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The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 245,342 ratings — published 1962
Fatherland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 60,179 ratings — published 1992
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 71,883 ratings — published 2004
The Alteration (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 1,891 ratings — published 1976
Underground Airlines (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 26,291 ratings — published 2016
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 81,966 ratings — published 2007
More What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 116 ratings — published
If Russia Wins: A Scenario (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,572 ratings — published 2025
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
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avg rating 4.26 — 16,107 ratings — published 2018
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 728 ratings — published 1997
Dominion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 14,651 ratings — published 2012
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 711,568 ratings — published 2011
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 139,671 ratings — published 2010
The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published
American Indian Victories - Revised & Expanded (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2002
Bring the Jubilee (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 3,025 ratings — published 1953
Petty Treason (Sarah Tolerance, #2)
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avg rating 3.91 — 835 ratings — published 2004
Point of Honour (Sarah Tolerance, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,485 ratings — published 2003
Leopard In Exile (Carolus Rex, #2)
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avg rating 3.74 — 291 ratings — published 2001
The Martian Contingency (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4)
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avg rating 4.08 — 3,361 ratings — published 2025
The Last Templar (Templar, #1)
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avg rating 3.62 — 46,507 ratings — published 2005
In Times Like These Boxed Set: A Time Travel Adventure Series (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 343 ratings — published 2018
The Fold (Threshold, #2)
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avg rating 3.88 — 34,516 ratings — published 2015
Time and Time Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 16,143 ratings — published 2014
Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 5,875 ratings — published 2004
The Scribe of Siena (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 6,194 ratings — published 2017
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 198,448 ratings — published 2014
Out of Time: An Alternative Outcome to the Civil War (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 34 ratings — published 2014
1636: The Devil's Opera (Assiti Shards, #15)
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avg rating 4.03 — 989 ratings — published 2013
1636: The Saxon Uprising (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,711 ratings — published 2011
Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, #3)
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avg rating 3.86 — 28,041 ratings — published 2010
1634: The Bavarian Crisis (Assiti Shards, #6)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,241 ratings — published 2007
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,283 ratings — published 2004
Amerikan Eagle (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 258 ratings — published 2011
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.22 — 274 ratings — published 2014
Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles, #3)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,644 ratings — published 1966
Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,633 ratings — published 1964
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 22,775 ratings — published 1962
Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)
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avg rating 4.35 — 304 ratings — published 2022
The Guns of the South (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,897 ratings — published 1992
The Stone Raft (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 10,339 ratings — published 1986
The Relentless Moon (Lady Astronaut Universe, #3)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,273 ratings — published 2020
American Hippo (River of Teeth, #1-2)
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avg rating 3.87 — 2,793 ratings — published 2018
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 39,391 ratings — published 2018
Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 30 ratings — published 2013
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 627 ratings — published 2021
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,159,834 ratings — published 1932
The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States: A Speculative Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,351 ratings — published 2018
Bombs Away (The Hot War, #1)
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avg rating 3.58 — 1,770 ratings — published 2015
1942 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,275 ratings — published 2009
“Think of a "discovery" as an act that moves the arrival of information from a later point in time to an earlier time. The discovery's value does not equal the value of the information discovered but rather the value of having the information available earlier than it otherwise would have been. A scientist or a mathematician may show great skill by being the first to find a solution that has eluded many others; yet if the problem would soon have been solved anyway, then the work probably has not much benefited the world [unless having a solution even slightly sooner is immensely valuable or enables further important and urgent work].”
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies