Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Alternative History

In All Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park returns to science fiction after a decade spent on the impressive four-volume A Princess of Roumania fantasy, with an extraordinary, intense, compressed SF novel in three parts, each set in its own alternate-history universe. The sections are all rooted in Virginia and the Battle of the Crater, and are also grounded in the real history of the Park family, from differing points of view. They are all gorgeously imaginative and carefully constructed, and reverberate richly with one another.

The first section is set in the aftermath...

The Others freed the blood prophets to protect them from exploitation, but their actions had dire consequences. Now the fragile seers are in greater danger than ever before. In desperate need of answers, Simon Wolfgard, a shape-shifter leader among the Others, has no choice but to enlist blood prophet Meg Corbyn's help, regardless of the risks she...

Near-immortal facetakers can shift between bodies at will. Their bitter enemies steal the force of other souls to power superhuman enhancements. The two groups have battled for dominance since the days of the Pharaohs.

Most of the modern world knows nothing about them, but Sarah has seen the truth, and that knowledge makes her a target. Barely escaping an attempt on her life, she plunges into an ancient war that threatens to topple the entire world order.

Truth is a weapon both sides have wielded for millennia, and Sarah learns her life is built upon lies. History is not what...

'The White Company' is a tale of medieval high adventure, following a young, cloister-raised Saxon nobleman Alleyne Edricson, who must spend a year away from the monks before deciding to renounce the world. Outside, he falls in with a renegade monk and a veteran archer recruiting for the war in France, and decides to see life as a soldier. Edricson's naIve view of humanity is gradually altered by the varied characters he meets - a veritable cross section the medieval world - from pardoners and palmers, through knights, gleemen and friars, to serfs, peasants and soldiers. And of course, the...

An Alternate History Victorian Steampunk Adventure for readers of all ages.

The Steamship Chronicles continue

Savor the Joyful Moments

Sam has never been happier than aboard this merchant ship in the middle of the ocean. Most of the crew accepts her despite knowing about Sam's Natural abilities. They tease and scold as if she were one of their own. She'd do anything to stay, but the captain has made it clear: Come the next port, her voyage is at an end.

Hiding Sam from the crew cost Nat dearly, but he doesn't want her to go. The sailors view her as a good luck charm now, but as...

In July of 2014, turmoil prevails in many countries around the globe by mere coincidence or possibly by design.

James Lane is a moderately successful Australian businessman who receives a strange summons. His presence is requested in London by an acquaintance known as Barnaby which he feels compelled to accept. The only explanation he receives is an old leather box file that he finds waiting on his aeroplane seat.

Travelling via extravagant private jet James soon learns that the box file once belonged to an English shipping magnate named Jon Calder who died over...

Proximity, Book Three of the Back to Normal Series, the tragic and thrilling sequel to Tradecraft.
Since Denver Wayne Collins' involuntary time jump back to 1956, he has been hunted by local and federal law enforcement, shot, jailed, electrocuted, bludgeoned, and sentenced to three years in prison. But the Army Special Forces veteran is about to encounter his deadliest mission yet...an assignment that will seal the fate of every Jumper in Normal. Their desperation propels Denver on a tragic quest deep within enemy territory...

Area 51.

While several states...

The year is 1963 and after the incident in Cuba, Seb lives a life in hiding. Fortunately America is big enough to facilitate such an existence, but it isn't long before the mysterious Mr. Beasley is contacted by one of the most powerful men in the country.

J. Edgar Hoover has spoken and his proposition appears too good to be true.

As a complex web of lies, deceit and political propaganda are weaved, turbulent times lay ahead for the former British Intelligence agent.

Forget flower power, cunning and firepower are his...

The year is 1963 and after the incident in Cuba, Seb lives a life in hiding. Fortunately America is big enough to facilitate such an existence, but it isn't long before the mysterious Mr. Beasley is contacted by one of the most powerful men in the country.

J. Edgar Hoover has spoken and his proposition appears too good to be true.

As a complex web of lies, deceit and political propaganda are weaved, turbulent times lay ahead for the former British Intelligence agent.

Forget flower power, cunning and...