Alternate History

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Time, Travel, Historical, Fiction, Science Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.As March discovers the identity of the body, he ...

At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar_x0097_a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania_x0097_derail...

"Like Jane Austen's huge lost fantasy novel about the return of magic to England." - Neil Gaiman

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to co...

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This remarkable collection of maps, photographs, engravings and paintings from the early ages to modern day provides a stunning new look at the world as defined by our struggles and alliances with the monsters and supernatural creatures that have defined our existence. Learn how a mechanical man helped write America_x0092_s Declaration of Independence. T...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Alternate, History lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

AMERICAN EMPIRE: BOOK ONETwice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy. Then, after a generation of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide. As the conflict engulfed Europe, the C.S.A. backed the Allies, while the U.S. found its own ally in Imperial Germany. The Confederate States, France, and ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Alternate, History, Historical, Fiction, Science Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair...1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against...

In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry, a young reporter, searches for the killer of a veteran of the 1962 war and begins to suspect that the victim may have held the key to a terrifying conspiracy....

Harry Turtledove_x0092_s remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of time can be, and offer us a world of _x0093_what if._x0094_ Drawing on a magnificent cast of characters that includes soldiers, generals, lovers, spies, and demagogues, Turtledove returns to an epic tale that only he could tell_x0096_the story of a North Ameri...

C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany. 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British peopl...

First published in 2006, Jo Walton's Farthing was hailed as a masterpiece, a darkly romantic thriller set in an alternate postwar England sliding into fascism.Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler, the uppercrust families of the "Farthing set" are gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is ...

Time, moving backwards, and other notional reversals and transpositions attend the picaresque experiences of Hodge Backmaker and the aftermath of a Civil War in which the South was victorious. In the 1930's, Hodge comes to New York where he joins the Grand Army and is troubled by hate mongering. Some years later he meets Barbara Haggerwells and joi...

The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew_x0097_and in fear of the Inquisition_x0092_s agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no symbol to uni...

In Kingsley Amis_x0092_s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart_x0092_s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Steampunk, Alternate, History, Fiction, Science Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Mary Robinette Kowal continues her awardwinning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the...

Sent 40 years into the past by a spell of Chief Sitting Bull, General George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry join Davy Crockett to defend the Alamo against Mexican forces under the command of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Thoroughly researched and filled with colorful characterizations of historic personalities, this fast paced alternate hist...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around SteampunkScience, Steampunk, Fiction, Teen, Young lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Alek and Deryn are abroad the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant/maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath that can end the war. But whose side is he really onWhile on their topsecret mission, Alek finally discovers Deryn's deeply kept secret. Two, actually. Not only is Deryn a girl d...

Callum is a naught, a secondclass citizen in a society run by the ruling Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, and daughter of the man slated to become prime minister. In their world, white naughts and black Crosses simply don't mix and they certainly don't fall in love. But that's exactly what they've done. When they were younger, they played together. N...

From bestselling novelist Brett Battles comes the conclusion of the Rewinder Trilogy. Denny Younger. Historian. Time Traveler. Prisoner. There is nothing Denny wants more than to repair the damage former rewinder Lidia has done to history. Her manipulations have thrown the timeline he knows into chaos, and now he's locked away in an unfamiliar wor...

Peter has had more identities than he can remember and suffered pains and humiliations he longs to forget. But, whether spy or prisoner, slave or propaganda tool, none of his roles has brought the one thing he wants above all: freedom....

Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic cat...

For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of handtohand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than...

A standalone book set in the USJ universe, Mecha Samurai Empire focuses on a group of aspiring mecha cadets preparing to fight the Nazis. Foremost among them, Makoto Fujimoto grew up in California, but with a differencehis California is part of the United States of Japan. After Germany and Japan won WWII, the United States fell under their contro...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Alternate, History lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the midafternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Vic...

Author(s): Charles Stross ISBN: 9781447246282 Binding: Paperback Published: 20171031 A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . . Rita Douglas is plucked from her deadend job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines and infiltrate them. Her United States is...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Historical, Fiction, Alternate, History, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

"Utterly engaging...a pageturner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans."George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of ThronesIt's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the lat...

Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the 'favorite' books of many of the masters of the field, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped establish timetravel as a solid subgenre of science fiction. An indication of the influence and longevity of the bo...

In the year 1863, a primitive village is raided, the men killed, and the women and children captured. The survivors find themselves chained in the dark, filthy hold of a ship crossing the ocean to the New World, where they are sold into slavery. The powerful master of a vast Southern plantation purchases the 11yearold Irish lad Aidan O'Dere. Yes,...

Alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplentyEven in a technologicallyadvanced, KennedyDidn_x0092_tDie alternatehistory, Brooklyn Lamontagne is going nowhere fast. The year is 1975, thirty years after Robert Oppenheimer invented the Oppenheimer Nuclear Engine, twentyfive years after the first human walked on the moon...

Edward (long live the king) is the King of England. He_x0092_s also dying, which is inconvenient, as he_x0092_s only sixteen and he_x0092_d much rather be planning for his first kiss than considering who will inherit his crown_x0085_Jane (reads too many books) is Edward_x0092_s cousin, and far more interested in books than romance. Unfortunately for Jane, Edward has arranged to...

In one of the most powerful and thoughtprovoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing....

"Mr. de Camp has the trick of being able to show Technology, engaging in feats as full of derringdo as those of Hannibal's army. History as it should be told."Isaac Asimov, The New York Times Book Review The Pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon of Greece, the Great Wall of China, the Colosseum of Rome. Today, we stand in awe before these wonders of th...