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No sport has been more associated with America’s sense of itself, with its identity, than baseball. No sport has been so inextricably bound with America’s traditions—with its notions of democracy and fair play—than baseball. And no professional sport in America has been as dramatically connected to social change as Major League Baseball when it became racially integrated the moment Jackie Robinson took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.

In an alternate history of Earth, Sir Basil Campbell, a hero of the Battle of Jutland, has helped change the language of the Washington Naval Treaty from its original form. In doing so, Sir Basil's mysterious dreams have spurred an international change in focus towards accelerated development of naval aviation. Part of that involved the two 'Splendid Cats', the Royal Navy battle cruisers HMS Lion and HMS Princess Royal, being converted into aircraft carriers instead of being scrapped. Elsewhere in the world, other navies sacrificed large portions of their battleship fleets to be able to add...

Alec Martinson was a former naval officer before becoming the captain of an old commercial jump tender. But hauling cargo shuttles around from one star system to another was simply not exciting enough for him. Alec decided to form his own privateer unit, willing to sell his sword to the highest bidder as long as the price was right and the job wasn’t too ‘dirty’. After recruiting enough ships and personnel, Alec was hired on by one of the colony systems to help them against an interstellar corporate syndicate’s armed takeover bid. Alec had to then set up a base on the edge of human-...

The Second World War is over, with the world being far different than Harold Cavill had remembered in the history of his former life in the future as James Stevenson. But his days are growing short. So Harold's children must now take up the mantle of quietly guiding the world away from a nuclear Armageddon and towards the stars. But the world remains far from a peaceful place, even as the Cavill's refocus their efforts into putting mankind into space while keeping the West strong against a variety of threats.

To most people, Deborah Marcum was simply the adopted daughter of a Methodist minister and his family. What only a handful of people knew was that Deborah's real parents were at the heart of two mysterious 'Events' that transformed much of the American mid-Atlantic region before the couple disappeared. Only one person knows that Deborah has inherited her father's incredible gift. But all of the technological hardware that appeared after the 'Events' were not the only gifts to come out of those events. Thousands of brilliant children born less than a year after the Second Event are beginning...

It’s the 1980’s, the Cavill Family and their multi-national megacorporation have established human settlements on both the Moon and Mars. Their work in space has now significantly overshadowed their still substantial mining, energy, communications, defense and manufacturing operations still on Earth. The Cavills are also the leaders in the development of affordable clean energy on Earth and in space. But while the Cavills have continued to oppose the development of nuclear weapons because they had been the cause of humanity’s demise in Harold Cavill’s original timeline, multiple ...

Alec Martinson’s privateers have successfully survived their first big test. But new enemies threaten to destroy Alec’s people, either by destroying their reputation or eliminating them in combat. But hope will come from a source that Alec didn’t even know that he had with a world that most of humanity considered little more than insular, religious zealots. But even those can have their secrets. Alec and his people will soon be in a fight for their lives against the genocidal Lu’non and will need all of the help that they can get.

The Martian colony at Hebes Chasma had just been saved from a catastrophe by a miracle intervention. But Deborah Marcum-Sorenson and all of the polymaths living there still had much to do at Hebes Chasma. For Deborah, this includes raising twin children whose gifts are yet to be revealed. The colony was growing at an astounding rate even as the Martian environment rapidly changed under the terraforming process. On Earth, the situation was deteriorating rapidly. The Islamist warriors were rapidly overwhelming the last resistance to worldwide domination under Sharia law. North America was the...

The Second World War has begun. Harold Cavill travelled back in time to try to change history to prevent the war in 2040 that caused man's extinction. At first, it was hard to tell if Harold's efforts have even made a real difference at all. But as the war raged in Europe and the Pacific, some dramatic differences in the course of history began to appear. But will the changes that Harold has inspired made humanity's future safer or even less uncertain?

A wealthy Australian industrialist in the year 2040 accidentally opens a portal into the past with one of the scientific experiments that he has financed. A cataclysmic nuclear war that dooms humanity erupts almost at the same time. The industrialist decides to go through the portal and try to change history to prevent the final war. He assumes the identity of a dead prospector after finding himself in the year 1918. The time traveler enlists the aid of local Aborigine tribesmen while planning to use his knowledge of the future to become wealthy once again. Only this time, he will be using ...

