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1634: The Galileo Affair [MultiFormat]
by Eric Flint &
Andrew Dennis
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Eric Flint moves the focus of his best-selling alternate history series to Venice and a host of new characters. Hippy Tom Stone founds a modern pharmaceutical industry while his sons rescue a very different Galileo than the history books record. Meanwhile Father Mazzare defends Galileo at his trial and faces the Church, testing his faith and showing the complexities of 17th century theology...
Words: 192392 - Reading Time: 549-769 min.
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Upsetting the Balance [Worldwar Volume 3] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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 Russia, Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival--never mind victory--was to unite to stop a mighty foe--one whose frightening technology appeared invincible. Far worse beings than the Nazis were loose. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy alliance since humanity began its struggle against overwhelming odds. In Bri...
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Words: 235000 - Reading Time: 671-940 min.
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Striking the Balance [Worldwar Volume 4] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination. With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into submission. Russia, Nazi Germany, Japan, and the United States were not easily cowed, however. With cunning and incredible daring, they pres...
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Words: 233000 - Reading Time: 665-932 min.
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Aftershocks [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 3] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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Set in the same universe as the Worldwar series, Colonization: Aftershocks brings us to Earth in the 1960s, where four superpowers rule: the United States, Russia, Nazi Germany, and the aliens of the Race. The arrival of the aliens shot Earth technology forward at a dizzying rate--the world of 1960 includes routine space shuttle traffic, computers on every desk, and other high tech advancements. Aftershocks reveals that it was the United States that launched the nuclear offensive against the ali...
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Words: 235000 - Reading Time: 671-940 min.
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Down to Earth [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved. A spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom, destruction and hope, Colonization takes us into the tumultuous 1960s, as the ...
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Words: 244000 - Reading Time: 697-976 min.
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In the Balance [Worldwar Volume 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death. Earth was engaged in a titanic struggle. Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan: the maps were changing day by day. The hostilities spread in ever-widening ripples of destruction: Britain, Italy, Africa ... the fate of the world hung in the balance. Then the real enemy came. Out of the dark of night, out of the soft glow of dawn, out of the cl...
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Words: 237000 - Reading Time: 677-948 min.
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The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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Explore fascinating, often chilling "what if" accounts of the world that could have existed--and still might yet.... Science fiction's most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you'll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including:* "The Lucky Strike": When The Lucky Strike is chosen over The Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson's ...
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Words: 125000 - Reading Time: 357-500 min.
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The Years of Rice and Salt [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by
Kim Stanley Robinson
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With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world vastly different from the one we know.... It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur--the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of...
more info>> (Published: 2003) Hugo Award Nominee
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1633 [MultiFormat]
by David Weber &
Eric Flint
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The new government in central Europe, called the Confederated Principalities of Europe, was formed by an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians led by Mike Stearns who were transplanted into 17th-century Germany by a mysterious cosmic accident. The new regime is shaky. Outside its borders, the Thirty Years War continues to rage. Within, it is beset by financial crisis as well as the political and social tensions between the democratic ideals of the 20th-centu...
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Words: 200000 - Reading Time: 571-800 min.
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1901 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Robert Conroy
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The year is 1901. Germany's navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany is without an empire. Kaiser Wilhelm II demands that the United States surrender its newly acquired territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. President McKinley indignantly refuses, so with the honor and economic future of the Reich at stake, the Kaiser launches an invasion of the Uni...
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In the Balance and Tilting the Balance [Worldwar Volumes 1 and 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove's best-selling alternate-history Worldwar series is now a must-have addition to your eBook library. For a limited time only, take advantage of this exciting opportunity--buy Tilting the Balance and get In the Balance for free!
In the Balance: From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter. And then, suddenly, the real enemy came. The invader...
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Words: 150000 - Reading Time: 428-600 min.
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Redchapel [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: 11557 - Reading Time: 33-46 min.
