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

New Releases Tagged "Alternate History"

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)
Fatherland
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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)
After the End of the World by Jonathan L. HowardThe Sea Peoples by S.M. StirlingWinter Tide by Ruthanna EmrysThe Berlin Project by Gregory BenfordInterviews With the Rauschmonstrum by Nick LaTorre
Alternate History in 2017
51 books — 18 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Manchurian Candidate by Richard CondonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Mind Control Fiction
340 books — 145 voters
Abraham Lincoln by Seth Grahame-SmithPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithBrothers Sen Gogh by Manik BalEscape from Texas by James W. RussellJacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett
Revisionist Novels
22 books — 18 voters

Good Intentions by D.N. SimmonsLocked Together by Michelle  AbbottThe Kalarthri by H.M. ClarkeFallon by Valerie ZambitoTwo Romantic, Two Suspenseful by Harmony Stalter
Books On Tour
103 books — 14 voters
Retribution Falls by Chris WoodingSoulless by Gail CarrigerAnno Dracula by Kim NewmanAgatha H and the Airship City by Phil FoglioThe Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
Favourite Steampunk/Alt. History Novels
174 books — 167 voters


Kim Newman
There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent of some damned regimental water-bearer.' In India, I knew a water-bearer who was a better man than most. ...more
Kim Newman, Anno Dracula

Ben H. Winters
Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one, a world in which there is true justice, heroic honesty, a clear perception possessed by each individual about how to treat all the others. Sometimes I swear I could see it, glittering in the pavement, glowing between the words in a stranger's sentence, a green, impossible vision--the world as it was meant to be, like a mist around the world as it is. ...more
Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines

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