Showing titles in Alternate History

This inventive, page-turning crime thriller with "palpable emotional depth" (New York Times Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended. USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely‑concealed...

En esta obra de madurez, Jorge Portocarrero propone adentrarnos en una fantasía -y un debate- que puede tener visos de convertirse en realidad muy próximamente... Se ocupa del siempre oscilante vínculo entre el Imperio y los pueblos en su día sojuzgados. El eje de esta nueva obra narrativa lo constituye una serie de asesinatos que parecen seguir una cadencia predeterminada desde un punto de vista docente.

La clarividencia de Julio Verne ha inspirado a medio mundo y Heinrich Himmler no iba a ser menos. Obsesionado con la clave secreta que contiene uno de sus escritos lanzará todo su poder para conseguir descifrar los misterios ocultos en una novela de Verne: "Viaje al centro de la Tierra". Arqueólogos, soldados y aventureros se lanzan en una frenética búsqueda en el centro de la tierra para encontrar la solución definitiva a la guerra y al dominio de la raza humana.

"Щит рода" - фантастический роман Мелине Бояровой, первая книга цикла "Талисман для князя", жанр альтернативная история, приключенческое фэнтези, бояръ-аниме.

L'autrice del fortunato "Ragazza, donna, altro", racconta qui la schiavitù in un modo nuovo, diverso. Immagina un mondo in cui la tratta atlantica degli schiavi viene ribaltata lungo la linea del colore: sono i neri ad aver fondato un impero coloniale a partire dal Regno Unito di Grande Ambossa, e i bianchi a essere razziati dall'Europa e trasportati come schiavi al di là del mare, nelle Isole del Giappone Occidentale. Ripercorriamo la storia di Doris alternando la contemporaneità della protagonista e il suo personale viaggio verso la libertà.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2029, und die DDR feiert ihren 80 Jahrestag. Die Kosmonautin Mandy Neumann befindet sich seit mehreren Wochen an Bord der Raumstation "Völkerfreundschaft". Eigentlich wartet sie auf ihre Ablösung, doch als die ersten unerklärlichen Unfälle passieren, beschleicht sie der Verdacht, dass jemand ihre Mission sabotiert. Kurz darauf bricht der Kontakt zur Bodenstation ab, und sie muss um ihr Leben kämpfen. Der einzige Mensch, der ihr dabei helfen kann, ist Tobias Wagner, ein Leutnant der Volkspolizei in Dresden.

In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the course of history. The journal he discovers, by a young soldier, David Erskine, records an extraordinary story.

London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It’s not a seamless path. Not since the Virtuis Party came to power. The far-right faction is using criminals to create a protective barrier around England. The enchanted uniforms the prisoners wear may beget a demand for mages, but using luckless convicts as tools for warmongering reactionaries isn’t Paul’s dream for cloth magic.

Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at their family estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative.

Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another...

Después de sobrevivir a un atentado que estuvo a punto de acabar con sus planes megalómanos, Thomas Franklin ha llegado a la cúspide de su prestigio y reconocimiento mundial. Los gobiernos de todo el planeta y la Iglesia católica han terminado rindiéndose a su liderazgo político y moral. Ahora su poder va mucho más allá de la pequeña isla caribeña de Utopía, donde creó una sociedad ideal basada en los principios de la obra de Tomás Moro. En apenas dos años ha construido la Ciudad de la Luz, en el corazón de los Estados Unidos.

Living deep within the mysterious southern forests, the spiritual Ninkuraaja people are being hunted to the brink of extinction by bloodthirsty raiders known only as Woves. Nobody knows better than a Ninkuraa that a Wove deserves only death.

Я находился на полном орков драккаре. Почти три десятка клыкастых различной степени вонючести зеленокожих составляли команду ярла Рюрика. И угадайте, куда он несся быстрее ветра по холодным водам Балтики?

Born the bastard daughter of a painted lady, Marilia was told she would live out her days within the walls of her mother's brothel, a companion for the rich men of Tyrace. But after a terrible betrayal, 10-year-old Marilia's world turns upside down. With the help of her twin brother, Annuweth, she flees the only home she's ever known in search of the one man who can offer her a chance at a better life: one of her deceased father's friends, the Emperor of Navessea's greatest general.

Der Druck lastet schwer auf der Sondereinheit der Geistkrieger um den eingewanderten Schotten Finnley: Im Fall des "Gabensammlers" tappen sie im Dunkeln. Mit äußerster Brutalität reißt der Unbekannte denen, die gesegnet sind, ihre besondere Gabe aus dem Bewusstsein, um sie selbst zu nutzen und auf diese Weise immer mächtiger zu werden. Doch die Nation der Powtankaner wird noch von einem weiteren Übel bedroht: Immer mehr Menschen benehmen sich äußerst merkwürdig, das Ganze scheint sich wie eine Seuche auszubreiten. Ausgerechnet jetzt geraten die Geistkrieger in den Fokus widerstreitender politischer Interessen.

A sumptuous historical fantasy romance set in the court of the Sun King: now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV and Fan Bingbing as the Mermaid. Can she find the courage to defy a king? In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his...

Professor Johan Eschbach's lovely wife, Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous vocalist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household. 

Народная поговорка говорит, что от сумы и от тюрьмы не надо зарекаться. А наш герой зарёкся и совершенно напрасно, потому что следующий этап его приключений разворачивается в камере смертников федеральной тюрьмы Сан-Квентин.

Убит единственный сын Бартынова, могущественного аристократа. И главный подозреваемый я. Есть только три дня чтобы найти доказательства своей невиновности. В противном случае ничего хорошего ждать не приходится. Тот, кто был фаворитом смерти, может в миг стать её аутсайдером. Мертвым аутсайдером.

Roun was born clanless, depriving him of a future in an empire where bloodlines and reputation mean everything. His only hope for escaping the life of an outcast lies in being awakened by the Eldest Throne and becoming a guardian of humanity.