Books like 'DO WE NEED TO BE SCARED OF VACCINES?'
Readers who enjoyed DO WE NEED TO BE SCARED OF VACCINES? by David Friedman also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
alternate history fiction anthologies terror steampunk
-
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:
fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history book historical historical-fiction -
![The Long and the Short of it by Jodi Taylor]()
The Long and the Short of it by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFollow the disaster magnets of St Mary's as they hurtle around history! The ninth book in The Chronicles of St Mary's Series collects the bestselling short stories in print for the first time. When a Child is Born - A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook comedy -
![Inne Pieśni by Jacek Dukaj]()
Inne Pieśni by Jacek Dukaj
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStarogrecki świat pięciu żywiołów pod władzą formy w opowieści o sile ludzkiego ducha i o tym, co nieopisywalne...Categorized as:
fiction steampunk adult alternate-history audiobook book contemporary industrial-era -
![1637: The Coast of Chaos (34) by Eric Flint]()
1637: The Coast of Chaos (34) by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE NEW WORLD FALLS INTO THE RING OF FIRE. All new stories set in the Ring of Fire series, edited by New York Times best-selling series creator Eric Flint.Europe, 1632. It is a time of upheaval and great change... -
-
![Twig by Wildbow]()
Twig by Wildbow
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe year is 1921, and a little over a century has passed since a great mind unraveled the underpinnings of life itself. Every week, it seems, the papers announce great advances, solving the riddle of immortality, successfully reviving the dead, the cloning of living beings, or blending of two animals into one... -
![Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jonathan Strahan]()
Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jonathan Strahan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook historical -
![An Amish Gathering: Life in Lancaster County by Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller]()
An Amish Gathering: Life in Lancaster County by Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThree heartwarming tales of old friends and new beginnings that span one year in an Amish community. A Change of Heart by Beth Wiseman Leah is no good at cooking, cleaning, sewing, gardening—the skills that young women need to make a proper Amish wife. All she wants to do is write stories, but she's sincerely tired of being a disappointment... -
![A Colder War by Charles Stross]()
A Colder War by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Colder War is an alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It follows a "What If" scenario where the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos... -
![Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg: Girl Genius, Book Four by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio]()
Agatha H. and the Siege of Mechanicsburg: Girl Genius, Book Four by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, mad science rules the world—with mixed success. In Agatha H and the Siege of Mechanicsburg, Agatha Heterodyne, the last of the Heterodyne family, has returned to her family’s hereditary town with the might of the Wulfenbach Empire hot on her heels... -
![Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt]()
Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this Hugo Award-winning story, movie buff Pete discovers a video store stocked with DVDs of films that were never made: a director's cut of The Magnificent Ambersons; Harlan Ellison's version of I, Robot; The Death of Superman directed by Tim Burton; and even more impossible visions. But there's something even more interesting than the remarkable movies: the woman working behind the counter...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction adult alternate-history audiobook contemporary urban-fantasy sci-fi -
![Immortal and the Madman by Gene Doucette]()
Immortal and the Madman by Gene Doucette
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novella The Immortal Chronicles is an ongoing series of short stories and novellas written by Adam, the immortal narrator of IMMORTAL, HELLENIC IMMORTAL, and the upcoming IMMORTAL AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. Immortal and the Madman is a novella, and a crossover story between IMMORTAL and FIXER, another novel by Gene Doucette... -
![Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra]()
Do Overs: A Time Travel Thriller of Sudden Second Chances by Jon Spoelstra
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime travel: This is the trip you gotta take. And then when you take it--wham--you are faced with a savage choice of do-overs to correct past blunders. Roy Hobbs blew the cash windfall from his best-seller book. Gone was his money, and then his wife Rachel was murdered with the killer never found. Roy chose to pick up the pieces, riding into his sunset as a crime reporter in a smaller market...Categorized as:
fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history book hard-sci-fi historical -
![Shapechanger's Birth (Shapechanger Tales) by Laer Carroll]()
Shapechanger's Birth (Shapechanger Tales) by Laer Carroll
