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Dance Track

Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon

First published January 1994
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

An alternate history story featuring James Dean and his racing mentor who was a famous WWII personage. In this story, she doesn't die by having her scarf caught in the engine of a race car and he doesn't die in a fiery car crash, but focuses his career more on auto racing than on acting...

the contents of the e-book version of Dragon's Teeth lists this as "Dance Truck", but the story itself and the copyright/biblio information still lists it as "Dance Track"

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1994 Cover By Any Other Fame DAW Books Anthology 71
April 1998 Cover Fiddler Fair Baen Books Collection 55
August 1999 Cover Fiddler Fair Baen Books Collection 55
February 2004 This Scepter'd Isle Disk Baen Books Omnibus |4.07
March 2011 The Secret World Chronicle Disk Baen Books Omnibus |7.07
November 2013 Cover Dragon's Teeth Baen Books Omnibus 6
December 2013 Cover Dragon's Teeth Baen Books Omnibus 51