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)
The Sightless City by Noah LemelsonA Fistful of Nothing by Dan GlaserDieselpunk ePulp Showcase by Grant GardinerPandora Driver by John PichaLeviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Dieselpunk
117 books — 99 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

Ulysses by James JoyceInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rabelais' Codpiece
135 books — 144 voters


Eric Flint
A reputation, once developed, is as valuable as a fine sword. But don't forget that it has to be a valid reputation. Or the sword's go no edge. ...more
Eric Flint, 1812: The Rivers of War

I bet the people living in the timeline where Hillary is president are laughing at us. They’re probably sipping lattes and giggling: “Imagine if Trump had won! Can you even imagine what that clusterfuck would look like?” But even in their wildest dreams they wouldn’t come up with the unimaginable clusterfuck that our timeline is.
Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

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