Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Alternative History

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?

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

What caused the time shift? Was it technology, or is there a sinister force at play?

Secretary of Defense Alicia Calhoun, the civilian in command, has had a long,...

"Futurist as provocateur The world is sheer batshit genius . . . a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment."--William Gibson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author

"Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not 'make America great again, ' but then again, it just might."--Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling and award winning author of Homeland

Acclaimed short story writer and editor of the World Fantasy Award-nominee Three Messages and a Warning eerily envisions an...

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

Praises for The Steamship Chronicles:

Through her young heroine and hero, the author breathes life into a curious, exciting and often dangerous world of steam, sail, sentient machines, loyal friendships and deeds of quiet bravery undertaken in the face of widespread fear and bigotry, to deliver a clever, entertaining and unique new take on Victorian Steampunk. - David Bridger, author of A Flight of Thieves (Sky Ships)

High minded entertainment with an occasional...

Leslie is a marine biologist, an only child, and a mother of three who gets caught in a deadly tsunami. Jack is a Viet Nam veteran with PTSD on a mission to save fish from dying in captivity. Dani is a trans man struggling to find his way in a gender prescriptive world. Mary Akers brilliantly weaves together these three lives alongside a host of other characters with whom they cross paths. This brand-new Book Club Edition delivers an assortment of supplemental materials designed to generate lively discussion, including a signature cocktail recipe, an author interview, and a completely new...

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...

A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn.

The poet and the artist battle it out in Rome before a crowd that includes Galileo, a Mary Magdalene, and a generation of popes who...

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?

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

What caused the time shift? Was it technology, or is there a sinister force at play?

Secretary of Defense Alicia Calhoun, the civilian in command, has had a long,...

From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classics The Handmaid's Tale and When She Woke.

Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son.

Now 40 million of them can't find wives.

China's One Child Policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by 40 million unmarriageable men....

The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.

Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, lost a bag containing the manuscript of his first novel on a Parisian train. In 1996, John Baird, a renowned Hemingway scholar, decides to use that loss to account for a fake manuscript he creates.

Little does Baird suspect that his attempt to pass off the forgery as a recovered Hemingway manuscript...

Tortured Echoes is Volume Two of the Resonant Earth saga that began in Broken Mirror.

When bioinformatics whiz Victor Eastmore at long last gains control over his frightening mirror resonance syndrome, the data egg his grandfather gave him opens, revealing a posthumous message: Victor, I was murdered.

Victor's best hope for finding justice lies in New Venice, a tourist town in the Louisiana Territories where his family's company is exploring new treatment options for so-called -Broken Mirrors- and the stim addicts who experience similar symptoms--blank outs,...

Bonnie and Clyde. Saving democracy, one bank robbery at a time.

As the country limps out of the Great Depression, America needs new heroes.

Like Bonnie and Clyde.

Turns out, they never died that fateful day in 1934. The photos of their bloodied bullet-riddled corpses and the funerals were faked. Instead, the outlaw lovers were kidnapped by a secret organization defending American democracy and the working class from capitalist greed. Forced into a covert life, they are given a dangerous and desperate mission--stop a cabal of wealthy...