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  • Cover of Agent of Byzantium
    Agent of ByzantiumSeries

    series · 8 books · 1985

    Alternate history.

    “Assembled from linked stories, it uses Argyros's investigations to tour the technology, politics, and everyday texture of Turtledove's altered timeline.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Eyes of Argos →

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  • Cover of Roma Eterna
    Roma EternaSeries

    series · 11 books · 1989

    Set in alternate earth.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Tales from the Venia Woods →

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  • Cover of Time's Tapestry
    Time's TapestrySeries

    series · 4 books · 2006

    Science fiction and time travel, set in our world.

    “Emperor opens the sequence in Roman-era Britain, and the alternate timeline compounds across the following three novels before a concluding volume gathers the whole arc.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Emperor →

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  • Cover of Lest Darkness Fall
    Lest Darkness FallSeries

    series · 4 books · 1941

    Science fiction and time travel, set in ancient world.

    “David Drake's later novella To Bring the Light, sometimes packaged alongside it, borrows the same time-travel-to-Rome premise with a different protagonist.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Lest Darkness Fall →

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  • Cover of Ring of Fire (1632)
    Ring of Fire (1632)Universe

    universe · 687 books · 2000

    Set in europe.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with 1632 →

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    includes Queen of the Sea / The Alexander Inheritance, Assiti Shards Universe Novels, Time Spike

  • Cover of The Difference Engine
    The Difference EngineNovel

    William Gibson & Bruce Sterling · standalone novel · 1990

    Science fiction and steampunk, set in british isles and alternate earth.

    “The computer age arrives a century early with Babbage's perfection of his 'analytical engine'.”

    from the catalogue

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