Best of
Alternate-History

2019

The Haunting of Tram Car 015


P. Djèlí Clark - 2019
    Senior Agent Hamed al-Nasr shows his new partner Agent Onsi the ropes of investigation when they are called to subdue a dangerous, possessed tram car. What starts off as a simple matter of exorcism, however, becomes more complicated as the origins of the demon inside are revealed.

H-Hour


Bart Gauvin - 2019
    Soviet hardliner Pavel Medvedev knows that only bloodshed can save the USSR from complete collapse. With violence breaking out in the streets of Moscow, few realize that he is piloting the Soviet Union on a collision course with its deadliest enemy yet: NATO. US Marine Colonel Robert Buckner, passed over for a coveted command, takes a post working for Vice Admiral Falkner on his way to retirement. As the world lurching towards World War III, he finds his way towards a panoramic view of the unfolding crisis with a pivotal role to play. War breaks out across the globe, but the pin falls in the far north, where soldiers and civilians alike must battle not just the enemy, but the unforgiving elements. With arsenals of high-tech weapons loosed in both directions, the ultimate reward may not be victory, but survival. H-Hour is the first book of the Northern Fury series, which tells the alternate history of World War Ill's northern front through the eyes of those who lived it.

Virginian (Matt Miller in the Colonies, #3)


Mark J. Rose - 2019
    He’s become a wealthy businessman and politician, with a beautiful wife and family, but the American Revolution looms on the horizon. When a prominent British leader mysteriously disappears, Ben Franklin summons Matt to London to help investigate the involvement of Patrick Ferguson, a man whose ambitions are to change the future. Unknown to them all, another time traveler, with separate motivations, will join them in a struggle across two continents to change the destiny of Western Civilization.

Cloak of Dragons


Jonathan Moeller - 2019
     Except my boss is the High Queen of the Elves. And my errands for her involve spying on people. Or stealing things. Or hunting down monsters. Or, on occasion, killing people. But this time she wants me to solve a murder. And unless I find the killer, I’m going to be his next target…because dragons never forgive a murder.

Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice (Ring of Fire #7)


Mark H. Huston - 2019
    The beautiful and strong willed up-timer, as the people from the future are called, is mysteriously hired by a branch of the wealthiest family in the world. Mary finds herself far from her family, living in a beautiful castle in the Inn Valley of Tyrol. There she meets Counts, Countesses, the handsome and distant Count Johann Franz, and works hard as a teacher and consultant among the one-percenters of the day. But all is not what it seems in this gilded world, where religion, undercurrents of witchcraft, and vast sums of money create high-stakes contests, and where treachery and death await the unwary or the unprepared. Can a resolute and intelligent girl find love, happiness, and purpose in this world where she is the ultimate outsider, out of her time, alone, and in dangers she cannot comprehend? Using archetypes, occasional dialog, and story beats from Jane Austen, Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice tells the story of Mary Russo, Count Johann Franz Fugger, and Mary's journey of maturation, knowledge, and love in this 1632 adventure.

Strike Force Red: The Korth Chronicles Book 1


C.T. Glatte - 2019
    A catastrophic event has crippled the alien's technology and they must interact with the species they were sent to observe. Europe goes dark. A decade of silence. Western countries fear war is on the horizon. Mandatory service and war readiness are the reality. When war finally comes, It’s on US soil. Jimmy Crandall and his fellow infantrymen are thrust into combat against the Korth supported Red Army. It’s a brutal and bloody clash of superpowers. MaryAnn Larkin joined the Army Air Corps, her superior reflexes are a perfect fit for the nation’s top fighter…the P51 Mustang, but she'll be battling alien enhanced Russian fighters and will need all her skill to survive. Navies, Armies and Air Forces clash and North America becomes a battleground. With the humans effectively at each other’s throats, the Korth continue their secret mission, which, if successful will mean the end of Earth as we know it. Get book one: Strike Force Red and prepare to stay up late.

Strike Force Black: The Korth Chronicles Book 2


C.T. Glatte - 2019
     The Korth and their human vassals have unleashed a new front in their war against the West. Taken by surprise and reeling, the US armed forces are put to the ultimate test. The Alaskan front seems far away, but the war on the shores of the eastern seaboard threatens millions of lives. Jimmy Crandall, an infantry grunt, finds himself in the middle of the hellish landscape. With nothing to lose, he’ll fight for revenge against the forces who took everything. His father, Rex Crandall, fights a much different war for a mysterious, ultra-secret organization known as The Branch. He may be humanities only hope for survival, but at what cost? MaryAnn Larkin, the ace P-51 fighter pilot, will face a long harsh winter in Alaska battling the Russian Air Force. Will she survive the bizarre twist that will change her life forever? The Korth are close to extracting what they need from the earth’s core. They are weary of the planet and the lowly human inhabitants. Fighting and killing western soldiers and citizens will be a welcome change from garrison duty. Pick up the second book in the Korth Chronicles today and be prepared to stay up late!

The Siege of Tel Aviv


Hesh Kestin - 2019
    This book was previously withdrawn from its original publisher and is now being released in an author's edition. Same book, new publisher. Stephen King calls Hesh Kestin’s The Siege of Tel Aviv “scarier than anything Stephen King ever wrote.” Iran leads five armies in a brutal victory over Israel, which ceases to exist. Within hours, its leaders are rounded up and murdered, the IDF is routed, and the country's six million Jews concentrated in Tel Aviv, which becomes a starving ghetto. While the US and the West sit by, Israel's enemies prepare to kill off the entire population. On the eve of genocide, Tel Aviv makes one last attempt to save itself, as an Israeli businessman, a gangster, and a cross-dressing fighter pilot put together a daring plan to counterattack. Will it succeed? The Siege of Tel Aviv is as as bizarrely funny as it is fast-paced. In the words of Stephen King: “An irrepressible sense of humor runs through it. It’s not satire I’m talking about―it’s stuff like the cross-dressing pilot (my favorite character) and any number of deliciously absurd situations (the pink jets). It’s the inevitable result of an eye that sees the funny side, even in horror. So few writers have that. This novel will cause talk and controversy. Most of all, it will be read.”

