The Best and the Brightest

In a 1960s Chicago where Bobby Kennedy serves as president, Mayor Daley rules the city and Martin Luther King, Jr. finds himself victim to a failed assassination attempt, the African-American community hoped Willis would change the world. But when his chance comes in the form of a story implicating Kennedy and Daley in the hit on King, Willis must make a choice: make history or turn his back on his community—and the truth. 


An unforgettable alternate history tale by Sidewise Award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch.


“Rusch’s short fiction is golden.”

—Kansas City Star