Fiction - Alternative History

Swayamvar of Sita is about to commence in Mithila. Ram, fighting for his people, is about to receive an invitation to attend.- A sage wants to hand over a divine weapon to the prince of Ayodhya.- A king wishes to own anything considered precious.-...

Jack and Jill: A Village Story (1880) is a children's book set in a small New England town after the Civil War. They tumble down a hill in a sledding accident, just like their famous characters in the Mother Goose rhyme, and are bedridden...

SAWDUST CAESAR From London's sleazy Soho to Afghanistan, around the Cape of Good Hope and back to Istanbul, this is one young man's epic journey in a life of violence, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.An alternative, gritty take on the 60s youth movement...

"Mea Amissa Patria- My Lost Homeland" is a captivating book that seamlessly weaves together elements of historical fiction and science-fiction, offering readers an enthralling narrative that traverses both time and space. The story follows the archaeologist, Sarah, as she undertakes a daring mission to...

The year is 1992.The Soviet Blitzkrieg in Germany has been beaten to a bloody halt along the Rhine River. The Reds rush masses of teenage conscripts and rusty reservists to the front, while NATO scrambles to mount a killing blow against their reeling nemesis.The...

"I loved it. Great 'hard' science fiction with convincing space battles. "-Larry Niven, Grand Master (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association) and author of RingworldTwo-time Sidewise Award-winning author, Alan Smale, brings us an exciting alternate 1979 where the US and the Soviets have permanent...

"Heartfelt tales of jazz across the 20th century, clearly in love with the subject and wanting to share." -- Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine) Writers KYLE HIGGINS and JOE CLARK (RADIANT BLACK) are joined by an ALL-STAR CAST OF ARTISTS for an...

When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood is over. A delicate meditation on the nature of ghosts, belief, and how the future is shaped by the past. When the dead begin speaking to sixteen-year-old Kim Nguyen, her peaceful childhood...

From the author of the bestsellers The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White, an electrifying and provocative historical novel set in an alternate history in which Abraham Lincoln survives assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. In this gripping legal and...

December 1943. Adolf Hitler is dead. Queen Elizabeth II reigns on the Commonwealth throne while a usurper sympathetic to the Nazis inhabits Buckingham Palace. Having turned aside the Soviet Union's initial assault into the Greater Reich, the Wehrmacht is now stymied at the gates...

After narrowly escaping the horrors of the Salem witch trials, Lilly Parris comes of age in 18th Century France, where she is pampered by Louis XVI and pursued by one of history's greatest fiends: Maximilien Robespierre, the monster who sent thousands of innocent men,...

IN AN AGE OF WONDERS...An unlikely friendship arose between one of America's greatest scientists, and one of her most influential writers. Great fans of each other's work, Sam Clemens and Nikola Tesla's relationship was one of great humor and mutual respect.In this novel, the...

The year is 1886...in an America that never was. Soon after George Custer, Jr., President Custer's only son, falls into the hands of the Cheyenne people, he decides to fight side by side with them - against his own father's army. As the Americans...

In 1880s London, in the notorious Whitechapel slum, a serial killer preyed on women, murdering them with a brutality that earned him the terrifying nickname of Jack the Ripper. His identity was never discovered...until the 1970s, when Michigan state police investigator Doug Emery is...

He was dragged off in silver chains, his skin burning, giving off smoke. Even in his torment and anguish, he keep repeating, "I harmed no mortal. I am innocent." Count Dracula is dragged into the deepest bowels of the Black Tower, screaming, "I didn't...

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations... Windsor, 1940: Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside. But when she learns that Windsor is...

Jack Jones, National Treasure and the backbone of radio schedules and British resolve, has disappeared. Needless to say the powers that be are in something of a tizz, fearful of the disquiet this seems to be causing across the country. Although everyone is trying...

"[A] much-anticipated, wickedly funny and sharply observed political satire...This novel of politics and family brings readers to the fault line of American politics." --The New York Times Book Review "Beyond being good or bad, the characters in this impressive book are, above all things,...

The story of one family's struggle for survival in an apocalyptic world -- where one choice will determine their future.Author: Robert L. WiseISBN-10: 0446691631ISBN-13: 9780446691635Publisher: FaithwordsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2004Pages: 305Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.00h x 4.90w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 11/17/2003 pg. 38Christian Retailing 03/01/2004...

Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station. Fugitives, friendless, their young lives blighted at the root, Ali and Injy set about rebuilding, and from...

1982: For nearly a century, large weapons supplies have been mysteriously vanishing all over the Earth. As a result, numerous wars have been nipped in the bud, altering the course of history in ways both known and unknown. And the Beatles are about to...

The second novel in the Will James Mystery Series, the anti-establishment private investigator and his crew are asked to help unravel a mystery that begins in a Brooklyn antique store and ends in the most unlikely of locations. Every Sunday morning, precisely at 10:30...

The Adventures of Robyn Nudd Part I A Whole Heap o' TroublesThe empire stretches across the world map, pink like the blotches on a drunkards face.' Young Robyn Nudd is a smuggler and apprentice witch. She plies here trade on the canal and waterway...

Before history there were infinite possibilities. The year was 1989 - the year everything unexpected happened: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the beginning of the end of an era, but Professor...

A rogue government agency bent on protecting a terrible secret plot chases a band of guerilla video journalists in a race against time and a life-or-death imperative to make the secret public. Davis Falk's first novel is a thrill ride of speculative alternate recent...

