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  • Lest Darkness Fall & Timeless Tales Written in Tribute by de Camp, L. Sprague
    L. Sprague de Camp

    Lest Darkness Fall & Timeless Tales Written in Tribute

    Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the favorite books of many of the masters in this genre, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped...
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  • 3 Farmers Their Way to Danc PB by Powers, Richard
    Richard Powers

    3 Farmers Their Way to Danc PB

    "Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding." --Philadelphia InquirerThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment."A writer of blistering intellect . . . Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of...
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  • The Dragon Waiting by Ford, John M.
    John M. Ford

    The Dragon Waiting

    "The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen."--Gene Wolfe In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate. A noble Byzantine mercenary . . . A female Florentine physician . . . An...
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  • Desert Storm by Jackson, Matt
    Matt Jackson

    Desert Storm

    Can Saddam's Army hold its own......against the weight of American military might?Tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, paratroopers, and amphibious assault vehicles mobilize to bring the pain for Operation Desert Storm.Will Saddam use chemical and biological weapons to try and even the score? The mighty...
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  • Radiance by Valente, Catherynne M.
    Catherynne M. Valente

    Radiance

    Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own...
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  • Against the Day by Pynchon, Thomas
    Thomas Pynchon

    Against the Day

    "[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." --The New York Times Book Review "Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant." --USA Today "Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling." --The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after...
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  • 1637: The Peacock Throne by Flint, Eric
    Eric Flint

    1637: The Peacock Throne

    The latest entry in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint The emperor is dead; long live the emperors The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their progeny drag...
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  • Wild Life by Gloss, Molly
    Molly Gloss

    Wild Life

    In 1905, a cigar-smoking, feminist writer of popular adventure novels for women encounters Bigfoot in Molly Gloss's best loved novel----"never has there been a more authentic, persuasive, or moving evocation of this elusive legend: a masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Set among lava sinkholes...
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  • A Coin for the Ferryman by Edwards, Megan
    Megan Edwards

    A Coin for the Ferryman

    The story can now be told. In 1999, an elite interdisciplinary team headed by Nobel laureate Andrew Danicek gathered in California to carry out a ground-breaking time-travel experiment. While the rest of the world remained unaware, Julius Caesar was successfully transported from the last...
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  • The Theory of Flight by Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria
    Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

    The Theory of Flight

    "On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen Zula Nyoni - Genie - was seen to fly away on a giant pair of silver wings ..."Author:...
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  • Boneshaker: A Novel of the Clockwork Century by Priest, Cherie
    Cherie Priest

    Boneshaker: A Novel of the Clockwork Century

    In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus...
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  • Stalin's Hammer: The Complete Sequence: A Novel of the Axis of Time (Includes the entire Rome, Cairo and Paris sequence) by Birmingham, John
    John Birmingham

    Stalin's Hammer: The Complete Sequence: A Novel of the Axis of Time (Includes the entire Rome, Cairo and Paris sequence)

    The epic alternate history of WW2 becomes a fiery reimagining of the Cold WarTen years have passed since Admiral Kolhammer's 21st century battlefleet was dragged into a wormhole and thrown across oceans of time, emerging with disastrous consequences and shattering the history of the...
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  • Underground Airlines by Winters, Ben H.
    Ben H. Winters

    Underground Airlines

    The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened? A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller,...
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  • The Romanov Rescue by Kratman, Tom
    Tom Kratman

    The Romanov Rescue

    A NEW NOVEL OF ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM MASTER OF MILITARY SF TOM KRATMAN, JUSTIN WATSON, AND KACEY EZELL. As WWI comes to a close, a German general, an escaped prisoner of war, and the crew of an airship converge to effect THE ROMANOV RESCUE....
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  • Grantville Gazette IX: Volume 32 by Flint, Eric
    Eric Flint

    Grantville Gazette IX

    NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and edited by Flint. WHERE WERE YOU IN 1632? The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When a cosmic disturbance hurls your...
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  • The Woman Who Died a Lot by Fforde, Jasper
    Jasper Fforde

    The Woman Who Died a Lot

    The seventh installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England--from the author of Early Riser With more than one million books in print worldwide, Jasper Fforde's beloved series...
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  • The Lady of Zamalek by El-Ashmawi, Ashraf
    Ashraf El-Ashmawi

    The Lady of Zamalek

    Spanning twentieth-century Egyptian history and opening with the true story of a prominent Cairo businessman's murder, this rags-to-riches story wondrously combines real-life events with fiction, told by a "magical storyteller" It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo's attention was captured by the...
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  • A Nation Interrupted: An Alternate History Novel by McDonald, Kevin
    Kevin McDonald

