Fiction - Alternative History

The Gold Coast, set an alternative future of ecological collapse, is the second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy. 2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2017 A groundbreaking anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be "The Other" "History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth,...

"Imagine 'The Da Vinci Code' melded with the Bourne Trilogy and then put it on steroids. THAT is The Order of the Nephilim " Hush Hush Biz magazine. Sean Lincoln, an ex intelligence agent turned investigative reporter is approached by the beautiful Sarah Scott,...

An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles--from...

"Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." --Michael Dirda, The New York Review of BooksFrom Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the...

Sidewise Award Winner for Best Long Form.Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself.North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don't...

2021 Silver Medal IPPY Awards Winner for Best Regional Fiction!Rusty barbed wire and distant AM radio-Montana hid my secrets for almost fifty years.Then a young reporter arrived in a beat-up Impala. Her assignment, WWII Homecoming Memories, had uncovered a puzzling lead about several dead...

Have you ever wondered what might had happened if John Lennon survived the shooting on December 8, 1980? Would The Beatles have reunited and gone on to create more music? What if their legacy didn't end in 1970? The Beatles Come Together Again is...

SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE THE WORLD TOOK A WRONG TURN ... WHAT IF IT DID? A thought-provoking novel for fans of Blake Crouch, Matt Haig and Margaret Atwood, this mind-bending bestseller will make you question everything you know. "A powerful piece of inventive and...

"Fellows's obvious talents are his world-building and his prose." - Shai Palmer, Reedsy Discovery"The interconnection between the world building and the characters is beautifully crafted." - Lorraine Bondie, the Book & Nature Professor ReviewA wayward city, untethered by time or place. If you find...

The title itself is the Greek word for fish. The sequence of the Greek letters of the word forms an acrostic for Jesus Christ Son of God Saviour used by the early Christians as a secret symbol to identify themselves to one another. The...

In 1890s Texas, being a single woman at 30 meant you were practically a spinster. Tired of leaving it up to providence, Essie takes matters into her own hands, casting her sights on the towns remaining bachelors and widowers. Surely with one of them...

This short book for older children (with much information adults will also find interesting) - can be described as the most fact-filled work of fiction - about the hotly disputed Lokono-Arawak presence/non-presence in Barbados at the time of the English colonization of 1627. On...

Eliot & Elvis: Two plays using music and verse to explore the wastelands of two American Icons--T.S. Eliot and Elvis Aaron Presley. The Man From Lloyds visits Eliot on the last day of his life to make a moral accounting. A post mortem Elvis...

Harry Turtledove hailed Island in the Sea of Time as "one of the best time travel/alternative history stories I've ever read," and Jane Lindskold called Against the Tide of Years "another exciting and explosive tale." Now the adventures of the Nantucket islanders lost in...

The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Antio Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde--a nightclub milieu of...

"Blood and Iron is a masterpiece."--Sci Fi Weekly World War I--The Great War--has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long,...

"Anyone who loves history will love what Harry Turtledove can do with it."--Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Day of Wrath Is it the war to end all wars--or war without end? What began as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed...

Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth. Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered in this volume Future Primitive...

After the earth's power under her city is suddenly left unprotected, a young geomancer must rely on her unique magic to survive in this fresh fantasy novel from the author of the acclaimed The Clockwork Dagger.In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan...

Evan West lives, breathes and exists for everything film. His heart beats at 24 frames per second. He aspires to be much more than a film trailer editor, but he's lucky to live and work in Hollywood.When Evan crashes into a telephone pole one...

Former Beatle roadie Mal Evans lies in a Los Angeles apartment in January 1976, dying of a gunshot wound. His life has spiraled downward since his beloved band broke up in 1970. And throughout those six years, as he fell further into despair, he...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the fifth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire struggle to reunite and face the Napoleonic army on London's doorstep. "A story about friendship that transcends not only time...

Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening: a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the...

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...

When budding historian Donnie Ray Cuinn stumbles upon an old letter in the musty bowels of the Texas State Archives, he believes he has uncovered the true story of Sam Payne's valiant, or perhaps not so valiant, capture of Mexican leader Santa Anna during...

Called "the first post-Weinstein novel" by Vanity Fair Italy, The Girl at the Door is a riveting story of lust, power, and betrayal While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country...

