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series5 books1984

completed

About aliens, set in alternate earth and 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.”
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Start with West of Eden →

The Sound of His HornNovel

Sarbanstandalone novel1952

Dystopia, dark in tone, about totalitarianism, set in alternate earth.

Oxford Time TravelSeries

series6 books1982

Time travel, set in british isles.

“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
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Start with Fire Watch →

ResistanceNovel

Owen Sheersstandalone novel2007

Historical fiction, about forbidden love, set in british isles and early 20th century.

“The plot centers on the inhabitants of a valley near Abergavenny in Wales in 1944–45, shortly after the failure of Operation Overlord and a successful German counterinvasion of Great Britain.”
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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

Days of InfamySeries

series2 books2004

War & military, dark in tone, set in north america and 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.”
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Start with Days of Infamy →

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