    A Nation Interrupted: An Alternate History Novel

    "An exhilarating ride through an alternate history." -GEORGE GALDORISI, New York Times bestselling author THE YEAR IS 1862, IN A WORLD THAT VERY NEARLY WAS... In one of the most unsettling "what-if" reversals to American history, the Union Army is overrun at the Battle...
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  • Sub Rosa America, Book I: Gone to Croatan by Freeland, Elana
    Elana Freeland

    Sub Rosa America, Book I: Gone to Croatan

    History and fiction collude in Sub Rosa America: A Deep State History, a 4-book series pivoting around the fallout from two historical occult rites performed at the 33 parallel in White Sands, New Mexico and Dallas, Texas: the Creation and Destruction of Primordial Matter...
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  • The Yellow Arrow by Pelevin, Victor
    Victor Pelevin

    The Yellow Arrow

    The main character, Andrei, is a passenger aboard the Yellow Arrow, who begins to despair over the trains ultimate destination and looks for a way out as the chapters count down. Indifferent to their fate, the other passengers carry on as usual -- trading...
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  • Darwin's Watch: The Science of Discworld III: A Novel by Pratchett, Terry
    Terry Pratchett

    Darwin's Watch: The Science of Discworld III: A Novel

    When Charles Darwin writes the wrong book and reverses the progress of science, Unseen University's wizards must once again save Roundworld (Earth, that is) from an apocalyptic end. Ever since a wizardly experiment inadvertently brought about the creation of Roundworld, the wizard scholars of...
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  • Killing Mister Watson by Matthiessen, Peter
    Peter Matthiessen

    Killing Mister Watson

    Now in paperback, Killing Mister Watson is the bestselling novel proclaimed by critics throughout the country as Peter Matthiessen's masterpiece. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, it brilliantly depicts the fortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrpreneur and outlaw who appeared in the...
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  • Royal Flash by Fraser, George MacDonald
    George MacDonald Fraser

    Royal Flash

    "Horse riding, sword fighting, fistfights, escapes, chases... If anyone is looking for a successor to James Bond, Flashy is the one."--The New York TimesIn Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in...
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  • The 2084 Report: A Novel of the Great Warming by Powell, James Lawrence
    James Lawrence Powell

    The 2084 Report: A Novel of the Great Warming

    For fans of The Drowned World and World War Z, this "sobering and scary (and fascinating) novel--a look at where we're going if we don't quickly get our act together" (Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author) regarding climate change--unveils our potential terrifying future....
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  • Buffalo Soldier by Broaddus, Maurice
    Maurice Broaddus

    Buffalo Soldier

    Having stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari.Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a...
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  • The Prague Cemetery by Eco, Umberto
    Umberto Eco

    Prague Cemetery

    The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. Nineteenth-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons....
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  • Island in the Sea of Time by Stirling, S. M.
    S. M. Stirling

    Island in the Sea of Time

    "Utterly engaging...a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans."--George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the...
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  • Mercury Rising by Greene, R. W. W.
    R. W. W. Greene

    Mercury Rising

    Top Gun in space! An alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty The year is 1975 - Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have...
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  • A Broken Darkness by Mohamed, Premee
    Premee Mohamed

    A Broken Darkness

    In the heartwrenching follow-up to last year's breakout Beneath the Rising, the war with the nameless things from Beyond opens a new front - as the heroes' tattered friendship is finally torn apart. It's been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when...
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  • Bombs Away: The Hot War by Turtledove, Harry
    Harry Turtledove

    Bombs Away: The Hot War

    In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. Now, this masterly storyteller turns his...
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  • A Prophet Without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History by Vijayan, Manoj
    Manoj Vijayan

    A Prophet Without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History

    n the first months of 1936, Adolf Hitler risked everything by ordering his untrained military to reoccupy the Rhineland. It was a bluff. The Germans would have been forced to retreat if the French or British had offered the slightest opposition. But the bluff...
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  • Maelstrom by Anderson, Taylor
    Taylor Anderson

    Maelstrom

    The spectacular alternate military history saga continues in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series... Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the battleship Walker, are once again at war. Having sided with the peaceful Lemurians...
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  • United States of Japan by Tieryas, Peter
    Peter Tieryas

    United States of Japan

    This "interesting and excited to read" spiritual sequel to The Man in The High Castle focuses on the New Japanese Empire--from an acclaimed author and essayist (io9) Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that...
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  • Money, Murder & Mayhem by Branch, Sean
    Sean Branch

    Money, Murder & Mayhem

    The most anticipated novel to date; Money, Murder, and Mayhem is a hardcore saga of the quick rise of a young ambitious hustler, who grew up in the surfeit, cocaine pestilent Montana Terrace Housing Project in the N.E. quadrant of Washington D.C. Dontay Beltre'...
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  • Judgment Day: Science of Discworld IV by Pratchett, Terry
    Terry Pratchett

