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An Oblique Approach

David Drake, Eric Flint · 480 pages

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1634 The Baltic War

Eric Flint, David Weber · 728 pages

The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark.

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Island in the Sea of Time

S.M. Stirling · 608 pages

It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, i

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The Cross-Time Engineer

Leo Frankowski

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The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde · 374 pages

The Eyre Affair Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton

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The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley · 448 pages

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Marvel 1602

Neil Gaiman · 248 pages

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers. The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with

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The Warlord of the Air

Michael Moorcock

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The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov

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1634: The Galileo Affair

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis · 688 pages

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Rewinder

Brett Battles · 251 pages

Denny was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak fortunes abruptly change when the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruits him to be a Rewinder, a verifier of personal histories. The job at first sounds like it involves researching old books and records, but Denny soon learns it's far from it. A Rewinder's job is to observe history. In person.--from back cover.

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Time and Time Again

Ben Elton · 464 pages

Summary: It'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.

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Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus

Terrance Dicks · 240 pages

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The Guns of the South

Harry Turtledove · 561 pages

January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking

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Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Orson Scott Card · 351 pages

From back cover Tor paperback February 1997: In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.

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Bring the Jubilee

Ward Moore · 194 pages

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1632

Eric Flint · 550 pages

A small West Virginia town is permanently transplanted to 1632 Germany, in the middle of the 30-years war.

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Making History

Stephen Fry · 416 pages

A history student travels back in time to prevent Hitler's birth by dropping an infertility pill into his father's beer. The scheme backfires when a more intelligent dictator comes to power, conquering more territory and developing the atom bomb ahead of the U.S. The student, Michael Young, gets back into his time machine to allow Hitler to be born after all. By the author of The Hippopotamus.

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Weapons of Choice

John Birmingham · 483 pages

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The Shield of Time

Poul Anderson · 359 pages

Manse Everard is a man with a mission. As an Unattached Agent of the Time Patrol, he's to go anyplace - and anytime! - where humanity's transcendent future is threatened by the alteration of the past. This is Manse's profession, and his burden: for how much suffering, throughout human history, can he bear to preserve?

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The Proteus Operation

James P. Hogan · 480 pages

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The Return of the Discontinued Man

Mark Hodder · 367 pages

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The Company of the Dead

David Kowalski · 744 pages

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The Tide of Victory

Eric Flint, David Drake · 576 pages

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