Alternate History

Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?" Most works in this genre are based on real historical events, yet feature social, geopolitical, or industrial circumstances that developed differently than our own. ...more

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The Wood at Midwinter
The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1)
Sargassa (Ex Romana, #1)
Buried Deep and Other Stories
Westfallen
The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal
The Naturalist Society
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal
Killing Time (The Time Police, #5)
Boy of Chaotic Making (Whimbrel House, #3)
Tiger Chair
Quantum Radio
Biography of X
Rodham
Machines like Me
The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1)
Five Years After (After, #4)
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
Hard Time (The Time Police, #2)
Inheritance (American Royals, #0.5)
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The Man in the High Castle
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Fatherland
The Years of Rice and Salt
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
11/22/63
1632
The Plot Against America
The Guns of the South
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)

The taxi stand was only an open shelter, so I was freezing as I looked toward midtown. I could see the RCA building with its bright red logo at Rockefeller Center, and farther south, the Empire State Building with its illuminated set-backs. At the tip of Manhattan, the twin towers of the World Trade Center -- which were over 1,100 feet tall themselves -- flanked the mile-high Space Trylon. It was clear as well as cold, and as I looked toward Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, it seemed to be poij ...more
Lou Antonelli, Another Girl, Another Planet

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Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

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