Alternate History

What if Joan of Arc hadn't burned?

Hate was in his genes and ever since his ancestor Karl Toxopeus had fought the Zulu hoards and endured British occupation and their concentration camps, he and Boer ancestors hated the British and anyone remotely associated with them. Becoming a German spy and going to America to uncover the truth about the Manhattan Project was his way to ensure that Germany would win the war and the British would lose it. His discovery in America showed that once the Americans had joined the British after Pear... more info>>

Forty years after the end of the Civil War, the Confederates have surrendered, but they are not defeated. Yankee injustice fuels resentment--and an underground rebellion--in the South, and hatred for the Northerners touches the lives of every Southern family ... forcing an innocent boy to choose his unlikely future.

Confederate naval forces are reduced to the defense of Vicksburg, and an enterprising young captain plots a rescue mission to sail north and recover $65 million in gold coins buried near a Mississippi plantation.

The Israelite plausible fabulist Benjamin Rosenbaum is mulling over his latest commission--a story set in a world without zeppelins--when he meets Prem Ramasson, prince of Ultima Thule, and receives another offer. An impovershed practitioner of a half-despised art in the balkanized and oppressed lands south of the Frankish and Athapascan Moeity cannot take lightly patronage from a citizen of the Aryan Raj--but Rosenbaum has no idea what he's getting into by accepting. Part tale of high adventure... more info>>

The Riel Rebellion plays out in a world where black magic helps decide the outcome, and the founder of the Boy Scouts runs for his life.

Young Leonardo da Vinci experiments with his flying machine in the politically charged atmosphere of late 15th century Florence. He dreams of soaring into the heavens, but Lorenzo de Medici is eager to use this new invention to his advantage on the battlefield.

Survival is a dangerous enterprise in the aftermath of a nuked America. Humanity perseveres, but the Deathlands code is far simpler: kill or be killed, live or die trying. Driven by the fires of hope, a resilient band of warriors traverse the new frontier of the future, survivors by skill and legends by reputation. The legend of the trader returns in the simmering dust bowl of the Badlands, the past calling out to armorer J. B. Dix. Her name is Eula. Young, silent and lethal, she's part of a ne... more info>>

1890s Paris: A group of fringe artists, writers, and musicians--headed by notorious oddball Alfred Jarry--use the new technology of filmmaking to expose hypocrisy within the French Military in a new telling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. [This story is also available in Howard Waldrop's collection Dream Factories and Radio Pictures].

This new collection of H. Beam Piper's shorter work includes five of his finest stories: "Graveyard of Dreams," "Genesis," "Operation R.S.V.P.," "The Answer," and "Last Enemy."

What would have happened had the Spemman labs been succesful with their experiments in the late 1920s and it had gone on to bigger and better things? We should ask Uncle Albert.

Drake's round-the-world-voyage in 1578 threatens to have an unexpected effect on the history of California.

In an "Alternate Kennedys" history where Joe Kennedy lives to become president, things go horribly wrong as the rivalry between ex-president Joe and his now-president brother Jack turns violent.

What if "Lawrence of Arabia" had turned his back on his native England and the Western world and instead chosen Allah and the Arab world? What would that have done to the Middle East?

In 1918, Sidney Reilly, who had worked as a British agent against the Germans and Japanese, returns home to the newly formed Soviet Russia. Now he is again working for England and her allies, but this time he was also out for himself, intending to assassinate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and bring himself to power at the head of the regime that he imagined his homeland deserved.

She Had to Prevent Present and Future from Warring in the Past! "Fast-moving adventure, told with engaging humor," is what the New York Times says readers can expect from this classic science fiction saga. Elspeth Marriner, once an ace journalist, is now a Time Watcher working from the mysterious House of Many Worlds. On some parallel time-tracks, Earth's cultures lag thousands of years behind our own. On others, science is far in advance of ours. As a Watcher, Elspeth's job is to keep advanced ... more info>>

The fate of Edgar Allan Poe is swept up from the Baltimore gutter to live on through sobriety and a dwindling literary career when the Civil War gives him a chance to engage the North in his own conflict of ideals--as a Confederate General.

History shows that leadership is crucial in war, but there are other factors at work. What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under different circumstances? Turtledove and his colleagues turn the past upside down and inside out, and the possibilities are endless.... The historical Flora MacDonald helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape Scotland after his failed rebellion in 1745. Captured by the English, said she would have helped... more info>>

Roosevelt, now retired from the presidency, makes a request of Woodrow Wilson. He asks to be allowed to reactivate the Rough Riders and personally lead them into the battlefields of WWI. Based on a true request that Roosevelt made (but was in reality denied by Wilson).

President Kissinger, from the short-lived Freeway Press, is a futuristic tale of what-might-be, as the great Henry leads us to one-world government through communism. Included in the mix are many of Kissinger's loves, revolutions in Africa, the Middle East, war with China, peace with the USSR, and finally all brought together under the blanket of the UN. Perhaps for its fictionalized accounts of "Kissinger's" many loves, shortly after this novel's publication Maurice found himself in the middle ... more info>>

In the Confederate States of America, a famed civil rights leader is assassinated and the nation is plunged into rioting and revolution. McKenna Alexander, U.S.-born television reporter, and Cullen Davis, her Southern-born ex-husband, are hunted by the authorities and by assassins as they follow a trail of treachery and deceit to uncover the truth behind the murder. The search will take them from the elite boardrooms of Richmond to the internationally divided city of Little Rock; from the nightm... more info>>

While visiting England in the fall of 1888, a young Theodore Roosevelt assists Scotland Yard in the effort to capture Jack the Ripper. As the streets of Whitechapel become bloodier with each murder, Teddy's American brand of investigative consultancy shines light into the darkness of the world's most famous unsolved mystery.

October 27, 1916: At President Teddy Roosevelt's 58th birthday party, the polls report that he's on the verge of losing his bid for re-election ... if only women had the vote....

During the summer of 1834, a killer roamed the plains. One man attempts to track down this killer, known only as the disillusionist, and in the process he is given something from the killer that causes him to see his entire life--and his future--in a whole new light...

Vic Standish leads the most popular heavy-metal band in history. But Vic has a secret--one he's tired of keeping.