The Legend of Jimmy Dick (Ring of Fire Book 7)


Terry Howard - 2019
    Now stranded in the brutal world of the seventeenth century, the lives of Grantville’s residents rocketed off on strange trajectories. Some became wealthy, selling their skills and priceless objects from the future. Others became powerful and influential figures in Europe’s tangled and treacherous politics. Still others became renowned for their knowledge and learning. And some, of course, stayed poor and didn’t play much of a role in anything.Then… there was Jimmy Dick. Born James Richard Shaver, Jimmy Dick was a well-known figure in Grantville. Depending on whose opinion you asked, he was a shrewd fellow—even a wise one—who was a thorn in the side of people who were self-important and pompous. Or he was just a jerk; a jackass; an embarrassment to the town.His nickname started out as “Jimmy the Dick” or “Dick Head.” Right after the Ring of Fire, the Germans of the seventeenth century started calling him Herr Head. This is his story.

1888: The Ripper Revelation (Infinity Engines: Missions Book 2)


Andrew Hastie - 2019
    In the dark alleys of Whitechapel, a serial killer begins a killing spree, preying on prostitutes and leaving them horrifically mutilated. Detective Inspector Sabien is assigned to the case. A seasoned officer of the Protectorate, the temporal police force of the Oblivion Order, Sabien is tasked with tracking the down murderer.Seconded to the nineteenth-century, the Inspector has a rare talent, the ability to travel through the timelines of the victims, giving him a 100% track record and earning him the nickname of 'Sherlock'. But this investigation is different, the Ripper seems to be able to hide from him, and as the body count begins to stack up, Sabien finds himself struggling to discover the killer's identity.Infinity Engines: Missions takes you on a journey into an alternate history, one that might have been if it wasn’t for the work of the Oblivion Order and their mission to save the future, by changing the past.

Panzers: Push for Victory: Global Conflict


Tom Zola - 2019
    While the Allies are preparing to land in Sicily, where a wounded Franz Berning recovers in a hospital, Field Marshal von Manstein, commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front, takes a daring decision: to counter-attack with two Panzer units in the middle of the Soviet operation to reconquer the industrial metropolis of Tula, considered the last bastion on the way back to Moscow. Lieutenant Josef Engelmann's regiment joins the Tula operation and shortly afterwards faces fierce tank battles. Meanwhile in the Pacific, the world war rages with extreme severity when US Marine Raiders invade New Georgia in the Solomon Islands archipelago. Private First Class Tom Roebuck is thrown into the brutal battles fought between American and Japanese troops. When he takes a Japanese entrenchment, Roebuck finds a most alarming photograph ...Global Conflict is the second entry in the German military fiction series Panzers: Push for VictoryBook 1: Panzers: Push for Victory - Battle of KurskBook 2: Panzers: Push for Victory - Global ConflictBook 3: Panzers: Push for Victory - D-Day - They are coming!

Deaths on the Nile (Reich Without Hitler Book 2)


Scott Palter - 2019
     A junta of Generals and senior officials runs the new Reich. A massive propaganda campaign has made a Reich hero out of Major Klaus Steiner. He and his girl friend Lieutenant Greta Schwabe are the Romeo and Juliet of Germany, having spearheaded the conquest of Malta in a daring glider assault. Now the war has moved to the deserts of North Africa. The Falcons of Malta have relocated as well, swapping their gliders for Kubelwagen and motorcycles. Klaus and Greta are off to the land of the Pyramids to subdue King Tut. Grab your MG-34’s, slap on your Afrika Korps insignia and motor off for new adventures in a very different Second World War that will also give you Patton and Ike in China.

Professor of Magic (Wine of the Gods Book 47)


Pam Uphoff - 2019
    With any luck she won’t have to kill any of the ultra-competitive, status-conscious, established faculty protecting their turf from the newcomer. But it’s going to be close . . . fortunately she has two secret weapons. Xen, the Master of the Multiverse, and Exzy, the cutest baby in the Multiverse. The halls of academia tremble in fear. But there’s something not right . . . And why does everyone assume she's really here to investigate her predecessor's murder? He wasn't murdered . . . was he?

Children of a Foreign God (Wine of the Gods Book 39)


Pam Uphoff - 2019
     Sixteen years ago Xen Wolfson stopped an interdimensional invasion of his world by shaming the main warmongers. Seducing their wives, and getting them pregnant . . . It worked . . . but now twenty-seven teenagers need some training in a foreign style of magic, and they’re going to have to meet their father whether they want to, or not. And on a world dedicated to cross-dimensional diplomacy, an unknown father may be the least of their troubles.

Alt-Hero: Q #1: Where We Go One


Chuck Dixon - 2019
    Cabinet member, he has no reason to believe his assignment is connected in any way to a recent Treasury bust of a team of amateur counterfeiters. But when the Secretary of State's mission goes explosively awry, and the news reports of the situation are completely different than what actually happened, Dane is forced to confront the reality that things are simply not as they seem. Alt★Hero: Q is an incendiary comic series that explores the mysterious phenomenon of QAnon. Set in the Alt★Hero universe, the story is written by the Legend Chuck Dixon, the most prolific author in the history of comic books.