The war in Europe is over. The new post-Nazi German leaders have agreed to a second Armistice after their victory over the Soviet Union. There is an uneasy peace now with the major combatants now struggling with massive wartime debts and the need to rebuild their battered economies. But the war in the Pacific continues. Only now, the Japanese are the ones using weapons of mass destruction in a desperate attempt to stave off defeat at the hands of the Allies. China, Australia and England have finally been joined by America in a final push to end the threat of the Japanese imperialists. ...

The Cavill Family is continuing their late time-traveling father’s mission to save humanity from a nuclear holocaust. In the course of doing this, they have made enemies. One of these enemies kidnapped Beatrice Cavill and brutally interrogated her. She was rescued but the aftermath of her ordeal has changed the course of her life. But the changing world continues to lurch towards violent conflict despite the Cavills attempts to refocus humanity’s attention towards space travel. Even as a colony is being established on Mars at the beginning of the 1970’s, dramatic events over the ...

Harold Cavill’s children continue their father’s work to try to prevent humanity from destroying itself in this timeline. Their sister Beatrice continues to live in a self-imposed exile on the fledgling colony on Mars while her oldest sister Judith finds love for the first time. The Cavill lunar installation at Shackleford Crater is soon joined by installations from other nations vying for their own footholds in space. America struggles at first through a disastrous progressive administration before Ronald Reagan is elected President in 1976 to lead a dramatic turnaround in the ...

Stewart Williams was a seemingly ordinary man working for a Defense Logistics Agency office. But he had inherited an extraordinary family gift to create objects seemingly out of thin air and to heal people with a mere touch. When Stewart uses this gift to heal his wife Sarah, help his community, his state and America. His act leads to an year-long adventure with many twists and turns. With the aid of several friends from his church, Stewart and his wife go into hiding from a hostile President B.H. Arnold with a hidden agenda once their identity is discovered. Because of the unexpected ...

In the third installment of the Unwanted Gifts series, Deborah Marcum is quickly growing up to be an exceptional young woman. While the world still does not know that Deborah's father was the person responsible for the two mysterious Events that changed so much of the East Coast, she has kept hidden that she has her father's gifts and perhaps more. All that Deborah wants to do is to make a difference in the world as an engineer and a US Navy naval aviator. But in the wake of so much going on in the world; various regional conflicts in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia, a significant ...

Deborah Marcum has just married the love of her life, Peter Sorenson. But the world continues to crumble around her. Her ship has been put into mothballs in the aftermath of the secession of the Western States from the United States of America. Now, Deborah spends far more time behind a desk than in an aircraft cockpit. The Islamist armies of the Arab Brotherhood are sweeping through Europe, Africa, Eurasia and even making inroads into Latin America. . Likewise, assault forces of the Pacific Caliphate are rapidly taking control of East Asia and conquering everything in their path eastward. ...

Charlie Barnes and her partner Steven Waldner are ordinary free traders as far as the rest of the Galaxy knows. In reality, they work as undercover agents for the free planet of Libertad seeking out any threats to their homeworld. Traveling aboard their starship Dauntless, With the aid of Dauntless' AI, Amie, Charlie and Steven learn of a fearsome alliance between a megacorporation that has sought economic hegemony over most of human-colonized space and a genocidal alien race called the Lu'non. Now, the Dauntless races to find out the real goal of this unholy alliance and bring together ...

President Brandon Diben was having the time of his life. His party and their mainstream media allies were devoted to covering up his family’s corruption, the exploding national debt, massive illegal immigration and a skyrocketing inflation rate. His advancing dementia was a running joke behind the scenes as well. But he never counted on an uninvited intruder that appeared mysteriously in the Oval Office and began to demand that he resign from office and admit his crimes. When he refused, this cute little strawberry blonde began to make things appear around the nation that not only ...

Thomas Coleman had excelled in everything that he attempted, even becoming a billionaire by his mid-30’s. Now, he was going to attempt his greatest adventure. He would fly in a large experimental spacecraft with a team of skilled specialists further than any man had ever traveled to the Asteroid belt to mine an asteroid reputed to be filled with extremely valuable metals. Thomas started this journey with the help of the world’s richest man with the intent of changing the world for the better with this new source of badly needed minerals. However, not everyone was happy about this ...