Showing results for "The One" in Alternate History

In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event much bigger than the entire planet bargained for: evidence of a slumbering alien in a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean. One look at the monster on TV, and humans collectively freak out.

Auftakt der spannenden Mondiar-Trilogie Eine moderne Romeo & Julia-Geschichte in einer dystopischen Fantasywelt Gehe nie hinaus in die Nacht. Meide die Dunkelheit. Betrete niemals die Höhlen der Monandor. Sei vor der Dämmerung zuhause. Diese Regeln werden den Diatar von Kindesbeinen an eingebläut. Wer sich nicht an sie hält, ist des Todes. Das weiß auch der junge Krieger Jaro. Doch als er in einem Kampf mit den Monandor, den Dämonen der Dunkelheit, schwer verwundet wird, gelingt es ihm nicht mehr, vor Einbruch der Nacht zurück in sein Dorf zu kehren.

Like the tentacles of an octopus, the railroad in California reached out across the state, grasping everything of value in the state. Based on the bloody Mussel Slough Tragedy - a conflict between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad - The Octopus is a stunning novel chronicling the twilight of the frontier West. A depiction of the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers, and the ranchers’ League. The book emphasizes the control of “forces” - such as the power of railroad monopolies - over individuals.

Long before Camber was revered as a saint, he was a Deryni noble, one of the most respected of the magical race whose arcane skills set them apart from ordinary humans in the medieval kingdom of Gwynedd. For nearly a century, Camber's family has had little choice but to loyally serve the ruling Festils, Deryni usurpers who employed dark magic to wrest the throne from the rightful Haldane liege.

"Орки Древней Руси" - фантастический роман Ивана Лагутина, первая книга одноименного цикла, жанр боевое фэнтези, альтернативная история.

Удача улыбнулась бывшему детдомовцу. Ему удалось достичь высот, которые остальным могут только сниться. Учившиеся вместе с ним аристократы остались далеко позади, и даже бешеные деньги их родителей не смогли помочь. Главная стерва курса сама раздвинула перед ним свои аппетитные ножки.

The year is 2040 and an envoy of the North American Union finds himself a fugitive in the Southeast Asian nation of Tinhau. Lucas Lehrer is tasked with travelling from the North American Union to the island-nation of Tinhau to extend the offer of political partnership. When negotiations break...

"Империя на краю" - фантастический роман Сергея Тамбовского, первая книга цикла "Империя у края", жанр альтернативная история, попаданцы. Попаданец из 2017 года в 1977 год, студент первого курса политехнического института сначала работает в колхозе на обязательных сельхозработах....

In 1914, they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades, a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America. Now, Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. But behind the façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to go off. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse.

The second Civil War, the Sequel, came and went in the United States leaving radiation, sickness, and fractures too deep to mend. One faction, the Homestead Territories, dealt with the devastation by recruiting immigrants from Africa and beginning a new slave trade while the other two factions stood by and watched. Ji-ji Lottermule was bred and raised in captivity on one of the plantations in the Homestead Territories of the Disunited States to serve and breed more “muleseeds." There is only one way out—the annual Freedom Race. First prize, freedom.

Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover---and emerges somewhere else.

Boarding a transport ship after the Battle of Gettysburg, Colonel Andrew Keane and his 35th Maine regiment are swept into an alternate world. The first human civilization they encounter on this planet resembles medieval Russia, with boyars and priests ruling over the peasants and townspeople. Soon Keane and his regiment learn this world's terrible secret: that cannibalistic hordes of large, fierce Tugars circle the planet and demand tribute - including humans to be devoured.

Attorney Cameron Thorne is thrust into a bloody tug-of-war involving secret societies, treasure hunters, and keepers of the secrets of the Jesus bloodline. Joined by Amanda, an enchanting British researcher with secrets of her own, Cam races around New England with only two choices - unravel the 600-year-old mysteries encoded in the ancient artifacts, or die trying.

"An diesem Tag schwor ich mir, nie wieder durch die Zeit zu reisen. Und das hielt ich auch. Beinahe vier Jahre lang." Jamie ist siebzehn Jahre alt, als er erkennt, dass er durch die Zeit reisen kann. Mit kleinen Sprüngen in sein jüngeres Ich lassen sich viele Probleme lösen. So verbessert er seine Noten, peppt sein Liebesleben auf und macht Missgeschicke ungeschehen. Doch jeder Sprung hat unvorhersehbare Konsequenzen, die sich nicht nur auf Jamies Gesundheit, sondern auch auf seine Mitmenschen auswirken.

A jaded thief and an idealistic archaeologist form an unlikely partnership to solve an ancient mystery. Opposed at every turn by unknown forces, their journey takes them across 1880s Egypt in search of a lost temple to the other side of the universe, where magic is all too real. Being a foreigner's bastard, Louisa learned early to take from the world before it took from her. Like a whisper in the sands of time, a stolen letter hints at the unimaginable.

The year is 1992. Over twenty years have passed since Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev was assassinated by a crazed gunman. Since that time, the Soviet Union has been put on a course toward economic success—and war. In the Balkans, Yugoslavia's collapse into ethnic violence draws NATO and the Warsaw Pact to the brink of Armageddon. Armies deploy and fleets maneuver. Political intrigue engulfs Moscow and Washington, and paranoia radiates from the Iron Curtain. In the zero-sum game of Cold War, neither side can afford to blink or back down.

When the Ring of Fire drags Grantville, West Virginia, back to seventeenth-century Germany, down-time veteran Edgar Neustatter finds himself among the survivors of a unit devastated by the up-time Americans and their Swedish allies. After wintering in Grantville, they return home to find that while they have changed, their village has not. Having glimpsed the promise of a republic ruled by its people rather than lords and tyrants, Neustatter leads his men and their families back to Grantville to establish a new agency: Neustatter's European Security Services.

Daughter of a Norse king, 15-year-old Åsa dreams of becoming a shield-maiden. When she spurns a powerful warlord, he rains hellfire on her family, slaughtering her father and brother and taking her captive. To protect her people, Åsa must wed her father's killer. To take vengeance, she must become his queen.

Et si le dénouement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale n'était pas celui que l'on connaissait ? 200 ans après la victoire d'Hitler, Germania n'est plus un mythe. La race aryenne tant espérée par le Führer domine le monde et toutes les autres ethnies ont été éradiquées de la planète. Krista, jeune Aryenne, travaille dans un Lebensborn. Elle a été élevée dans le moule de la race pure et ne connaît que ce mode de vie, jusqu'au jour où elle suit malgré elle une femme dans les égouts de la ville.

Емельян Пугачев заставил говорить о себе не только всю Россию, но и Европу и даже Северную Америку. Одни называли его самозванцем, авантюристом, иностранным шпионом, душегубом. Другие считали народным заступником и правдоискателем, признавали законным императором Петром III.