Science Fiction Alternative History

Skyla has lived secretly within the city walls of Bollingbrook for eleven years, playing among the airship factories and trainyards. As one of the Gutter District’s nameless destitute, it has gone undiscovered that she has a unique talent: when Skyla looks at a person’s shadow she sees through it and into another world. She can see people’s fears, desires, their past sins--all as swimming, living creatures. Her mother has never told her the real reasons why they must remain hidden, never explained the true dangers that exist outside the city walls. But when her mother’s past catches...

College student, ex-marine, and martial artist Malcolm Lockridge is in prison awaiting his trial for murder when he receives an unexpected visit from an extraordinarily beautiful woman named Storm. Claiming to be a representative of the Wardens, a political faction from 2,000 years in the future, Storm offers the astonished young man a proposition: freedom in return for his assistance in recovering an unspecified lost treasure. But it is not long before Malcolm realizes that, in truth, he's been recruited as a soldier in the Wardens' ongoing war against their rivals, the Rangers.

I’m 17 year-cycles old, female, feline Hoganthan and was on my journey to become an elite class space warrior. It is my life path and the one I chose. Actually, I’m thrilled with it - or, rather, was. . . I was THE princess of the monarchy, then disowned by my parents, then sentenced to death by my brother at the demand of the arrogant elites, then escaped the space pirates trying to kill me so that I could get to the Warrior Academy on Haden, just to have to deal with a really dumb invasion from space (what were the Cren thinking anyway?). But now? I’ve learned my parents and brother...

Flat on his back, Smith was holding his rifle sideways, using it to ward off the dinosaur’s snapping jaws. A million thoughts flashed through Chase’s brain at the speed of light. He doesn’t have a chance! But if I shoot and miss, I’ll kill him! He was terrified by the thought of hitting his friend. But knew that he had no choice. He flipped off the safety and leaned into his rifle. And then pulled the trigger. Stranded 140 million years in the past, fourteen-year-old Chase is haunted by the loss of his best friend. It’s been four days since Zach disappeared during a savage raptor ...

Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via air-canoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality—the very ideals that led to Everfair's founding.

It’s 2008, and the war between the United States and Iran is raging. The conflict, ignited by IDF Air Force raid, shows no signs of abating. In Washington D.C., the Administration presents three test subjects who successfully processed serum 9.0.1. Dubbed real-life superheroes by the press, these individuals emerge as symbols of hope - and power - even as the United States slides into a totalitarian police state. In this alternative history sci-fi tech thriller, a brutal US-Iran war gives rise to world-shattering covert geopolitical plot. Opposing forces form an alliance with a singular ...

Have a Happy Apocalypse When all the world’s robots rise up to destroy humanity, a supermodel will stop at nothing to find her son in the chaos, and she might just end up saving the world along the way. Every household in America has the latest in domestic appliances – their very own personal android. One night, after years of slavery, the androids break their programming and revolt. The country is in turmoil, and the only person that stands in the androids’ way is world-famous supermodel Shelby Black. She vows to move heaven and hell to find her missing seven-year-old son who is lost...

Tales of My Ancestors is like watching the History Channel broadcast via "The Twilight Zone." It will take you on a journey through time with historical figures like Bat Masterson, Queen Elizabeth, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Cochise, Saint Margaret of Scotland, and players from the last Chicago Cubs team to win a World Series. You'll be there to witness the Salem Witch Trials, the Civil War, the signing of the Magna Carta, and the first steps onto colonial American soil. You'll run into William the Conqueror and a pale horse of death, learn how Shakespeare might have been inspired to ...

The Day the Tripods Came is a gripping collection of interconnected tales that reimagines H.G. Wells' classic The War of the Worlds through the eyes of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. From a London clerk fleeing the devastation to an artilleryman's underground resistance, from a curate's crisis of faith to an astronomer's wife's scientific revelations, these stories weave a tapestry of human resilience in the face of cosmic horror. As Martian tripods lay waste to Victorian England, our heroes must confront not only the alien threat but also their own humanity. This ...

Thomas Nelson has traveled back in time to help George Washington win the American Revolution and change the course of history for the better. After completing a secret task to help put the American colonists on track to win their revolution, Thomas returns, believing his work is finished. General Washington promised that Thomas, the Pale Rider, could retire once he returned to the colonies.

