Alternate History Books


Animal Farm and 1984 Best Price: $15.20 For me the edition is so cool, besides the special content and masterpiece by George Orwell. So...	The Plot Against America Best Price: $3.75 This is a wonderful alternate history novel that puts a huge spin on the dawn of WWII. Charles...	Lavinia Best Price: $11.88 Lavinia, the title character of Ursula LeGuin's unusual novel, is a character from Virgil's...	The Man with the Iron Heart Best Price: $13.46 For the most part, this novel makes an interesting story out of what started out as a Bush...	The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change (The Sunrise Lands) Best Price: $7.99 As THE SUNRISE LANDS opens it is twenty two years after the Change, the events described in DIES...



1635: The Dreeson Incident (The Ring of Fire) Best Price: $17.16 The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power...	His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) (Temeraire) Best Price: $3.32 When I bought this book, I had no idea what it was about...other than it had dragons in it.. ...	The Camel Bookmobile: A Novel (P.S.) Best Price: $7.96 A woman who sees her life going nowhere goes to Kenya and starts a camel bookmobile to bring...	Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3) (Temeraire) Best Price: $2.94 I was really engrossed in the first book of this series, His Majesty's Dragon, and even found...	Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War Best Price: $4.11 This book is portrayed as an historical account of the battle of Gettysburg with the infusion of...



Island in the Sea of Time (Island) Best Price: $4.19 The first part was great, I loved the idea of Nantucket being tossed back to the Bronze Age. The...	Meridian Best Price: $7.53 Alice Walker's second novel, 'Meridian' (published 1976), is huge in scope but well-orchestrated...	Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory (Gingrich and Forstchen's Civil War Trilogy) Best Price: $4.17 Through three novels, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen have told the story of a Civil War...	Fatherland: A Novel (Mortalis) Best Price: $7.89 I have tried several times to find a good alternate history novel dealing with the events of...	A Meeting at Corvallis: A Novel of the Change (Dies the Fire) Best Price: $2.71 The first book in this trilogy, Dies the Fire, was wonderfully written and chock full of...

MacArthur's War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan Best Price: $4.25 WWII has proven to be fertile territory for a multitude of alternate history novels, and this is...	1634: The Bavarian Crisis (The Assiti Shards) Best Price: $6.95 If a good series of books is like a road leading you on a thousand-mile adventure, The Bavarian...	Final Impact (The Axis of Time) Best Price: $4.03 I like to read both alternate history (and historical displaements) and techno-military stories,...	The Stress of Her Regard Best Price: $10.17 The re-release of Tim Powers "The Stress of Her Regard", that has been out of print...	1633 Best Price: $2.75 1632 had serious problems, starting with the many long-winded characters and their...

The Years of Rice and Salt Best Price: $4.00 alt.history generally doesn't do it for me. I really love authors like Tim Powers who pick more...	1632 (The Assiti Shards) Best Price: $3.75 This is a science fiction novel - for about the first five pages. The setup is sci-fi, but the...	What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been Best Price: $3.27 Although less than half way through the book I will heartedly recommend it. It focuses on how...	Weapons of Choice (The Axis of Time Trilogy, Book 1) Best Price: $3.99 Get the rest of the series before you start reading book 1; you won't want to wait before...	Into the Storm: Destroyermen, Book I (Destroyermen) Best Price: $11.50 I really enjoyed this book so much, a little out of the norm of what I normally read, although I...

Designated Targets Best Price: $4.05 One thing that struck me was the usage of bad words so frequently. Churchill, Heinz Guderian,...	Crusade: Destroyermen, Book II (Destroyermen) Best Price: $16.29 The ?gripping and riveting?( S.M. Stirling, author of The Scourge of God ) Destroyermen saga...	Pandemonium in 2012 Best Price: $8.51 Conspiracy theories and books about conspiracy theories abound. Some are absurd and implausible....	Camp Concentration: A Novel Best Price: $6.72 One cover review called this the best book ever ... not sure I'd go anywhere near that far, but...	Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax) Best Price: $3.68 OK, here is my assessment. I've read a couple of other Robert Sawyer books and I picked this...