Destination Dark Zone


Susan May - 2019
    Plenty of thrills and spills await those who dare to travel into the Dark Zone.Follow an odd, quirky fellow in Lucky This Time, a man who is slave to his routine until one day he tries something new, spinning his world right out of control. Journey on the luxurious New Dawn cruise liner in the poignant Beyont, where an uninvited guest means no one is disembarking anytime soon. Or ride along in 291 in a rookie cop’s haunted cruiser that’s driving him half-crazy. Take a trip into the alternate world of Salvation, where Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species has never been published, so now the Church rules the world, and God is not all-forgiving. In Soul Survivor, walk in the shoes of a parent the day after fire destroys his children’s school, as he follows a man who cannot be there and learns a secret that cannot be true. And in the prequel to Susan May’s most beloved book The Troubles Keeper, meet a seven-year-old Rory Fine and his mama as they board an evening commuter train that will never reach its final destination. Drift is a 150-plus-page wild ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat.From Susan May, the international bestselling author who has spent the last decade keeping readers up way past their bedtime and too scared to look under the bed, comes a volume of six suspenseful tales that will take you to dark and fascinating places you’ll not soon forget.

Rudolf will Reign, Dear - Part 1: The Victorian Era(Revised) (Part 1 of 2)


John Hardinge - 2019
    Part 1 of a 2 Part ISOT series covering the Victorian Era.

Three Sisters: A Tale of Survival


Nikki Lewen - 2019
    But, in the wake of destruction, she’s left alone, isolated on an island, in the remnants of Northern California.After a decade of solitude, everything changes when she stumbles upon a man from her past. He’s been severely beaten, lies unconscious, and is near death. Sadie is instinctively drawn to help and finds herself in a position to save much more than just him.

A Red Son Rises in the West


John Deakins - 2019
    His newfound Christianity is shaken by the loss of his master and a life-threatening injury. Following after his Mennonite friends, he goes to the time-displaced American town of Grantville and is overwhelmed by culture shock. He decides to return to the New World as a missionary. Only half a dozen warring powers and thousands of miles of ocean can block him, until he’s almost stopped by an unexpected event; love. A storm, a baby, a near-shipwreck, and a timely rescue finally see him back in his homeland. Now, all he has to do is to reach for his dreams.

Nexus


Alison Morton - 2019
    Ex-Praetorian Aurelia Mitela is serving as Roma Nova’s interim ambassador in London. Asked by a British colleague to find his missing son, Aurelia thinks it will only be a case of a young man temporarily rebelling. He’s bound to turn up only a little worse for wear.But a spate of high-level killings pulls Aurelia away into a dangerous pan-European investigation. Badly beaten in Rome as a warning, she discovers the killers have kidnapped her life companion, Miklós, and sent an ultimatum: Back off or he’ll die.But Aurelia is a Roma Novan and they never give up…Set between AURELIA and INSURRECTIO in the Aurelia Mitela Roma Nova adventures

Maid for the Musketeer


Anna Klein - 2019
    His dreams are shattered when his family are arrested for being part of a plot to usurp the king. Gregoire loses everything that matters. His family. A career. Charlotte.Charlotte liked to run fast, climb trees and get into things she shouldn’t, but the downfall of Gregoire’s family forces Charlotte into a marriage without love, destined for a life of needlework, boredom, and loneliness.But fate is not done with them. When they are unexpectedly reunited, it is at the hand of Cardinal Richelieu, France’s spymaster.Gregoire, a petty thief, wants nothing more than to escape France and the mantle of alleged treachery his family bears, while Charlotte longs for independence.The ruthless cardinal has offered them all this, if they just do one small job for him…

Here Abide Monsters


Madeleine Holly-Rosing - 2019
    When Duncan MacGuire sets out to help a slave escape the Great Houses of the South, little does he know they'd send a demon to capture them.Set in the Boston Metaphysical Society alternate history universe, this short story is a prequel to the award winning novel, Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets and the popular graphic novel, Boston Metaphysical Society.This short story was first published in the anthology, Some Time Later, from Thinking Ink Press.

Hidden From Our Eyes: An Alternate History


James A. Fisher - 2019
    This alternative history work of speculative fiction thrusts you into a fascinating ‘What If’ world from the viewpoint of an eighteen-year-old American.In 1976, Tom Hathaway left his house in Virginia Beach to fly a plane but was hurled into a mysterious foreign land before he even left his driveway. Suddenly a “man from nowhere,” Tom wonders how he got there and why. He doesn’t even know where he is, nor if he’ll even survive.An inspiring tale of human survival and adventure, The Eyes of Courage immerses you into a country that could have been. It will keep you thinking and reading until its climactic ending. .

The Hunt For Seawolf 4: A War Against The Black Sun novel


Dietmar Arthur Wehr - 2019
     In the dying days of the war in Europe, Nazi scientists manage to put an atomic bomb into orbit. Only a miracle prevented them from bringing it back down on New York. Thirteen years later, with the bomb still in orbit, the Black Sun, a secret neo-Nazi organization with considerable financial and technological resources at their command, builds the Seawolf 4, a super-sub capable of traveling under the Arctic icecap, where it will transmit the order for the satellite bomb to descend on the USSR while at the same time launching a A-bomb armed cruise missile at an American city in the hopes of starting World War III. The only hope of stopping them are the new US nuclear subs, Nautilus and Skate. Can one of them find the Seawolf 4 in time? Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler fans will enjoy this tension-filled thriller that combines real world events in the 40’s and 50’s with a dash of science fiction. This novel is fiction but you’ll be astonished by how much of it is true when you read the Author’s comments at the end. Categories: Technothriller, military thriller, military science fiction, alternative history, action and adventure, war

