Alternate History Russia

The government makes the Peacekeepers an offer. Help us perfect our space drive system that’s similar but more powerful than your own so we can replace our failing satellites, and we’ll outfit your fleet with our upgrades. This would remedy the crippling altitude disadvantages the Peacekeepers must deal with when fighting conventional warplanes. The Peacekeeper scientists rise to the occasion. Soon, the Athens is being refitted and her crew trained for their first mission in orbit. However, the Russians are also racing to get into space for reasons of their own, and their plans don’t ...

When Russian Special Forces troops penetrate the security at Area 51, they pull off the biggest defeat of a peacekeeper ship in history. Fourteen men succeed where the Chinese base ship and the Russian navy failed. They manage to down the Guardian, trapping dozens of crewmen in the corridors of the ship. Time is running out for the trapped survivors. The peacekeepers are reeling from the devastating blow that has slaughtered hundreds of their number. Captain Evan Wilison is charged with the task of using the Athens to lead a peacekeeper armada in a strike to retaliate against Moscow. ...

Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past….

Saint Petersburg, 1812. Russian forces have defeated Napoleon at great cost, and the tsar's empire is once again at peace. Sasha, a captain in the imperial army, returns home to Grand Duke Felix, the disgraced second son of the tsar and his irrepressibly charming lover, but their reunion is quickly interrupted by the arrival of Sofia, a mysteriously persuasive figure whose disruptive presence Sasha suspects to be something more than human. Felix, insisting that Sasha's old-fashioned superstitions are misplaced, takes Sofia into his confidence.

Я находился на полном орков драккаре. Почти три десятка клыкастых различной степени вонючести зеленокожих составляли команду ярла Рюрика. И угадайте, куда он несся быстрее ветра по холодным водам Балтики?

"Орки Древней Руси" - фантастический роман Ивана Лагутина, первая книга одноименного цикла, жанр боевое фэнтези, альтернативная история.

Я находился на полном орков драккаре. Почти три десятка клыкастых различной степени вонючести зеленокожих составляли команду ярла Рюрика. И угадайте, куда он несся быстрее ветра по холодным водам Балтики? На восток, в славный град Ладогу. Бред, скажете вы? И будете, вашу мать, правы.