Alternate History

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire...

In a future where memory is currency, truth is weaponized, and forgetting is survival, one woman must uncover the identity she once chose to erase—before the past catches up to destroy her.

In rural 1930s Virginia, a young immigrant mother fights for her dignity and those she loves against America’s rising eugenics movement—when widespread support for policies of prejudice drove imprisonment and forced sterilizations based on class, race, disability, education, and country of...

This omnibus edition contains the first three books in the Portal to Nova Roma series, a slow-burn empire-building epic that blends ancient history, magic, and a system-apocalypse setting — in a world where victory is never guaranteed, and peace can only be won through war.

In this Hugo Award–winning alternative history classic—the basis for the Amazon Original series—the United States lost World War II and was subsequently divided between the Germans in the East and the Japanese in the West. It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own...

A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A fiery feminist fantasy tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. "Ferociously...

The Tales of Alvin Maker concludes in Master Alvin, the final book in the historical fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Ender's Game. This program features multicast narration. Inspired by the lore and the folk-magic of the men and...

The past never dies, it only lies in wait. The necromancers are awakening an ancient power. The lines between different epochs are blurring. While his enemies weave their deceitful web, Maximilian Richter invokes an ally who remembers a pre-abomination world.

The stakes are high, the love is forbidden, and the slow burn turns steamy in this swoony, witty, and heart-stoppingly romantic sequel to instant New York Times bestseller The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy. Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully...

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. The characters live, bleed, and roar. "―Laini Taylor, New York Times...

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? 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...

In Jonathan Maberry's The Dragon Factory, Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) face their deadliest threat yet when they go up against two competing groups of geneticists bent on world domination. One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced...

At the height of the Vietnam War, a search and rescue team known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon....

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...

Temeraire * Book 2 When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain’s Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon...

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an...

As the acclaimed Patternist science-fiction series begins, two immortals meet in the long-ago past - and mankind's destiny is changed forever. For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He...

Con este audiolibro-testimonio, J. J. Benítez completa el famoso diario del mayor norteamericano que "saltó" a los tiempos de Jesús de Nazaret...

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies…Now they’re coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but...

If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread. Fortunately, Brod ignored his friend's wishes and published The Trial, which became the author's most famous work. Now Kafka's enigmatic novel regains its humor and stylistic...

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs....

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LOST IN TIME At CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery—a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence. But what he's found is far more dangerous than he ever imagined. Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum...

"Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read ..."—Diana Gabaldon "Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this intricate outing which combines a fantastic premise … with a closed-circle whodunit. Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough."—Publishers...

Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024 Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2024 This program is read by the author. "Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the...

The past never dies, it only lies in wait. The necromancers are awakening an ancient power. The lines between different epochs are blurring. While his enemies weave their deceitful web, Maximilian Richter invokes an ally who remembers a pre-abomination world. Lives are the pieces in this chess game. Those who do not fear death—it's their move.

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...

The System took over the whole world in an instant, and people lost any ability to communicate with each other. But the deadies weren't the only ones who could get better. Over time all the peoples of the earth found ways to contact each other, with the System allowing them to trade, communicate, and come to each other's aid.

This omnibus edition contains the first three books in the Portal to Nova Roma series, a slow-burn empire-building epic that blends ancient history, magic, and a system-apocalypse setting — in a world where victory is never guaranteed, and peace can only be won through war. Alexander is not human — he’s a rogue artificial intelligence haunted by loss. When the only person Alexander ever cared about dies, he decides to abandon Earth and its misery, opening a portal into alternate realities in search of a place to begin again.

Rom, 210 v. Chr.: Mitten in den Wirren des Zweiten Punischen Krieges, als die Republik um ihr Überleben kämpft, wird die Ewige Stadt Zeuge eines Ereignisses, das die Geschichte für immer verändern wird: Ein Schiff aus dem Sternenreich landet vor ihren Toren. Der erste Kontakt mit den Besuchern endet in einer Katastrophe. Durch ihre zahlenmäßige Überlegenheit gelingt es den Legionen Roms zwar, die technologisch weit überlegenen Außerirdischen zu bezwingen. Doch der Sieg ist trügerisch.

