In Ink and Bone, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now, she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library-and rewrite history....
Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Author:Caine, RachelSummary:
- Author:Chatagnier, EthanSummary:
In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time...
- Author:Nuttall, Kōtuku TitihuiaSummary:
Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable, an autobiographical...
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
The Great Depression leaves the USA and CSA vulnerable. Though victors in the War of Secession, the CSA still reels from losing the Great War. Powerful and bloated by prosperity, the USA ignores ominous events nearby.
- Author:Duke, ReneeSummary:
No one knows what happened to the little princes of the tower. That’s what Dane, Paige, and Jack are told when they start working on a medieval documentary for Dane and Paige’s filmmaker father. But then an ancient medallion transports...
- Author:Heartfield, KateSummary:
1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename her Marie Antoinette. When they were...
- Author:Leroux, CatherineSummary:
A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was...
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
In American Front he envisions World War I as it may have been if fought on American soil. The United States and Germany clash with the Confederacy, France, and Britain as the machines of modern warfare litter the landscape with carnage...
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
The utter devastation of global war continues to spread, driven by new weapons and old hatreds. The United States is deadlocked--battling Canada and Great Britain to the north and the Confederate States in the south. In this world,...
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
The second in this series tells a story of a world torn apart by war and strife, the Confederate States of America ally with Britain and France, while the United States sides with Germany in a World War I that might have been.
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
Soon after their successful return to Rhodes, cousins Menedemos and Sostratos find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death of Alexander. Various factions fight and vie for power, and the neutrality of Rhodes itself is...
- Author:Grahame-Smith, SethSummary:
In Reconstruction-era America, Vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose after the death of his friend Abraham Lincoln in this century-spanning journey through an alternate American twentieth century.
- Author:Dick, Philip K.Summary:
The basis for the Amazon Original series.
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because...
- Author:Harrow, Alix E.Summary:
When the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to delve into the oldest magics and draw new alliances in aims of turning the women's movement into the witch's movement.
- Author:Roth, PhilipSummary:
In 1940, Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates an "understanding" with Adolf Hitler. For one boy growing up in Newark, the election is the first in a series of ruptures that...
- Author:Metcalfe, ZackSummary:
Sick of covering weddings, birthdays, and protests, photographer Madelyn Hathaway grabs her camera and heads out in the forests of Nova Scotia, looking for inspiration. She finds it and more when her foray into nature photography leads...
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps.
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
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...
- 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...