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About Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAfter their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero in but a single bound.Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal selling dodgy historical artefacts blows up in all their faces. An officer is attacked within TPHQ. A prisoner is murdered...Categorized as:
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The Toast of Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce again, the Toast of Time falls butter side down. Dr 'Max' Maxwell prepares for her very first Christmas away from St Mary's...It's that most wonderful time of the year once more. But Max and Markham are a long way from St Mary's...Categorized as:
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11/22/63 by Stephen King
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 79 ratingsOn November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force...Categorized as:
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Lost In Time : An Old Fashion Western by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSawyer Reed is heading home after rambling for seven years after the Civil War ended. His family's cattle ranch is waiting, and he is ready to get to work. On his way home from Mexico, Sawyer runs into a mysterious woman who will change his life and his future forever. Josephine Alverez is a chef at a posh restaurant in San Antonio, Texas in the year 2020...Categorized as:
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The Field of Reeds by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSailing home from Ta Netjer, Pharaoh Hatshepsut falls ill from a wound suffered in the Forest of Myrrh. In the barren plains of Sinai, Pharaoh Thutmose’s reverence and bravery inspire the vaunted charioteers who form the maryannu to decide that Thutmose should rule the Two Lands alone... -
Exiles in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo years in Afghanistan; four years working for MI-5, the British security service; and the death of both of his parents from cancer. At the age of thirty-four, Callum thought he’d experienced the worst that life could throw at him. That is, until his boss ordered him to open a buried file on his desk and to take it seriously...Categorized as:
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When Did You Last See Your Father? by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 23 ratings'Max, your father is here. He's come to take Matthew away'Have you ever wondered what would happen if Max's husband met Max's father? What would Leon do?They're normally a fairly amiable bunch, but this is the story of what to expect if St Mary's doesn't like someone. As in, really doesn't like someone...Categorized as:
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Forged in Fire by Olan Thorensen
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsTo forge: “Make or shape an object by heating in a fire or furnace and hammering.” —Oxford Dictionary Joseph Colsco has survived what many would not have—cast naked on an alien planet amidst humans speaking an unknown language and with a different culture and history...Categorized as:
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Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsFraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls...Categorized as:
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How Firm a Foundation by David Weber
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know...Categorized as:
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Dispel Illusion by Mark Lawrence
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSometimes being wrong is the right answer.Nick Hayes’s genius is in wringing out the universe’s secrets. It’s a talent that’s allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He’s seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia’s accident is waiting for them both in 2011...Categorized as:
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Retribution by Randall Ingermanson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJerusalem, A.D. 66 . . .The City of God seethes with rage against imperial Rome . . . and, in an act of unspeakable brutality, Rome takes deadly retribution. War looms on the horizon---but one woman already knows the outcome. . . .Transported from the far future, Rivka Meyers has made her home in Jerusalem with her husband and fellow time traveler, Ari Kazan...Categorized as:
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WE SO FEW: BOOK 3 OF THE FIGHTING TOMCATS by M.L. Maki, Sofia Maki
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWE SO FEW Lieutenant Commander Samantha 'Spike' Hunt, commander of the Black Knights, and Captain James "Papa' Holtz, commander of Task Force Yankee, are charged with protecting Great Britain at all costs. Ten F-14s. Twelve pilots. Twelve RIOs. It is all the allies have to stand against the might of the German Luftwaffe...Categorized as:
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The Rewind Files by Claire Willett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a bookish junior agent at the U.S. Time Travel Bureau stumbles across a massive conspiracy with roots in 1972’s Watergate, she is forced into her first- ever field assignment - to expose the conspirators and avert World War III.----------------------------------Washington, D.C. 2112United States Time Travel BureauRegina Bellows, junior agent at the U.S...Categorized as:
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Santa Grint by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPre-order a brand new TIME POLICE short story from million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S.It all begins when the Time Police hold their first Children's Christmas Party. Their most dangerous mission yet . . .No good deed ever goes unpunished. Lt Grint succumbs to his softer side and soon lives to regret it...Categorized as:
