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A Just and Lasting Peace [MultiFormat]
by Lois Tilton
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Forty years after the end of the Civil War, the Confederates have surrendered, but they are not defeated. Yankee injustice fuels resentment--and an underground rebellion--in the South, and hatred for the Northerners touches the lives of every Southern family ... forcing an innocent boy to choose his unlikely future. (Published: 1991) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 6106 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Alternate History
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A Key to the Illuminated Heretic [MultiFormat]
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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Argonautica [MultiFormat]
by Walter Jon Williams
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Confederate naval forces are reduced to the defense of Vicksburg, and an enterprising young captain plots a rescue mission to sail north and recover $65 million in gold coins buried near a Mississippi plantation. (Published: 1999) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 34477 - Reading Time: 98-137 min.
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Jihad [MultiFormat]
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/Fantasy
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Lenin in Odessa [MultiFormat]
by George Zebrowski
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In 1918, Sidney Reilly, who had worked as a British agent against the Germans and Japanese, returns home to the newly formed Soviet Russia. Now he is again working for England and her allies, but this time he was also out for himself, intending to assassinate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and bring himself to power at the head of the regime that he imagined his homeland deserved. (Published: 1990)
Words: 6764 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Alternate History
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No Spot of Ground [MultiFormat]
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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Portals of Hell [MultiFormat]
by Robert Vaughan
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This fifth volume of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles follows America's tumultuous and surprising journey through the 1940's, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thrusts the nation into the Second World War. Hitler's army ravages Europe, and an explosion of the first nuclear warhead in Los Alamos plunges the world into the danger of the nuclear age. Beautiful journalist Shaylin McKay risks her life reporting from the battle front, only to find she has fallen in love with a soldier in comb... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 137443 - Reading Time: 392-549 min.
Category: Alternate History
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The Winterberry [MultiFormat]
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/Fantasy
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Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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The Israelite plausible fabulist Benjamin Rosenbaum is mulling over his latest commission--a story set in a world without zeppelins--when he meets Prem Ramasson, prince of Ultima Thule, and receives another offer. An impovershed practitioner of a half-despised art in the balkanized and oppressed lands south of the Frankish and Athapascan Moeity cannot take lightly patronage from a citizen of the Aryan Raj--but Rosenbaum has no idea what he's getting into by accepting. Part tale of high adventure... more info>> (Published: 2004) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 7745 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Cold Ground [MultiFormat]
by Derryl Murphy
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The Riel Rebellion plays out in a world where black magic helps decide the outcome, and the founder of the Boy Scouts runs for his life. (Published: 1998)
Words: 4905 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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Da Vinci Rising [MultiFormat]
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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Desolation Crossing [Deathlands Series Book 87] [Secure eReader]
by James Axler
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Survival is a dangerous enterprise in the aftermath of a nuked America. Humanity perseveres, but the Deathlands code is far simpler: kill or be killed, live or die trying. Driven by the fires of hope, a resilient band of warriors traverse the new frontier of the future, survivors by skill and legends by reputation. The legend of the trader returns in the simmering dust bowl of the Badlands, the past calling out to armorer J. B. Dix. Her name is Eula. Young, silent and lethal, she's part of a ne... more info>>
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Fin de Cycle [MultiFormat]
by Howard Waldrop
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1890s Paris: A group of fringe artists, writers, and musicians--headed by notorious oddball Alfred Jarry--use the new technology of filmmaking to expose hypocrisy within the French Military in a new telling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. [This story is also available in Howard Waldrop's collection Dream Factories and Radio Pictures]. (Published: 1990) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 15195 - Reading Time: 43-60 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Graveyard of Dreams--Science Fiction Stories [MultiFormat]
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/Science Fiction
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Hard Times [MultiFormat]
by Robert Vaughan
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The stock Market crash of 1929 abruptly thrusts the nation into chaos, as unemployed people grow more desperate for a livelihood. As nearly every sector of the economy collapses and dust storms rage in the West, only the most determined can make it. While desperation and despair wrack the nation, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal continues to inspire hope in some but arouses cynicism in others. Wealthy and handsome John Canfield refuses to disallow his patriotism in the face of disaster. He embarks ... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 121566 - Reading Time: 347-486 min.
Category: Alternate History/Mainstream
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Herd Mentality [MultiFormat]
by Jay Caselberg
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What would have happened had the Spemman labs been succesful with their experiments in the late 1920s and it had gone on to bigger and better things? We should ask Uncle Albert. (Published: 2004) Year's Best Science Fiction Honorable Mention
Words: 4524 - Reading Time: 12-18 min.
Category: Alternate History
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If There Be Cause [MultiFormat]
by Sheila Finch
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Drake's round-the-world-voyage in 1578 threatens to have an unexpected effect on the history of California. (Published: 1992)
Words: 9171 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
Category: Alternate History
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In the Stone House [MultiFormat]
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.
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Mission to Misenum, Or The Three Faces of Time [MultiFormat]
by Sam Merwin, Jr.
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She Had to Prevent Present and Future from Warring in the Past! "Fast-moving adventure, told with engaging humor," is what the New York Times says readers can expect from this classic science fiction saga. Elspeth Marriner, once an ace journalist, is now a Time Watcher working from the mysterious House of Many Worlds. On some parallel time-tracks, Earth's cultures lag thousands of years behind our own. On others, science is far in advance of ours. As a Watcher, Elspeth's job is to keep advanced ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 45408 - Reading Time: 129-181 min.
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Over the Sea from Skye [MultiFormat]
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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Over There [A Teddy Roosevelt Story] [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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Roosevelt, now retired from the presidency, makes a request of Woodrow Wilson. He asks to be allowed to reactivate the Rough Riders and personally lead them into the battlefields of WWI. Based on a true request that Roosevelt made (but was in reality denied by Wilson). (Published: 1991)
Words: 7758 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Politics as Unusual Bundle
by Various Authors
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This bundle includes stories that have a presidential theme or feature fictionalized American politicians. These stories are all "alternate history" in which real people or events are fictionalized with some twists that differs from actual history. If you've never tried an A.H. story, these are good ones to start with. [When you add a bundle to your cart, any eBooks you already own are automatically removed. You can't accidentally buy the same story twice.]
Words: 47449 - Reading Time: 135-189 min.
Category: Alternate History
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President Kissinger [MultiFormat]
by Monroe Rosenthal, Donald Munson
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President Kissinger, from the short-lived Freeway Press, is a futuristic tale of what-might-be, as the great Henry leads us to one-world government through communism. Included in the mix are many of Kissinger's loves, revolutions in Africa, the Middle East, war with China, peace with the USSR, and finally all brought together under the blanket of the UN. Perhaps for its fictionalized accounts of "Kissinger's" many loves, shortly after this novel's publication Maurice found himself in the middle ... more info>>
Words: 76438 - Reading Time: 218-305 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Rebel Nation [MultiFormat]
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.
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Redchapel [A Teddy Roosevelt Story] [MultiFormat]
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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