alternative histories

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alternative histories

Final impact

a novel of the axis of time
2007
In the year 2021, a multinational fleet experimenting with untested weapons is sent back in time to 1942, where they influence the outcome of World War II and change the course of history.

American empire

blood & iron
2002
Describes the problems after World War I in an alternate history where the Confederate States are independent and the United States is colonizing Canada, and chronicles the rise of possible leaders and terrorists, such as Socialists in the north and a racist in the south.

Pride of kings

2001
Richard the Lionheart rides off on a Crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the infidels, leaving his country vulnerable to an unknown power that has brought down the wall between worlds and threatens to destroy all of England.

Ganymede

2011
Air pirate Andan Cly, having decided to straight, is about to embark on his first legitimate mission when he is summoned to New Orleans by his former lover Josephine Early, a brothel owner and Union spy, who presents him with an intriguing proposal to retrieve a prototype submarine from the depths of Lake Pontchartrain.

Into the storm

2009
Lt. Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, captain of the vintage destroyer USS "Walker" during World War II, heads the ship into a squall in order to avoid a dangerous confrontation with Japanese battleships only to find himself and his crew in an alternate world where another war is being waged between two sentient races -- the outcome of which Reddy, with his advanced firepower, can easily determine, if he can only decide which side to favor.

Archangel

1996
Danny Constantine, a young newspaperman in an alternate universe Minneapolis in the late 1920's, discovers a series of vampire murders that are somehow linked to the research of Dr. Simon Gray, who is working to find a cure for Hun, the disease that is killing off the white race.

Black powder war

2006
Captain Will Laurence and his dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent orders for Britain that send them to the Ottoman Empire, where they must escort three valuable dragon eggs back to England.

Red Prophet

tales of Alvin Maker
2008
An alternate history of the American frontier in which Alvin Smith must stay with the Shaw-nee tribe that has kidnapped him while his older brother Measure returns home to their life with the white settlers.

Red Prophet

tales of Alvin Maker
2007
In an alternate history of the U.S. frontier, where Napoleon leads an army in Detroit, Alvin Miller uses his powers to change the world around him while the Red Prophet attempts to bring peace to the land and Takumsaw, the Shaw-nee chief, prepares for war.

1635

Cannon law
2006
A group of West Virginians accidentally plunged into the seventeenth-century in the midst of the Thirty Years' War uncover Spanish inquisitor Cardinal Gaspar Borja y Velasco's plot to weaken support for Pope Urban.

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