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Clash of Eagles / The Hesperian TrilogySeries
series4 books2010
Alternate history, adventurous and tense in tone, about colonialism and war, set in north america and alternate earth.
Start with Clash of Eagles →
Eden (Harry Harrison)Series
series5 books1984
completed
About aliens, set in prehistoric.
“Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy imagines an Earth where the dinosaurs never died out, evolving instead into the Yilane, a technologically advanced reptilian civilization that shares the planet uneasily with early humans.”
from the catalogue
Start with West of Eden →
The Change / The EventSeries
series41 books1998
Post-apocalyptic.
“Sixteen different authors, coordinated by Stirling, each contribute stories set in various corners of the suddenly de-industrialized world as survivors scramble to rebuild.”
from the catalogue
Start with Island in the Sea of Time →
BelisariusSeries
series7 books1998
completed
Alternate history and science fiction, about war, set in ancient world.
“In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil.”
from the catalogue
Start with An Oblique Approach →
Days of InfamySeries
series2 books2004
Dark in tone, set in early 20th century.
“Harry Turtledove's Days of Infamy duology reimagines the Pacific theater of World War II with an alternate outcome at Pearl Harbor: a Japanese invasion and occupation of Hawaii rather than a single carrier strike.”
from the catalogue
Start with Days of Infamy →
ConquistadorNovel
S. M. Stirlingstandalone novel2003
Set in mid 20th century.
“Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, is about to make a fabulous discovery.”
from the catalogue