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Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen worlds that never were. Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered, “What if?” What if Japan had been on the side of the U.S. in World War II? What if things had been just a little different in the Falklands? What if Russia had started World War Three?

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories.

THE ROAD TO STANLEY is the fifth book in the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70, and the twenty-first book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is December 1969. THE ROAD TO STANLEY was originally published as the second half of CASSANDRA’S SONG and appears in its separate form in the interests of making a very long book more palatable, and hopefully digestible to readers! The Royal Navy has finally established, bloodily, command of the sea and the air; ashore ground forces are braced to break out of the San Carlos bridgehead. To all intents, the Argentine ...

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Then you're in for a treat. Volume three of our popular anthology series is sure to scratch that questionable itch. With stories by Michael Knost, William Joseph Roberts, Philip K. Booker, Christopher Woods, D. Raymond Smith, David Badurina, H.P. Holo, James Palmer, Jason Cordova, Lee Ellis, M Leigh, Michael Morton, Michael Craig, and Guest Editorial by Faith Hunter.

ARMADAS is the second book in the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70, and the eighteenth book of the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is October 1969. In a timeline altered by the Cuban Missiles War of October 1962, a British Task Force is gathering in the South Atlantic to take back the Falkland Islands from the Argentine invaders. The fighting begins...but can a war 8,000 miles from home for a windswept archipelago of which the bulk of the British people know little, fought in the name of fifteen hundred exiled people – the Falkland Islanders, or ‘Kelpers’ ...

CHANGING OF THE GUARD is the TWENTY-SECOND book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is June 1970 and the reverberations of the war in the South Atlantic are rippling around the world but nowhere are the aftershocks so profound as in the United Kingdom and the Argentine. For both countries the political landscape has altered forever. It is not just the price in lives lost, human grief and the crippling damage both sides have inflicted on each other and themselves. The world has changed and an era is coming to an end. Nothing will ever be the same for the survivors, heroes and ...

CASSANDRA’S SONG is the fourth book in the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70, and the twentieth book of the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. The waters around the Falkland Islands have turned into a windswept, storm-tossed killing ground as the troops have gone ashore. In the absence of the Hermes, half-crippled eight hundred miles away at Leith Harbour, South Georgia and the its screening nuclear submarines, an astonished world has seen the Argentine Navy and Air Force hurl itself at the South Atlantic Task Force in a paroxysm of near suicidal violence. Thousand ...

This collection comprises 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From Blackwood's The Empty House, through to Philip K. Dick's The Hanging Stranger, Lovecraft's Out of The Aeons, and beyond.

WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN is the fifteenth book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. Readers: please be aware that this book was originally published as a much longer novel, which as of November 2025 was split into two parts, the second part being published separately as BEAR IN THE SKY. ________ It is February 1968 in a world in which the swinging sixties never happened because the Cuban Missiles Crisis of October 1962 went catastrophically wrong. Since the cataclysm struck, obliterating great and historic cities, laying waste to great swathes of the northern hemisphere, the threat...

SMOKE ON THE WATER is the third book in the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70, and the nineteenth book of the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is November 1969 in a world in which the swinging sixties never happened because the Cuban Missiles Crisis turned the Cold War ‘hot’ on the night of 27 October 1962 and the survivors have been living, and fighting it seems, ever since. Only that spring there had been reasons for optimism at last. In the seventh year of the post-cataclysm era there was a new President in the White House, peace in Western Europe, the ...

This volume contains a variety of imaginative stories from both famous and not-so-famous science fiction writers.

INDEPENDENCE DAY is the twenty-third book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is October 1972 and the tenth anniversary of the October War approaches. For Marija and Peter, the President-designate and future First Man of Malta, Independence Day is almost upon them. The world is a very different place than it was in October 1962; whether its leaders have learned anything from the folly of their predecessors is of course, quite another matter. Much as it might seem as if a new, saner world order is beginning to assert itself not everything is what it seems to be and old enmities ...

BEAR IN THE SKY is the sixteenth book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. BEAR IN THE SKY was originally published as the second half of WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN and appears now in its separate form in the interests of making what was originally a humongously very long book more palatable, and hopefully digestible to readers! ________ There is always the unexpected; the best laid plans never seem to go quite the way they are supposed to go. Especially, in the still dysfunctional outer regions of the once-great Soviet empire. It is election year in the United States but a new ...

STUMBLING TOWARDS THE EDGE is the seventeenth book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It was originally – and confusingly, me culpe – published as a standalone novel but rightly belongs to the five-book strand about the FALKLANDS WAR OF 1969-70. It is February 1969. It is the seventh year after Cuban Missiles war derailed the modern world. In this altered timeline the swinging sixties did not happen and ever since the night of the October War in 1962, the survivors have lurched from one crisis to the next, often looking over their shoulders at the threat of new holocausts. At...

The Cuban Missiles Crisis didn't end peacefully and the '"swinging sixties" didn't happen. On Saturday, October 27, 1962, American and Soviet geopolitical brinkmanship resulted in the most terrible war in human history. The forever changed world that remained when the thermonuclear fires had burned themselves out is the world of Timeline 10/27/62.

New York - July 1976 - in a world in which New England remains the sparkling jewel in the crown of the British Empire. It is the day before Empire Day - July 4 - the day each year when the British Empire marks the brutal crushing of the rebellion dignified by the treachery of the 56 delegates to the Continental Congress who were so foolhardy as to sign the infamous Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on that day of infamy in 1776.

This is the story of Abu Ghraib that you haven't heard, told by the soldier sent by the Army to restore order and ensure that the abuses that took place there never happen again. In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts, and the torture of...

This second collection of great sci-fi stories includes the following: "A Sense of Wonder" by Stephen Marlowe, "Seller of the Sky" by Dave Dryfus, "The Shining Cow" by Alex James, and more.

It is April 1964 in a world in which the ‘swinging '60s’ never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are poised to pour down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates like wolves upon the fold. The Shah is dead, and Tehran has been destroyed by a nuclear strike; in Iraq, there has been a coup d’état, and civil war has broken out. Only a handful of British tanks and a few thousand widely scattered troops around the oilfields of the Middle East stand between the Red Army and mastery of the Persian Gulf.