Alternative Apocalypse (Alternatives Book 5)


Bob BrownTomas Furby - 2019
    It will be borne by people and their families and their dogs and most of all, it will challange their notions of themselves. The best selling “Alternative” series continues with the unique look at the Apocalypse, brought to you in the sometimes serious, sometimes funny, but always quality you’ve come to expect from B Cubed Press. This book contains stories from writers in seven countries. They range from the wildly popular blogger Jim Wright. In this book Jim publishes his first short fiction, The Deserter. A war that brings the hosts of heaven to earth as you’ve never imagined them before. But wait, there is more. Mike Resnick, one of the most widely read science fiction masters of the 20th and 21st century brings his vision of the final play in an alien invasion, as he brings you to know the The Dog. From Greece, we have Christine Lucas, a retired Airforce Officer, from Nigeria, Ugonna-Ora Owoh, recipient of a 2018 Young Romantics/Keats Shelley prize, a 2019 Erbacce Prize and winner of the 2019 Stephen A Dibiase International poetry prize. The writers have multiple and varied backgrounds, Henry Gasko, author of Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword, was born in a displaced persons camp in Yugoslavia after World War Two, raised on a vegetable farm in Canada, and is now living in Australia (international law prohibits publishing an Apocalypse Anthology without at least one Australian). The list also includes writers from New Zealand, the UK, Canada, USA, Texas to name a few. A book worth buying.

The Consequences of an Errant Shell - Part 1: Russo- Japanese War and World War 1 (Part 1 of 2)


John Hardinge - 2019
    What would be the consequences of one errant shell slipping like a dagger into an opposing battleship in the Battle of the Yellow Sea? How would Mother Russia be changed in the course of four wars and into the modern day? Can Tsarism survive into the 21st Century?

In My Time of Dying


David J. West - 2019
    A saint of killers riding shotgun. And an immortal who wants to die… all aboard a runaway train.…Elizabeth Dee never expected a knock at the door would have her taking sides in a power struggle between two feuding wizards, but she discovers that she is the magical key to a cursed mystery centuries old. As she evades the murderous knights and demonic minions of the sinister Count of St. Germain, she learns more of her own true power and legacy…Her father never prepared her for anything like this…But it’s dangerous to go it alone and she is going to need some protection, enter the infamous and touched, Porter Rockwell. If the legendary long-haired gunfighter can’t keep her safe, no one can…In My Time Of Dying is full steam ahead gas-lamp fantasy in the vein of True Grit meets The Prestige. If you like big action, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you’ll love David J. West’s gripping novel.

Doorways to the Deadeye


Eric J. Guignard - 2019
    Along the way he learns the iconography of transients—the Hobo Code—better than anyone else and deciphers a secret that thrusts him into Athanasia, the middle ground of memories.He learns that Athanasia exists around us, a realm in which the deceased persevere by how they are remembered, and the memories Luke meets will do anything to not ever be forgotten, whether by trickery, violence, or daring.Luke learns, too, that what’s remembered yesterday is not always the same as what will be remembered tomorrow, and he sets off to keep alive the memories of those he loves in the way a ’bo does best: telling tales of old legends, and making up new ones alike.Fifty years later, the tall crossbucks of Luke Thacker are repeated by homeless King Shaw, who’s struggling to keep Luke’s own legend alive and with it, perhaps, his own.’Cause it don’t matter if you rob banks with a dead John Dillinger, are hunted over the years by vengeful Earp brothers, or go against the monstrous railroad guard, Smith McCain: When a story is told, all who are part of it become a little stronger.### Blurbs: ###"Rich, strange, and wonderful, as if Stephen King and Ray Bradbury were sitting together weaving a tale over a camp fire. So good I didn’t want it to end." —Michael Marshall Smith, NY Times-bestselling author (SPARES; THE ANOMALY; THE STRAW MEN trilogy)"…This is a ride worth hopping, and it will take you somewhere you really haven’t been." —Glen Hirshberg, Shirley Jackson and International Horror Guild Award-winning author, Motherless Children Trilogy"…A long, hard look into the heart of the myth of America. With this, his first novel, Eric J. Guignard has crafted an extraordinary tale that will haunt readers long after they finish it." —Six-time Brad Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Morton

Drake's Drum: The Reckoning


Nicholas Sumner - 2019
    Britain was drawn inexorably into the maw of the conflict, but her leaders knew that another war, where the country would once more have no choice but to use up its accumulated capital, would inevitably see it become the dependent of another power. But the fight did not progress as expected and nor did the fortunes of any of the belligerents. Drake’s Drum: The Reckoning is the second part of a three book series that recounts an immersive, thoroughly researched alternate timeline where politics, conflict and the history of the 20th Century turn out very differently from what we know.

An Extremely Reluctant Führer - an ISOT: Bonus short story "The Coleman's Choke"


John Hardinge - 2019
    Does he indeed do better, if not for Nazi Germany, at least for the world as a whole? Also with a bonus short story about what has always annoyed almost everyone about those seemingly endless fictional Nazi wanks.

SHARK AMONG THE MINNOWS: BOOK ONE OF THE HUNTER/KILLER SERIES (HUNTER/KILLER SERIES OF THE FIGHTING TOMCATS 1)


M.L. Maki - 2019
    He, and the 128 men on board, depart their home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on a six-month deployment as part of the USS Carl Vinson battlegroup. The San Francisco, SSN-711, is the state-of-the-art in submarine technology of the U.S. Navy. The Akula class submarine Kasholot, K-322, is the state-of-the-art submarine of the Russian Navy. These two ships, commanded by very different men, are destined to hunt each other in the Cold War game until a science experiment gone wrong takes them back in time to December 19, 1941, and the beginning of World War II.

