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)
The Age of Calamities
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Blood Slaves
Murder at Martingale Manor (Chronicles of St. Mary's)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
Pagans
The Last Wizards' Ball (Gunnie Rose, #6)
The Blueprint
Mania
Biography of X
The Heist (Isaac Bell #14)
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers
All the Dead Shall Weep (Gunnie Rose, #5)
The Last Kingdom (Cotton Malone, #17)
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)
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
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

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
539 books — 378 voters


Nava Semel
אתר האינטרנט של אוניברסיטת אררט־ניאגרה מבשר לי בגאווה על שלושה סטודנטים שנרשמו השנה ללימודי עברית בחוג ללשונות עתיקות, שם מלמדים אותה לצד לטינית, יוונית עתיקה, גאלית, ארמית, אסקימו־גרנלנדית, קאווסקר ושפת שבט הטוסקארורה שזוכה בעת האחרונה לעדנה. "הסטודנטים בני המזל הללו יזכו לקרוא את ספר הספרים בשפה שבה נכתב"... גן חיות לשפות נכחדות. בואו ילדים, נבקר בכלוב של העברית. ...more
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