Fiction - Alternative History

What if American History was just a little different? Consider an American history with it's own version of the Middle Ages. Now consider trying to survive this new history. This new history of America has grand castles and fierce Knights of honor. This new...

For a book that can be breezed through in a couple of hours, this pseudonymously written novella manages to plumb the modern-day human dilemma with surprising depth and emotion.- Frank Kaminski, resilience.orgEvokes a transformed world without resorting to the false choice between Star Trek...

Book #21 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power. The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in...

Praise for The Bomb That Never Was "Hitler has the bomb, and it's headed for the USA. This meticulously researched historical novel will have you asking, 'What if?' This is an intelligent, fast-paced page-turner that will make you forget that you already know how...

MindWar is the art and science of resolving international political and military crises through the application of Psychological Control (PSYCON) techniques to the electromagnetic architecture of the human brain, replacing violent irrationality with constructive and cooperative creativity. The result is the elimination of the...

This is the fourth book in the Writer Don series and his interviews with those who have passed on. This book is a fictionalized account of my interview with Mary Todd Lincoln; her family, before being married to Abraham, her years in the white...

In 1941, Adolf Hitler didn't declare war on the United States. Now, in 1985, the Third Reich stretching from the coast of France to the icy wastes of Eastern Russia, appears supremely powerful. With a powerful force of nuclear warheads and the finest military...

Were there Vikings in North America 1,000 years ago? Yes According to this novel there were, and they had quite an adventure. In the year 1003, a Viking named Leif Eiriksson sails into the setting sun to explore a new land rumored to lie...

After London, can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction": after some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.Author: Richard JefferiesISBN-10: 1519352611ISBN-13: 9781519352613Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

A disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that...

With the world facing the greatest global crisis of all time - climate change - personal and political indifference has wrought a series of unfolding complications that are altering our planet, and threatening our very existence. Reacting to the warnings sounded by scientists and...

The year is 1950, but not the 1950 we know. The Second World War ended in 1943. Hitler never declared war on the United States and is currently master of an empire that stretches from the Atlantic coastline of France to the Ural Mountains...

In 1946 the United States Navy conducted Operation Highjump, an expedition to evaluate the effect of extreme Antarctic cold on US equipment. However, their true purpose remains shrouded in mystery. Were the reports of Nazi activity on the Southern Continent accurate?After engaging unknown forces...

"Leave it to the audacious Sean Carswell to crack the code on this secret society of writers, especially after so many other publications (the Believer, Bitch, Vanity Fair) have tried and failed. I'm humbled and grateful to be immortalized in this wily, coltish collection...

It is 1988. Judit Klemmer is a filmmaker who is assembling a fortieth-anniversary official documentary about the birth of Judenstaat, the Jewish homeland surrendered by defeated Germany in 1948. Her work is complicated by Cold War tensions between the competing U.S. and Soviet empires...

"A delightful romp that shifts seamlessly between thrilling Western and outlandish farce." -- GRAYSON QUAY, Modern Age "Delightfully funny alternative history." --WINSTON GROOM, bestselling author of Forrest Gump and El Paso "Droll satire, this is the West as it might have been if the...

The sweeping chronicle of a great and tragic pharaoh who lost his throne for the love of a god. In the glory of ancient Egypt, an epic of a royal family divided, bloody power ploys, and religious wars that nearly tore apart one of...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin), the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure. xxx Soon after their successful return to Rhodes the two cousins find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death of Alexander. Various...

In March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari to central Africa. In this fictionalized account of that trip, Mike Resnick takes us on an amusing "what-if" with Roosevelt deciding to "liberate" the native Africans from Belgian rule and to set up a model...

Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands, leading a massive AI -controlled BOLO tank, as they...

Suppose that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Suppose that, instead, he was found close to death at the scene of the defeat and was brought to trial for his actions. With a masterful blend of fact and...

Background WWI to 1938Like many books about WWII, the story really begins with the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI. President Wilson's isolationist Congress refused to ratify the Treaty version he had brought back and also refused to have the United States join the...

The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman."Compulsory reading... glorious" Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula It is the eve of the new millennium, and the vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Daikaiju Plaza - a building...

In the race to control renewable power, an energy giant stumbles on a controversial technology: the ability to transport matter from the deep past. Their biggest secret is New Pompeii, a replica city filled with Romans, pulled through time just before the volcanic eruption....

Decades after Hitler won the war, the German Reich remains a well-oiled machine under the military regime. In Bohemia, Annelie - bright, young and hopeful - finds her first job in the Central Museum as a tour guide. A series of chance encounters turns...

A jubilant, slow-burn romance filled with luxury and longing. Library Journal's Best Indie Ebook 2017 Lady Amelia Brockett, known to her family as Meels, is having the Worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the...

Sultana K sem - In the Harem, is the in a series of novels which inspired the hit TV series 'The Magnificent Century.' Follow the struggle for power and love intrigues at the Sultan's court, and a ready-for-anything young Greek girl, an angel and...