Publicada por primera vez en 1991 e inspirada en la guerra del Golfo Pérsico, esta novela plantea una pregunta urgente: ¿qué pasaría si existiera una alternativa real al petróleo? Augusto, un científico brillante pero incómodo para muchos, tiene una respuesta: el prototipo, un sistema revolucionario que no recurre ni a la energía solar ni a la nuclear, sino que extrae fuerza y calor directamente de la estructura íntima del espacio-tiempo, es decir, de la lattice.

Professor Savannah Selbourne lives on The Raft. The isolated country that was once Great Britain has been free of germs for decades. The plagues are over, the vermin that caused them are extinct. Every billboard brandishes the government's slogan: with sterility comes liberty! But did the poison ever really go away? Savannah's new job gives her the opportunity to discover the truth, yet revealing that truth could put her on the wrong side of those in power. How deep will she bury the lies for the sake of her wife and the child they yearn for? One thing she is sure of: the poison is toxic.

When astrophysicist Dr. John Alison detects a massive outer-solar-system object accelerating toward perihelion, he realises that the long-theorised Planet Nine is not a distant, harmless curiosity, it is inbound. Initial modelling suggests no collision threat. The scientific community offers reassurance: Earth has survived such passes before. But as John refines the data, a far more insidious danger emerges. The approaching super-Earth will not strike the planet, it will gravitationaly interact with it. Through gravitational interaction between Earth, and the incoming body, tectonic stress ...

1945 – AMERICA FIRST The war may be over. But the battle for America has just begun. President Daniel “Big Dan” Wilson never expected to become the most controversial leader in modern American history. A restaurant owner from Alabama who once left military service under unusual circumstances, Wilson rose from small-town politics to the presidency on one simple promise: America First. Now the country he leads is divided. The old two-party system is collapsing. A new political movement is reshaping the nation. And the world beyond America’s borders is growing more dangerous by the day...

A history written after the certainty is gone. From the vantage of centuries later, when star charts have been revised and even memory has acquired margins of doubt, Archives of the Federation stands as a reconstruction of how the galaxy truly became what it is. Not the heroic version. Not the ceremonial one. The operational one. A recovered historical analysis by a Starfleet officer-historian, this volume traces the Federation’s emergence through the long shadows cast by older civilisations, unfinished machines, and environments that never stopped enforcing their own rules. These ...

The Mediterranean Division, the latest book in the BEST SELLING MISFIT SQUADRON series, a riveting action packed military aviation adventure series set in an alternate, Steampunk World War Two. Vast amounts of resources were committed to the shores of Britain by the Prussians, leaving them exposed elsewhere around Europe. Sensing an opportunity, Britain and her allies come up with a bold plan to strike their first real blow of the war, but it is an enormous risk and the eventual outcome of the whole war might well depend on the success or failure of the mission. The king once again calls on...

In 1942, New Chicago was born. The goal was to build a new world that promised the American dream. Now, two years later, the city is a volatile mixture of high society and organized crime. Smiling corporate devils peddle the future while wrestling for control with criminal kingpins from a rapidly fading era. Caught in the middle of this transitional period are the young Whitlock siblings and their friends—the last remaining members of the infamous Whitlock gang, once led by their now-deceased father.

Time isn’t just breaking. It’s being rewritten. Jennifer has spent her life inside the Slipstream—tracking fractures in time, correcting anomalies, and ensuring history unfolds as it should. It’s a job that demands everything. And takes more than it gives. But this time—something is different. A Rift appears where it shouldn’t. Systems fail in ways they were never designed to. And evidence begins to surface that someone isn’t just exploiting the Slipstream— They’re controlling it. As the anomalies escalate, Jennifer is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: the ...

Never let the AI learn your worst fear. Teen genius Nadia Khan is ripped from her world by a rogue Quantum AI and thrown into the Quantiverse, where pirate ships, alien realms, deadly quests, and game-like rules turn survival into a fight she never asked for. At first, she is a summoned outsider struggling to stay alive. Then she learns the truth: she is tied to the Ring of Power, a legendary force shattered across hostile worlds, haunted ruins, broken starships, and war-torn corners of the galaxy. Every fragment could restore her strength. Every fragment could also get her killed. As Nadia...

The colonies stood on the cusp of victory after Yorktown, until King George bought twenty thousand Russian mercenaries using the gold Istäni stole from Lubrerum. While the war between Britain and the colonies erupts anew, another smaller but no less brutal war begins in the wilds of Vermont, when Istäni brings his rivalry with Murdoch back to Maralah.

