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In the Stone House
by Barry N. Malzberg
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In an "Alternate Kennedys" history where Joe Kennedy lives to become president, things go horribly wrong as the rivalry between ex-president Joe and his now-president brother Jack turns violent. Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 13086 - Reading Time: 37-52 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Everything But Honor
by George Alec Effinger
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A complex alternate history story, "Everything But Honor"--a Hugo Award finalist for best novelette--is the tale of Dr. Thomas Placide, a Black physicist in 1938 Germany, who travels back in time to alter the outcome of America's War Between the States to better the plight of Southern Negro slaves, but with dire consequences. (Published: 1989) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 11384 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Sleeping Serpent
by Pamela Sargent
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This fascinating alternate history story is set a few hundred years ago in an America that has been colonized primarily by Mongolians (who, by the way, have taken over most of Europe). A Mongolian settler who was raised by Native American Indians finds he must try to bridge the gap between cultures to counter threats from English settlements (England is one of the few remaining independent countries in Europe). In so doing, he seeks to re-unite the Native American peoples and the peoples of Mong... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 15944 - Reading Time: 45-63 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Da Vinci Rising
by Jack Dann
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Young Leonardo da Vinci experiments with his flying machine in the politically charged atmosphere of late 15th century Florence. He dreams of soaring into the heavens, but Lorenzo de Medici is eager to use this new invention to his advantage on the battlefield. (Published: 1995) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 23859 - Reading Time: 68-95 min.
Category: Alternate History
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1824: The Arkansas War [Secure]
by Eric Flint
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In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas War, he spins an astounding and provocative saga of heroism, battlefield action, racial conflict, and rebellion as a nation recovering from war is plunged into a dangerous era of secession. Buffered by Spanish possessions to the south and by free states and two rivers to the north, Ark... more info>>
Category: Alternate History
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Striking the Balance [Worldwar Volume 4] [Secure]
by Harry Turtledove
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At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination. With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into submission. Russia, Nazi Germany, Japan, and the United States were not easily cowed, however. With cunning and incredible daring, they pres... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 233000 - Reading Time: 665-932 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Vatican Outfit
by Laura Resnick
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An alternate history story about the death of John Paul I. (Published: 1993)
Words: 4291 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Winterberry
by Nick DiChario
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Alternate history story that appeared in "Alternate Kennedys," an interesting speculation on a dark Kennedy family secret. (Published: 1992) Hugo Award Nominee, World Fantasy Award Nominee
Words: 3100 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Alternate History
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We Could Do Worse
by Gregory Benford
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The election of 1956 is at stake and the remorseless thug known as the President has his operatives out in the field making sure there are no surprises. (Published: 1988)
Words: 1992 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Alternate History
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A Fleeting Wisp of Glory
by Laura Resnick
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Short post-apocalyptic "Alternate Kennedys" story. (Published: 1992)
Words: 3502 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Alternate History
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A Key to the Illuminated Heretic
by A. M. Dellamonica
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What if Joan of Arc hadn't burned? (Published: 2005) Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee, Sidewise Award Finalist
Words: 9690 - Reading Time: 27-38 min.
Category: Alternate History
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American Front [The Great War Series Book 1] [Secure]
by Harry Turtledove
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When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy joined forces with their longtime allies, Britain and France. But it soon became clear to both sides that this fight would be different--that war itself would never be the same again. For this was to be a protracted, global conflict waged with new and... more info>>
Category: Alternate History
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Anglomerika
by Zane Smith
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Zane Smith gives us a United States after the attacks on The World Trade Center. In this alternate reality, the US swings to an ultra right-wing political position in which personal freedoms have been suspended. Interwoven with newspaper excerpts to portray the growing political and social atmosphere, Smith places his characters in a time and place that could frighteningly become reality. (Published: 2002)
Words: 68699 - Reading Time: 196-274 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Down to Earth [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 2] [Secure]
by Harry Turtledove
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In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved. A spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom, destruction and hope, Colonization takes us into the tumultuous 1960s, as the ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 244000 - Reading Time: 697-976 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Drive to the East [Settling Accounts Series Book 2] [Secure]
by Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove--the master of alternate history--has recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world. In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, The Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, ... more info>>
Category: Alternate History
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Graveyard of Dreams--Science Fiction Stories
by H. Beam Piper
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This new collection of H. Beam Piper's shorter work includes five of his finest stories: "Graveyard of Dreams," "Genesis," "Operation R.S.V.P.," "The Answer," and "Last Enemy." (Published: 2006)
Words: 47611 - Reading Time: 136-190 min.
