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What if…? Alternative Histories
Alternate Generals
Harry TurtledoveFrom the battles of the Spanish Armada to Pearl Harbor, this collection of short stories speculates what would have happened if circumstances were different.
Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Black Death has almost completely wiped out the population of Europe. Islam has laid claim to what remains of Europe, China has invaded North America, India holds the balance in Southeast Asia and all three powers are now competing for control of Africa.
The Great War – American Front
Harry TurtledoveWorld War I has moved into North America -- the U.S allied with German and the Confederate States of America allied with the British and French. This is the sequel to Turtledove’s How Few Remain.
How Few Remain
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The Confederate States won their independence at the Battle of Antietam in 1862. It’s now 1881 and war is on the horizon again after the Confederate States purchase a part of northern Mexico.
Elvis and Nixon
Jonathan LowyIt’s late 1970 and a drug addled Elvis Presley is off to receive his honorary Special Narcotics Agent badge at the White House. Based on real and fictitious events, Elvis and Nixon makes for an interesting mix of 1970’s politics and pop culture.
Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart
Bernard BastableMozart is in his 70s and now giving music lessons to a young Queen Victoria. After a murder at Windsor Castle, Mozart begins to suspect every member of the royal family. Bernard Bastable is the pseudonym of author Robert Barnard.
Mister Christian: a Novel
William KinsolvingFletcher Christian led the mutiny against the HMS Bounty. After being stranded and left for dead on Pitcairn Island he escapes and continues his adventures before ending up in an insane asylum.
George & Rue
George Elliot ClarkeGeorge and Rufus Hamilton, the author’s cousins, were convicted and executed in 1949 for the robbery and murder of a taxi driver in New Brunswick. Clarke offers an insightful yet fictionalized portrait of African Canadian life in the 1920s-1940s.
The Plot Against America
Philip RothCharles Lindbergh defeats FDR in the 1940 Presidential election and negotiates the end of World War II with Hitler, accepting his conquest of Europe and his anti-Semitic polices.