Eclipso's search for a surviving non-avian dinosaur turned farcical on New Britain Island, thanks to an elaborate hoax. His motley crew hopes for better in Central West Africa, home to mokele mbembe described as having a long, snake-like neck, an elephant's torso, and an...

What if History were written by the defeated?Historian Zara Rose is hired to investigate the discovery of an undamaged German U-boat in the North Sea. There she discovers Die Fledermaus, a Nazi superweapon powered by an unstable black matter, capable of transporting its passengers...

A world ravaged by war. An ancient magic of unspeakable power. A quest for revenge that will change it all.Viktor Koshark was happy to die for his people. A Gorasnian soldier conscripted to fight the Promithean invasion of his home world, Viktor never questioned...

Alaska, 1910; remote, vast, empty. Known to contain fur, fish and timber, many believe it holds gold and other precious minerals. Still owned by Russia after the United States Congress refuses to buy it, Alaska remains a tantalizing fruit for an ambitious country.America, now...

To Trust in What We Cannot See is the first book in Dennis Mansfield's series of time-traveling, historical thrillers. The story builds a genre-bending, thought provoking plot around a little known historical fact: During the month of January 1913, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir...

Before Harry Turtledove and Cherie Priest There was THE SHILOH PROJECT "The uneasy peace that has existed for more than 100 years between the Confederate States and the United States may be over...." -- Civil War Times The South won at Gettysburg in 1863....

An exciting addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. Time travelers from our modern age are thrown into the deadly straits of the Thirty Years War in Europe of the 1600s. In the...

A rogue government agency bent on protecting a terrible secret plot chases a band of guerilla video journalists in a race against time and a life-or-death imperative to make the secret public. Davis Falk's first novel is a thrill ride of speculative alternate recent...

Jane Avrich explores the perils of desire in these fifteen brilliant stories. Here are characters irresistibly attracted to excess -- material, emotional, spiritual -- who must in the end choose between a life of self-indulgence and a life of self-control. The results are both...

When the unimaginable happens... Kat Wallace's life is finally on track. She is poised to become the next leader of Bosch. She finally has a path to break up human trafficking on New Earth and destroy Rob Abernathy, the man who enslaved her. And...

In this crackling alternate history thriller set in the years after World War II--the riveting sequel to The Darkest Hour--London detective John Rossett joins forces with his Nazi boss to save the commander's kidnapped daughter as the Germans race to make the first atomic...

An absurdly dark tragi-comedy of language and literature. Czeslaw Przęśnicki is an Eastern-European immigrant writer who survived the long toilet paper lines of communist Poland, the loss of his lover Ernest Hemingway following a passionate affair, and the beatings of the Antarctic literary community...

Sturgeon Award winnerNebula and Hugo Award nominee It is the early summer of 1945, and war reigns in the Pacific Rim with no end in sight. Back in the States, Hollywood B-movie star Syms Thorley lives in a very different world, starring as the...

Sitting On a Headstone is an incomplete autobiography, bringing out the life, and near death, of a young man making choices that will, unknowingly, change his life forever. Wanting to fulfill a desire to honor a family heritage of service to his country he...

Charlie MacLeod, a young and beautiful girl, was gifted at birth with the power to set the world alight; a power she neither wants nor can easily control. A victim of tragedy, Charlie is adopted by David and Catherine McAuliff, a young couple with...

A little over a hundred years ago, the world ended and out of the ashes, one group, the Hellfire Club rose. With it came things that people thought of as only myths, witches, vampires and shapeshifters as well as other things that go bump...

Discover the story of Jane Austen's Emma with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Emma special edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil cover. The beautiful design and attention...

In the "horse latitudes" of the Gulf of Mexico, that zone where periods of high pressure keep winds away, becalmed sailors sometimes tossed the horses overboard to conserve water. In these unapologetically traditional and realistic stories, characters find themselves in circumstances which demand similar...

Five short tales set in a world of steampunk and alternate history, with adventures from England to the Antipodes. Here be villains, gadgets, mechanical creatures, secrets and conspiracies. All in time for tea. Stories from the world of 'The Adventures of Viola Stewart' and...

Yellowstone National Park sits on a hotspot: a plume of molten rock coming up from deep inside the earth capable of volcanic eruptions far greater than any that have occurred in times past. It has been silent for many years, providing false security for...

Twenty-five thousand people were taken from Earth and never heard from again. What happened to them?After being delivered to undeveloped world Altaterra three hundred years ago, a new civilization of humans began. Originally high tech, now they live like pioneers.Kaitja is a peacekeeper living...

Ten-year-old Russian piano prodigy, Alexis Koryavin, is completing his fifth year at the Institute for Gifted Children in Moscow, unaware that the school's hidden agenda is to train its students as espionage agents. General Petrov, former head of the KGB and current director of...

This combination of sci-fi and fantasy follows the struggles of guardians and fighters, two special groups entrusted with the defense of earth, here and off-world, Elsewhere, where a war rages against humankind's enemies, a war in which angels assist the fighters. The novel also...

La novela narra la historia del triunfo y la desgracia de una joven dotada de una bell sima voz, Gaviota, que logra un xito rotundo en los escenarios de Madrid y Sevilla y se enamora de un torero que muere en la plaza. Fern...

Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man.A 2023 Hugo Award Finalist!A 2022 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List pick! Tesla Crane,...