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The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick
Year: 1962
Rating: 3.62
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war — and is no…
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His Majesty's Dragon
Author: Naomi Novik
Year: 2006
Rating: 4.03
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sw…
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Author: Susanna Clarke
Year: 2004
Rating: 3.82
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing…
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Fatherland
Author: Robert Harris
Year: 1991
Rating: 3.99
It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Führer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy.Meanwhil…
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Throne of Jade
Author: Naomi Novik
Year: 2006
Rating: 3.87
When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain’s Aerial Corps, man…
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The Years of Rice and Salt
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Year: 2002
Rating: 3.74
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 perc…
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1632
Author: Eric Flint
Year: 2000
Rating: 4.04
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Th…
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