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"

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)
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

Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. ChessThe Girl with No Face by M.H. BorosonGolden State by Ben H. WintersRevolution by W.L. GoodwaterRedemption by Regina M. Joseph
Alternate History in 2019
37 books — 23 voters

Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster BujoldGrimspace by Ann AguirreOn Basilisk Station by David  WeberCommand Decision by Elizabeth MoonAlien Embrace  by Milly Taiden
Vaginal Fantasy's Science Fiction
125 books — 32 voters
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


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

Nancy Omeara
Killing War I had no desire to alter the viable occupations of humanity, but I was determined to do something about the level of regional bloodshed. Education was my weapon of choice, based on a simple hypothesis: that the advance troops of physical carnage are the propaganda and lies that justify murder, making the real battleground that of ideas. I was determined to address a situation where so many people were ready to kill, driven by the conviction that others are either evil incarnate or ...more
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