like an old friend, even though we had just met for the first time in the