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1854 Irish farmer's wife and grandmother Mary McCarthy awakens in her grave an almost skeletal young teen with extraordinary powers. She sets off to find who and what she is. Which will include orphan, laundry owner, medical doctor, scientist, inventor - and the most feared crimelord in all the British Empire... -
![The Change by S.M. Stirling]()
The Change by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSEby S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more...S. M...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history apocalyptic dystopia -
-
![Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald]()
Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCyberabad Days returns to the India of 2047 as featured in Ian McDonald's acclaimed novel River of Gods...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history cyberpunk dystopia futuristic -
![Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker]()
Gods and Pawns by Kage Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the Company, you're either a God or a Pawn, but sometimes you have to be both. The eight stories, reprinted for the first time in this collection delve further into the history and exploits of the Company and its operatives, including Mendoza, Lewis, and Alec...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history cyborgs historical historical-fiction -
![Devices Brightly Shining by Shelley Adina]()
Devices Brightly Shining by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me Dreadful relations, high expectations, And a sudden urge to pull up ropes and flee. It is the event of the season—on Twelfth Night, the Dunsmuirs have invited the cream of London society to celebrate the marriage of Lady Claire and Andrew Malvern at a reception to which the Prince Consort himself is expected... -
![The Complete Paratime by H. Beam Piper]()
The Complete Paratime by H. Beam Piper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom H. Beam Piper, the creator of the Terrohuman Future History and the bestselling Fuzzy novels, come the parallel worlds of Paratime—collected for the first time in one volume.Infinite worlds allowed for infinite evil—unless the doorway to those worlds was most carefully guarded...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history crime historical-fiction multiverse -
![Lord Darcy Investigates by Randall Garrett]()
Lord Darcy Investigates by Randall Garrett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLord Darcy Investigates is a collection of short stories by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback in 1981 by Ace Books... -
![In the Company of Thieves by Kage Baker]()
In the Company of Thieves by Kage Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEspionage, time travel, and affairs gone terribly wrong define this final collection of Kage Baker’s stories in the Company series. The employees of Dr. Zeus Incorporated have discovered a nearly foolproof recipe for success: combining time travel and immortals... -
![The Time Travel Chronicles by Crystal Watanabe, Samuel Peralta]()
The Time Travel Chronicles by Crystal Watanabe, Samuel Peralta
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTime travel. Humanity has long imagined what it would be like to be able to create a time machine, what we might see if we could travel into the future, or be transported to the distant past...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history far-future futuristic mystery -
![Observe by Andrea Pearson]()
Observe by Andrea Pearson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNicole Williams is the sole protector of an elixir that will end a curse on the human race. But while the elixir strengthens her, it also forces her to abandon the love of the person most important to her-her boyfriend, Austin...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure alternate-history horror magic paranormal supernatural -
![Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories by Frederik Pohl]()
Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories by Frederik Pohl
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPlatinum Pohl is the first collection to collect all of the essential works of Frederik Pohl. First and foremost, Pohl is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all... -
![The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman]()
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain's police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones... -
-
![The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard]()
The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMore than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own “by the thinnest margin of possibility... -
![Czterdzieści i cztery by Krzysztof Piskorski]()
Czterdzieści i cztery by Krzysztof Piskorski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNowa, długo oczekiwana powieść Krzysztofa Piskorskiego, laureata Nagrody im. Janusza A. Zajdla oraz dwóch Złotych Wyróżnień Nagrody Literackie im. Jerzego Żuławskiego. Autor „Cieniorytu”, nazwanego przez Jacka Dukaja „światotwórstwem najwyższej klasy”, rozwija tym razem wizję świata, w którym niezwykła technologia miesza się ze słowiańską magią oraz epoką narodowych powstań i Wielkiej Emigracji...Categorized as:
fiction steampunk adult alternate-history book historical historical-fiction industrial-era -
![Dragon's Teeth by Mercedes Lackey]()
