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It is 2350. For more than two centuries, humanity has spread across the stars. FTL technology has opened a galaxy for exploitation and settlement. Untold wealth and the endless frontier have enabled both unprecedented human unity and a diaspora unlike any seen before in our history. The galactic face of our species is the democratic federation known as the Commonwealth of Humanity. The endeavours and exploits of its Starpatrol pioneers are legendary.Captain...
2) Streseland
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Many alternate history novels look at greater success for the Nazi regime. This one considers the situation in Germany if the Nazis never came to power. It is 1936 and President Stresemann is being laid to rest. His policies have ameliorated the Depression and allowed German democracy to survive. Yet, in a time of change, political extremists remain a threat. Government agent, Gotthard Nachtigall, goes undercover, not only to prevent a new Nazi outrage...
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The life of Eric Arthur Blair greatly impacted the work he wrote under the name 'George Orwell'. The Spanish Civil War, wartime Britain, and the rise of totalitarianism all fed into seminal works like Animal Farm and 1984 whose impact is still felt today.But what would Orwell have written had he lived in another timeline? A world where his experiences in Spain were different, and the Second World War broke out over Czechoslovakia, not Poland?Mark...
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Beginning in 1933, a group of conservative businessmen in the United States became concerned that the Roosevelt Administration was a harbinger of Socialism. Allegedly, they considered launching a coup, to be spearheaded by Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in history at the time. These discussions never got further than the cocktail parties they probably took place in, but what if circumstances produced a scenario in which those businessmen...
5) Alien Life
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This is a collection of stories all of which are true in that they are taken from real events.Names of the living have been changed and identities disguised for reasons that need no rehearsal. Truth resembles beauty, though not in the way that Keats imagined, because it is often not beautiful. Where the two ideas coincide is that they dwell in the eye of the beholder, which is why specialists - historians, scientists, clerics, philosophers - spend...
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Following King Alfred's execution in 878, the entirety of Wessex and Mercia came under Danish rule. Twenty-five years on, however, some still fight to restore Saxon kingdoms. To head off such a threat, extraordinary siblings, Øfura 'The Blood' and her brother Ræf 'The Ghost' are sent in pursuit of Alfred's grandchildren. It is a dangerous, adventurous mission that takes them the breadth of a country reshaped by Pagan Danish control, though, in turn,...
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Saint John, a bipolar saint with multiple-personality disorder, and his sex-crazed pagan priestess, Helen, have quite a romance going on. Athenodorus, a perennially-single island-resort owner, finds himself hosting Helen and John as their erotic, religious and accidentally-political adventures ensue. The island's doctor, Pantheonus, a physician with a deep interest in psychology, tries to care for and analyze John, the poet, prophet and madman, as...
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As both a homage and spiritual successor to Tom Black and Jack Tindale's Shuffling the Deck, Decking the Shuffle re-imagines the careers, fates, and legacies of Britain's post-war party leaders by placing them in unfamiliar environments. Dividing the figures between them, the authors take a hatchet to conventional understandings of the country's recent past. From Michael Foot as the face of socialist psychedelia to John Major's laddish libertarian...
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After being blown off course, Irish monks stumble upon a mysterious island. Little do they realize but they?ve located Newfoundland, 500 years before any viking. What follows is a tale of clergymen and trappers, warriors and raiders, sailors and kings. Irish, Britons, and Norsemen clash with each other while Native Americans, in the absence of gunpowder, undergo dramatic changes in technology and power. The Legacy of Saint Brendan tells the story...
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The year is 1929 and the German republic, born out of the ashes of the First World War, looks to the future with optimism. After a turbulent beginning the republic has become the economic powerhouse of Europe once more with Berlin as the cultural centre of the continent. Many call it a golden age.However, the ghosts of the republic?s formation refuse to be laid to rest. On the right, a jealous Prince awaits an opportunity to reign as Kaiser in a restored...
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It is 1914 and war has just broken out in Europe. When a British agent disappears in Constantinople, new recruit Eugenia Cranston is sent to the capital of the Byzantine Empire to investigate his death. Soon she is drawn into plots and conspiracies, hunting a British traitor and working hard to prevent Europe?s oldest empire becoming part of this very modern war. Being constantly undercover and dealing with incompetence weighs heavily on Eugenia,...
12) White Demons
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"WHITE DEMONS" is an historical record of the takeover of the United States of America in the Presidential Election of 2024 by a radical, racist, militant and authoritarian far-left political party called the National Democratic Socialist (NDS) Party of America. The NDS regime ruled America with an iron fist until the outbreak of the U.S. & European Union Conflict in 2029-2030.
13) Gut Feeling
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Frederick Cragg is a surgeon living in the medical dark ages of 19th-century America. He is gifted with a patient; one who brings scientific promise and tender friendship. When Cragg brings the wounded man home, he risks losing his just and faithful wife. Based on a true story, this novella explores the bonds between the injured and the caregiving.
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In the shadows of a history that never was, unveil a world where the ancient sands whisper secrets of a different Earth.J. Dharma Windham weaves a rich tapestry of power, betrayal, and divine destiny, centered on a name that once commanded the Mediterranean world: Kleopatra.Victory was hers, the southern lands bowed to her might, but the Roman eagle's shadow looms large. As her father, aided by Roman steel, fights to reclaim his crown from Queen Berenike,...
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In this fourth part of the continuation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Hugo learns the details of the lives of the people he would immortalize in his masterwork from the very subjects themselves: while Jean Valjean and Javert fight to return to Europe after being waylaid to Australia, an old enemy returns to wreak havoc on Marius and Cosette's growing family. Meanwhile, the truth about what happened during the last moments of the barricade's fall...
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After a snap general election is called, Christopher, a campaign organiser for the Liberal Party, is sent to a Scottish island to campaign in a previously safe seat. He discovers upon arrival that one of the island?s former MPs has been living out of sight for a rather long time, haunted by personal tragedy and determined to make good on a promise to open a door to another world. Christopher finds himself asking what the truly Liberal course of action...
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His name is one of the most infamous in American politics. In the early 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy was a force of terror, sparing no one in his hunt for Soviet agents within the US government. Yet, on a journey from a park bench in New York City to the fields of rural Wisconsin and into the halls of power in Washington, his incredible rise to power is part of the most audacious gambit in the annals of Soviet espionage. When McCarthy targets his master's...
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Tim Venning returns with a series of essays exploring different paths for the British monarchy from the Jacobite risings and beyond. What if the Stuart line had not died out? What if William and Mary had lived longer? And what if either Jacobite rising had succeeded? All this and more from the mind behind 'Caesars of the Bosphorus' and 'King Charles or King Oliver?'.
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Jared Kavanagh edits a collection of short stories set in different Australias.What if what we call Australia had become largely Dutch? Could Australia have led intervention in unexpected African conflicts? What adventures might Napoleon Bonaparte have had as he sought to colonise it before the British? Could a space programme launched Woomera have reached the Moon? How might the Emu War have gone differently?
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