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Crisis by Kurt Schlichter
10 ratingsKelly Turnbull, the hero of PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, INDIAN COUNTRY, WILDFIRE, and COLLAPSE, is back this fifth novel that tells the story of how America split apart into red and blue...Categorized as:
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Resurrecting Home by A. American
14 ratingsAgainst all odds, Morgan Carter and his family have endured despite the deteriorating conditions surrounding them. Armed with survivalist tactics, Morgan's crew, alongside their new friends from the recently-liberated DHS camp, have worked together to build a sustainable communuity. But not all situations can be prepared for...Categorized as:
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Anathem by Neal Stephenson
35 ratingsFraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls...Categorized as:
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Primordial Earth: Book 4 by Baileigh Higgins
6 ratingsThis is their world, and we are the prey.Outnumbered and outgunned, Rogue and the Exiles are on the run from the ruthless General Sikes. Finding refuge in the abandoned Shanghai tunnels, the survivors are running out of time and options. Trapped in the past, the fight for their future has just begun...Categorized as:
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Primordial Earth: Book 3 by Baileigh Higgins
6 ratingsThis is their world, and we are the prey.Captured, beaten, and on the brink of death, Rogue and the surviving members of the resistance barely manage to escape the dungeons of Prime City with their lives. As they set out into the unknown they must prepare for the fight of their lives.A storm is coming..Categorized as:
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Retribution by Randall Ingermanson
6 ratingsJerusalem, A.D. 66 . . .The City of God seethes with rage against imperial Rome . . . and, in an act of unspeakable brutality, Rome takes deadly retribution. War looms on the horizon---but one woman already knows the outcome. . . .Transported from the far future, Rivka Meyers has made her home in Jerusalem with her husband and fellow time traveler, Ari Kazan...Categorized as:
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Rolling South by Peter Rhodan
8 ratingsArturo Sandus, former Federation Space Captain is building a new life in Britannia of the early 5th Century. He is industrializing the moribund northern part of the dying Roman Empire while slowly expanding his control to areas of Gaul and Hispania... -
Maelstrom by Andrew Hastie
10 ratingsA dangerous prophecyAn altered timelineAnd a world of malevolent creatures The second book in Andrew Hastie’s imaginative and original Infinity Engines series, Maelstrom is an action-packed, dystopian time travel adventure. Caitlin has disappeared and someone has changed history. Lost in an alternate reality, Josh must discover who has disrupted the timeline and try to fix the continuum...Categorized as:
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The Infinity Cage by Alex Scarrow
12 ratingsLiam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . . The end is approaching for the TimeRiders...Categorized as:
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Live Another Day by Baileigh Higgins
6 ratingsHumanity teeters on the edge...Max prepares to battle Ke Tau, a brutal killer who hungers for ultimate power, but his efforts are hampered by dwindling supplies and the ever-present threat of the undead. With morale at an all-time low, the camp's inhabitants will have to stand together and face their fears if they wish to survive...Categorized as:
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Primordial Earth: Book 2 by Baileigh Higgins
6 ratingsThis is their world, and we are the prey.An outlaw in a savage world, Rogue barely survives her first encounter with the prehistoric creatures outside the walls of Prime City. After a mysterious stranger saves her life, she's reunited with her long lost mother. Hoping for a fresh start, she joins the Exiles, a group of survivors who live off the land. But not all welcome her with open arms...Categorized as:
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Foreign Travels by Peter Rhodan
6 ratingsArturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler, is now working on improving the tech level of the Roman Empire, stepping away from civil and military activities. His aim now is to build up the tech level to a point where he can build a spaceship that will hopefully take him home. A development that is still decades away, at least... -
Taking Off by Peter Rhodan
8 ratingsArturo Sandus, starship Captain and inadvertent time traveler has finally defeated the last remnants of the old Imperial forces and secured the borders of the Empire. He has restored the Roman Republic, admittedly an all-new modern and hopefully longer-lasting Republic, and is looking forward to some time at home with his lovely wife, Morghanna... -
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Getting Fired Up by Peter Rhodan
8 ratingsArturo Sandus, Federation Space Captain is a long, long way from home, but he is building a new home in Britannia of the early 5th Century. His plan to industrialize a moribund northern part of the dying Roman Empire is progressing but not without issues. His memory and lack of knowledge is proving troublesome... -
Eschaton by Andrew Hastie