Spacecraft of the First World War: A Compendium of Fighting Vessels of the Great Powers


William Flogg - 2019
     Here at last is the comprehensive, full-color guide to the major spacecraft of the First World War. From humanity's first flight into space in 1908 to the Icarus Event of 1929, the beginnings of our journey into space and the conflicts that were fought there have their story told. As an identification manual, it covers the fifty major spacecraft classes that saw action in the conflict. America, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Russia are all included. Also covered are the strange vessels of the Neomartian Secession. Details are given of development and combat histories, as well as background information about the war they fought in, and the world they fought for. The mysteries and paradoxes of this first space war are also touched on. So great was the rate of technological change and progress during this period that the vessels herein can be used as touchstones for the development of space travel itself. From iron, to steel, and then to woven silicates the possibilities unveiled during the war set humanity on a cascade of technical development and discovery. Here then, are the illustrated stories of the vessels of Earth's empires, recalling times long vanished, but the origin of the arrow that points to the stars.

Kriegsmarine Victorious: Book One


Kim Kerr - 2019
    Yet it probably caused Winston Churchill more concern than any other aspect of the Nazi war machine. The question is could it have been more of a threat than it was. Herman Goering once said, ‘if it flies, it’s mine.’ Had the Reichsmarschall died, the Kriegsmarine may have developed an air arm of its own, dedicated to working with the U-boats in order to ensure the destruction of the Royal Navy. With the right aircraft and competent leadership, this may have pushed England to the brink of defeat. This is the story of those who fought with a Kriegsmarine equipped with its own aircraft and highly trained crews in a very different war. Follow the story from the cockpit of a Ju 88 or from behind the periscope of a U-boat as the Germany navy tries to defeat the British, in the northern Atlantic and on the blue Mediterranean. This time, perhaps, the Kriegsmarine will be victorious.

Dislocation Space


Garth Nix - 2019
    It could be a trap…or a way out.

Spear Havoc: 1066 - Alternative Histories


C.R. May - 2019
    The year 1066 is arguably the most famous in English history. Assailed on all sides, King Harold and his doughty army finally fall to a last gasp Norman assault. It is perhaps the very first of those fights against the odds which have entered the national psyche, of which Agincourt, Rorke’s Drift and Dunkirk are but a few. But what if Harold Godwinson had prevailed on that blood soaked ridge? Or the invasions of Harald of Norway and William of Normandy had never taken place at all? Here, bestselling author C.R.May presents twelve short stories, each outlining widely differing ways which could easily — and in some cases should have — produced an entirely different timeline, alternative futures which would have had a dramatic effect on the world in which we live today. ALSO BY THE AUTHOR SWORD OF WODEN Entertaining and building into a really good trilogy. If you like Bernard Cornwell or Simon Scarrow you will love this. THE REVIEW KING'S BANE A fast paced, well written story full of blood and death. DAVID’S BOOK BLURG. CONQUEROR OF ROME I enjoyed this far more than most of the commercially published fiction I have read and reviewed in the past two years. HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY REVIEWS ERIK HARALDSSON Splendidly impressive, confident, and rich in incident and historical detail. SPEESH READS

Arctic State (A Constable Maratse novella)


Christoffer Petersen - 2019
    When a Greenlandic woman is arrested for failing to comply with the new rules and regulations, Constable David Maratse takes her into custody, before more stringent measures are applied.  Arctic State is a speculative stand alone novella set in Greenland in the near future. Pick up Arctic State today to discover a frightening version of Greenland's future.

Bonnie and Clyde: Radioactive (Book 3)


Clark Hays - 2019
    It’s January 1945, six years since the start of World War Two. As the bloody conflict drags on, America has undertaken a massive top-secret effort to unleash the power of the atom and develop the first nuclear bomb. A network of Nazi and Soviet spies is determined to steal the technology, or failing that, sabotage the project. But first they have to get past Bonnie and Clyde. A decade has passed since the infamous outlaw lovers were spared their gruesome deaths and forced into a covert life. Now seasoned spies, they’re embedded in the Manhattan Project, as bar owners and petty crooks, trying to sort out who would sell out the USA to its enemies. In a heart-pounding adventure spanning the windswept landscapes of eastern Washington to an isolated internment camp in the California mountains, Bonnie and Clyde face deception at every turn along with a personal tragedy, pushing them close to the edge. Can the former outlaws put aside their desire for revenge long enough to help end the war?The thrilling story cuts back and forth between the modern era where a washed-up investigative reporter teams up with the now-elderly Bonnie Parker to hunt down the truth, risking their own lives, and the dangerous 1940s undercover exploits of the young Bonnie and Clyde, as they are thrust into a battle that will define the future global power structure. Advance praise for RadioactiveBonnie and Clyde: Radioactive continues the explosive “what-if” story about two unlikely heroes fighting to preserve the founding principles of American democracy—a historical thriller that reimagines the past to reclaim the present. Another winner in this highly entertaining series, capped off with satisfying revelations. Hays and McFall keep up the momentum in this third series outing, which features plenty of action and danger. There are also intermittent steamy interludes between Bonnie and Clyde, who come off as a wisecracking, low-rent version of Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man. Tricky puzzles, chases, spycraft, and red herrings keep the plot bubbling along. But underlying all the shenanigans is a serious consideration of the nature of patriotism in an America that's increasingly becoming dominated by the military-industrial complex. Overall, the book makes a rousing stand in favor of have-nots, working people, and dreamers; at one point, Bonnie unusually stands up for gay rights in 1945 ("Love is love no matter what"). Kirkus ReviewsRefreshingly original, a literary breath of fresh air. Unexpected delights in a story that excels in nonstop surprises. And as with the other books, the humor is one of this story's driving forces. With its thriller component tempered by mystery, historical fact, political interactions, and gunslinger intrigue, Bonnie & Clyde: Radioactive is a powerful series addition. It deftly evolves from a story of thieves and murders to an inspection of war, social issues, and second chances not just for the characters, but for America itself. Midwest Book Review