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Witness [MultiFormat]
by Walter Jon Williams
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An alien on Earth known as Dr. Tachyon has developed a gene-warping virus that kills most of its victims, mutates most of the survivors, and for a lucky few, grants genuine superpowers. A 1946 biological terrorist attack rains the viral spores over New York City, and in the chaotic aftermath, North Dakota farmboy-decorated war hero-struggling actor Jack Braun develops the strength of Superman ... except he can't fly. When the chaos settles down, Jack teams up with Earl Sanderson, who can project...
more info>> (Published: 1987) Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 19626 - Reading Time: 56-78 min.
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Canals in the Sand [MultiFormat]
by Kevin J. Anderson
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It's the end of the nineteenth century, and astronomer Percival Lowell is smarting from the ridicule heaped upon him for theorizing that Mars is covered with canals built by the locals. To prove he's right, Lowell signals the Red Planet with a network of oil-flamed canals dug in the Sahara. The venture is a success: Martian spacecraft are seen heading for Earth, and a reporter named Herbert George Wells is about to get a scoop for the ages. (Published: 1996)
Words: 5762 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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We Could Do Worse [MultiFormat]
by Gregory Benford
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The election of 1956 is at stake and the remorseless thug known as the President has his operatives out in the field making sure there are no surprises. (Published: 1988)
Words: 1992 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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Over There [MultiFormat]
by Mike Resnick
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A Teddy Roosevelt story. 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.
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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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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.
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Anglomerika [MultiFormat]
by Zane Smith
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Zane Smith gives us a United States after the attacks on The World Trade Center. In this alternate reality, the US swings to an ultra right-wing political position in which personal freedoms have been suspended. Interwoven with newspaper excerpts to portray the growing political and social atmosphere, Smith places his characters in a time and place that could frighteningly become reality. (Published: 2002)
Words: 68699 - Reading Time: 196-274 min.
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Second Contact [Worldwar Saga Colonization Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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In the Worldwar tetralogy, set against the explosive backdrop of World War II, master of alternate history Harry Turtledove wove a saga of world powers locked in conflict against a deadly enemy from the stars. Now, with Colonization: Second Contact, Turtledove expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s--when humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth. During the Worldwar, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, and dozens of other cities perished in the radioactive ...
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Words: 243000 - Reading Time: 694-972 min.
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Return Engagement [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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 Harry Turtledove's remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of time can be, and offer us a world of "what if." Drawing on a magnificent cast of characters that includes soldiers, generals, lovers, spies, and demagogues, Turtledove returns to an epic tale that only he could tell--the story of a North American continent, separated into two bitterly opposed nations, that stands on the verge of exploding once again. In 1914 they called it The Great War, a...
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Everything But Honor [MultiFormat]
by George Alec Effinger
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A complex alternate history story, "Everything But Honor"--a Hugo Award finalist for best novelette--is the tale of Dr. Thomas Placide, a Black physicist in 1938 Germany, who travels back in time to alter the outcome of America's War Between the States to better the plight of Southern Negro slaves, but with dire consequences. (Published: 1989) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 11384 - Reading Time: 32-45 min.
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Ruled Britannia [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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The master of alternate history who envisioned a Confederate victory in The Guns of the South and an American revolution that never happened in The Two Georges, New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove unveils another brilliant foray into what might have been.... The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew--and in fear of the Inquisition's agents, who put heretics t...
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Alternative 3 [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by
Ken Mitchell
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 After World War Two, Hitler escapes to a base in Antarctica--in a special disc-like craft the Nazis had been working on. Using this amazing technology, the grand plan, known as 'Alternative 3', was to siphon off the world's elite and colonize Mars. Or so the story goes. The Americans are allegedly in on the deal, and so are the Russians, and it's all been kept very hush-hush. Until now. Enter Curtis Hatch--computer hacker, U2 listener, anti-hero. He's on parole for white-collar crimes but that d...
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Tilting the Balance [Worldwar Volume 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
by Harry Turtledove
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World War II screeched to a halt as the great military powers scrambled to meet an even deadlier foe. The enemy's formidable technology made their victory seem inevitable. Already Berlin and Washington, D.C., had been vaporized by atom bombs, and large parts of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Germany and its conquests lay under the invaders' thumb. Yet humanity would not give up so easily, even if the enemy's tanks, armored personnel carriers, and jet aircraft seemed unstoppable. The hu...
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Words: 236000 - Reading Time: 674-944 min.
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