Alternative History

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Mr. Beethoven

Paul Griffiths

Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the B...

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Published: Oct 2021

Bonnie and Clyde: Resurrection Road

Clark D. Hays

The return of Bonnie and Clyde. Saving democracy, one bank robbery at a time.In the provocative "what-if" novel Resurrection Road, legendary outlaw lovers Bonnie and Clyde are given one last shot at redemption, when a shadowy organi...

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Published: May 2017

Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice...

Mark H. Huston

In the Year of our Lord 1633, Mary Margret Russo graduates from Grantville High School at the top of her class. The beautiful and strong willed up-timer, as the people from the future are called, is mysteriously hired by a branch of t...

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Published: Aug 2019

The Death of Napoleon

Simon Leys

As he bore a vague resemblance to the Emperor, the  sailors on board the Hermann-Augustus Stoeffer had nicknamed him Napoleon. And so, for convenience, that is what we shall call him.     Besides, he was Napoleon. . . . Napoleon h...

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Published: May 2015

Conversation in the Cathedral

Mario Vargas Llosa

p align="center"A Haunting tale of power, corruption,br / and the complex search for identity/b/Conversation in The Cathedral/b takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of f...

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Published: Feb 2005

Last Days in Ocean Beach

Jim Miller

Last Days in Ocean Beach is the story of William, a scientist working at the Center for Extinction Studies, a think tank at the College of the Sun funded by a green billionaire. William lives "on the border between dread and wond...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Grantville Inquisitor (Ring of Fi...

Tracy S. Morris

There are many stories in the naked city of Grantville. Did Wallenstein come to Grantville secretly? Is Cardinal Richelieu still alive? How did Bigfoot get trapped in the Ring of Fire? Does Cyrano de Bergerac really have a huge schnoz...

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Published: Jan 2021

1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribblefl...

Kerryn Offord

A sparkling addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. An alchemist of the 17th century confronts modern science with often amusing results.Phillip Theophras...

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Published: Aug 2016

Animal Farm (Essential Gothic, SF & D...

George Orwell

A beautiful new edition of George Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel.  “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A group of farm animals rebel against their drunken, abusi...

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Published: Apr 1996

Judgment Day: Science of Discworld IV...

Terence David John Pratchett

The wizards of Unseen University are again called upon to defend their creation, Roundworld, this time in a courtroom—where its very existence hangs in the balance.  The Omnians fervently believe that the world is round, not flat, ...

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Published: Dec 2015

The Lucky Strike (Outspoken Authors)

Kim Stanley Robinson

Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, this astounding alternate history tale presents a dramatic encounter with destiny wrapped around a simple yet provocative premise: the terrifying question of what might...

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Published: Oct 2009

1916: The Blog: A Book of Humor

Christian M. Schneider

"A lot of books predict the future; "1916: The Blog" actually predicts the past. A smart, observant satire with unexpected heart, it's the funniest book you'll read all year, depending on what year you read it." - ...

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Published: Nov 2018

First Dawn: First Novel of the Lost M...

Mike Shepherd

How do you win a war lost 6,000 years before you were born? Those are the orders waiting Launa O'Brian, fresh out of West Point. They want her to help peaceful farmers win a war they're about to lose and beat back the Horse Raiders th...

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Published: Mar 2018

Lawless: Book One of the Merrick Chro...

Bryce Smith

Lawless: Book One of the Merrick Chronicles by Bryce Smith"This story will disturb and inspire readers, and open their eyes to the world around us through the safety of a fictional character who seems so real." Deirdra Eden...

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Published: Feb 2019

Shadows of Annihilation

S. M. Stirling

The third novel in a World War I alternate history series where America\'s greatest weapon against Germany is Black Chamber secret agent Luz O\'Malley and technical genius Ciara Whelan. Only they can protect America\'s best hope of wi...

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Published: Mar 2020

The Naked Eye

Yoko Tawada

“Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency.”—Michael Porter, The New York TimesA precocious Vietnamese high school student — known as the pupil with “the iron blouse”—in Ho Chi Minh City is i...

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Published: May 2009

The Liberation (The Alchemy Wars)

Ian Tregillis

I am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim. But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening.Our time has come. A new age is dawning. Set in...

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Published: Dec 2016

The Rising (The Alchemy Wars)

Ian Tregillis

The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin h...

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Published: Dec 2015

Fallout: The Hot War (Hot War, The)

Harry Turtledove

"Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history."—USA TodayThe novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In this astounding new s...

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Published: May 2017

Last Orders: The War That Came Early

Harry Turtledove

History is changed by one small act.In an extraordinary saga of nations locked in war, master storyteller Harry Turtledove examines a very different World War II—one which erupts eleven months earlier, and over Czechoslovakia rather...

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Published: Jul 2015

Settling Accounts In at the Death

Harry Turtledove

Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA's worst enemy, whi...

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Published: Jun 2008

The Gryphon's Skull

Harry Turtledove

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin), the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure. xxx Soon after their successful return to Rhodes the two cousins find that Greece is a dangerous place aft...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Sacred Land

Harry Turtledove

"Another solid entry in an entertaining series." -Booklist "Good pacing, a light touch, and a genuine feel for the period."-Kirkus Reviews Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin) the s...

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Published: Dec 2014

The United States of Atlantis

Harry Turtledove

As England tightens its control over the Atlantean colonies, Victor Radcliff and his band of revolutionaries resolve to make the English pay for each and every piece of land they dare to occupy and will stop at nothing to preserve the...

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Published: Dec 2009

Three Miles Down

Harry Turtledove

From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in mari...

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Published: Jun 2023

Two Fronts (The War That Came Early, ...

Harry Turtledove

In 1942, two nations switch sides—and World War II takes a horrifying new course.  In the real world, England and France allowed Adolf Hitler to gobble up the Sudetenland in 1938. Once Hitler finished dismembering Czechoslovakia, h...

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Published: Jun 2014

Lord of California

Andrew Valencia

“A remarkable debut. Valencia writes with a sinuous maturity, a boldness of vision far beyond his years. In Lord of California, this beyond-seeing is literal: wild, impressive, at times menacing invention about what a separatist Cal...

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Published: Jan 2018

Another Now

Yanis Varoufakis

What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of speculative fiction that recalls William Morris and W...

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Published: Sep 2021

Hooper's Revolution

Dennie Wendt

It's 1976 and the United States is home to The Giganticos, a football super squad led by the one and only Pearl of Brazil, and more or less the only reason AASSA (American All-Star Soccer Association) exists.Enter Danny Hooper, a thir...

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Published: May 2017

Once There Was a Way: What If The Bea...

Bryce Zabel

The next novel from author Bryce Zabel, whose debut, Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas? won the coveted Sidewise Award for Alternate History."We know The Beatles let it be, but what if they worked it out inst...

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Published: Dec 2017
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