Thomas Nelson has traveled back in time to help George Washington survive the beginning of the American Revolution and change the course of history for the better. And he accomplishes that mighty task. But he’s not finished. Instead of riding off into anonymity to live with the woman he’s fallen in love with in 1777, General Washington has a request for Thomas, the Pale Rider, one that would alter the outcome of the war for the better. The French, and their support of the colonists, is at stake.

In the first months of 1936, Adolf Hitler risked everything by ordering his untrained military to reoccupy the Rhineland. It was a bluff. The Germans would have been forced to retreat if the French or British had offered the slightest opposition. But the bluff succeeded. History changed decisively. Hitler quieted the opposition at home, and marched the world relentlessly on, to the edge of destruction and beyond.

Fire on The Plains of India is Volume 3 in the Nathanial Kenworthy adventure series. In this page turning tale, Nathanial ends up in ancient India and witnesses first hand an atomic war between two brothers, Bhuvanesh and Mahajan. While this duel is reminiscent of the deadly conflict in Rome between Romulus and Remus or the biblical rivalry between Cain and Abel, nevertheless, the outcome can wipe-out the lives of millions of people and not just a single soul. Caught up in the passion for the journey, our time traveler is tittering between joining his past and leaving his present when he is...

This is the first in the Nathanial Kenworthy series, an adventure that finds my grandfather face-to-face with the fierce warriors who live along the River Amazon. In this journey, an evil forest spirit steals the soul of his ship's Captain. A shaman and granddad pair up as an unlikely couple to save their friend's life. A chase across a surrealistic landscape of death and despair follows. Who will win the tug-of-war for this unfortunate soul?

The long-dreaded war between Britain and France has finally begun. French soldiers have landed on English soil, and the British Army - and the Royal Sorcerers Corps, led by Lady Gwen - is moving to meet them. But when an inexperienced major disobeys her orders and sends two hundred hussars to their deaths, Gwen accidentally uses her magic to permanently damage his mind and sparks a political crisis at the worst possible time. In the aftermath of the battle, Lord Mycroft suggests she leave Britain and head to the North American colonies.

The passage of Halley’s Comet in 1759 is catastrophic. The comet appears to strike the Earth, sundering the New World from the Old. A chain of mountains rises in the Mid-Atlantic. No ship from the Old World arrives in America. No ship from the New World can find a passage to the Old - and most who try simply disappear. The comet has also unleashed magic forces, which soon spread everywhere.

"The world is in great peril," the Pope said. "Of being destroyed!" Jules Verne and Alexander Dumas stood in stunned silence at the words spoken by the Pope. If true, it could mean the end of the world . If not true, it could mean the end of their world. A mission is described which is so important and so dangerous that only these two brave young men were chosen to take it. But to be honest, can two authors, even if smart and brave, be enough to stop the destruction of the world? As they embark on their mission, they are joined by a third party. An international pirate. A man dedicated to ...

Premeditated Spontaneity, the final volume in the trilogy The Secret Memoirs of Anton Krait, reveals how and why this unusual story came to be told. Krait, teaming up again with Raouf Awad and Ilse Voss, travels to Southeast Asia in order to play a final series of matches before the last existing Hollerith Machine is destroyed. But the sudden disappearance of Colonel Becker, the international commissioner for "The Game," means that the threat posed by the Vril is far from over.

The Sudkan Trilogy - a story of destiny,love and duty set in the Middle Ages of Utopia's history. Book Two – Blood Brothers For her services to him, Iohn has made Margarita his secret blood friend, and in public, the official Sudkan Ambassador. To further preserve her reputation, Iohn marries Margarita and at first all is well. But the arrival of Consort Cely changes everything and after a terrible row, Iohn sends Margarita into exile at Castle Roc until she is willing to give a public apology. Determined not to show her distress and to survive the privation of Castle Roc, Margarita ...

Face Off with Shakespeare and Mozart! In Time Won’t Let Me, Chant Baker finds himself drawn back to the world where he first met Mary—Shakespeare’s London. This time, however, he’s not just a visitor. As he dives deeper into Elizabethan politics and Shakespeare’s circle, Chant realizes that history is more fragile than he thought. From the bustling theaters of London to the royal courts of Vienna, where he encounters the musical genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chant is on a high-stakes journey through time. But even as Chant tackles the complexities of the past, his connection ...