1943 – Sverdlovsk Moscow has fallen. The Red Army staggers. And a new war—far greater than the last—looms over the frozen continent. In the bitter spring of 1943, Allied and German forces fought their way into the Soviet capital after months of brutal siege and relentless street-to-street combat. Stalin barely escapes the collapsing city, carrying with him a shattered government, a terrified inner circle, and a country on the brink of civil war. As Stalin retreats east to Sverdlovsk and the Allies entrench around the ruins of Moscow, China seizes its chance. Mao Zedong unleashes a ...

Terrorgon was our enemy, our nemesis, our doom and our doomsday. According to popular legend, it had roamed our world in the elder days, when pagan gods still ruled. After a fierce war, those false gods threw those monsters into the abyss, chaining them down there forever. Apparently, forever hadn’t been nearly long enough. Now, without lesser gods to handle the challenge, the only thing standing between us and Armageddon was the government. Which did we fear more? I couldn’t say. Meanwhile, I was just a guy trying to get along, keeping my head down, yet always helping the next guy. ...

When Technology Is Hard To Come By, It Helps If Yours Is Built In. Saddle up for a wild ride through the alien world of Blanken 9 in this electrifying fusion of Sci-Fi and Western! Zestrum Doniphon is a good man with a bad reputation. A job offer from Claude Etcheverry, a wealthy rancher who has amassed a private army of cyborgs to monopolize Copperbank’s water supply, pulls Doniphon into a budding range war.

Beyond the limits of what we perceive as reality lies an unseen architecture: Vast, intricate and deeply unsettling. This book: WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE DIMENSIONS by Henry Enrix, dares to pull back the veil, revealing a hidden multidimensional order that challenges everything we believe about Human existence. In this provocative exploration, the familiar 3rd. Dimension is exposed as only a fraction of a much larger system, one in which Humanity may not be sovereign but instead subject to forces originating beyond our awareness. Enrix immerses readers in a cosmic landscape inhabited by ...

Please be kind and leave a review? Independent authors like me depend on the input of others. A review from you goes a long way to letting other people know what you thought of the book. Our story opens in 998 AD. Arne, with his 250 men, is about to engage with Gunnar, and his 300. The advantage is with Gunnar, but within a very few minutes, Arne defeats Gunnar. Now comes the time for Gunnar’s men to swear fealty to their new liege lord, Arne. Before that can happen, a large ship drops from the sky to take them away. Odin himself appeals to the adventurer in each of them to come fight for...

1942 – AMERICA The war is over. But the world is far from peaceful. In the aftermath of the Pacific conflict that forced Japan’s surrender, the United States stands victorious—yet increasingly isolated. Europe is locked in a massive war as a united continent fights to stop the Soviet advance. China has emerged from civil war under Communist rule. Japan lies under American occupation, rebuilding quietly beneath watchful eyes. At home, a different revolution is beginning. Daniel “Big Dan” Wilson never intended to become a national figure. A six-foot-three restaurant owner from ...

A jukebox. A coin. One hundred songs. Each one is a door. Carson City, Nevada. Summer of 1992. A twelve-year-old boy arrives at his grandparents' house to spend the summer while his grandmother dies. His grandfather—a man who pulls weeds from dawn to noon without stopping and has never spoken about his past—keeps a 1953 Seeburg jukebox polished to a mirror shine in the corner of the living room. Nobody plays it. Until the boy drops a coin in the slot. Each song carries him backward—into the Catholic orphanage where his grandfather was abandoned at five, the streets of San Francisco ...

"Paradise is a loan. The debt collectors are here." For ten thousand years the Sienoan people have existed as gods. In Sienoa – a city of gleaming crystal – both hunger and death are merely things people once talked about. The ‘Pulse’, providing endless, unsoiled power, means every desire is satisfied before anyone even has it.

NYMZA follows Anne "Brekstza" Bergner, a brilliant, tough, yet emotionally scared radio host who specializes in covering strange phenomena. After a shocking call from her long-absent father, Anne becomes entangled in a globe-spanning mystery involving secret societies, alien abduction, advanced technology beneath ancient temples, and a terrifying Fourth Reich that survives in space and on Mars.

Although Emily’s farm has been quiet and safe, Whistler is restless. Between nightmares that won’t let him sleep, and a powerful obsession with his scythe, he worries that demonic forces will come for him again, endangering his family.