Boom Time: A Legacy Chronicles Standalone


Michelle E. Lowe - 2019
    Pierce Landcross has been brought to the fast-paced future of New York City, 1926. His abductor, the Trickster, claims he's hiding Pierce for his own protection, but cutthroats and femme fatales lurk around every corner. Lost in a strange land, Pierce vows to keep his nose clean, but that doesn't last long when he falls into the bootlegging racket. Pierce has to quickly adapt to a world full of diesel-fueled machines, airships, moving picture shows, and clashes with rival gangs. At the same time, he has to elude a hunter from his own time sent to kill him!

Roma Nova Box Set 1: INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO


Alison Morton - 2019
    She hefts a gladius or assault rifle as required. But can she defeat treachery, conspiracy and a dark nemesis and still keep an enduring love burning? "My ancestors fought to hold this land sixteen hundred years ago. I'm not letting some throwback destroy it." Nearly a thousand pages of action adventure and alternative history thrills in three books with over 150 five star reviews on Amazon between them. Transformation, deception, rebels, vengeance takers, comradeship and an epic love story bind these three adventures in a new Rome founded sixteen hundred years ago by dissidents from the Roman Empire, and ruled by women. INCEPTIO – the beginning “Grips like a vice – a writer to watch out for.” 
– Adrian Magson Terrified after a kidnap attempt, New Yorker Karen Brown, has a harsh choice - being eliminated by EUS government enforcer Renschman or fleeing to mysterious Roma Nova, her dead mother's homeland in Europe. In Roma Nova Karen finds safety – at a price – but the enforcer pursues her and sets a trap knowing she has no choice but to spring it... B.R.A.G. Medallion, finalist, 2013 International Rubery Book Award PERFIDITAS – betrayal “Alison Morton has built a fascinating, exotic world! Carina’s
a bright, sassy detective with a winning dry sense of humour.” 
– Simon Scarrow Captain Carina Mitela of the Praetorian Guard Special Forces is in trouble – one colleague attacks her with a knife and another sets a trap to incriminate her in a conspiracy to topple the government of Roma Nova. Once proscribed and operating illegally, she risks being terminated by both security services and conspirators. Seeking help from a not quite legal old friend could wreck her marriage to the enigmatic Conrad. As she struggles to save her beloved Roma Nova and her own life, she faces the ultimate betrayal… B.R.A.G. Medallion, finalist, 2014 Writing Magazine Self-Published Book of the Year SUCCESSIO – the next generation “I thoroughly enjoyed this classy thriller, the third in Morton’s epic series set in Roma Nova.” 
– Caroline Sanderson in The Bookseller Roma Nova seems at peace. But senior Praetorian Guard Special Forces officer Carina Mitela is soon plunged into a nightmare of drugs, blackmail and breakdown. Faced with a gifted and vicious enemy, Carina may have met an adversary she cannot overcome. In this part historical thriller, part alternate history, but always Roman thriller, Carina has moments in which to make the hardest decision of her life… B.R.A.G. Medallion, Historical Novel Society’s indie Editor’s Choice Autumn 2014, Editor’s choice, The Bookseller’s inaugural Indie Preview, December 2014, longlisted for the 2015 HNS Indie prize

Eclipse


George Phillies - 2019
     She's twelve. She’s hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. She’s also a persona: She flies, reads minds, and is not afraid of necessary violence. She had a bit of a problem with her mom. Her mom threw her out of the house. Then Mom blew up the house and disappeared. Now she’s procured the Holy Namestone, the Key to Paradise. And everyone in the world will be happy to kill her to get their hands on it. Meet Trisha. She’s not quite a year older than Eclipse. She’s friendly, considerate, really good in school, athletic, does more than her share around the house. She’s also a persona. She has superspeed…an hour of housework in a minute. She flies, including from here to the next galaxy in an hour. She also has a bit of a problem with her parents. They always treat her with complete contempt, totally grounded her, and won’t say why. Her brother and sister are personas, too. Year-younger sister Janie is a budding world chess and go champion. She also reads minds, sees distant events, and can kill with a glance. Her twin brother Brian is incredibly good with tools, builds fantastic models from scratch, has a nearly unbreakable force field, and summons plasma beams that cut battleships in half. Eclipse is Volume 1 of the This Shining Sea series. Volume 2, Airy Castles All Ablaze, will be a major rewrite of my much older novel This Shining Sea. There will be a Volume 3, Of Breaking Waves, because Eclipse still needs to save Spindrift from having died.

The Trouble with Huguenots (Ring of Fire Book 6)


Virginia DeMarce - 2019
    The possibility—even the likelihood—of revolution hovers in the background. The new king Gaston, whom many consider an usurper, is no friend of France’s Protestants, known as the Huguenots. The fears and hostility of the Huguenots toward the French crown have only been heightened by the knowledge brought back in time by the Americans of the town of Grantville. Half a century in the future, the French king of the time would revoke the Edict of Nantes of 1598, which proclaimed that the rights of Huguenots would be respected. At the center of all this turmoil is the universally recognized leader of the Huguenots: Duke Henri de Rohan. He knows from the same up-time history books that he is “scheduled” to die less than two years in the future and he has pressing problem on his hands. His estranged wife and brother are siding with the usurper Gaston and plotting against him. Still worse, his sole child and heir is his nineteen-year-old daughter Marguerite. He believes he has less than two years to find a suitable husband for her—but acceptable Calvinist noblemen, French or foreign, are sparse at the moment. What’s a father to do?

