Alternate History
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Charles Stross [Stross Charles]

Chapter Eleven: Collecting Jar It's noon, and the rippling heat haze turns the horizon to fog in the distance. Maddy tries not to move too much: the cycads cast imperfect ...
( Category: Alternate History April 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-29 | Author:Gareth L Powell

PART TWO WHAT ROUGH BEAST I was thinking this globe enough till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes. (Walt Whitman, Night On The Prairies) CHAPTER ...
( Category: Adventure April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gerald Murnane

After his thirty-seventh year, a certain man would sometimes catch sight of a certain few volumes on one of his bookshelves or would see in some or another book review ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Valtat, Jean-Christophe [Valtat, Jean-Christophe]

VII The Red Castle Only a few yards away from the splendour of Notre-Dame, the St. Séverin quarter was a knot of narrow medieval streets that even in cold weather ...
( Category: Alternate History April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Smale, Alan [Smale, Alan]

Great Sun Man and Sintikala were packing up the blankets, talking quietly. The braves watched Marcellinus through narrowed eyes as he approached. “Sintikala. Great Sun Man. I have more to ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-02-17 | Author:Robert J. Sawyer [Sawyer, Robert J.]

Chapter Twenty-five Mary went to the front window of Reuben’s house and looked outside. Even though it was after 6:00 P.M., there would still be light for another couple of ...
( Category: Alternate History March 25,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Croad, Colin [Croad, Colin]

Regulated Time Interview No. 2 Subject: Charles Stuart, English Monarch 1625-1649 AD Location: St James’s Palace Date: 29th January, 1649 approximately 11pm Background: Charles Stuart, king of England, is to ...
( Category: Alternate History March 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Grant, Ade [Grant, Ade]

The courtyard, usually bustling with as much activity as the city beyond its walls, was strangely quiet. Word had preceded the funeral procession and by the time Hastings and his ...
( Category: Alternate History March 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Michael Beiriger

Stormy Monday 1947 T Bone Walker September 25, 1969 9:00 pm. Manson, Steve, and Spence walked up the stairs to Marv’s third floor apartment in Studio City. It was 9:00 ...
( Category: Murder March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-14 | Author:Hugh Howey [Howey, Hugh]

5 * * * We are on the dock, gazing up at the smoking building. My boss Kevin is there. And so is Andrew, the engineer. The first sign that ...
( Category: Biographical March 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Dalton, Timothy [Dalton, Timothy]

Blake rose, following suit. As he passed by the front counter, the proprietor called out, “‘Scuse me, sir – you didn’t pay for your meal.” Damn. Blake thrust his hand ...
( Category: Technothrillers March 22,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-08 | Author:Jim Nelson

We Give Chase Tourists buffeted us from all directions. We left the photographer’s assistant and pushed through the crowds snapping random pictures with our cameras. There! One photo caught the ...
( Category: Alternate History March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Ian Tregillis

They proved a maze; following their meanders meant veering in and out of alignment from the iron-filing pull of the gyroscopes. Twice Jax had to climb aboveground to circumvent ambushes. ...
( Category: Historical March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:L.M. Pruitt [Pruitt, L.M.]

CHAPTER NINE “Why are you awake so early?” I paused in the middle of pinning my hair, glancing over my shoulder at the Duke, still sprawled across the mattress. “It’s ...
( Category: Alternate History March 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Jean-Christophe Valtat [Valtat, Jean-Christophe]

CHAPTER XX The Failure of the Feast “Why,” said he, laughing, “the barbed arrow of Master Cupid, my dear Gabriel, has penetrated quite through all the plates of your philosophy.” ...
( Category: Alternate History March 13,2015 )