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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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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Stephanie Osborn
I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future—if it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility of some sort near the Colorado Rocky Mountains, specifically Pikes Peak, so I assume the nearest city of any import to be Colorado Springs…I am afraid I have little grasp of your project.” ~Sherlock Holmes
Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

Stephanie Osborn
A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.” ~Sherlock Holmes
Stephanie Osborn, The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival

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