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As the overloaded Endeavour reaches the end of its long voyage and its hoped-for planetfall, the refugees from Earth need to find out:
- Can they live on the planet Elpis?
- What threats will it throw at them?
- How quickly can they safely disembark - if they can disembark at all?
Endeavour is desperately needed back on Earth to help rescue the last survivors. But if it does not establish a foothold on Elpis, there will be nowhere for them to go.
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The Boy In The Storm' chronicles three days in the lives of a family and a government agent in Nazi-occupied Britain in 1957. This moving and personal tale of human survival under totalitarianism is intertwined with the historical events, starting in 1941, that led to the current situation. Past and present come together to weave a powerful new story from Sea Lion Press.
43) The Wave
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The Wave was written to answer a question the author often asked: You say that we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift, a radical change in worldview that will thrust art and culture onto center stage. What does that mean? How will the world be different? The Wave is speculative fiction. In 2023, a young journalist, Rebecca Price, writes a series of articles describing an emergent cultural change that has been gathering force over the previous decade...
44) Presidential
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What makes a President 'presidential'?
Is it tone of voice, is it the right suits, is it saying the right phrases to the right people?
In Presidential, Martin Concagh explores an alternate world through the defining moments of different American Presidents. The influential moments of faces both familiar and unfamiliar to our world; what defined the presidencies sick men, grieving men, angry men and combative men (and women) and how that defined...
45) Down to Earth
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Do you remember Australia's '70s? The Vietnam War and the Cold War, the politics, the flower people, the music, the hopes? That Member of Parliament who led marches against war, wrote liberation books he struggled to sell, helped bring down a Government? Who gave the hungry press a feast of scandals? Remember those naked full-moon festivals with all the Minister's happy hippie mates? Well, this old hippie was there, and those mates were his mates,...
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1851 and, as a result, of a double Royal suicide, England and France are at war.
The chosen battleground is northern Spain, but this is only the first part of Europe to feel the dreadful effects of The General European Wars. Conflict spreads northwards, from Tyneside to Dunkirk and into Belgium and the Netherlands. Denmark is threatened with conquest and, in the east, the Russian Tsar gathers an army of nearly 400,000 men to achieve a long-held desire;...
47) Uchronia
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Accounts of past lost civilizations, strange aerial phenomena, unexplained encounters, and cryptic codes unquestionably continue to tease our minds with their intrigue. While many of these puzzles, which often are passed down from one generation to another, sound so incredible that they appear to be stories of pure fiction, from time to time, and more often than we realize, they turn out to be true.
UCHRONIA (alternative history) connects with several...
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In July 2008, Britain's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, wrote an article in the Guardian that many perceived to be a veiled attack on Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister and Labour Party leader. In the days and weeks that followed, Whitehall was awash with rumours that Miliband was testing the water for a leadership challenge. It never materialised.
What if it had?
In this romp through the heart of the collapsing Labour government in 2008, Tom...
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George Eyston set racing records in the thirties that were unbeaten for decades. But the record of his all woman race team is little known. It was a time in America when women couldn't even write a check without a man's co-sign. But roaring around the countryside's of the world a group of fast young women challenged the world of racing men. They were a team racing MG PA's in 1935-37. They were brash enough and good enough to make it to the top –...
51) Turncoat
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Dixie is a man adrift, picking away at the evildoings of the Grand Order of Defenders and the DeVine Corporation wherever he's able. But none of it is what he really wants, and what he wants is out of reach. Then a notorious thief crosses his path, a man with abilities that might make all the difference. With his help, Dixie can at long last return to face the people that destroyed his whole world and return that destruction tenfold.
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Imagine a world where the Beeching report was not delivered on time and was rejected by the incoming Labour government, and the concept of the Social Railway was delivered years earlier.
There were some closures, although lines more often went into a mothball state, and there were still a lot of station closures, especially on main lines. Not even the Social Railway would cover the smallest villages, and many urban areas had stations closed due to...
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Yorkshire, whether you think of it as 'God's Own County', or an uppity region with a Pennine-sized chip on its shoulder, is nevertheless a place with a firm identity, which for many years has clamored for more autonomy of its own. In the early-2000s, it was one of three regions in the North of England that was mooted for devolution, but a failed referendum in the Northeast, coupled with an increasingly ambivalent Westminster, scuppered proposals before...
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What if the Third Reich not only marched to victory in Europe but Goose stepped down Broadway? William Cothran explores the life of a man in America under the jackbooted heel of the Third Reich. From the towering buildings of New York City to the sleepy little suburbs a thrilling mystery awaits. A wealthy ad man living the high life finds himself face to face with one of the Third Reich's own SS investigators. What secret does this man of means hope...
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What if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from St. Helena and wound up in the United States?
The year is 1821. Former French Emperor Napoleon has been imprisoned on a dark wart in the Atlantic since his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Rescued in a state of near-death by Gulf pirate Jean Laffite, Napoleon lands in New Orleans, where he struggles to regain his health aided by voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Opponents of the Bourbon regime expect him to reconquer...
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." — George OrwellThe Fascist and Communist dictatorships left a bloody stain on the 20th Century, leaving tens of millions dead in their wake and a bitter taste in the mouth for hundreds of millions more when they encounter those ideologies. But what if they had never got the opportunity to do that damage?
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57) Brothers in Gray
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The Alternative History Trilogy opened with A Southern Yarn in which R. W. Richards forged new ground in the field of historical fiction. Using a little known trap set by Lee for Grant along the North Anna River, the Yarn reverses the outcome of the War Between the States. The South achieves independence but yields on the issue of slavery. Now comes Book II of the Trilogy, Brothers in Gray, prequel to the Yarn and every bit as unique. This is the...
58) Earth Story
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Earth Story' is an engaging and thought-provoking alternative view of mankind's history and those who have manipulated pivotal events throughout millennia. The story is told through the eyes of different characters who provide an, as yet, untold version of historical events, such as the discovery of the tomb Tutankhamun, the Second World War, and the 1969 moon landing. Are humans really the masters of their own destiny or merely pawns in a much wider...
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A country on the brink of defeat.A woman who answers a call to arms.A man to challenge an Empire.For centuries, women used weapons to kill for food, men to kill in war. Now Lena must break with tradition to save those she loves, but as she steps from her settled world into one of battle, intrigue and politics, her lover chooses banishment. Lonely and afraid, each decision Lena makes brings more terrible consequences, until even her own people turn...
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Volumen IV de Con balas de plata, trata de los años 1651-60 en Italia, en América y en Cataluña y Rosellón. De nuevo la toma de Trin, finalmente, la toma de Casal, a la tercera, desde la década de 1620 era la tercera vez que se intentaba el Casal y cedió, por eso dicen "lo que el mundo juzgó por inexpugnable..". El ataque enemigo a Castelamar, la defensa en Pavía, Valencia del Po y Alessandria dela Palla. De aquí pasamos a América, la toma...
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