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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]()
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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![Crisis by Kurt Schlichter]()
Crisis by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKelly Turnbull, the hero of PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, INDIAN COUNTRY, WILDFIRE, and COLLAPSE, is back this fifth novel that tells the story of how America split apart into red and blue... -
![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... -
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![Raising Steam by Peter Rhodan]()
Raising Steam by Peter Rhodan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaptain Arturo Sanders, former spaceship captain, now sword sandal epic lead character, has settled into his accidental time travel adventure. Sort of...Categorized as:
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![The Rewind Files by Claire Willett]()
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]()
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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![St. Mary's and the Great Toilet Roll Crisis by Jodi Taylor]()
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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![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:
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![Flight 39 by Phillip P. Peterson]()
Flight 39 by Phillip P. Peterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor a top-secret research project, airline pilot Christoph Wilder is recruited to fly an A380 equipped with a time machine. But on the maiden voyage, activists hijack the plane and force Christoph to take them back to 1939. Their goal: to kill Adolf Hitler! But the price to pay for averting the Second World War exceeds Christoph's worst nightmares...Categorized as:
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![What Doctor Gottlieb Saw by Ian Tregillis]()
What Doctor Gottlieb Saw by Ian Tregillis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGretel has wires in her head. Gretel likes to pick wildflowers. Gretel is one of the subjects on the farm, and she is Doctor Gottlieb's responsibility, but she knows something she isn't telling -- and if Doctor Gottlieb doesn't figure it out, it may be his body in a ditch next. This story is set in the world of Ian Tregillis's Milkweed series, which began with Bitter Seeds...Categorized as:
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![Centurion's Rise by Mark Henrikson]()
Centurion's Rise by Mark Henrikson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOrigins Series ContinuesROME. The mere mention of the name instills images of grandeur. The mighty empire was a guiding light for the civilized world for a thousand years. Was that by chance or careful design? A psychiatric patient named Hastelloy has the answer. He believes he was there for it all: Caesar, legions, gladiators...Categorized as:
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Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book is the sequel to Lion's BloodZulu Heart returns to the 19th Century of Steven Barnes's justly acclaimed novel Lion's Blood, a brilliant alternate history in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white Europeans as their slaves. As Zulu Heart opens, New World nobleman Kai ibn Jallaleddin is a senator of New Djibouti, an envied plantation owner, and a loving family man...Categorized as:
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![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:
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![The Danish Scheme by Herb Sakalaucks, Eric Flint]()
The Danish Scheme by Herb Sakalaucks, Eric Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomething new is brewing in the 17th century! Fans of the 1632 series have often asked "What's going on in North America?" Herbert Sakalauks has set out to let you know in his short novel "The Danish Scheme... -
![For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga by Robert Sobel]()
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga by Robert Sobel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA classic work of alternate history. Projects the far-reaching consequences if British General John Burgoyne had won this pivotal battle in the American Revolution and Britain had gone on to win the war...Categorized as:
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![The Book of Disappearance: A Novel by Ibtisam Azem]()
The Book of Disappearance: A Novel by Ibtisam Azem
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel...Categorized as:
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![The Monster War by Alan Gratz]()
The Monster War by Alan Gratz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Monster War is the third book in the action-packed, steampunk League of Seven series by acclaimed author Alan Gratz.Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies to face, he realizes that he may not have the luxury of questioning his destiny... -
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NSA - Nationales Sicherheits-Amt by Andreas Eschbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWeimar 1942: Die Programmiererin Helene arbeitet im Nationalen Sicherheits-Amt und entwickelt dort Programme, mit deren Hilfe alle Bürger des Reichs überwacht werden. Erst als die Liebe ihres Lebens Fahnenflucht begeht und untertauchen muss, regen sich Zweifel in ihr...Categorized as:
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![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:
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![North Reich by Robert Conroy]()