The Fourth Musketeer, Part 2 (A Blackfire Story)


Kyle Robert Shultz - 2019
    Julio Aquino's past is catching up with him. A traitor waits in the wings to profit from the inevitable clash between the dragon and his oldest enemy. Can the Three Musketeers save Julio from the trap that has been laid for him? Or will the power of the whisperjade destroy him forever?

God's Mountain


John Scott - 2019
    During my long experience, I was telepathically taken millions of years into humanity's past. I was told that ETs (extra terrestrials) were involved in our genetics and origins. I also saw why the Great Pyramid was built and for what purpose, including the origins of religion as far back as Atlantis and the first seeding of humanity on the planet.

The Gordian Protocol


David Weber - 2019
    In fact, he was a history teacher — Chairman of the Castle Rock University history department — and if his life wasn't perfect, it was close. Until, that is the discussion of his star student Elzbietá Abramowski's dissertation on Operation Yellow Brick, the Pacific Allies' invasion of Vladivostok, staged through occupied Japan to meet their Imperial German allies, was brutally interrupted.  The psychotic episode that turned his entire world upside down struck with absolutely no warning, and it was more terrifying than anything he should have been able to imagine, leaving him with a complete, incredibly detailed set of false, nightmare "memories." Not just of his own life, but of an entire, ghastly world in which Operation Yellow Brick had never happened. In which millions of helpless civilians had been systematically slaughtered in "extermination camps" that were horrific beyond belief. In which there was still a Soviet Union. In which the Chinese Communists had succeeded, the Korean Peninsula had been permanently divided, thousands of nuclear warheads had spread their deadly threat across the entire Earth, and the Middle East was a festering sore of bloodshed, fanaticism, and terrorism. The knowledge that those false memories had come from somewhere inside his own psyche was terrible, but with the help of Commander Abramowski, a highly decorated Navy fighter pilot who’d been forced to deal with her own PTSD after crippling combat wounds invalided her out of service, he’s put his life back together. With Elzbietá's support, he's learned to deal with the nightmares, to recognize that they are onlynightmares that can't — and won't — be permitted to rule his life. Until, that is, a lunatic named Raibert Kaminski knocks on his door one afternoon with an impossible and horrifying story about alternate realities, time travel, temporal knots, and more than a dozen doomed universes which must inevitably die if the temporal storm front rushing towards the distant future isn't stopped. He has to be lying, of course. Or completely insane. But what if he's not a madman after all? What if he's actually telling the truth? That possibility is the most terrifying thing of all. Because if he is, the false memories aren't false after all, and that other world is just as real as the one Schröder has always known. And if that's true, Benjamin Schröder is about to become the greatest mass murderer in human history, because he has to choose. Whether he acts or refuses to act, Benjamin Schröder is the one man who will decide which universe lives and which dies, along with every star system, every galaxy — and every single human being — in it. Including the woman he's discovered he loves more than life itself.About David Weber: “…a balanced mix of interstellar intrigue, counterespionage, and epic fleet action…with all the hard- and software details and tactical proficiency that Weber delivers like no one else; along with a large cast of well-developed, believable characters, giving each clash of fleets emotional weight.”—Booklist “. . . moves. . . as inexorably as the Star Kingdom’s Grand Fleet, commanded by series protagonist Honor Harrington. . . . Weber is the Tom Clancy of science fiction. . . . His fans will relish this latest installment. . . .”—Publishers Weekly “This entry is just as exciting as Weber’s initial offering. . . .The result is a fast-paced and action-packed story that follows [our characters] as they move from reaction to command of the situation. Weber builds Shadow of Freedom to an exciting and unexpected climax.”—Daily News of Galveston “Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel…Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice to see Honor back in action.”–Publishers Weekly “This latest Honor Harrington novel brings the saga to another crucial turning point…Readers may feel confident that they will be Honored many more times and enjoy it every time.”–Booklist  “. . .everything you could want in a heroine …. Excellent … plenty of action.”–Science Fiction Age “Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!”–Anne McCaffrey “Compelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.”–Locus “Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . .”–Publishers WeeklyAbout Jacob Holo: "An entertaining sci-fi action novel with light overtones of dystopian and political thrillers."—Kirkus on The Dragons of Jupiter "Thrilling . . . sci-fi adventure."—Kirkus on Time Reavers

Drake's Drum: The Peace of Amiens


Nicholas Sumner - 2019
    As the United Kingdom’s financial strength ebbed, so did its power, prestige and influence in the world. Yet Britain was never a state in terminal decay. In relative decline, perhaps, but always a vital entity, one that embraced a process of re–invention; that proved ready to change and adapt its methods, its institutions and its structures. But what if that re-invention had been driven by a pragmatic realism that put the economic health of the British state at the heart of policy? Drake’s Drum: The Peace of Amiens is the compulsively readable first part of a three book series that recount an immersive, thoroughly researched alternate timeline where British politics, Britain’s wars and the history of the world in the 20th Century turn out very differently.