    Judgment Day: Science of Discworld IV

    The wizards of Unseen University are again called upon to defend their creation, Roundworld, this time in a courtroom--where its very existence hangs in the balance. The Omnians fervently believe that the world is round, not flat, and view the discovery of Roundworld as...
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  • A Meeting at Corvallis by Stirling, S. M.
    S. M. Stirling

    A Meeting at Corvallis

    "A major work by an authentic master of alternate history." - Booklist (Starred Review) In the tenth year of the Change, the survivors in western Oregon live in a world without technology. Michael Havel's Bearkillers hold the lands west of Salem in peace and...
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  • Farthing: A Story of a World That Could Have Been by Walton, Jo
    Jo Walton

    Farthing: A Story of a World That Could Have Been

    First published in 2006, Jo Walton's Farthing was hailed as a masterpiece, a darkly romantic thriller set in an alternate postwar England sliding into fascism. Eight years after they overthrew Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler, the upper-crust families of...
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  • Sudden Death by Enrigue, Álvaro
    ﾁlvaro Enrigue

    Sudden Death

    "Splendid" --New York Times"Mind-bending." --Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." --Salman Rushdie A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio...
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  • Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Feldman, Ellen
    Ellen Feldman

    Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

    Peter arrives in America, the land of self-creation; he flourishes in business, marries, and raises a family. He thrives in the present, plans for the future, and has no past. But whenThe Diary of a Young Girl is published to worldwide acclaim and gives...
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  • The Book of Joan by Yuknavitch, Lidia
    Lidia Yuknavitch

    The Book of Joan

    A New York Times Notable Book - BuzzFeed 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read this Year - New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice - National Bestseller"Brilliant and incendiary." -- Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review"Stunning. . . . Yuknavitch understands that...
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  • 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line by Flint, Eric
    Eric Flint

    1637: No Peace Beyond the Line

    THE BATTLE FOR THE NEW WORLD IS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH! A NEW RING OF FIRE NOVEL BY BEST-SELLING WRITING TEAM ERIC FLINT AND CHARLES E. GANNON A New Day in the New World It's 1637 in the Caribbean. Commander Eddie Cantrell and...
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  • Blonde Roots by Evaristo, Bernardine
    Bernardine Evaristo

    Blonde Roots

    A provocative and "dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other. What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans?...
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  • Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules by Dale, Helen
    Helen Dale

    Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules

    784 ab urbe condita--31 AD. Jerusalem sits uneasily in a Roman Empire that has seen an industrial revolution and now has cable news and flying machines--and rites and morals that are strange and repellent to the native people of Judaea.A charismatic young leader is...
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  • Where Shadows Meet: A Romantic Suspense Novel by Coble, Colleen
    Colleen Coble

    Where Shadows Meet: A Romantic Suspense Novel

    "[An] outstanding, completely engaging tale that will have you on the edge of your seat . . . A must-have for all fans of romantic suspense!"* Hannah is distraught when her parents are murdered--but what makes it worse is that she should have been...
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  • Taste of Marrow by Gailey, Sarah
    Sarah Gailey

    Taste of Marrow

    Campbell finalist Sarah Gailey's hippo mayhem continues in Taste of Marrow, the sequel to rollicking adventure River of Teeth. A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a...
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  • Rising Tides by Anderson, Taylor
    Taylor Anderson

    Rising Tides

    "Taylor Anderson is one of the best at military science fiction as his plots combine cerebral thought-provoking issues within a great adventure tale; the alternate realm of the Destroyermen saga is worth the journey."--Alternative Worlds Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy of USS Walker has found...
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  • The Difference Engine by Gibson, William
    William Gibson

    The Difference Engine

    The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its...
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  • Pacific Edge: Three Californias by Robinson, Kim Stanley
    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Pacific Edge: Three Californias

    The concluding book in Kim Stanley Robinson's critically-acclaimed Three Californias Trilogy, Pacific Edge. 2065: In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making. Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up...
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  • The Actual Star by Byrne, Monica
    Monica Byrne

    The Actual Star

    David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going--and how, in every age, the...
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  • 2 A.M. in Little America by Kalfus, Ken
    Ken Kalfus

    2 A.M. in Little America

    An Esquire "Best Book of Spring 2022" selectionA Publishers Weekly "Best Book of Summer 2022"A Kirkus "Best Book of May 2022"A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" selectionA San Francisco Chronicle "Most Anticipated Novel of 2022" selectionFrom "an important writer in every sense"...
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