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Alternative Histories Books
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The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
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avg rating 3.59 — 240,271 ratings — published 1962
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 245,603 ratings — published 2013
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 683,470 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 511,219 ratings — published 2022
Everfair (Everfair, #1)
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avg rating 3.19 — 2,988 ratings — published 2016
Fatherland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 58,096 ratings — published 1992
Cahokia Jazz (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,144 ratings — published 2023
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 38,628 ratings — published 2018
The Shamshine Blind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,702 ratings — published 2023
Manifest (Muse, #2)
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avg rating 3.58 — 170 ratings — published 2023
The Years of Rice and Salt (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 15,814 ratings — published 2002
Rodham (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 50,303 ratings — published 2020
Civilizations (ebook)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,684 ratings — published 2019
Muse (Muse, #1)
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avg rating 3.28 — 1,122 ratings — published 2021
Machines like Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 35,783 ratings — published 2019
The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 4.48 — 92,135 ratings — published 2019
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 259,387 ratings — published 2004
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 70,660 ratings — published 2004
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 26,166 ratings — published 2016
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 81,205 ratings — published 2007
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
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avg rating 3.99 — 85,267 ratings — published 2016
My Real Children (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 6,460 ratings — published 2014
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
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avg rating 3.90 — 56,814 ratings — published 2006
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,240 ratings — published 2006
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 113,984 ratings — published 2006
The Guns of the South (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,804 ratings — published 1992
Tilting the Balance (Worldwar, #2)
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avg rating 3.84 — 5,181 ratings — published 1995
The Stress of Her Regard (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,394 ratings — published 1989
Declare (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 5,839 ratings — published 2000
The Werewolf of Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 1,488 ratings — published 1933
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 283,880 ratings — published 1910
House of X/Powers of X (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 10,265 ratings — published 2019
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 356,078 ratings — published 1898
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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avg rating 4.25 — 13,385 ratings — published 2020
The Dracula Tape (Dracula Series, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,092 ratings — published 1975
The Omen (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 70,322 ratings — published 1976
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 313 ratings — published 2025
1638: The Sovereign States (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.37 — 295 ratings — published
Shadows over Innsmouth (Shadows Over Innsmouth #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 14,318 ratings — published 1994
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
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avg rating 4.26 — 15,824 ratings — published 2018
The Vampire: A New History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 420 ratings — published 2018
A Holmes for the Czar (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.48 — 271 ratings — published 2020
The Bloodline Feud (The Merchant Princes, #1-2)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,940 ratings — published 2013
A Diogenes Club for the Czar (Miroslava Holmes Book 4)
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avg rating 4.42 — 149 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 — 230 ratings — published 2021
Two Cases for the Czar (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 214 ratings — published 2020
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,414 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 — 3,099 ratings — published 2025
“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
“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
