Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Alternative History

Set in a past that never was, five tales of adventure and excitement from the pen of five completely different authors sharing a single world.

The Haemophage by Rob Harkess: On a mining base in the Asteroid Belt people start dying by having their blood sucked out but vampires are a myth, aren't they?

Taking the Cure by Peter Smalley: A health-spa pleasure cruise to the Moon and back goes very wrong and only a young ensign can help.

Iron Curtain by Virginia Maybury: A London patents clerk is employed to build a...

In a past that never was, the crew of the ice cargo flyer FROZEN BEAUTY struggle to keep themselves on an even keel.

Captain Qi Zang and her motley crew will do anything to keep the furnaces stoked with coal, the steam superheated, and the Frozen Beauty in the air.

From the Himalayas to Ceylon the crew ply their trade against insurmountable odds facing against Chinese gangsters, rebels and things even stranger.

1896. Trouble in Zanzibar? The Edgbaston Sisters to the rescue.

Harriet and Khuwelsa are teenage sisters and they love flying over the grasslands in their flying machine: The Pegasus. But East Africa is a cauldron of political tensions as the global empires of Britain and Germany vie for control.

When the sisters stumble into the middle of a German military build-up, they are taken prisoner to prevent them revealing the truth to the British. To prevent a war they must escape their captors and warn their father in Zanzibar - but even if they succeed who will...

1896. Trouble in Zanzibar? The Edgbaston Sisters to the rescue.

Harriet and Khuwelsa are teenage sisters and they love flying over the grasslands in their flying machine: The Pegasus. But East Africa is a cauldron of political tensions as the global empires of Britain and Germany vie for control.

When the sisters stumble into the middle of a German military build-up, they are taken prisoner to prevent them revealing the truth to the British. To prevent a war they must escape their captors and warn their father in Zanzibar - but even if they succeed who will...

Death is chasing Maliha Anderson and it's catching up.

Time is running out and the man who has turned out to be her nemesis has created an impossible situation to kill everyone she knows one by one.

How can she possibly defeat a man with so much power he can make an honest man kill. With deaths piling up around her Malihacan only rely on her wits and her diminishing friends to help her on an unforgiving and unknown world.

In a past that never was, the final book in the Maliha Anderson series takes her to a new world, where the very air is death and the...

Death is chasing Maliha Anderson and it's catching up.

Time is running out and the man who has turned out to be her nemesis has created an impossible situation to kill everyone she knows one by one.

How can she possibly defeat a man with so much power he can make an honest man kill. With deaths piling up around her Malihacan only rely on her wits and her diminishing friends to help her on an unforgiving and unknown world.

In a past that never was, the final book in the Maliha Anderson series takes her to a new world, where the very air is death and the...

Missing babies in Johannesburg, and nobody cares.

Maliha Anderson and her entourage travel to South Africa to return Riette's baby to the father's family on what should be a simple mission of mercy. But they are soon embroiled in race politics and something even darker: Children are disappearing but no one cares because they are black.

In a battle against a vast subversive power Maliha discovers the worst horrors that man can commit, and struggles to bring the true perpetrators to justice. But what can one woman do?

In a past that never was, the fifth...

Missing babies in Johannesburg, and nobody cares.

Maliha Anderson and her entourage travel to South Africa to return Riette's baby to the father's family on what should be a simple mission of mercy. But they are soon embroiled in race politics and something even darker: Children are disappearing but no one cares because they are black.

In a battle against a vast subversive power Maliha discovers the worst horrors that man can commit, and struggles to bring the true perpetrators to justice. But what can one woman do?

In a past that never was, the fifth...

What if home became a place of dread?

Maliha Anderson returns to her family in French-owned Pondicherry, and it's as bad as she expected. Her grandmother is trying to marry her off but that's nothing compared the suicide of an unknown woman in front of a family wedding party. Or that her rejected lover has returned unexpectedly.

Maliha refuses to allow the woman's death to be brushed under the carpet but her investigations bring her to a very dark place. Slavery, sexual violence and taboo relationships guide her to a devastating revelation that might destroy...

What if home became a place of dread?

Maliha Anderson returns to her family in French-owned Pondicherry, and it's as bad as she expected. Her grandmother is trying to marry her off but that's nothing compared the suicide of an unknown woman in front of a family wedding party. Or that her rejected lover has returned unexpectedly.

Maliha refuses to allow the woman's death to be brushed under the carpet but her investigations bring her to a very dark place. Slavery, sexual violence and taboo relationships guide her to a devastating revelation that might destroy...

1908. Three gruesome deaths in three mysterious tales in a past that never was.

In Murder out of the Blue, aboard the Sky Liner RMS Macedonia, Maliha Anderson, Anglo-Indian daughter of a Scottish engineer and a Brahmin scholar, hopes to make peace with her past - but then the nurse of the wheelchair-bound General is murdered.

Only Maliha believes he is innocent, and with landfall in India only hours away, she must find the real murderer, even though doing so puts her own life at risk.

In Blood Sky at Night, Maliha is forced to...

1908. Three gruesome deaths in three mysterious tales in a past that never was.

In Murder out of the Blue, aboard the Sky Liner RMS Macedonia, Maliha Anderson, Anglo-Indian daughter of a Scottish engineer and a Brahmin scholar, hopes to make peace with her past - but then the nurse of the wheelchair-bound General is murdered.

Only Maliha believes he is innocent, and with landfall in India only hours away, she must find the real murderer, even though doing so puts her own life at risk.

In Blood Sky at Night, Maliha is forced to...

What if President Truman had withdrawn American forces from the Korean peninsula in 1950, rather than holding fast in a fight that cost more than 30,000 American lives? How would the United States' position in Asia be affected today?

Push Back Choson offers one possible answer. In this alternate history, President Truman elects to withdraw American troops from Korea in order to avoid a new world war. The unfolding story is witnessed through the lives of an American Foreign Service officer, Tom Crandall, and a young South Korean woman, Soon Hi Chung who finds herself a...

Read the steampunk adventure the New York Times called a "wild, satisfying ride."

Having stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari.

Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a free life, Desmond assumes responsibility for him and they flee. But a dogged enemy agent remains ever on their heels, desperate to obtain the secrets held within Lij for her employer alone.

Assassins,...

In a past that never was, the crew of the ice cargo flyer FROZEN BEAUTY struggle to keep themselves on an even keel.

Captain Qi Zang and her motley crew will do anything to keep the furnaces stoked with coal, the steam superheated, and the Frozen Beauty in the air.

From the Himalayas to Ceylon the crew ply their trade against insurmountable odds facing against Chinese gangsters, rebels and things even stranger.

What would happen if a 21st Century US Navy task force on a short mission to test a new ultra-secret weapon traveled back in time with their military superiority and their knowledge of how history played out? Every moral and idealistically conceived notion he and his command staff have based their lives on comes into question when they find themselves in another time and space.

Will they prevent wars? Will they set the world on a better path? Or will they use their advantage for their own greedy benefit?

Will the world listen...