The Widow’s Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away...
Alternative histories (Fiction)
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Author:Butler, PaulSummary: - Author:Blackwood, Gary L.Summary:
In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course...
- Author:Robinson, Kim StanleySummary:
History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed by the Black Death. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? Robinson rewrites history and probes the most profound questions as only he...
- Author:Chabon, MichaelSummary:
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy.
- Author:Wolfe, GeneSummary:
There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways—interdimensional gateways—to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if...
- Author:Vonnegut, KurtSummary:
According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should...
- Author:Yanagihara, HanyaSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the author of the classic A Little Life- a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise...
- Author:Novik, NaomiSummary:
A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more...
- Author:Sisco, CodySummary:
Tortured Echoes is Volume Two of the Resonant Earth saga that began in Broken Mirror. When bioinformatics whiz Victor Eastmore at long last gains control over his frightening mirror resonance syndrome, the data egg his grandfather gave...
- Author:Griffin, DanielSummary:
A fast-paced literary eco-thriller about the power of resistance, the fine line between activism and terrorism, and what happens when things go too far. Set in 1993 on Vancouver Island, a group of idealistic young activists, determined...
- Author:Tieryas, PeterSummary:
Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons - a shadowy...
- Author:Lalumière, ClaudeSummary:
Somewhere in the Mediterranean lies the mysterious archipelago of Venera, a city-state drenched in erotic romanticism, fuelled by atavistic ritual, and suffused with surreal adventure and intrigue. Outside forces repeatedly attempt to...
- Author:Norris, KateSummary:
Teenage Winnie can see splits, the moment when outcomes in the multiverse diverge. In the middle of WWII, and afraid of what her ability could be used for, she keeps it hidden. Only her father knows. But he has a plan.
- Author:Crosbie, LynnSummary:
Does true love have supernatural power? Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain. Evelyn Gray is a sad and lonely sixteen-year-old from Carnation, Washington who...
- Author:Butler, Octavia E.Summary:
As the acclaimed Patternist science fiction series begins, two immortals meet in the long-ago past-and mankind's destiny is changed forever. For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its...
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