Category: Alternate History
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In Entropy's Jaws
by Robert Silverberg
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In a far future Earth, John Skein's skills as a Communicator bring him wealth and fame. He uses his mind as a conduit for joining the intellects of his clients to solve business or technical problems ... all for a substantial fee. When he joins his newest clients to solve a problem of matter transportation, the overload jolts Skein into a new perception of time that is driving him slowly insane. (Published: 1971)
Words: 14980 - Reading Time: 42-59 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Jihad
by Mercedes Lackey
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What if "Lawrence of Arabia" had turned his back on his native England and the Western world and instead chosen Allah and the Arab world? What would that have done to the Middle East? (Published: 1993)
Words: 5822 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Alternate History
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No Spot of Ground
by Walter Jon Williams
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The fate of Edgar Allan Poe is swept up from the Baltimore gutter to live on through sobriety and a dwindling literary career when the Civil War gives him a chance to engage the North in his own conflict of ideals--as a Confederate General. (Published: 1989)
Words: 23068 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Over the Sea from Skye
by Lillian Stewart Carl
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History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under different circumstances? Turtledove and his colleagues turn the past upside down and inside out, and the possibilities are endless.... The historical Flora MacDonald helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape Scotland after his failed rebellion in 1745. Captured by the English, said she would have helped... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 6558 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Rebel Nation
by Christopher Stires
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In the Confederate States of America, a famed civil rights leader is assassinated and the nation is plunged into rioting and revolution. McKenna Alexander, U.S.-born television reporter, and Cullen Davis, her Southern-born ex-husband, are hunted by the authorities and by assassins as they follow a trail of treachery and deceit to uncover the truth behind the murder. The search will take them from the elite boardrooms of Richmond to the internationally divided city of Little Rock; from the nightm... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 95297 - Reading Time: 272-381 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Redchapel [A Teddy Roosevelt Story]
by Mike Resnick
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While visiting England in the fall of 1888, a young Theodore Roosevelt assists Scotland Yard in the effort to capture Jack the Ripper. As the streets of Whitechapel become bloodier with each murder, Teddy's American brand of investigative consultancy shines light into the darkness of the world's most famous unsolved mystery. (Published: 2000) Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee, HOMer Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 11624 - Reading Time: 33-46 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Bull Moose at Bay [A Teddy Roosevelt Story]
by Mike Resnick
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October 27, 1916: At President Teddy Roosevelt's 58th birthday party, the polls report that he's on the verge of losing his bid for re-election ... if only women had the vote.... (Published: 1991)
Words: 3121 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Disillusionist
by Michael Jasper
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During the summer of 1834, a killer roamed the plains. One man attempts to track down this killer, known only as the disillusionist, and in the process he is given something from the killer that causes him to see his entire life--and his future--in a whole new light... (Published: 2003)
Words: 4142 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Grapple [Settling Accounts Book 3] [Secure]
by Harry Turtledove
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In this stunning retelling of World War II, Harry Turtledove has created a blockbuster saga that is thrilling, troubling, and utterly compelling.
It is 1943, the third summer of the new war between the Confederate States of America and the United States, a war that will turn on the deeds of ordinary soldiers, extraordinary heroes, and a colorful cast of spies, politicians, rebels, and everyday citizens.
The CSA president, Jake Featherstone, has greatly miscalculated the North's resilience... more info>>
Category: Alternate History
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