Alternate history and What ifs
Explore captivating alternate history books and thrilling 'what if' scenarios. Dive into reimagined worlds where key events unfolded differently, featuring top picks for history buffs and fiction lovers alike.
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Lest Darkness Fall
by Lyon Sprague De Camp
In "Lest Darkness Fall," twentieth-century academic Martin Padway travels through time to prevent the fall of the Roman Empire, while in "To Bring the Light," …
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The Man in the High Castle
by Philip K. Dick
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching …
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The Time Patrol
by Poul Anderson
The complete anthology of the author's time-travel saga includes all of the previous stories as well as a new novel
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The Complete Paratime
by H. Beam Piper
From H. Beam Piper, the creator of the Terrohuman Future History and the bestselling Fuzzy novels, come the parallel worlds of Paratime—collected for the first …
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The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov
In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a …
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The Fall of the Kings
by Ellen Kushner
Award-winning fantasy authors Kushner and Sherman team up to tell a tale of a world rediscovering an ancient magic, and the price to be paid …
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Sailing to Sarantium
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane …
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Lord of Emperors
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Crispin the mosaicist finally achieves his goal of journeying to the fabled Sarantium, but is drawn into the deadly webs of the court and the …
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Ilario: The Lion's Eye
by Mary Gentle
Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing …
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Ash
by Mary Gentle
A magnificent and gritty dream of the 15th century, a stupendous canvas soaked in blood, magic and tears. Shortlisted for the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke …
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Hominids
by Robert J. Sawyer
In a parallel world in which Neanderthals, rather than homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligent species, a dangerous scientific experiment traps a Neanderthal physicist on …