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Buried Pyramid, The by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReaders of “Imhotep” will find themselves transported once more to ancient Egypt with Imhotep, King Djoser, Meryt, Hetephernebti and other familiar characters in this second novel about the famous architect of the Step Pyramid... -
Fortune's Stroke by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, journeys back in time to join forces with Belisarius, the greatest general of the sixth century, to stop Link, an evil supercomputer that is using its vast powers to rewrite history to create the powerful, technologically advance Malwa Empire. Reprint...Categorized as:
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A Ripple In Time: A Historical Novel Of Survival by Victor Zugg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA struggle for survival in a time long past.It started as a routine Miami to Charlotte flight for the passengers, crew, and Federal Air Marshal Stephen Mason. But a freak storm over the Atlantic propels the airliner unexplainably back in time to the early 18th century. They find themselves on the sparsely populated coast of the Carolina Colony...Categorized as:
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In the Heart of Darkness by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Malwa Empire, using gunpowder weapons and ruthless terror, has conquered 6th century India and is forging the subcontinent's vast population into an invincible weapon of tyranny. The supermind that commands the Malwa intends first to rule the world and then to set its inexorable stamp over all eternity. No action is too bestial for the supermind to order, nor for its Malwa lackeys to execute...Categorized as:
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An Oblique Approach by David Drake, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOnly three things stand between the Malwa and the conquest of Earth: Byzantium, the empire of Rome in the East; a crystal that urges mankind to fight; and Belisarius, general of the Byzantine Empire, and arguably the greatest commmander the Earth has ever known...Categorized as:
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Time Pebbles by Jerry Merritt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping.Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes hopelessly lost in the endless tracts of North America. Only Tekla cares enough to search for her over the years...Categorized as:
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1637: The Polish Maelstrom by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW SOLO NOVEL BY ERIC FLINT IN THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES! The Ottoman Empire has captured Vienna and is now laying siege to the Austrian government-in-exile established in the city of Linz. Both the United States of Europe and the Kingdom of Bohemia have come to Austria’s assistance, but everyone knows this is going to be a long and brutal struggle...Categorized as:
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Journeyman by Mark J. Rose
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerican scientist Matt Miller is torn from his own century and dropped into Colonial America with nothing except a backpack. His phone, his money and his identity are all useless and he quickly finds that he is foreign and alone in his own country. Matt must meet the challenge to survive in a newly forming society where he seemingly has no relevant skills and no one he can count on... -
The Forest of Myrrh by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the third novel about the time-travelling ancient Egyptian begins, Imhotep’s beloved wife is dying, his most powerful patron has been murdered and the Third Dynasty is descending into chaos. Desperate, Imhotep recruits an unlikely ally to help him save Meryt and to discover the killer of the Voice of Re. However, his search is interrupted by a revolt that tears the Two Lands in half... -
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Fateful Lightning by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe latest chapter in a unique, epic military science fiction series that sweeps from Civil War America to a time-warped world of horrifying conflict. The Civil War Yankees, lost in another world and time, find themselves part of a tactical retreat from the onslaught of the mysterious Merki hordes, reenacting the Russian retreats against the French and Germans...Categorized as:
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Never Sound Retreat by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt has been 10 years since a group of American Civil War soldiers was swept away from the battlefields of Earth to a distant world--where the only place for a human is as a slave to an alien race...Categorized as:
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The Tide of Victory by Eric Flint, David Drake
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsArmed with lancers, breech-loading rifles, steamships, and galleys, General Belisarius, accompanied by his own ally from the future, ventures into the Malwa Empire, a sixth-century kingdom ruled by Link, a horrifying and evil entity from the future...Categorized as:
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City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLiam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...Hunted by cyborg assassins from the future, the TimeRiders must abandon New York and go on the run... -
River of Bones by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe crew of a WWII destroyer face their greatest challenge yet as they try to survive in a strange new world in the next thrilling book in the New York Times bestselling series.Commander Matt Reddy and his crew are afraid it may finally be the end of the USS Walker... -
The Pirate Kings by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsISBN moved from less recent edition hereLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
