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Alternative Histories Books
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The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 235,826 ratings — published 1962
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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avg rating 3.79 — 241,645 ratings — published 2013
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 654,948 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 473,577 ratings — published 2022
Everfair (Everfair, #1)
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avg rating 3.19 — 2,961 ratings — published 2016
Fatherland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 56,562 ratings — published 1992
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 37,957 ratings — published 2018
The Shamshine Blind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,647 ratings — published 2023
Manifest (Muse, #2)
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avg rating 3.58 — 168 ratings — published 2023
The Years of Rice and Salt (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 15,563 ratings — published 2002
Rodham (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 49,688 ratings — published 2020
Civilizations (ebook)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,444 ratings — published 2019
Muse (Muse, #1)
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avg rating 3.28 — 1,118 ratings — published 2021
Machines like Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 35,045 ratings — published 2019
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 4.48 — 89,474 ratings — published 2019
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 255,443 ratings — published 2004
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 69,347 ratings — published 2004
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 26,040 ratings — published 2016
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 80,390 ratings — published 2007
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 82,848 ratings — published 2016
My Real Children (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 6,401 ratings — published 2014
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
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avg rating 3.90 — 55,786 ratings — published 2006
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)
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avg rating 3.91 — 43,509 ratings — published 2006
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 112,067 ratings — published 2006
The Guns of the South (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,696 ratings — published 1992
Tilting the Balance (Worldwar, #2)
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avg rating 3.84 — 5,153 ratings — published 1995
The Stress of Her Regard (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 4,381 ratings — published 1989
Declare (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 5,784 ratings — published 2000
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 170 ratings — published 2025
1638: The Sovereign States (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.37 — 290 ratings — published
Shadows over Innsmouth (Shadows Over Innsmouth #1)
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avg rating 4.42 — 14,274 ratings — published 1994
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
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avg rating 4.26 — 15,589 ratings — published 2018
The Vampire: A New History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 419 ratings — published 2018
A Holmes for the Czar (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.48 — 266 ratings — published 2020
The Bloodline Feud (The Merchant Princes, #1-2)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,937 ratings — published 2013
A Diogenes Club for the Czar (Miroslava Holmes Book 4)
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avg rating 4.43 — 144 ratings — published
The Rough Guide to Surviving the End of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 26 ratings — published 2012
A Mission for the Czar (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 227 ratings — published 2021
Two Cases for the Czar (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 211 ratings — published 2020
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,225 ratings — published 2023
Officer, Gentleman, Monster: An alternative history science fantasy (Condition Book 6)
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avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published
The Martian Contingency (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,812 ratings — published 2025
Barrowbeck (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.59 — 1,198 ratings — published 2024
Salt (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 699 ratings — published 2000
The Call of Cthulhu: Graphic Novel (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1988
Cahokia Jazz (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 4,792 ratings — published 2023
Mission to Paris (Night Soldiers, #12)
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avg rating 3.67 — 8,406 ratings — published 2012
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 148,626 ratings — published 1987
The Art of the Strain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 23 ratings — published 2015
A Universal History of Iniquity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 11,897 ratings — published 1935
“To apply quantum theory to the entire universe... is tricky... particles of matter fired at a screen with two slits in it... exhibit interference patterns just as water waves do.
Feynman showed that this arises because a particle does not have a unique history.
That is, as it moves from its starting point A to some endpoint B, it doesn’t take one definite path, but rather simultaneously takes every possible path connecting the two points.
From this point of view, interference is no surprise because, for instance, the particle can travel through both slits at the same time and interfere with itself.
In this view, the universe appeared spontaneously, starting off in every possible way.”
― The Grand Design
Feynman showed that this arises because a particle does not have a unique history.
That is, as it moves from its starting point A to some endpoint B, it doesn’t take one definite path, but rather simultaneously takes every possible path connecting the two points.
From this point of view, interference is no surprise because, for instance, the particle can travel through both slits at the same time and interfere with itself.
In this view, the universe appeared spontaneously, starting off in every possible way.”
― The Grand Design
“Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