It's 1976 and the United States is home to The Giganticos, a football super squad led by the one and only Pearl of Brazil, and more or less the only reason AASSA (American All-Star Soccer Association) exists. Enter Danny Hooper, a third-division English footballer...

A beguiling story of espionage and its relationship with the entertainment industry. Penned in Slovakian, translated to English. This is an extremely interesting glimpse into intrigue and its far-reaching initiatives, such as Elvis. "The Stars We Wrecked," takes readers on a journey through the...

Your grandfather was a coward. That is the angry recollection with which a former Zero fighter pilot greets two Japanese siblings who, typically, despite being educated, know next to nothing about a defining war in the Pacific that took place within living memory. The...

A mystical vision of an airship appears to fifteen-year-old Juanita. The ethereal captain commands her to prevent California's thrown-away people--including young children--from boarding trains to an asylum. That institution's director plots murder to reduce the inmate population. Yet to save innocent lives Juanita must...

One hundred years ago, the vampire Victory retired from a centuries-long mercenary career. She settled in Limani, the independent city-state acting as a neutral zone between the British and Roman colonies on the New Continent.Twenty years ago, Victory adopted a human baby girl, who...

August 1, 1914, Berlin: Kaiser Wilhelm II cancels the German invasion of Belgium over the objections of his generals, sending his armies East against Russia instead of West to France, and sets off a chain of events that will radically change the course of...

A young woman is obsessed and intrigued by an ancient family story of a kidnapping, murder, and deceit.Author: Joanne Kathleen FarrellISBN-10: 1728322677ISBN-13: 9781728322674Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2019Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

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...

Third in a series of counter-factual historical thrillers from Stephen Baxter, in which someone in the future is desperate to rewrite the discovery of America.Author: Stephen BaxterISBN-10: 0575081546ISBN-13: 9780575081543Publisher: GollanczLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2008Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.75d

"Kline keeps the pages turning... a lively interpretation that will win Oxfordian approval and may even convince Stratfordians to suspend disbelief and enjoy it." --Kirkus Reviews FIRST PLACE WINNER 2014 CHAUCER AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION IN ELIZABETHAN/TUDOR CATEGORYCharged in 1616 by the Earls of...

JIm Huckleberry...A story that sings the soul of a man who will be free by any means...A story that holds the heart of the enslaved who seized the day for their dreams... A story that moves the mind to see the paths and perils...

Who was Fidel Castro? In the summer of 1958, 300 bearded revolutionaries, led by a 30-year-old lawyer named Fidel, turned the tides of war in Cuba by defeating 12,000 soldiers in combat. How was this possible?If you want to understand Cuba of the last...

Videssos was not like Marcus Scarus' native Rome. But he found politics and intrigue the same--deadly Book Three of The Videssos Cycle Since the Roman legion had been mysteriously transported to this world of magic, tribune Marcus Scaurus had served the rulers of war-torn...

The SwiftPad Insurgency, the second book in the SwiftPad trilogy, follows the founders and original crew of the Portland-based social media application SwiftPad. Nate Schuette, who wrote a sensational novel thirty years earlier (see Barckmann's novel Farewell the Dragon), shows up in Portland with...

Corky Fitzgerald is the alcoholic son of Robert Kennedy, and is in search of a block buster idea for his next movie. That's how he stumbles across the plot to change the world by transporting nuclear weapons from America 2018 to Hitler's bunker in...

Nelson Mandela buried a gun at his secret hideout shortly before his betrayal by the CIA and capture by the South African Police. The gun has never been found. This tantalizing and historically documented fact is the catalyst for a high concept novel about...

Welcome back to Virgin River with the book that started it all ...Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River, population six hundred. Make a difference against a backdrop of towering California redwoods and crystal clear rivers. Rent-free cabin included.When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees...

In this book, Cyrus the Great and His Empire, author F.G.Ghamsari writes the story of equality, freedom, and the establishment of human rights (600-530BC). Two thousand five hundred years later, equality remains a conflict and justice does not exist. Unfairness is the way of...

Carter County, Kentucky was blessed with an abundance of diverse natural resources, including timber, iron ore, coal, and limestone. During the Industrial Revolution one of its towns, Olive Hill, became the center of a 600 square mile hotbed of fireclay, a unique heat-resistant clay...

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. - In her new historical novel, "Just Passing Through," author Margaret Tutor shares a story of changed lives and healed hearts.The story introduces readers to the Ward family, who traveled from cotton field to cotton field, living out of their covered...

His father is a genius scientist. But is Patrick's future more deadly than his past?America, 1957. Twelve-year-old Patrick Stoodle has never been good at making friends. So when his dad promises a super-exciting surprise for his birthday, he hopes life will change for the...

Patton's War is the exciting third book in the "World in Flames" WW II alternative history series. The action picks up after the dramatic end to Truman's War when General Patton has been named the commander of all Allied Ground Forces...it's his war to...

The war is far from over and the atrocities continue, perpetrated by the SS and their Basque, Asturian, Scots and Gurkha opponents on the French borders with German defeat imminent. Meanwhile under Sergeant Massu's protection his royal charge is endeavouring to unite Italy while...