Forget the Alamo! by Drew McGunn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the explosion, Will didn’t expect to wake up again, especially in the past. Alive is good. Except he finds himself at the Alamo in 1836 in the body of another man doomed to die. If history repeats itself, Santa Anna is coming soon and the Alamo will fall, along with himself and 189 others. In a race against time itself, Will uses his knowledge of the future to change the past...Categorized as:
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Bartley's Man (Ring of Fire) by Paula Goodlett, Gorg Huff
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBartley's Man is about love, respect and honor, and becoming wealthy in the service of David Bartley, an up-timer teenager with a brilliant mind. It is the journey of Johan Kipper, a reluctant soldier in illy's tercio as he collides with the fact of Grantville's existence. Johan decides he doesn't want to be a soldier anymore... -
Obsolete Theorem by Stan C. Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA time jump. A fight for survival. A bond between species. It wasn’t possible, but then it happened… A Neanderthal’s 47,000-year-old remains are found in Spain. That’s not unusual, but positioned beside the woman’s skeleton is something that shouldn’t be there, a robotic drone. Lincoln Woodhouse has some explaining to do... -
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1636: Flight of the Nightingale by David Carrico
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTWO SHORT NOVELS SET IN ERIC FLINT'S BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES from David Carrico, coauthor of 1636: The Devil's Opera and The Span of Empire...Categorized as:
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Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Hitler killing short story...Since we’re all still abuzz about the latest Hitler-killing episode of Doctor Who, we here at Tor.com thought we’d point our readers’ attention to one of the most entertaining Hitler-killing short stories we’ve ever seen... -
Neander (Neander, #1) by Harald Johnson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"My God. These people really ARE Neanderthals!"At an archeological dig in Gibraltar, a boat explosion shatters the hopes of science journalist Tom Cook. His pregnant fiancée was on the boat and is missing.During the search, things go from bad to worse when Tom plunges through a time portal and into the strange and dangerous era of the Neanderthals... -
St. Mary's and the Great Toilet Roll Crisis by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA short story, dedicated to NHS workers, inspired by the recent toilet roll crisis...Categorized as:
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On The Rocks by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaptain Arturo Sanders was having a bad day. First the routine destruction of some ancient automatic defence batteries became a disaster when his ship’s screens failed and he had no choice to abandon ship. Then he had to rescue two left behind crew people which meant he missed the main shuttle evacuation leaving him and his two companions in a shuttle on their own at the rear... -
Terrible Swift Sword by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA startling series that merges history with intrepid military science fiction in a fresh and energetic package, this latest edition proves that Forstchen's talent and possibilities are limitless. "Some of the best adventure writing in years!"--Science Fiction Chronicle...Categorized as:
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Winds of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeg had thought that taking a commuter flight from Pasco, Washington to Boise, Idaho would be a simple matter. But nothing is simple for Meg when it comes to travel, and especially not when she finds herself in the Middle Ages again instead of in a plane crash on a mountain side in Oregon...Categorized as:
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A Girl in Time by John Birmingham, Vanessa Johansson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe past is another country. A dangerous one. On the eve of a huge, breakout success, a poor but brilliant young game developer is pulled out of her world, and time itself, by a cowboy desperately searching for the daughter he lost two hundred years ago. Cady McCall is ready to be rich and famous. She’s sacrificed everything, putting her work ahead of family and friends...Categorized as:
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In at the Death by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFranklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA’s worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas...Categorized as:
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Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Together with a crew of other miners and cart-pullers, Hillalum is recruited to climb the Tower of Babylon and unearth what lies beyond the vault of heaven... -
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Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come...Categorized as:
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Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
1632 by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy... -
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsStar Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon's previous book, Last and First Men (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years...Categorized as:
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1634 The Baltic War by Eric Flint, David Weber
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville - the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident - are caught in the middle of it... -
Time's Mirror by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe only things on Prudence Pierce's mind are seducing her violin instructor and, with the help of her sister Deborah, avoiding the wrath of their mother for stepping out of the house dressed like Madonna...Categorized as:
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