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Alternate Histories and Alternate Realities What if the world was just a little different? Barnes, John Finity What if the Axis powers had won World War II? Barnes, Steven Lion’s Blood What if the northern United States had been settled by Vikings who sold abducted Celts and Franks to the Africans who had settled the south? Baxter, Stephen Voyage What if JFK had survived the assassination attempt and lived to push NASA forward to a Mars landing in 1986? Bear, Greg Dinosaur Summer What if living dinosaurs were discovered? Card. Orson Scott Tales of Alvin Maker Series Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman, Heartfire What if pioneer America was a place where magic worked? Dreyfuss, Richard and Harry Turtledove The Two Georges What if the American Revolution had ended peacefully, with the United States still part of the British Empire? Fforde, Jasper The Eyre Affair What if the British were still fighting the Crimean War in 1985, time was often out of sync, and the lines between reality and fiction were blurred? Gibson, William and Bruce Sterling The Difference Engine What if Charles Babbage perfected his computer prototype and the Information Age began a century early? Harlan, Thomas Oath of the Empire series The Shadow of Ararat, The Gate of Fire, Storm of Heaven What if Rome never fell? Harris, Robert Fatherland What would Germany be like if the Nazi’s had discovered that the British had broken the Enigma code and forced a peace in Europe? Harrison, Harry The Hammer and the Cross Trilogy The Hammer and the Cross, One King’s Way, King and Emperor What if the Vikings had conquered England and begun a civilization based on Nordic religion and customs? Harrison, Harry Stars and Stripes Trilogy Stars and Stripes Forever, Stars and Stripes in Peril What if Great Britain had attacked the U.S. during the Civil War? Keyes, J. Gregory The Age of Unreason Series Newton’s Cannon, A Calculus of Angels, Empire of Unreason, Shadows of God What if Sir Isaac Newton had unlocked the secrets of alchemy, rather than physics? Modesitt, L.E. The Ghost Series Of Tangible Ghosts, Ghost of the Revelator, Ghost of the White Nights What if the dominant influence in the United States had been Dutch and ghosts could interact with living people? Roberts, John Maddox The King of the Woods What if Vikings had settled North America? Robinson, Kim Stanley The Years of Rice and Salt What if the Black Death had destroyed virtually the entire European population? Sargent, Pamela Climb the Wind What if the Native American nations of the Plains had successfully united to fight against western expansion? Stirling, S.M. Nantucket Series Island in the Sea of Time, Against the Tide of Years, On the Oceans of Eternity What if the island of Nantucket and all its inhabitants mysteriously went back in time to the Bronze Age? Turtledove, Harry Great War and American Empire Series How Few Remain, The Great War: American Front, The Great War: Walk in Hell, The Great War: Breakthroughs, American Empire: Blood & Iron What if the South had won the Civil War and the United States and the Confederate States ended up on different sides of World War II? Turtledove, Harry Worldwar and Colonization Series Worldwar: In the Balance, Worldwar: Tilting the Balance, Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance, Worldwar: Striking the Balance, Colonization: Second Contact, Colonization: Down to Earth, Colonization: Aftershocks What if an alien invasion had occurred during World War II, forcing the Allies and the Axis powers to put aside their differences and confront their common enemy? Wilson, Roberts Charles Darwinia What if 1912 Europe literally disappeared and was replaced by a geographically similar, but zoologically different, land mass? .