8 ratingsTime is running out.The Eschaton crises are converging.Josh may be the only one who can save them, but he's trapped in the future. The third book in the original Infinity Engines series, Eschaton continues this action-packed, dystopian time travel adventure. The Oblivion Order is falling apart, and the timeline is beginning to unravel... -
Downward Cycle by J.K. Franks
8 ratingsWho will survive the darkness? Life in a remote oceanfront town begins to spiral downward after a massive solar flare causes a global blackout. As planes fall from the sky, cars suddenly die, and most electrical devices stop working with catastrophic consequences. But the loss of electrical power is just the first of the problems facing the survivors. In the chaos, that follows...Categorized as:
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Fateful Lightning by William R. Forstchen
10 ratingsThe latest chapter in a unique, epic military science fiction series that sweeps from Civil War America to a time-warped world of horrifying conflict. The Civil War Yankees, lost in another world and time, find themselves part of a tactical retreat from the onslaught of the mysterious Merki hordes, reenacting the Russian retreats against the French and Germans... -
A Door Into Time by Shawn Inmon
12 ratingsNot all guys obsess over tiny details. But Army Rangers do.The basement wall just didn't look right.Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right.He would try harder.With six hours before his little girl's fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short...Categorized as:
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The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow
14 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history..Categorized as:
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Dark State by Charles Stross
14 ratingsDark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, following Empire Games.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent...Categorized as:
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City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow
14 ratingsLiam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history...Hunted by cyborg assassins from the future, the TimeRiders must abandon New York and go on the run...Categorized as:
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White Lotus by John Hersey
6 ratingsThe story follows a young Arizona girl renamed White Lotus. As she ages, she evolves from “a bewildered, terrified slave to a conscious and intelligent revolutionary.” Her orchestrated, yet simple act of standing before her captors on one leg, head bowed like a sleeping bird becomes an often repeated act of nonviolent civil disobedience, an unconventional act in the spirit of Gandhi and Dr... -
Star Chamber Brotherhood by Preston Fleming
6 ratingsThe second book in the Kamas Trilogy begins five years after the Kamas revolt. A Kamas survivor who returns to Boston is ordered by the prisoners’ covert Star Committee to kill the commandant who crushed the revolt.Boston. 2029. Five years after the Kamas revolt... -
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Sailing East by Peter Rhodan
6 ratingsFlavius Theodosius Iunior, by the grace of God, Augustus of the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire was having a bad day... -
Man Out Of Time by Jason Ayres
6 ratingsWhat would you do if you found yourself cast 22 years into the future? Into a world where your home is no longer yours and you've been declared legally dead?This is the situation that Daniel Fisher finds himself as the latest Time Bubble story begins. Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse very quickly...Categorized as:
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Splinters In Time by Jason Ayres
6 ratingsGetting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes...Categorized as:
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Exile Hunter by Preston Fleming
6 ratings“Pure energy in print form, whether the characters are being pursued or simply talking; Fleming has proven himself a craftsman.” KIRKUS REVIEWS“As with all of Preston Fleming's previous books, EXILE HUNTER weaves together the harsh realities of personal betrayal, physical torment, emotional pain, and a spiritual quest with astute intelligence.” BOOKPLEASURES... -
Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel
6 ratingsA Hitler killing short story...Since we’re all still abuzz about the latest Hitler-killing episode of Doctor Who, we here at Tor.com thought we’d point our readers’ attention to one of the most entertaining Hitler-killing short stories we’ve ever seen... -
Primordial Earth #1 by Baileigh Higgins
8 ratingsThis is their world, and we are the prey.After an unexplained event shifted entire cities millions of years into the past, life has become a daily struggle for survival. Rogue, tenacious and fierce, has never known anything except a harsh life on the streets of Prime City until she finds herself on the wrong side of the law... and the wall. Nothing could’ve prepared her for the outside..Categorized as:
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Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi
8 ratingsBy the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City...Categorized as:
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Coilhunter by Dean F. Wilson
10 ratingsWelcome to the Wild North, a desolate wasteland where criminals go to hide—if they can outlast the drought and the dangers of the desert. Or the dangers of something else. Meet Nox, the Coilhunter. A mechanic and toymaker by trade, a bounty hunter by circumstance. He isn't in it for the money. He's in it for justice, and there's a lot of justice that needs to be paid...Categorized as:
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1636: Mission to the Mughals by Eric Flint, Griffin Barber
10 ratingsThe latest entry in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia go on a quest for the makings of medicines that have yet to be invented in 17th century Europe... -
Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson
10 ratingsRudi, the former chef-turned-spy, returns on a mission to uncover the truth—in a fractured Europe utterly changed by the public unveiling of the Community.Union has been forged and the Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity...Categorized as:
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The Change by S.M. Stirling
10 ratingsALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSEby S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more...S. M... -
Under the Blue by Oana Aristide
10 ratingsA road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world?Meanwhile two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Their baby is called Talos, and he is an advanced AI program...Categorized as:
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Snow & Ash by Theresa Shaver
12 ratingsBomb after bomb dropped across the globe sending the world tumbling into a seemingly never ending nuclear winter. Skylar Ross is ten that day when she’s ripped from dance classes and sleepovers to being an orphan in a prepper’s paradise of a mountain bunker. Her determination to protect her baby brother keeps her locked away with nothing but responsibility and loneliness...Categorized as:
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In at the Death by Harry Turtledove
14 ratingsFranklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA’s worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas...Categorized as:
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Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow
16 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history..Categorized as:
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Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
16 ratingsA Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Together with a crew of other miners and cart-pullers, Hillalum is recruited to climb the Tower of Babylon and unearth what lies beyond the vault of heaven... -
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
24 ratingsIt’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come...Categorized as:
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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
32 ratings“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” —The New Yorker“Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end... -
Empire Games by Charles Stross
16 ratingsThe year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world...Categorized as:
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Time's Mirror by Rysa Walker
16 ratingsThe only things on Prudence Pierce's mind are seducing her violin instructor and, with the help of her sister Deborah, avoiding the wrath of their mother for stepping out of the house dressed like Madonna...Categorized as:
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UnHappenings by Edward Aubry
14 ratingsWhen Nigel Walden is fourteen, the unhappenings begin. His first girlfriend disappears the day after their first kiss with no indication she ever existed. This retroactive change is the first of many only he seems to notice.Several years later, when Nigel is visited by two people from his future, he hopes they can explain why the past keeps rewriting itself around him...Categorized as:
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Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
12 ratingsCyberabad Days returns to the India of 2047 as featured in Ian McDonald's acclaimed novel River of Gods...Categorized as:
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The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
10 ratingsDavid Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) spins a brilliant multigenerational saga spanning two thousand years, from the collapse of the ancient Maya to a far-future utopia on the brink of civil war...Categorized as:
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The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder
10 ratingsSPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK!It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the British Empire's most brilliant scientist, performs an experiment. Within moments, blood red snow falls from the sky and Spring Heeled Jack pops out of thin air in London's Leicester Square...Categorized as:
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The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder
8 ratingsHaving returned from his expedition to the future, Burton reveals to the authorities what he witnessed there. In response, prime minister Disraeli initiates a programme whereby the empire's elite have their consciousnesses transferred into mechanical bodies, thereby ensuring eternal rule. As a brutal plutocracy emerges, Burton and Swinburne find themselves leading a revolution...Categorized as:
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Voyage to Kazohinia by Sandor Szathmari
6 ratingsA page-turning dystopian classic that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels.Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor Szathmári's comical novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of World War II...Categorized as:
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