検索キーワード： 歴史改変

William Shakespeare, lasciati momentaneamente moglie e figli nell’amata Inghilterra, è in missione per conto della Corona. La missione è segreta, segretissima, e lui, che non sa ancora di essere poeta, sbarca nelle terre della Serenissima e si stabilisce a Padova, dove c’è un inglese da trovare e riportare in patria. Padova è il centro della Repubblica di Venezia e della vita intellettuale, politica e mondana, affollata di preti, nobili, mezzane, medici, maghi o sedicenti tali, studenti, teste calde, uomini d’arme e uomini che hanno abbandonato le armi.

Ved slutningen af det tyvende århundrede lider den vestlige verden under tre tilbagevendende problemer: Hvordan kan jeg tabe mig? Hvor finder jeg en parkeringsplads? Hvad skal jeg give min familie i julegave?Opfinder Geo D. Eden fik løst et af problemerne, men alligevel slog hans livsværk fejl. Han forbereder sig nu på sin død, og han har tilkaldt sine nærmeste for at gøre rent bord. Men også arvingerne har forberedt sig.

The story culminates at the World's Colombian Exposition, where the Gearsmiths plan to unveil their innovations to the world. But Lord Bellingham and his Coterie have laid a trap, planning to use the fair's centerpiece—the magnificent Ferris Wheel—as a device to seize control of all aetheric technology.

Seeking refuge in New Orleans, the Gearsmiths discover a city where science and spirituality dance a delicate waltz. Their etheric technology takes on new dimensions as they encounter voodoo practitioners who have been working with similar forces — which they know as Sophagial frequencies - for generations. When their experiments accidentally unleash supernatural havoc upon the Big Easy, they must forge alliances with local mystics to prevent an interdimensional catastrophe.

Home. Kaishi can see Earth, but between her and her family stand a hostile fleet and Kaishi only has one ship that she doesn’t even know how to fly. Her sole chance at survival depends on a risky attempt to reach Earth’s far side, where nobody Kaishi knows has ever been. Landing there means a long journey home, but it’s better than dying in space. Except the Earth Kaishi finds when they reach the surface is far different than the one she knows, and learning why the ground is covered in ash will mean questioning everything she thought she knew about her tribe, and her species.

Вот он — выход в море, вот они — торговые пути в заморские страны, но нет! Словно псы сторожевые караулят в море датские корабли, не выпускают русичей из устья Наровы. Небольшая. русская крепость на балтийском берегу будто кость в горле не только у захвативших побережье данов, но и у крестоносцев. Ещё и псковские бояре с литвинами и орденом мирные соглашения. подписали, не по нраву им постоянная война под боком, мешающая торговле. И Ватикан готовит очередной крестовый поход на славянские земли… Придётся рассчитывать только на свои силы!

Далекое будущее. Отставной адмирал Космического флота Российской империи Сергей Тихонов, принимавший участие во многих секретных операциях, владеющий компроматом на сильных мира сего, при смене власти становится опасным свидетелем, который подлежит ликвидации. Но тайна адмирала, которую он хранит более сотни лет, дает шанс выжить. Хоть и весьма своеобразно. Благодаря попавшему ему в руки еще во времена бурной юности на дикой планете секретному прибору, его разум вместе с прибором переносится на огромное расстояние, на копию нашей Земли. Но там царит век пара — 1850 год.

Ryo was a chef, an extremely good one at that. That was until the entire universe as he knew it changed. After his spaceship is attacked and destroyed by an enemy armada, he finds himself in a situation he never could have imagined. Sent back in time and to an alternate reality, he has quite a few choices to make. Especially considering that the ruthless Kublai Khan and his Mongol Horde are just a few years away. Accompanied by an extremely advanced Artificial Intelligence, a medieval noble, and his samurai retainers, Ryo sets out to change the known world.

The year is 1790, and the world of 1990 is imagined by Archie Archibald. It is a world of steamhorses, steamsnakes, steam whales, and steamhawks. The brightly painted towns are connected by rails and cobblestone highways. The inhabitants of these towns live in colourful dwellings, work in colourful industrial mills and everyone wears a brightly coloured wig. The fields are grazed by hideous but meaty oversized cattle, and the corn is cut with clockwork sickles.