North Reich by Robert Conroy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Conroy's introduction: North Reich tells what might have happened if Hitler had not so foolishly declared war on the United States. FDR certainly understood that Germany was the greatest threat, but might have been helpless to do anything about it. War between the United States and Germany was still considered inevitable, but not in December of 1941...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Time on My Hands by Peter Delacorte]()
Time on My Hands by Peter Delacorte
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA physicist who has developed a time machine offers travel writer Gabriel Prince the opportunity to go back in time if he will change history by keeping Ronald Reagan from becoming America's fortieth president...Categorized as:
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![Summer of Love: A Time Travel by Lisa Mason]()
Summer of Love: A Time Travel by Lisa Mason
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, lab-designed drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, free love, dropouts, flower children. An age of innocence, a time of danger: The Summer of Love... -
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![Whack Job by Rysa Walker]()
Whack Job by Rysa Walker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSimon Rand is well-accustomed to altering history. In fact, the CHRONOS key around his neck has allowed him to alter the timeline to include an entirely new religion--one that his grandfather, Saul Rand, claims will result in a better future than generation after generation of haphazard mistakes and blunders...Categorized as:
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![The Desert Mercenary by Barry Sadler]()
The Desert Mercenary by Barry Sadler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAction Adventure. 2 cassettes. Abridged. Approx. 3 hours...Categorized as:
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![Time Change B2 by Alex Myers]()
Time Change B2 by Alex Myers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Between Two Kings by Olivia Longueville]()
Between Two Kings by Olivia Longueville
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnne Boleyn is accused of adultery and imprisoned in the Tower. The very next day she is due to be executed at the hand of a swordsman. Nothing can change the tragic outcome. England will have a new queen before the month is out...Categorized as:
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![The Flying Warlord by Leo Frankowski]()
The Flying Warlord by Leo Frankowski
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsUNCERTAIN VISIONFor a twentieth-century man, Conrad Stargard had done a lot in thirteenth-century Poland. In just nine years, he had "discovered" universal education, aircraft, radios, steamboats, and machine guns. More important, he had prepared Poland to defeat the bloodthirsty Mongols in 1241.But now that the Mongol hordes had arrived, something was disturbing the flow of history...Categorized as:
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![The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker]()
The Sons of Heaven by Kage Baker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is how it ends:In The Sons of Heaven, the forces gathering to seize power finally move on the Company.Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, resurrected Victorian superman, plans for world domination.The immortal Mendoza makes a desperate bargain to delay him.Enforcer Budu, assisted by Joseph, enlists an unexpected ally in his plans to free his old warriors and bring judgment on his former masters...Categorized as:
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![The Shadow Queen by Anne O'Brien]()
The Shadow Queen by Anne O'Brien
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratings**Queen of the North, Anne O’Brien’s enthralling new novel, is available to pre-order now** The Sunday Times Bestseller ‘O’Brien is now approaching Philippa Gregory status’ – Reader’s Digest ‘A dangerous word, perhaps, for a woman. Power.’From her first clandestine marriage, Joan of Kent’s reputation is one of beauty, rumour and scandal.Her royal blood makes her a desirable bride...Categorized as:
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![Turn of the Cards by Victor Milán]()
Turn of the Cards by Victor Milán
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPursued by the CIA, the DEA, and the Wild Card mistress of the winds, Mistral, renegade biochemist Mark Meadows uses the three personalities buried in his psyche in order to outwit his pursuers... -
![First Flight by Mary Robinette Kowal]()
First Flight by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal's Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award.The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Cosmos, and Asimov's... -
![The Gladiator by Harry Turtledove]()
The Gladiator by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Soviet Union won the Cold War. The Russians were a little smarter than they were in our own world, and the United States was a little dumber and a lot less resolute. Now, more than a century later, the world's gone Communist, and capitalism is a bad word... -
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![In High Places by Harry Turtledove]()
In High Places by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTeenager Annette Klein and her family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, sending commodities of the future back to their own timeline. During an attack she is separated from her parents, taken as a slave, and then the really scary thing happens--her purchasers take her to an unofficial crosstime portal... -
![A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove]()