Dragon's Teeth by Mercedes Lackey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA massive collection of wonderous science fiction and fantasy stories from New York Times best-selling Mercedes Lackey. Includes Fiddler Fair and Werehunter for the first time in one volume.A massive collection of wonderous science fiction and fantasy stories from New York Times best selling Mercedes Lackey...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook dark high-fantasy -
![The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age by Robert Rankin]()
The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age by Robert Rankin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe newest opus from the Master of Far Fetched Fiction features magic, mayhem, mechanical marvels, messianic madness, and the music hall Colonel Katterfelto has returned to London, having departed America under something of a cloud—of smoke, issuing from his Spiritual Laboratory, which the townsfolk of Wormcast, Arizona, marched upon with their flaming torches... -
![Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by John Keats]()
Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by John Keats
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience... -
![Word Puppets by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
Word Puppets by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new short story collection from Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal, with an introduction by Patrick Rothfuss.Table of Contents* "The Bound Man"* "Chrysalis"* "Rampion"* "At the Edge of Dying"* "Clockwork Chickadee"* "Body Language"* "Waiting for Rain"* "First Flight"* "Evil Robot Monkey"* "The Consciousness Problem"* "For Solo Cello, op...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history female-author historical -
![The Deryni Archives by Katherine Kurtz]()
The Deryni Archives by Katherine Kurtz
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere have been many events in the past 230 years of the half-magical race of the Deryni that were too short to turn into novels. Katherine Kurtz has been writing these when not occupied with longer works, and they are now collected here. Some have appeared in books and other sources now hard to locate... -
![Wrecked by Meljean Brook]()
Wrecked by Meljean Brook
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsElizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father's huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe's zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn't the only danger she has to fear—and now that he's found her, Caius doesn't intend to let her go.. -
![The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook]()
The Blushing Bounder by Meljean Brook
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn The Iron Duke, Constable Newberry helped save all of England. But before the events of that novel, Constable Newberry’s faced a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay?The Blushing Bounder was previously published in the anthology Wild & Steamy...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history arranged-marriage gaslamp -
![The Warmasters by David Weber, Eric Flint]()
The Warmasters by David Weber, Eric Flint
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" by David Weber: Before she saved the galaxy, she was "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington," and then an encounter with "pirates" who were more than they seemed began Honor Harrington's Brilliant Career. "Choosing Sides" by David Drake: Lieutenant Huber stepped off the starship into an ambush--but Slammers aren't supposed to get ambushed...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook military space -
-
![The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson]()
The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCombining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, this astounding alternate history tale presents a dramatic encounter with destiny wrapped around a simple yet provocative premise: the terrifying question of what might have happened if the fateful flight over Hiroshima had gone a bit differently...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction adult alternate-history historical historical-fiction male-author postmodernism -
![Phase Space by Stephen Baxter]()
Phase Space by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPhase Space: Stories from the Manifold and Elsewhere. A collection of 25 SF stories by Stephen Baxter, many thematically linked to his "Manifold" trilogy (Time, Space and Origin) and other novels of cosmic scope. "The phase space of a system is the set of all conceivable states of that system", says the first page...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction adult alternate-history earth hard-sci-fi hollow-earth male-author -
![Deryni Tales by Katherine Kurtz, Laura Jefferson]()
Deryni Tales by Katherine Kurtz, Laura Jefferson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFilled with richly drawn characters and unforgettable intrigues, Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels inspired some of her most devoted fans to write their own Deryni tales-and Kurtz has collected eight of her favorites in this exciting anthology. Deryni Tales is a heartfelt tribute to the world she created-from the devoted fans who have made it their own...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction 21st-century adult alternate-history audiobook epic high-fantasy -
![Pinion by Jay Lake]()
Pinion by Jay Lake
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The delight is in what's seen en route, as Lake has configured his world-dominating empires, one British, the other Chinese, with huge and devoted attention to the last detail. The delight of the next volume--prefigured with unrelenting clarity in "Escapement"'s final pages--should be the discovery that the destination adds up... -