In an alternate universe, and a very different future, the struggle for freedom takes on a whole new meaning.

When the people of Waxahachie, Texas wake to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world and surrounded by an unfamiliar and dangerous wilderness, they must work together to survive and unravel the cause of the mysterious "seam".

Ruth's tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life. But Ruth's cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve—a premium upgrade—was created, driving human lifespan to a new high. The wealthy elite who take it are dubbed Supers, and the population begins to skyrocket. Then, a perilous side-effect of the SuperJuve emerges, with catastrophic consequences.

The continuing struggle of the Azoreans led by Griegor Lamont and the evil faction known as the LeathMairbh. Heather Meicklejohn' marriage to Quinlan causes an uproar in the clan. Tempers flare and there are forces at work that are trying to stop it at any cost. Heather is the Maid of Braestone. Cormack and his followers have inadvertently inserted themselves into one of the most notorious clan feuds in Scottish history. Find out how the Azoreans and the LeathMairbh were responsible for death and betrayal and the changing of Scotland's history forever.

It is six months since the Battle of Hawaii. The war to defend Taiwan has become World War III, and the surviving pilots of a rested and refitted Aggressor Inc. are thrown back into the fight as it moves across multiple fronts. On Japanese Kunashiri Island, the crew of a single Japanese Infantry Fighting Vehicle tries to hold back an entire Russian airborne company, while marauding Russian fighters pour into the skies overhead.

My name's Nadia, and I serve the High Queen of the Elves. My friend Neil Freeman also works for her, and he's the deadliest assassin who ever lived. He paid a high price for his abilities, including a damaged memory. But his memory holds secrets that might destroy the world. So when the mad wizards of Singularity come to rip open Neil's mind and steal those secrets, it's up to us to stop them.

It is the beginning of 1918, the last year of the greatest war in human history, to date. All the belligerents stagger on their feet. Starvation is an ever present reality, while disease waits in the wings. In Russia, no longer a belligerent but, instead, rapidly descending into civil war and chaos, a lone family—Father, Mother, four beautiful young girls, and a brave but sickly boy—await their own fate, shivering and hungry in the dark, hoping and praying for salvation. Their relatives in England have turned their backs. The guards set over them do little but torment them.

Eliza Scaggs (not Scraggsies, thank you very much) is tired of all the rumors about her. Sure, she’s looking a bit haggard as of late, but she’s been working herself to the bone on a secret government project to prove that she, the only woman in the wizard’s guild, belongs there. So, maybe she’s got some gray in her hair, but she’s not old, not old-old— and the only thing she’s made a pact with is her purveyor of rot brew tea. Okay, the pet monster thing is true, but Throat Ripper hasn’t caught anyone, not yet.

Maxx King is a former Army Ranger turned cybercrime investigator trying to get his life back on track when he has an unexpected confrontation with a ruthless Chinese spy. Struggling to understand the escalating violence, he discovers a clandestine US-China conflict centered around a device of unknown origins with the power to trigger massive natural disasters.

Erleben Sie beinharte militärische Science-Fiction aus Deutschland! Tauchen Sie ein in eine packende Geschichte, die von einem alternativen Krieg erzählt. Autor Hermann Weinhauer, bekannt für seine nervenzerfetzenden Frontberichte, legt mit "Imperium Germanicum“ eine Alternativweltgeschichte der Extraklasse vor. Seine Serie vereint gekonnt die Genres Polit-Thriller und Kriegsroman, wenn Weinhauer die wohl spannendste aller Fragen beantwortet: Was wäre, wenn …?

MURPHY'S ELEVENTH BOOK SHOWCASES HIS FLAIR FOR TURNING ESTABLISHED GENRES INSIDE OUT AND ON THEIR HEAD. WHERE THIS BOOK STARTS IS NOWEHERE NEAR WHERE IT FINISHES, WITH AN ENDING GUARANTEED TO SURPRISE YOU AND TERRIFY YOU WITH IT'S IMPLICATIONS. EQUAL PARTS SUSPENSE AND PHILOSOPHY MIXED WITH PSYCHOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS TALE IS A ROMANTICIZED IDEALIZATION OF SIMPLER TIMES AS WELL AS A WARNING AGAINST WHERE HUMANITY IS HEADING.