alternative histories

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Illusion

2015
"When he gets sucked into an alternate reality where his mother has married his mentor and his Atlantean god/best friend has become a human geek, he begins to understand that no life is free of pain, and that every person has a specific place in the universe . . . Even the son of a hated demon."--Publisher.

Drive to the east

2005
An alternate history in which the United States defeats the Confederate States, leading to a country split by politics and greed, that will come to a head at the start of World War II.

Jaws of darkness

2003
The continent of Derlavai has been ravaged by a brutal war for control over its lands, but hope draws near as a socerous ship of ice carrying deadly dragons arrives to strike at the heart of Algarvian power, giving the embattled nations of Lagoas and Kuusamo a chance to forge ahead in the battle.

A disturbance of fate

2003
A work of alternative historical fiction which speculates on how American history would have differed if various political, economic, cultural, and technological developments and events had turned out differently.

Life after life

a novel
2014
"On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she?"--Dust jacket.

In the presence of mine enemies

2003
Presents an alternative history novel set in the twenty-first century about six different Jewish characters who are posing as "good Germans" in a world where the Nazis have defeated all of their World War Two enemies.

Worlds that weren't

2002
Contains four original novellas, presenting tales of alternate history in ancient Greece, the Turkish Empire, the Old West, and Texas. Includes selections by Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams.

Making history

a novel
1998
German physicist Leo Zuckermann, the son of a Nazi doctor, teams up with graduate student Michael Young in an attempt to travel to the past and prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler, but upon their return to an altered future, they discover their plot was not altogether successful.

The riddle of the sands

1998
Two young Englishmen set off on a leisurely sailing holiday in the period before the first World War; however, their lives are threatened after an encounter with a mysterious German yachtsman and his daughter off the North Sea coast of Germany.

Eli

a novel
2000
After a fiery car crash, television journalist Conrad Davis finds himself transported to an alternate universe where life is exactly the same, except for the fact that Jesus was not born 2,000 years earlier, but was instead born in contemporary society.

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