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)
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
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

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Alternate England
387 books — 312 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


The taxi stand was only an open shelter, so I was freezing as I looked toward midtown. I could see the RCA building with its bright red logo at Rockefeller Center, and farther south, the Empire State Building with its illuminated set-backs. At the tip of Manhattan, the twin towers of the World Trade Center -- which were over 1,100 feet tall themselves -- flanked the mile-high Space Trylon. It was clear as well as cold, and as I looked toward Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, it seemed to be poij ...more
Lou Antonelli, Another Girl, Another Planet

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Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love,' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it. ...more
Sara Douglass, The Crippled Angel

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