Focus Fiction: Themes - Alternate History
Stephen Baxter - Voyage [SCIENCE FICTION BAXTER]
- President Kennedy has survived the Dallas Assassination attempt. With his continued support, the NASA space program puts a man on the moon, and now stands poised to put one on Mars as well.
Len Deighton - SS-GB [FICTION DEIGHTON]
- Superintendent Archer, struggling to maintain the values of Scotland Yard in Nazi-occupied England, is assigned a seemingly routine murder case that plunges him into a terrifying world of intrigue when the investigation starts drawing the attention of high-ranking officials in Berlin.
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle [SCIENCE FICTION DICK]
- Twenty years ago America lost the Second World War, and now the joint occupation by Germany and Japan is giving birth to a strange new American culture.
Paul Di Filippo - The Steampunk Trilogy [SCIENCE FICTION DI FILIPPO]
- Set in an extremely alternative 19th century, these three stories chronicle the adventures of a wild mix of characters, including such historical figures as Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.
Richard Dreyfuss & Harry Turtledove - The Two Georges [FICTION DREYFUSS]
- The American Revolution ended when the two Georges: Washington and King George III, managed to hammer out a settlement between England and the Colonies. But now, 200 years later, self-styled "Sons of Liberty" have stolen a valuable relic and Colonel Bushnell of the Royal American Mounted Police must recover it.
Brendan DuBois - Resurrection Day [FICTION DUBOIS]
- The Cuban Missile Crisis has ended in unimaginable tragedy, a nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR that leaves both countries shattered. But during the investigation of the death of a veteran of the "War of '62," Carl Landry stumbles on the hidden truth about what gave rise to that terrible conflict.
Eric Flint & David Drake - An Oblique Approach [PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION]
- In the year 528 A.D. two aliens come to Earth. One goads the African Malawa empire toward world domination while the other alien sets out to stop them with the help of the Byzantium empire and Rome's greatest general, Belasarius.
William Gibson & Bruce Sterling - The Difference Engine [SCIENCE FICTION GIBSON]
- The year is 1855 and the Industrial Revolution has been irrevocably altered by the success of Charles Babbage's steam powered "computer." In this world ruled by industrialists and scientists, three diverse individuals search for a box of mysterious punch cards -- cards that someone is willing to kill for.
David Harlan - The Shadow of Ararat [SCIENCE FICTION HARLAN ]
- The Roman empire, through its powerful legions and powerful sorceries, still stands in the year 600 A.D., but a great war with Persia is brewing that will further alter the course of history.
Robert Harris - Fatherland [FICTION HARRIS]
- While JFK is negotiating with Hitler and a victorious Germany, an important Nazi official turns up dead. It's up to Detective March and a beautiful American journalist to solve the crime, even if it means going up against the all-powerful Gestapo.
Harry Harrison - The Hammer [SCIENCE FICTION HARRISON ]
- Tired of simply raiding the British Isles, the Vikings launch an all out bid to make the islands their own. Led by the Viking warrior Shef, himself half Norse and half English, a new country and a new religion are forged -- but will they stand the test of time?
Harry Harrison - West of Eden [SCIENCE FICTION HARRISON ]
- In a world where the catastrophe that ended the reign of the dinosaurs never happened, two races, one human, one reptile, fight for control. Will one man, raised in captivity by the reptilian Yilane, determine which race dominatates the Earth?
Douglas C. Jones - The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer [FICTION JONES]
- The outcome of the Battle of Little Bighorn remains the same, but this time a wounded Custer is found on the battlefield and nursed back to health. The trial that ensues attempts to answer, once and for all, who was responsible for that terrible defeat.
J. Gregory Keyes - Newton's Cannon[SCIENCE FICTION KEYES]
- In 1681 Sir Isaac Newton turns his attention to Alchemy and discovers the key to manipulating the elements. Now the powers of sorcery are unleashed on a world still struggling to come to terms with the scientific revolution.
Paul J. McAuley - Pasquale's Angel [SCIENCE FICTION MCAULEY]
- The Industrial Revolution arrives early and Renaissance Florence is now a dark, smog-bound city. Within its depths, the artist Pasquale, along with the alcoholic journalist Niccolo Machiavegli, must solve a dangerous case of murder.
Michael Moorcock - A Nomad of the Time Streams [SCIENCE FICTION MOORCOCK]
- In three separate adventures, Captain Basable finds himself thrust both forward and backwards in time, to alternate Earths with radically differnt histories.
Kim Newman - The Bloody Red Baron [FICTION NEWMAN]
- In a world inhabited by both the living and the living dead, World War I rages. With the tide of battle turning against them, the Allies must rush to uncover the secret behind the Red Baron -- the most dreaded vampire fighter pilot of all time.
Jake Page - Apacheria [PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION]
- In 1884, under a single, brilliant leader, the formerly disparate Apache tribes unite to form a new nation, bringing a sudden and dramatic halt to US westward expansion.
Harry Turtledove - Guns of the South [FICTION TURTLEDOVE]
- After losing the battle of Gettysburg, the war appears all but over for the South, until a man with a strange accent offers General Lee a new type of rifle -- the AK-47.
Harry Turtledove - Worldwar: In the Balance [SCIENCE FICTION TURTLEDOVE]
- With nation pitted against nation, an end to World War II seems no where in sight. But then the aliens arrive, claiming the Earth for their own. Can the warring countries unite or will this be the end of the human race?
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