![The Clockwork Cathedral by Heather Blackwood]()
The Clockwork Cathedral by Heather Blackwood
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMedical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into a 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one she knows from history books.The only person who can get her home is Professor Seamus Connor, a former convict seeking a quiet life of obscurity... -
![The Mongolian Wizard by Michael Swanwick]()
The Mongolian Wizard by Michael Swanwick
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith "The Mongolian Wizard," Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Michael Swanwick launches a new fiction series -- beginning with this story of a very unusual international conference in a fractured Europe that never was...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction steampunk adult alternate-history alternate-universe crime historical -
![Paratime by H. Beam Piper]()
Paratime by H. Beam Piper
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:1 · Introduction · John F. Carr · in 14 · He Walked Around the Horses · nv Astounding Apr ’48 39 · Police Operation [Verkan Vall] · nv Astounding Jul ’48 77 · Last Enemy [Verkan Vall] · na Astounding Aug ’50 149 · Time Crime [Verkan Vall] · n...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history male-author mars multiverse -
![The Count: The First Novella Introducing His Majesty's New World by Kenneth Tam]()
The Count: The First Novella Introducing His Majesty's New World by Kenneth Tam
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1881, explorers in the Rocky Mountains discovered gateways to another planet. Britain and the United States quickly partnered to colonize and exploit this rich new world. Now it's 1896, and the promise of a new beginning has drawn ex-Sergeant Edwin Barnes, his wife Evangeline, and a group of former British colonial soldiers to the new world...Categorized as:
fiction steampunk action-adventure adult alternate-history book historical industrial-era -
![Grantville Gazette, Volume 7 by Eric Flint]()
Grantville Gazette, Volume 7 by Eric Flint
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 7 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com... -
![Alt.History 101 by Samuel Peralta, Ken Liu]()
Alt.History 101 by Samuel Peralta, Ken Liu
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe future is history... From Samuel Peralta, creator of the #1 bestselling Future Chronicles anthology series, comes a new speculative anthology series that turns the world you know upside down.In Alt...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction steampunk action-adventure alternate-history dystopia futuristic historical -
-
![Videssos Besieged by Harry Turtledove]()
Videssos Besieged by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the arrival of spring, Emperor Maniakes vows to unleash his troops against the enemy capital, where a hated despot sits arrogantly upon the throne.But from the moment Maniakes reaches the land of the Thousand Cities, he is plagued by a question no one can answer. Where is his nemesis, the ruthless commander whose cavalry no opposing force can withstand?The answer is cataclysmic... -
![Undead Worlds by Shelly L. Summers (aka R.L. Blalock), David A. Simpson]()
Undead Worlds by Shelly L. Summers (aka R.L. Blalock), David A. Simpson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings22 Authors. 22 Undead worlds. 1 Great Book. Do you dare? ALONE TOGETHER BY DAVID SIMPSON What do you do when there is nowhere left to run? GONE FISHIN’ BY JUSTIN ROBINSON When the dead rise, the living become the monsters. THE FESTIVAL BY CHRISTOPHER MAHOOD A city on lockdown as a nation awaits bloodshed, let the festival begin...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction action-adventure adult alternate-history dystopia historical-fiction horror -
![Hex in the City by Kerrie L. Hughes, Kristine Kathryn Rusch]()
Hex in the City by Kerrie L. Hughes, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUrban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of fourteen top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C...Categorized as:
anthologies fiction adult alternate-history historical-fiction horror law-enforcement paranormal -
![Year's Best SF by David G. Hartwell, James Patrick Kelly]()
Year's Best SF by David G. Hartwell, James Patrick Kelly
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction. Here are stories that go beyond space and time.Contentsix • Introduction: Science Fiction is Alive and Well • (1996) • essay by David G... -
![Rouille by Floriane Soulas]()
Rouille by Floriane Soulas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsParis, 1897. Les plus grandes puissances européennes se sont lancées à l'assaut de la Lune et de nouveaux matériaux découverts sur le satellite envahissent peu à peu la Terre. Ces grandes avancées scientifiques révolutionnent l'industrie et la médecine, mais pas pour tout le monde...Categorized as:
fiction steampunk alternate-history book female-author historical industrial-era young-adult -
![Witch Way to the Mall by Esther M. Friesner]()
Witch Way to the Mall by Esther M. Friesner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMove over, urban fantasy--here comes "suburban" fantasy...
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.
