Alternate Historical Fiction
"Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one." Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines
Voyage The Peshawar Lancers by Stephen Baxter by S. M. Stirling An intense novel explores what On an alternate Earth might have happened if irrevocably transformed by a President Kennedy had lived violent spray of comets in the and a manned mission to Mars 1870s, the planet is controlled had been dispatched, by two superpowers--the British combining historical figures and Empire and Russia--who appear events with memorable to be heading for a deadly characters who experience the showdown, unless superspy trials and tribulations of this Captain Alfred King can stop it. aspiring mission.
The Impeachment of How Few Remain Abraham Lincoln by Harry Turtledove In 1883, the United States, still by Stephen L. Carter smarting from its defeat at the The best-selling author of The hands of the Confederacy, Emperor of Ocean Park returns to the battlefields, with imagines a world where the the Apache, outlaw gangs, and 16th President survives his 1865 European forces becoming assassination only to be involved in the conflict, in a new charged with overstepping his novel of alternative history.. Constitutional authority during the Civil War, a case that is aided by a black college graduate who is entangled in a violent political conspiracy. Clash of Eagles by Alan Smale Fallout General Gaius Marcellinus of the by Todd Strasser Roman Empire is shocked by When an unthinkable nuclear the fighting skills shown by attack occurs in an alternate- Native Americans when he reality 1962, Scott is forced into commands the invasion of the his father's bomb shelter with newly-discovered North his family and neighbors, where American continent. they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside
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"Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one." Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines
The Difference Engine The Man in the High by William Gibson Castle With the computer age arriving by Philip K Dick a century ahead of its time-- After the defeat of the Allies during the Industrial during World War II, the United Revolution--politician's States is divided up and ruled daughter Sybil, explorer and by the Axis powers paleontologist Edward, and diplomat and spy Laurence race toward a rendezvous with history.
Ruled Britannia The Plot Against by Harry Turtledove America In a novel of alternative history, by Philip Roth the Spanish Armada has In a novel of alternative history, conquered England, while in aviation hero and isolationist London, a mysterious stranger Charles A. Lindbergh defeats approaches young playwright Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 William Shakespeare with an presidential election, offer that could change the negotiating a cordial accord course of history. with Adolf Hitler, accepting his conquest of Europe and anti- Semitic policies, and igniting a Age of Aztec storm of fear for Jewish families throughout America.. by James Lovegrove When a masked vigilante 1812 : The Rivers of known as the Conquistador War defies the Aztec's cruel and by Eric Flint oppressive reign and is In a tale of alternate history set recruited to spearhead an on America's western frontier, uprising, he must assassinate the Cherokee are united in the the immortal Aztec emperor face of mutual enemies, finding while trying to elude a police allies among the politicians of detective who is determined to the day and escaped slaves, bring him to justice. forming an Indian Nation that will play an important role in such conflicts as the Battle fo Horseshoe Bend and the Battle of New Orleans.
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"Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one." Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines
Underground Airlines The Yiddish by Ben H. Winters Policemen's Union A tale set in a modern America by Michael Chabon where the Civil War never An alternate historical work happened and the country has based on a premise that Alaska forged a dubious agreement became the Jewish homeland with four states that still enforce after World War II finds slavery follows the experiences detective Meyer Landsman of a talented black bounty investigating a heroin-addicted hunter who makes discoveries chess prodigy's murder, a case about his mysterious past while with ties to an extremist infiltrating an abolitionist group Orthodox sect. to catch a high-profile runaway. Red Inferno: 1945 The Mirage by Robert Conroy by Matt Ruff The author of the best-selling In the summer of 2009, Arab 1942 imagines an alternate- Homeland Security agent history World War II in which Mustafa al Baghdadi is plunged the United States fatefully takes into a conspiracy involving Churchill and Patton's Suddam Hussein, Osama Bin controversial advice to invade Laden, and the head of the Berlin to prevent Stalin's Senate Intelligence Committee expansion into Europe. when a captured suicide bomber claims that the world in which they live is a mirage It Can't Happen Here The Years of Rice and by Sinclair Lewis A New England newspaper Salt editor fights ot destroy the by Kim Stanley Robinson fascist dictatorship established In an alternate history world in by President Berzelius Windrip which the population of Europe in this classic work by the is almost completely wiped out author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, by the Black Death during the and Main Street that fourteenth century, three prophesizes the coming of superpowers--China, India, and totalitarianism in the United the nations of Islam--battle for States. supremacy in a World War destined to create a new world order.
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