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"In this classic work of alternate history, acclaimed Hugo Award-winning author Harry Turtledove explores a different America in which a primitive race of Neanderthals are enslaved by Homo sapiens from across the ocean What if mankind's "missing link," the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations...
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"A dashing master spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire and discovers impossible inventions like gunpowder and telescopes in a magnificent romp from the maestro of alternate-history science fiction In another, very different timeline--one in which Mohammed embraced Christianity and Islam never came to be--the Byzantine Empire still flourishes in the fourteenth century, and wondrous technologies are emerging earlier than they did in our...
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JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A century after civilization fell in a day and a night of tectonic cataclysm, scattered communities have regained a fraction of what humanity lost on that Day of Destruction. One such is the Duchy of Hampshire on the southern tip of England.
Hampshire is at war with the Califat de Normandie. It is a war that has been profitable for merchant sea captain Ethan Scott of the Sailing Barque Hellespont. Despite the money to be made, Scott prays for the...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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2015.
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From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of the Worldwar series and The Guns of the South, a collection of nine stories and three essays that illuminate his broad storytelling range Harry Turtledove earned the title "master of alternate history" from Publishers Weekly for his thought-provoking novels that turn historical facts into gripping tales of possibility. But his writing talent goes much further. We Install offers a showcase of styles, from...
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Open Road Media
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[2018]
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English
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Two explosive novels set in the perilous days when the world stood on the brink of chaos -- from the New York Times -bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates . For almost fifty years after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union played a dangerous game in the shadows. And from those shadows would emerge unsung heroes who would fight for freedom ... The Strasbourg Legacy : Investigating the possible Soviet theft of US munitions, CIA agent...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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[2017]
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English
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Ben Franklin must save the world when Isaac Newton unleashes dark magic in this "ambitious" alternate history series by a New York Times -bestselling author (Library Journal). Greg Keyes reimagines the eighteenth-century as an era of apocalyptic sorcery in which a young printer's apprentice named Benjamin Franklin joins forces with a host of historical personages to prevent humankind's annihilation by demons and black magic inadvertently released...
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Dover Publications
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[2020]
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English
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The world's biggest, most opulent ship sets out across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage. Proclaimed to be unsinkable -- and hailed as a testament to modern achievements in manufacturing and transportation -- the ocean liner is pushed to its limits in an effort to make the crossing in record time. But a collision with an iceberg and an inadequate supply of lifeboats doom nearly 2,500 souls to a watery grave. This grimly captivating novella was first...
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Babelcube Inc
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[2022]
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English
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Waterloo by Pier-Giorgio Tomatis
If Napoleon had won at Waterloo, the history of Europe would be very different. Maybe, better ...
Waterloo
What if Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo? Europe today would be very different. Even yesterday's. Especially yesterday's. Two world wars, Nazism and the Shoah, would most likely disappear from the history books. Dr. Chances adds another factor to the list of benefits that he believes is worth more...
9) After London
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A catastrophe has descended upon England. London is now a pestilent swamp, dotted with the ghostly remains of ancient buildings. A giant lake dominates the center of the country, towns have collapsed and given way to forests, and the few scattered survivors have descended into barbarism. Amid the ruins of civilization and a countryside ravaged by warring tribes, a lone hero undertakes a quest to prove himself worthy of his beloved. Characterized by...
10) Jack Faust
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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[2016]
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English
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An alternate-history reimagining of the Faust legend from the Nebula Award–winning author of Stations of the Tide Taking as his canvas the classic tale of the temptation of Faust-made famous by such literary luminaries as Goethe, Marlowe, and Mann-author Michael Swanwick paints a fresh vision of the dangers posed by the pursuit of knowledge. Set in Old World Germany, this tale of science and damnation begins with the great scholar Dr. Johannes...
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JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
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[2018]
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English
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LONGLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLA "Perhaps the best novella of the year" - Locus "Pretty close to perfect - SFcrowsnest YEAR'S BEST SF SELECTION (GARDNER DOZOIS) YEAR'S BEST SF&F SELECTION (RICH HORTON) YEAR'S TOP SHORT SF NOVELS SELECTION (ALLEN KASTER) "London after the war wasn't a place you went to on holiday ..." Gunther Sloam comes to Nazi-occupied London in search of an old flame. But when she turns up dead, Gunther is accused...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The landmark alternate history novel by "one of the best American writers" (Ray Bradbury). In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rural New York with his parents, decides to head to...
13) Guardian
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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During the Alaskan gold rush, a woman pursues a destiny that will change the world in this alternate-history novel from a sci-fi legend. In the tradition of Robert Heinlein ( Starship Troopers , Stranger in a Strange Land ), multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Joe Haldeman set a new standard for military science fiction and hard sci-fi with The Forever War and his phenomenal Worlds series. Now the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The New York Times -- bestselling author presents five paranormal adventures featuring the lycanthropic British spy introduced in The Wolf's Hour. Roaming the globe in a fight against Nazi Germany, shapeshifter Michael Gallatin stars in stories that are "tremendous fun as McCammon mashes 007 and the Wolfman in a League of Extraordinary Gentleman fashion" ( SFcrowsnest ). "The Great White Way" In 1927, the wife of the star wrestler in a Russian traveling...
15) Newton's Cannon
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Age of unreason volume 1
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In an alternate history in which science and magic coexist, a young Benjamin Franklin joins forces with Sir Isaac Newton in a desperate attempt to stop France's demonic King Louis XIV from obliterating England In 1681, in an England somewhat like our England . . . the great alchemist Sir Isaac Newton makes the remarkable discovery of a substance he calls philosopher's mercury, with which one can manipulate the four essential elements of the universe:...
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Diversion Books
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[2015]
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English
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What if Kennedy survived Dallas? President John F. Kennedy has lived through the ambush in Dealey Plaza. America holds its collective breath, seeing its president nearly executed in broad daylight. But as the country marches on, the office of the President finds itself under a much more insidious type of fire. Political scandal, an endless war, and a country coming apart at the seams take the 1960's in a terrifying new direction, and both John and...
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Age of unreason volume 2
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In an alternate eighteenth-century Europe devastated by alchemical disaster, Sir Isaac Newton and his able assistant, Benjamin Franklin, confront enemies who seek humankind's destruction Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of philosopher's mercury in 1681 gave rise to a remarkable new branch of alchemical science. Forty years later, the world stands poised on the brink of a new dark age . . . England is in ruins, crushed by an asteroid called to Earth by...
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Age of unreason volume 3
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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On an eighteenth-century Earth crippled by alchemical disaster, a secret American cabal led by Benjamin Franklin strives to prevent the annihilation of humankind The dark magic that the great alchemist Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed with his discovery of philosopher's mercury has taken a devastating toll on Earth: The destruction of Europe and the advent of eternal winter have aided the mysterious malakim in their apparent quest for the...
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Age of unreason volume 4
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Angels and demons alike watch and wait as the last warriors of old Europe invade the New World in this magnificent conclusion to the Age of Unreason alternate history series The alchemical catastrophe that Sir Isaac Newton inadvertently unleashed late in the seventeenth century has transformed Europe into a cold, dead wasteland in the eighteenth-much to the delight of the otherworldly malakim, who have set humanity at war with itself for the sin of...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"An inventive historical thriller that reimagines the tumultuous presidential election of 1860, capturing the people desperately trying to hold the nation together -- and those trying to crack it apart. Abby Kelley Foster arrived in Springfield, Illinois, with the fate of the nation on her mind. Her fame as an abolitionist speaker had spread west and she knew that her first speech in the city would make headlines. One of the residents reading those...
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