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- Ancient Egyptian
series9 books1993
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Wilbur Smith's Ancient Egypt novels open with River God (1993), narrated by the loyal eunuch slave Taita as he guides the royal family's flight from the Hyksos invasion and their eventual return to power. The series, later continued by Smith with co-author Mark Chadbourn, follows Taita and Egypt's rulers across further installments including The Seventh Scroll, Warlock, and Desert God, spanning three decades of publication.
- Marcus
series4 books1954
completed
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Rosemary Sutcliff's linked Roman Britain novels follow several generations of one family across centuries of the Roman occupation and its aftermath, opening with The Eagle of the Ninth, in which the young centurion Marcus Aquila sets out to recover his lost father's legion standard. Later books, including The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers, follow his descendants through Britain's slow slide out of the Empire.
- Boudica
series4 books2003
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Manda Scott's Boudica novels reimagine the Iceni queen's life and rebellion against Roman occupation, opening with Dreaming the Eagle's account of her childhood and rise among rival British tribes before following her through the war that made her legend across three further novels.
- The Camulod Chronicles
series9 books1992
completed
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Published in North America as the Camulod Chronicles (and elsewhere as A Dream of Eagles), Jack Whyte's series retells the Arthurian legend as grounded historical fiction, stripping away magic in favor of a plausible post-Roman Britain. Uther, the volume tracked here, centers on Uther Pendragon himself, one of the saga's recurring figures on the road to Arthur's own generation.
- Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
series26 books1991
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Outlander is a series of historical fantasy novels by American author Diana Gabaldon. Gabaldon began the first volume of the series, Outlander, in the late 1980s; it was published in 1991. She has published nine out of a planned ten volumes. The ninth novel in the series, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, was released on November 23, 2021.
- Agent of Byzantium
series8 books1985
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Harry Turtledove's fix-up novel follows Basil Argyros, a secret agent of the Byzantine Empire, through an alternate 14th century in which Islam never emerged, letting both Byzantium and Sassanid Persia survive intact into an era when, in our history, neither still existed. Assembled from linked stories, it uses Argyros's investigations to tour the technology, politics, and everyday texture of Turtledove's altered timeline.
- Ring of Fire (1632)
universe687 books2000
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Somewhere in the spring of 1631, the sky over a stretch of Thuringian farmland cracks open, and when it closes a piece of the year 2000 is sitting in the middle of the Thirty Years' War. Grantville — a played-out coal town lifted whole out of West Virginia, high-school gym and pizza parlor and all — has landed three miles of the twentieth century three and a half centuries upstream, in the bloodiest war Europe would ever fight. The town does the only thing it knows how to do: it holds a meeting, elects a government, and gets to work. What Eric Flint began with 1632 he almost at once threw open to everyone else, and this is a shared world built the way Grantville rebuilds — by committee, by many hands, in public. The spine runs 1632, then 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War (written with David Weber), after which the timeline forks across a continent: the war in the north, the Roman intrigues of the Galileo Affair, Bavaria, the Ottomans, Russia, each carried in its own novel and its own numbered year. Feeding it is the Grantville Gazette, a running magazine of fan-then-professional fiction, and the Ring of Fire anthologies, where authors like Virginia DeMarce, Gorg Huff and Kerryn Offord supply the machinists, printers and lawyers one narrator never could. The same cosmic accident — the Assiti Shards — maroons other towns in other centuries in Time Spike and The Alexander Inheritance. There are no chosen ones here and no magic, only the terrifying leverage of already knowing how the next four hundred years turn out. The pleasure is procedural and democratic: union halls and lathes outfighting kings, down-timers and up-timers arguing their way toward a republic. Sprawling, uneven, warm-blooded, it rewards browsing over marching. Begin with 1632, read 1633 next, then follow whichever thread — sea, siege, or senate — pulls you in.
- Cleopatra
H. Rider Haggardstandalone novel1889
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Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is an adventure novel written by English author H. Rider Haggard and first printed in 1889 by Longmans. Cleopatra mixes historical action with supernatural events, and could be described as a historical fantasy novel.
- Wolves Chronicles
series12 books1962
completed
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The Wolves Chronicles is Joan Aiken's long-running alternate-history series for young readers, set in a nineteenth-century England ruled by the Stuart dynasty and beset by wolves that have migrated across a Channel land-bridge. It opens with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, in which two girls outwit a scheming governess sent to ruin them, and expands over twelve books into a sprawling saga of orphans, conspiracies, and journeys through a Britain quite unlike the real one. Aiken kept adding to the same timeline across more than four decades, including later prequels set before the first book.
- Sally Lockhart
series4 books1985
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Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart quartet follows a resourceful, unconventional heroine navigating Victorian London - a sharpshooting, mathematically gifted young orphan who builds an improbable career as a financial consultant against the era's expectations for women. The Ruby in the Smoke opens with Sally investigating her father's death and a mysterious jewel; the following novels widen out into fraud, opium-trade crime, and international intrigue, tracking Sally's evolving relationships, including with the journalist Daniel Goldberg, across four Victorian-set mysteries.
- Barney Custer
series3 books1914
completed
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Barney Custer is an American farmer from Nebraska who travels to the small European kingdom of Lutha only to discover he's the spitting image of its unstable ruler, King Leopold. Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Mad King drops him into court intrigue on the eve of World War I, as a scheming uncle's plot for the throne and a budding romance with a princess force Barney to impersonate the king he resembles. It's a standalone Ruritanian adventure rather than an ongoing series.
- The Handmaid's Tale
series3 books1985
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The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred. Atwood returned to the world in her 2019 sequel The Testaments, set fifteen years later and narrated by three women, including the regime's Aunt Lydia. Together the two novels move from Gilead's grip on power toward the first cracks in it.
- First North Americans
series34 books1990
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North America's Forgotten Past is a series of historical fiction novels published by Tor and written by husband and wife co-authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. The series, which began with 1990's People of the Wolf, explores various civilizations and cultures in prehistoric North America. It is somewhat comparable to Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series, which is set in prehistoric Europe, but each of its books focuses on a different time period, location, and set of characters. The first four novels form a coherent, more or less linear narrative, from the initial migration of Siberian peoples into what is now Canada and Alaska through the florescence of the Mississippian semi-urban mound-building culture, considered the "high-water mark" of North American pre-Columbian civilization, around 1000 AD. The remaining novels cover a wide variety of times and settings, most standalone stories in no particular order, ranging from tropical Florida in the 6th millennium BC to the Chaco Empire of the Southwest in the 13th century AD. The novels take into account new developments in North American archaeology such as the discovery of Kennewick Man and the development of the coastal-route model as a possible alternative or supplement to overland migration across Beringia.
- Gregory Sallust
series4 books1934
completed
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Dennis Wheatley's Gregory Sallust novels follow a resourceful, ruthless British secret agent operating against Nazi Germany, beginning with Black August's vision of a Britain collapsing into anarchy and continuing through wartime espionage across occupied Europe. The series, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, mixes political thriller with Wheatley's taste for scheming villains and narrow escapes.
- Roma Eterna
series11 books1989
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Robert Silverberg's Roma Eterna imagines an alternate history in which the Roman Empire never fell and endures into the present day, tracing its long, uneven survival through a sequence of pivotal moments across two millennia. Rather than one continuous plot, the book is a fix-up of ten linked stories, most first published in Asimov's Science Fiction over a fourteen-year span, each set in a different era of this unbroken Rome. It reads as the chronicle of a civilization rather than a story following a single cast of characters.
- Hannibal's Children
series2 books2002
completed
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