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Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
The author of Hocus Pocus and Slaughterhouse Five invents a mind-blowing new kind of fiction. When a global "timequake" occurs in New York City on February 13, 2001, the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it expand or make a great big bang? For whatever cosmic reason, it decides to back up to the year 1991, forcing everyone in the world to endure ten years of deja-vu--and a total loss of free will. Simultaneous hardcover release from Putnam.
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
It's America in 1962--where slavery is legal and the few surviving Jews hide anxiously under assumed names. All because some twenty years earlier America lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel set in a parallel universe is the work that established Dick as a legendary science fiction author.
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History by Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor), Robert Silverberg (Introduction), ma Greenberg
Alternate-world yarns exert an endless fascination: for one, because other worlds are scientifically respectable (modern particle theory admits the possibility); for another, the godlike power offered by historical what-ifs (for instance, what-if the Nazis had won WW II? Or what-if Christ had never been born? Examples of both are to be found here). Anyhow, these 14 tales, 1968-92, include several famous entries. Fritz Leiber's waggish ``Catch That Zeppelin!'' features Hitler as an airship salesman. In Kim Stanley Robinson's ``The Lucky Strike,'' the atom-bombing of Japan doesn't go exactly as planned. And Eisenhower plays clarinet with Louis Armstrong while Senator E.A. Presley applauds, in Howard Waldrop's amusing ``Ike at the Mike.'' -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
For Want of a Nail : If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga by Robert Sobel
In a history that never was, in a world almost next door, this book would be a history textbook, and a good one at that. Until the Battle of Saratoga, it is indistinguishable from the typical history text of the period...and then the fun begins. Sobel goes into detail in a history that has to be read to be believed. If you enjoy reading history, and wondering what would happen if things went another way, and want to see the results of that change in minute detail, this book is for you.
The Moon Is Down (Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck, Donald V. Coers
In this masterful account set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by Nazi troops, a small, peaceable town comes face to face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community.
My Other Life by Paul Theroux
A lying autobiography or a true novel? Paul Theroux creates a complex, candid, confessional protagonist whose fall from grace is unique--or is it? The internationally acclaimed author is known for works such as The Mosquito Coast, My Secret History, and Millroy the Magician.
The Resurrections : A Novel by Simon Louvish
In the tradition of Fatherland and The Man in the High Castle, Simon Louvish presents a vision of an alternative 20th century--one in which Hitler and Trotsky lived well into the late 1960s. Louvish's politically-charged thriller forces readers to reexamine recent history--and ponder what might have been.
A Short History of the Future by W. Warren Wagar, W. Warren Wager
Cast in the form of a history book, the narrative voice of the book's vision is that of a far-future historian, who leaves this account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the twenty-third century as a gift to his granddaughter. Wagar is in the history department at SUNY Binghamton. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Darkest England by Christopher Hope
African explorer David Mungo Booi is chosen by the Society for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of England to embark on a mission to explore England as a possible site for settlement and to assess the friendliness and capability of the natives there.
The Two Georges by Richard Dreyfuss, Harry Turtledove
An Oscar winner and a Hugo winner team up to tell a rollicking story of theft, murder, and intrigue--in an America that never was. 1995: From the capital of Victoria on the Potomoc to New Liverpool, California, the North American Union is at peace, under the dominion of His Majesty Charles III--until separatists, styling themselves after the infamous "Sons of Liberty, " embark on a brazen mission of insurrection.
History That Never Happened : A Treatise on the Question, What Would Have Happened If...? by Alexander Demandt, Colin D. Thomson (Translator)
Translation of the third German edition of a useful pedagogical tool. History is recounted, then the alternative outcome is discussed. Speculations: Hitler dies in 1938; the Spanish Armada succeeds; Pilate pardons Jesus. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Worldwar : Upsetting the Balance by Harry Turtledove
While physicists race to perfect the atomic bomb, Earth's combined armies turn to their deadliest weapons to repel their extraterrestrial enemies. Meanwhile, the invaders are planning drastic measures of their own to ensure victory at any cost.
A Short History of the Future by W. Warren Wagar
Cast in the form of a history book, the narrative voice of the book's vision is that of a far-future historian, who leaves this account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the twenty-third century as a gift to his granddaughter. Wagar is in the history department at SUNY Binghamton. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Russia : A Novel by David Evan Kaun
History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas by Wilson Harris, Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Remember the Alamo! (G K Hall Large Print Book Series (Cloth)) by Kevin Randle, Robert Cornett
Russia : A Novel by David Evan Kaun
Gaia's Drum : Ancient Voices and Our Children's Future by David E. Denton
Matinee : A Novel by Robert Steiner
Follows the progress of an all-night party in the New England woods, complete with sex, movies, music, and murder (or is it suicide?).
Cleopatra's Sister (Wheeler Large Print Book) by Penelope Lively
The Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger presents "a fluent, funny, ultimately moving romance" (New York Times Book Review) set in North Africa, that follows the fate of two star-crossed lovers and the dramatic events that shape their destinies.
Full of Hope and Promise : The Canadas in 1841 by Eric Ross
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