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Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague De Camp book cover

Lest Darkness Fall

Author: L. Sprague De Camp

Year: 1941

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Archeologist Martin Padway is visiting Rome in Italy. He is struck by lightning and catapulted back to Rome of the sixth century A.D. The Western Roman Empire has fallen to the Goths, and civilization teetering on the brink of falling into the Dark A…

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The High Crusade by Poul Anderson book cover

The High Crusade

Author: Poul Anderson

Year: 1960

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In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little…

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Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin book cover

Swastika Night

Author: Katharine Burdekin

Year: 1940

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Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered…

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Traces by Stephen Baxter book cover

Traces

Author: Stephen Baxter

Year: 1998

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Ring of Fire (Assiti Shards) by Eric Flint book cover

Ring of Fire (Assiti Shards)

Author: Eric Flint

Year: 2005

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The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett book cover

The Science of Discworld

Author: Terry Pratchett

Year: 1999

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Contains a story by Terry Pratchett, around which Stewart and Cohen write about the Discworld.

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Colonization by Harry Turtledove book cover

Colonization

Author: Harry Turtledove

Year: 2001

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"ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SERIES OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVELS EVER WRITTEN."--Science Fiction Age World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the 1960s begin, one of Earth's grea…

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The Gate of Worlds by Robert Silverberg book cover

The Gate of Worlds

Author: Robert Silverberg

Year: 1967

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Imagine that the Black Death of 1348 destroyed most of Europe's people instead of only one-fourth. As a result the Turks rule Europe, Africa is the world's cultural center, and America in 1963, is a semi-savage continent governed by Aztecs. North Ame…

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Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore book cover

Bring the Jubilee

Author: Ward Moore

Year: 1953

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