The Tales of Alvin Maker continue in The Crystal City, the sixth book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game. Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women...

In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into affinity groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic...

New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling alternate history series. Book #18 in the Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint. Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark's daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access...

This alternate history/historical fiction novel, is presented as a trilogy: 150 years of the Confederate States of America, from its formation in early 1861, to the 2011 celebration of the sesquicentennial of what has become the Greatest Country on Earth. A trilogy, because it...

"A portrait of a soul,"--Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, finalist for the National Book AwardIn the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay...

The first in the Breakpoint series, Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and newly revised, Surrounded by Enemies asks: what if Kennedy wasn't assassinated in Dallas?Author: Bryce ZabelISBN-10: 1626818290ISBN-13: 9781626818293Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2015Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.74d

Grim Tales of the Brothers Kollin is a collection of five stories written by the Prometheus Award winning duo. It includes two alt histories, one dark fantasy, and one hard SF. Three of the stories were written during the down time between the brother's...

"Owls to Athens demonstrates Turteltaub's excellent research skills ... an entertaining and intelligent story"-SF Site "Scholar and bestselling author Turteltaub], encapsulates his vision of the ancient world through the eyes of these two engaging merchants."-Historical Novel Society After some long and perilous journeys, Menedemos...

From the bestselling author of the Chronos series comes a page-turning novel of time travel, fast-paced action, and history-changing events.When two time-traveling historians cross paths during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, history goes helter-skelter. But which one broke the...

The final book of the Mongoliad trilogy from Neal Stephenson and company tells the gripping personal stories of medieval freedom fighters to form an epic, imaginative recounting of a moment in history when a world in peril relied solely on the courage of its...

Sugar Land is the southern story of Nana Dara, a prison cook at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men in 1923, who-with the help of the blues singer Lead Belly-discovers how to break out of her own physical and emotional prison to become...

Ann dreams of a marriage proposal from her poetic suitor, Eli--until Will Hanby shows her that nobility is more than fine words.On a small farm in 19th-century Ohio, young Ann Miller is pursued by the gallant Eli Bowen, son of a prominent family. Eli...

The new beginning and the grand finale of Lian Hearn's celebrated Tales of the Otori is "rivetingly elegant" (Washington Post). Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko. Heaven's Net Is Wide is the prequel that reveals the full story of Lord Otori...

Grass for His Pillow is the second book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko. Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the...

What if, on September 11, 1814, the United States had lost the close-run battle that Winston Churchill called the "most decisive" of the War of 1812? With a victory at Plattsburgh, would the British have eventually been able to regain control of their former...

Travel through time and discover how the magical world has shaped our history. Uncover the truth behind the events in our past. Fifteen talented authors bring you a dynamic collection of alternate history fantasy epics in one amazing collection. AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE...

Tidal Effects is the sequel to Gray Tide in the East, the popular alternate history of the First World War. In Gray Tide, the Germans cancel their planned invasion of Belgium in 1914, turning their armies eastward to crush Russia without interference from Great...

For a full description of our novel, please see the description and advisories under our Kindle edition.Author: Cindy Dunaway, William DunawayISBN-10: 1728965861ISBN-13: 9781728965864Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2018Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.77d

In 1964 the German Empire is the most powerful nation in Europe. As Germany commemorates the 50th anniversary of the victorious Great War, a Berlin based Austrian painter recalls his role in the war and his life afterwards. -Chancellor Speer presides over an empire...

The cops and FBI are out to get them. One girl's magic may be the key to the revolution. Oakland, 1969. Eighteen-year-old student and secret sorcerer Jasmine Jones didn't come to town to join a rebellion. But from the moment she sees the Black...

The three books of the first trilogy for the Great Martian War - a continuation of HG Wells, War of the Worlds Taking place ten years after the original martian invasion as featured in HG Wells, War of the Worlds, this trilogy contains the...

Caesar Ascending-India Limited Edition is the third volume of the bestselling alternate history series in which Caesar survives the assassination in March of 44 BC and carries out his planned invasion of Parthia. Now that Parthia has been pacified and turned into a Roman...

The WomanBettie Page, coming of age during The Great Depression, is determined to escape poverty and live a life of adventure.The GoddessAphrodite, watching the U.S. from Mt. Olympus, decides to help the nation fling off its Puritanism by bringing them the gift of sexual...