Alternate History

Alternate history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks the question, "What if history had developed differently?" Most works in this genre are based on real historical events, yet feature social, geopolitical, or industrial circumstances that developed differently than our own. ...more

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The Radiant Dark
Bloodsinger (The Fire That Binds, #2)
The Duke
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Biography of X
Space: 1969
No Man's Land
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Polostan (Bomb Light #1)
Pagans
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
2054
Portal to Nova Roma (Portal to Nova Roma, #1)
Inheritance (American Royals, #0.5)
The Last Wizards' Ball (Gunnie Rose, #6)
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Fatherland
The Years of Rice and Salt
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)
11/22/63
1632
The Plot Against America
The Guns of the South
Black Powder War (Temeraire, #3)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Favourite Steampunk/Alt. History Novels
178 books — 196 voters
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Alternate History in 2021
27 books — 13 voters

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Alternate England
404 books — 325 voters

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Task 2 #ReadHarder 2019
112 books — 60 voters
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Revisionist Novels
27 books — 24 voters


Paul Majkut
The burned corpses of the doppelgängers of Hitler and Braun, numerous false leads, meticulously orchestrated evidence, misdirection, and other diversions now being set in place will confuse the Americans and Russians, Zeller knew, and, in the end, put them at each other’s throats.
Paul Majkut

Robert Ferrigno
Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.
Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin

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