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Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Steven Barnes

Africa colonizes North America using European slaves. North America is split between Aztec, Zulu, and Arabic empires.


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Weapons of Choice
John Birmingham

Mid-21st-century international naval taskforce is transported back in time to just before the Battle of Midway and scattered around the globe. The taskforce’s presence alters the conduct of World War II.


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The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
Michael Chabon

An alternate historical work based on a premise that Alaska became the Jewish homeland after World War II finds detective Meyer Landsman investigating a heroin-addicted chess prodigy’s murder.


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Russian Amerika
Stoney Compton

Alternate history set in the 1980s where Alaska remains a part of the Czar’s Russian Empire.


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1632
Eric Flint

A mysterious accident in time causes 21st century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany.


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The Dance of Time
Eric Flint and David Drake

A mysterious artifact from the future offers Roman general Belisarius a vision of the Malwa conquest of Constantinople, and he embarks on a dangerous mission into the heart of India.


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Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th
Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstschen

Former Speaker of the House Gingrich and history professor Forstchen again join forces, launching a new series with a book that examines Pearl Harbor from a Japanese perspective.


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In War Times
Kathleen Ann Goonan

In an alternate-universe depiction of World War II, Sam enlists for the military after his brother is killed at Pearl Harbor and receives plans for a mysterious device from one of his instructors that he spends the war constructing, with unexpected and bizarre results.


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Fox on the Rhine
Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson

A cadre of SS generals seizes Nazi Germany from Hitler and places Himmler in power, laying the ground work for a vastly different Battle of the Bulge.


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A Princess of Roumania
Paul Park

Raised by her adoptive family in a quiet Massachusetts town, teenager Miranda Popescu is astonished to discover that she is a princess from an alternate world that is split by a deadly political battle.


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The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson

In an alternate history world in which the population of Europe is almost completely wiped out by the Black Death during the fourteenth century, three superpowers — China, India, and the nations of Islam — battle for supremacy in a World War destined to create a new world order.


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The Plot Against America: A Novel
Philip Roth

Charles Lindbergh becomes President in 1940, keeping the United States out of World War II and leading to a rise of anti-Semitism in the United States.


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Hominids
Robert J. Sawyer

An accident propels a Neanderthal physicist across time to our world.


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The Family Trade
Charles Stross

Reporter Miriam Beckstein is shocked when she is fired and threatened with death after stumbling upon a money-laundering scheme, a situation that turns increasingly bizarre when she is transported to a parallel earth where her family rules a powerful kingdom.


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Island in the Sea of Time
S. M. Stirling

A colossal dome of fire and a violent storm shift the universe, reduce the North American continent to wilderness, and sweep the island of Nantucket into the year 1250 B.C., placing its inhabitants in a battle for survival.


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How Few Remain
Harry Turtledove

In 1883, the United States, still smarting from its defeat at the hands of the Confederacy, returns to the battlefields, with the Apache, outlaw gangs, and European forces becoming involved in the conflict.


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