A Different Flesh by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if when Columbus came to the New World he found, not Indians, but primitive apelike men who were soon dubbed "sims"?These immediate ancestors of modern man were less effective hunters, allowing prehistoric creatures such as mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to survive. Unable to learn human speech or conceptualize at a human level, sims could, however, be trained to do reliable work.. -
![Grantville Gazette VI by Eric Flint]()
Grantville Gazette VI by Eric Flint
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis edition of the Grantville Gazette Volume 6 is derived directly from the online edition at http://www.grantvillegazette.com.Stories include:* A Taste of Home by Chris Racciato* Federico and Ginger by Iver P... -
![Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick]()
Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn anthology of pieces, by such writers as Jack L. Chalker, David Gerrold, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, and others, speculates on what might have happened had the presidential elections over the years ended with different results. Original...Categorized as:
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![Hannibal's Children by John Maddox Roberts]()
Hannibal's Children by John Maddox Roberts
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternative history, in which Hannibal was victorious over the Romans, but decided to spare their nation. The hardy Romans travelled northwards to Norcium, and created a new Rome, where they bided their time. A century later, reborn, the Romans return to Italy to reclaim their lands and to confront again the Carthagenians... -
![The Emperor's Men 1: Arrival by Dirk van den Boom]()
The Emperor's Men 1: Arrival by Dirk van den Boom
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShortly before the First World War, the German light cruiser Saarbrücken leaves the port of Wilhelmshaven to make its last big journey before being decommissioned...Categorized as:
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![Counting Up, Counting Down by Harry Turtledove]()
Counting Up, Counting Down by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove’s literary skill and unbridled imagination... -
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The Jump by Alex Myers
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHigh school teacher Jack Riggs is having a streak of bad luck.In a matter of hours he is arrested as a terrorist, thrown in jail, breaks up with his psycho girlfriend and is flung a century and a half into the past.A TIME TRAVEL RACE AGAINST THE CLOCKIt’s 157 years ago in Norfolk Virginia and Jack has no money, a nearly dead iPhone in his pocket and no idea how he got there...Categorized as:
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![The Centurion's Empire by Sean McMullen]()
The Centurion's Empire by Sean McMullen
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman Centurion Vitellan set off for the twenty-first century as Imperial Rome's last human-powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover by just letting her grow old, but her hate pursued him across seven centuries. In 1358 he stood with a few dozen knights against an army of nine thousand to defend the life of a beautiful countess..Categorized as:
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![Grantville Gazette III by Eric Flint, Virginia DeMarce]()
Grantville Gazette III by Eric Flint, Virginia DeMarce
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStories include:* Postage Due by Eric Flint* Pastor Kastenmayer's Revenge by Virginia DeMarce* The Sound of Music by David Carrico* Other People's Money by Gorg Huff* If the Demons Will Sleep by Eva Musch* Hobson's Choice by Francis Turner* Hell Fighters by Wood Hughes* Euterpe, Episode 2 by Enrico M... -
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![These Vengeful Souls by Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas]()
These Vengeful Souls by Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEngland, 1883. On the run with the grieving Sebastian Braddock, Evelyn wants two things: to be reunited with her friends, and to get revenge on the evil Captain Goode. Not only has he misused his and Sebastian's powers to rack up a terrible death toll, but he's also completely destroyed any hope of Evelyn or her friends regaining the life they once knew...Categorized as:
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![Curious Notions by Harry Turtledove]()
Curious Notions by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a parallel-world 21st-century San Francisco where the Kaiser's Germany won World War One and went on to dominate the world, Paul Gomes and his father Lawrence are secret agents for our timeline, posing as traders from a foreign land... -
![The Girl With a Pearl in Her Nose by Jodi Taylor]()
The Girl With a Pearl in Her Nose by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMax is in sick bay (again) where Dr Stone investigates her apparently larger-than-normal nostrils and finds something interesting.Free to read on Jodi's blog: joditaylor.online/blogs/news/the-girl..Categorized as:
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![1636: Seas of Fortune by Iver P. Cooper]()
1636: Seas of Fortune by Iver P. Cooper
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series... -
![Orion by Ben Bova]()
Orion by Ben Bova
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJohn O'Ryan is not a god...not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation... -
![Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove]()
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew—and in fear of the Inquisition’s agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no symbol to unite them against the enemy who occupies their land...Categorized as:
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