Opening Atlantis Best Price: $6.94 Opening Atlantis, though not of the same caliber as the American Empire series or the Great War...	Mainspring Best Price: $3.98 I thought the main conceit for this book was brilliant, and for that reason alone, I do...	Watch on the Rhine (Posleen War Series #7) Best Price: $3.98 Not great literature but at times it can certainly be fun. I have done a complete 180 on...	Roswell, Texas Best Price: $5.99 This is one of L. Neil Smith's weaker efforts. The story line is too convoluted, too chopped up...	Eifelheim Best Price: $8.19 An especially good book, the first I read from this author. Modern research is meeting with the...

Planetary Vol. 3: Leaving the 20th Century Best Price: $7.97 I'm not one for writing a lot of reviews, but this series is so good that I can not in good...	1634: The Baltic War (The Assiti Shards) Best Price: $17.16 1634: The Baltic War continues the story of Grantville, a small town from West Virginia thrown...	Grantville Gazette III (The Ring of Fire) Best Price: $3.95 Grantville Gazettes are written as a part of an online magazine so the story quality is all over...	Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book 1) Best Price: $7.47 The condition of the book was not as was stated. A section(group of pages) of the book was...	In the Balance: An Alternate History of the Second World War (Worldwar, Volume 1) Best Price: $1.85 Harry Turtledove really keeps you interested with this series. I have read many of his books and...

1901 Best Price: $4.00 Most people realize that an alternative history novel (just like a Science Fiction novel)...	Ha'penny Best Price: $4.11 Apolitical acress Viola Lark is reluctantly drawn in to a plot to assassinate Hitler. She...	How Few Remain Best Price: $2.59 I have a habit of collecting all the books in a series and then reading them back-to-back. ...	Walk In Hell (The Great War, Book 2) Best Price: $4.34 This is the second volume of Turtledove's Great War trilogy, and the third book in the...	Farthing Best Price: $3.25 I agree with other reviewers who have problems with the alt history presented here. The strength...

The Grantville Gazette Best Price: $3.29 This anthology of five short stories and three factual articles based upon Eric Flint's Assisti...	Drive to the East (Settling Accounts, Book 2) Best Price: $7.99 I have read every Turtledove book I can get my hands on. He is the master of alternate history....	Cities of the Red Night: A Novel Best Price: $8.00 This is the most accessible William Burroughs novel ever written. It has more structure,...	The Domination Best Price: $14.70 Stirling definitely doing Stirling here. Of course the subject matter have many 'grimace'...	1862: A Novel Best Price: $3.99 I do hope this review is published for I have learned that some I have written the past were...

Guns of the South Best Price: $7.99 In the world of alternate Civil War history, Guns of the South stands out for several reasons. ...	Empire of Ivory Best Price: $5.59 This book (and the 3 before that) is just great. I was getting tired of fantasy, and then I...	1634: The Ram Rebellion (The Ring of Fire) Best Price: $4.24 This book is a little more of a thinky piece than the typical 1632-verse story, and as such it...	American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold (American Empire) Best Price: $2.75 As THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD opens it is the early 1920's and people are recovering from the Great...	Making History Best Price: $8.95 I loved the humor in this book (except some of the British humor, which admittedly sometimes...

End of the Beginning (Pearl Harbor) Best Price: $1.60 Just a snapshot in time for the characters. Left saying, "Okay, now what?". Happy...	American Empire: Blood & Iron Best Price: $2.85 Spoiler warning, but only if you haven't read the prior Great War series. In the aftermath of...	Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus Best Price: $2.97 I don't often write reviews. I'm not the best at summarizing plots. All I can tell you is that...

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