NevermorEarth


L.R. Ambrose - 2019
    John Harrison, "NevermorEarth" presents modern Dying Earth genre stories - where super science mixes with fantasy in the final years of a future Earth - from authors L.R. Ambrose, P. Djèlí Clark, Sarah Daly, Jamie Lackey, and Colin O'Boyle.'Long Enough' by L. R. Ambrose'Slow Descent Into Darkness' by Jamie Lackey'The Dreamer' by Sarah Daly'With A Golden Risha' by P. Djéli Clark'Someone Of Her Skill' by Colin O'Boyle'The Last Moonset' by Jamie Lackey

The Lost War


Karl K. Gallagher - 2019
    Instead these medieval historical reenactors are flung into a wilderness by magic they don't understand. They must struggle to survive and deal with monsters who consider them prey . . . or worse.***"Karl Gallagher's first production, the Torchship Trilogy, was good enough so that I read and reread it. He has now turned his hand from science fiction to fantasy."- Professor David D. Friedman, Professor, Santa Clara University, author of The Machinery of Freedom and Salamander- Also known as Duke Cariadoc of the Bow, KSCA, OL, OP, founder of the Pennsic War.

King Henry's Choice


Emily-Jane Hills Orford - 2019
    It’s the late 1800s and Queen Victoria wants more than mere access to the Scottish retreat at Balmoral Castle. But King Henry I of Scotland, direct descendent of Queen Mary Elizabeth I, the time traveling royal daughter of Mary Queen of Scots, is determined to keep Scotland free and independent and a powerful, progressive nation in its own right. The struggle to protect what is his by birthright becomes a battle that must be fought in the past, the present and the future and in other parts of the world. And, in the midst of each battle, there are choices to be made. Very difficult choices.

The Consequences of an Errant Shell - Part2: World War 2 and the Sino-Russian War (Part 2 of 2)


John Hardinge - 2019
    What would be the consequences of a single errant shell in the battle of the Yellow Sea? Could one single shell impacting an enemy ship save the Russian Empire and Tsarism and drag the Russian Empire into the status of a superpower? Part 2 of a two part story that covers World War 2 and the the Sino-Russian War.

The Missing and the Lost


Robin D. Laws - 2019
    The portals that connected him to his rumored source of power, the alien realm of Carcosa, have been destroyed.After a century of tyranny, democracy has returned to the USA—if those who fought for it have what it takes to keep it.Along with his loyal crew, the man they called the Technician helped win the struggle. Now he seeks a return to civilian life.Specifically, he wants to eliminate his job. He repairs the suicide machines known as the Government Lethal Chambers.His determination to decommission these instruments of death brings him to the People’s Hall. There a generation of political pioneers works to jumpstart a disarrayed provisional administration into a fairly and freely elected government.But when the body of a murder victim shows up in flagship Lethal Chamber in Washington Square, the Technician sees that the skill set of his crew hasn’t quite gone out of fashion.The ensuing investigation takes him on a journey through the secrets of the old regime, with fugitive war criminals, haunted hide-outs, urban firefights and dread parageometrical rituals along the way.

The Free World War: How Much Impact Can One Man Have on the Future?


Matthew William Frend - 2019
    One such simulation is built around General George S. Patton's car accident in 1945. The simulation accesses an alternate world, where General Patton had not been killed and the U.S.S.R. spreads its tyranny throughout the post-war world. Patton's homeland will find itself embroiled in another war, where the power of individual sacrifice makes a last ditch effort against the corrupt totalitarian state...

Glens of the Dead


Matt Hay - 2019
    Courage and friendship are tested as the Douglas Brothers fight to save their village from the dead as well as the living. In each battle, friends and family fall only to change and join the enemy in a mindless pursuit of destruction. Who will remain to defend the souls? Will anyone survive to become a legend?

Shadowrun The Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia


Russel ZimmermanRomain Pelisse - 2019
    No matter how people play, they can benefit from The Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia, perhaps the most detailed reference to the Sixth World ever produced.With hundreds of entries on topics ranging from Ares to the Zrich-Orbital Habitat and written in a lively, engaging style, this book will be a useful reference to anyone wanting to keep up with the details in one of gamings all-time great settings.EAN 9781941582749

Hells Empire: Tales of the Incursion


John Linwood GrantPhil Breach - 2019
    By telegraph where lines were still intact, and by volunteer riders where they were not; smuggled along the coast in fishing smacks, semaphored from hill-tops. It came without royal sanction, issued jointly by the Lords of the Admiralty and Marquess Lansdowne, the new Secretary of State for War:"In God's name, help us. We are losing."

The Other Side of Time


Bart Palamaro - 2019
    A few are vaguely aware of the hidden threat but are powerless to do anything about it. Secret German war plans have been stolen and are being couriered to the US President, but the courier is lost when RMS Titanic is torpedoed. Now their only hope is Susan Vanderveer, captain of an advanced US submarine thrown back in time from the year 2032. But Susan must overcome a demoralized crew, a Navy Dept. riddled with spies, and treason at the highest levels before the evil can be confronted.

The Transtemporal Man (Paratime)


John F. Carr - 2019
    Carr, featuring Verkan Vall and Dalla Hadron. Stories include: “Paratime Parasites,” a story about a conveyor missing for 10,000 years and Verkan Vall’s efforts to find out what happened to the original Paratime Survey Team. “Back From the Dead, a story about a man who returns from the dead only to find himself in his twelve-year-old body. “Paratime Paradox,” a story where an outtimer threatens the Paratime Travel secret itself through his dreams. “The Transtemporal Man,” a story about what happens when an outtimer suddenly appears with the ability to transpose to different timelines without a transtemporal conveyer. This is one collection you do not want to miss.

Cold, Cold Water


Marie S. Crosswell - 2019
    As they track her through northern Arizona, southern Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, Ramona and Jo encounter colorful people who can only point them in Cottonmouth’s direction. When Jo and Ramona finally catch up to Cottonmouth, she reveals the truth. Will the bounty hunters join their target or trade her for a bag of cash?