Alternate History

Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?" Most works in this genre are based on real historical events, yet feature social, geopolitical, or industrial circumstances that developed differently than our own. ...more

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Graceless Heart (The Spellbound History, #1)
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Pagans
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Blood Slaves
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
Biography of X
Mania
The Blueprint
Пісня дібров (Літопис Сірого Ордену, #3)
The Last Wizards' Ball (Gunnie Rose, #6)
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers
Five Years After (After, #4)
The Man in the High Castle
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Fatherland
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Years of Rice and Salt
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
11/22/63
The Plot Against America
1632
The Guns of the South
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
Through Darkest Europe by Harry TurtledoveRedemption by Regina M. JosephThe Fated Sky by Mary Robinette KowalLow Chicago by George R.R. MartinThe Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington by Charles  Rosenberg
Alternate History in 2018
38 books — 14 voters
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. DickWatchmen by Alan             MooreFatherland by Robert   HarrisThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Best Alternate History Novels and Stories
772 books — 1,296 voters

The Kingdoms by Natasha PulleyA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí ClarkYou Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey CranorRedemption by Regina M. JosephThe Peculiarities by David Liss
Alternate History in 2021
27 books — 13 voters
Redemption by Regina M. JosephAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerThe Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette KowalRing Shout by P. Djèlí ClarkAgency by William Gibson
Alternate History in 2020
28 books — 8 voters

1984 by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Pythagorean by Alexander Morpheigh
Best Social Science Fiction
540 books — 379 voters


Stephanie Osborn
I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future—if it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility of some sort near the Colorado Rocky Mountains, specifically Pikes Peak, so I assume the nearest city of any import to be Colorado Springs…I am afraid I have little grasp of your project.” ~Sherlock Holmes
Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

Sara Douglass
I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold. ...more
Sara Douglass, The Crippled Angel

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