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A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSt Mary’s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don’t even make it to lunchtime...Categorized as:
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Iron Gray Sea by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Taylor Anderson’s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, the crew of USS Walker, and their allies battle an ever-growing host of enemies across the globe in a desperate battle for freedom …War has engulfed the—other earth... -
![Rising Tides by Taylor Anderson]()
Rising Tides by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Taylor Anderson's acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds a extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the U.S.S. Walker continue their battle for both freedom and survival, the stakes become much more personal...and much more perilous... -
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Maelstrom by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe final thrilling chapter in the “gripping and riveting” Destroyermen Trilogy.Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the U.S.S. Walker, are once again at war... -
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![The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov]()
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth's Sun--and of Earth itself... -
![Deadly Shores by Taylor Anderson]()
Deadly Shores by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNational bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s explosive WWII alternate-history series continues as a do-or-die battle is waged that risks far more than anyone bargained for. The long-planned raid on the heart of the Grik Empire has grown more ambitious—and dangerously ill defined. Only Matthew Reddy, commander of the old destroyer USS Walker, seems focused on its original intent... -
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Crusade by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe "gripping and riveting" Destroyermen saga continues.Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the USS Walker, have chosen sides in a war not of their making. Swept from the World War II Pacific into an alternate world, they have allied with the Lemurians?a mammalian race threatened by the warlike reptilian Grik... -
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Firestorm by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker find themselves caught between the nation they swore to defend and the allies they promised to protect... -
![Distant Thunders by Taylor Anderson]()
Distant Thunders by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe fourth thrilling adventure in the Destroyermen series... -
![Straits of Hell by Taylor Anderson]()
Straits of Hell by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s phenomenal alternate history Destroyermen series continues as a game-changing conspiracy throws the hope of honor, trust, and survival into chaos....Matt Reddy’s old Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Walker has been mysteriously transported to an alternate version of earth...Categorized as:
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![The Vengeance of Rome: Between the Wars Vol. 4 by Michael Moorcock]()
The Vengeance of Rome: Between the Wars Vol. 4 by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsByzantium Endures, the first volume of Michael Moorcock's legendary Pyat Quartet, appeared in 1981. The Laughter of Carthage (1984) and Jerusalem Commands (1992) followed. Now the quartet is complete. Pyat keeps his appointment with the age's worst nightmare.Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish anti-Semite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train...Categorized as:
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![Redeemed by Margaret Peterson Haddix]()
Redeemed by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJonah’s new twin must time travel and face off against his siblings’ worst enemy in order to save the future—and his family—in the eighth and final book of the New York Times bestselling The Missing series, which Kirkus Reviews calls “plenty of fun and great for history teachers as well...Categorized as:
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![Bear's Honor by Leann Ryans]()
Bear's Honor by Leann Ryans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaken from her home after a brutal attack, Rune is told to find a mate by spring, or one will be chosen for her. Of course, the one she wants is the one who isn’t interested in claiming her.Bear is the second in command, but his honor doesn’t allow him to abuse his station...Categorized as:
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![Verik's Price by Leann Ryans]()
Verik's Price by Leann Ryans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRipped from her village and given to a strange clan as payment, Iris is desperate to protect her cousin and help her people.Interested in nothing more than the land that his men won, Verik doesn’t care if the people living on it can’t survive the winter… Until Iris reminds him he needs those people for his plan to work... -
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![Autumn's Rescue by Leann Ryans]()
Autumn's Rescue by Leann Ryans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsAutumn only wanted a quiet life. That was ruined when her village was attacked and she was kidnapped before being traded to strangers. Just when she thinks she has a chance to find happiness, she's kidnapped once again.The men she was taken from are looking for her, but will they find her in time to keep her kidnapper from claiming her himself? This is book 4 in the Alpha Barbarians series...Categorized as:
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![A Nomad of the Time Streams Omnibus: The Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar by Michael Moorcock]()
A Nomad of the Time Streams Omnibus: The Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan, The Steel Tsar by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsOMNIBUS EDITION CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING MICHAEL MOORCOCK NOVELS:THE WARLORD OF THE AIR, THE LAND LEVIATHAN, AND THE STEEL...Categorized as:
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![Rogue Emperor by Crawford Kilian]()
Rogue Emperor by Crawford Kilian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsIt was a clear spring day, just a hundred years after the birth of Christ, when Jerry Pierce wandered into the Roman Colosseum to spend a quiet afternoon watching gladiators fight to the death. Sixty men had been killed already, not including the 15 condemned criminals executed at lunchtime, when an explosion rocked the arena... -
![The Infinity Bridge by Ross M. Kitson]()
The Infinity Bridge by Ross M. Kitson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsAn MG/YA science-fiction/ Steampunk adventureSam: likes loud music, wears black eye-liner... and sees monsters.Nick: wears Che Guevera knit-wear, big specs, loves sci-fi... and designs computer viruses.Annie: dresses like a Sunday evening period drama, lives with her granddad... and fights like a ninja...Categorized as:
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![The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter]()
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live.A century after the publication of H. G...Categorized as:
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![Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson]()
Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPressed 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... -
![Hell Hath No Fury by David Weber, Linda Evans]()
Hell Hath No Fury by David Weber, Linda Evans
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt began with two men. They came from very different worlds—entirely different universes, in fact—one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun... -
![Empress of the Sun by Ian McDonald]()
Empress of the Sun by Ian McDonald
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWorld-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon...Categorized as:
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![Caesar's Bicycle by John Barnes]()
Caesar's Bicycle by John Barnes
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsThe alien Closers are waging a war of annihilation and extermination on a million alternate Earths. To stop them, orbiting Hyper Athens recruits Crux Ops fighters from every human era.Private eye Mark Strang has battled the Closers in every century, with weapons old and new, from laser beam to crossbow...Categorized as:
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![Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain]()
Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA space-opera, a philosophical quest, a steampunk adventure of epic proportions.This is the story of M... -
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![Conquistador by S.M. Stirling]()
Conquistador by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called "a pleasure to read" and Harry Turtledove hailed as "first-rate adventure all the way."1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence...Categorized as:
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![What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown]()
What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe editor of a sci-fi pulp magazine is accidentally transported to a parallel universe where space travel is common, Earth is at war with creepy aliens, New York City isn't safe after dark, and his girlfriend is with someone else. Regularly appears on "Greatest science fiction" lists...Categorized as:
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![Here, There, and Everywhere by Chris Roberson]()
Here, There, and Everywhere by Chris Roberson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsWhen Roxanne Bonaventure is eleven years old, a dying woman gives her a gift that changes her life utterly, making her a singular creature, with no analogue or equivalent. With the strange device called the "Sofia," she is granted the ability to travel anywhere in space and time, not only through times that were and will be, but also through the worlds that could have been and might someday be...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of Time by Keith Laumer, Arthur C. Clarke]()
The Other Side of Time by Keith Laumer, Arthur C. Clarke
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsBLINDING LIGHT, NOISE BEYOND SOUND -- A JOURNEY INTO NOTHINGNESS....Imperial Intelligence Agent Brion Bayard was catapulted into nothingness by an unknown force and woke to find himself in a universe not his own. Surrounded by hulking, cannibalistic ape men who called themselves Haroon, Bayard was soon entrapped in a web of time lines...Categorized as:
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![Assignment in Nowhere by Keith Laumer]()
Assignment in Nowhere by Keith Laumer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsTHE COMING OF THE BLIGHTIt seemed as though the world was eroding right under everyone's feet. Stories disappeared from magazines; the baron's silver coat of arms, polished in the morning, was pitted with corrosion by afternoon; toadstools were springing up from every corner...Categorized as:
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![Wolf Hunt: The Burning Ages by Sebastian P. Breit]()
Wolf Hunt: The Burning Ages by Sebastian P. Breit
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 3 ratings2024. The world we know is crumbling. A devastating war in the Persian Gulf has left the global economy in ruins, and civilization itself is beginning to crack under the strain. When a war-weary task force of NATO ships races against time and a rival fleet to prevent Brazil's descent into a murderous civil war, their mission is unexpectedly upset by a mysterious tempest...Categorized as:
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![Second War of the Worlds by George Henry Smith]()
Second War of the Worlds by George Henry Smith
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsAfter the Martians failed to conquer the Victorian world (as chronicled in the classic by H. G. Wells), they tried again, in Earth's parallel world of Annwn! 174+ pages...Categorized as:
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![Invictus by Ryan Graudin, Райан Гродин]()
Invictus by Ryan Graudin, Райан Гродин
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTime flies when you're plundering history.Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature...Categorized as:
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![Patton's Spaceship by John Barnes]()
Patton's Spaceship by John Barnes
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCombining the suspense of the detective thriller with the awesome wonder of space/time adventure. Crux of Battle begins an epic tale of a war across one million alternate Earths...Categorized as:
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![Quantum Coin by E.C. Myers]()
Quantum Coin by E.C. Myers
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEphraim thought his universe-hopping days were over. He's done wishing for magic solutions to his problems; his quantum coin has been powerless for almost a year, and he's settled into a normal life with his girlfriend, Jena. But then an old friend crashes their senior prom: Jena's identical twin from a parallel world, Zoe.Zoe's timing couldn't be worse...Categorized as:
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![Wings of Equity by Sean Kennedy]()
Wings of Equity by Sean Kennedy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe truth is that those who make a difference usually get martyred. What good are you dead?Ezra Kneebone is most at home in the skies, piloting his airship with his best friend Jazz, even if it doesn’t quite pay the bills or warm Ezra’s empty bed. Those same skies are also the territory of a man known as Icarus, who uses his metal wings to steal from the rich and feed the poor... -
![Hell's Gate by David Weber, Linda Evans]()
Hell's Gate by David Weber, Linda Evans
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another, all of them Earth, and in the process, the Union has become the most powerful, most wealthy civilization in all of human history...Categorized as:
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![Paths to Otherwhere by James P. Hogan]()
Paths to Otherwhere by James P. Hogan
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsIn the face of planet-wide economic disaster, two totalitarian empires rise in China and Japan, threatening the world with a devastating war, and the police states of the U.S. and Europe place their hopes in a team of DNA scientists...Categorized as:
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![Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald]()
Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEverett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price. His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All World, and Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild, random Heisenberg Jump to a random parallel plane...Categorized as:
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![Eon by Greg Bear]()
Eon by Greg Bear
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad... -
![Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak]()
Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA classic tale from one of science fiction's most creative forces. Suddenly, strange things begin to happen. World industries collaspe. People--sometimes whole towns--disappear without a trace. And writer Jay Vickers knows he's being watched. Now, to save his own life--and all of humanity--he must solve the secrets of the parallel Earth. "Lovely, rationalized magic"... -
![The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan]()
The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen malcontents from a utopian twenty-first century use their time gate to transform Hitler into an invincible conqueror, a band of freedom-fighting Americans launches the Proteus project and builds a second time gate. Reprint...Categorized as:
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