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Lest Darkness Fall

L. Sprague de Camp · 208 pages

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 Ages. As Mysterious Martinus, can Martin win through the life and death perils of religious controversy, political intrigue and international diplomacy

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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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Timeline

Michael Crichton · 496 pages

Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualised - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France.

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The Warlord of the Air

Michael Moorcock

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An Oblique Approach

David Drake, Eric Flint · 480 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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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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Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Exodus

Terrance Dicks · 240 pages

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Off to Be the Wizard

Scott Meyer · 373 pages

Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little "tweaks" have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard. What could possibly go wrong?

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Weapons of Choice

John Birmingham · 483 pages

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Guardians of Time

Poul Anderson · 176 pages

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A Mutiny in Time

James Dashner · 196 pages

Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

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The Return of the Discontinued Man

Mark Hodder · 367 pages

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The Didymus Contingency

Jeremy Robinson · 276 pages

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, AND WITNESS ANY EVENT, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? When Dr. Tom Greenbaum faces that question after successfully discovering the secret to time travel, he knows the time, place and event he will witness: the death and failed resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dr. David Goodman, Tom's colleague and closest friend follows Tom into the past, attempting to avert a time-space catastrop

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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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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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Blackout

Connie Willis · 528 pages

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collide--and the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. S

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Crossroads in Time

Sarah Woodbury · 313 pages

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Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne

Brian Clevinger

"In 1923, Nikola Tesla's career is in its twilight until he unveils a robot with automatic intelligence--Atomic Robo! Granted full American citizenship in return for his participation in a top secret military operation in 1938, Atomic Robo goes on to found Tesladyne, a think tank dedicated to exploring the fringes of scientific inquiry. After decades of dealing with all manner of weirdness, Atom

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On the Oceans of Eternity

S.M. Stirling, Todd McLaren · 630 pages

Ten years ago, inhabitants of the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by the Event. But as two worlds converge, only one can be the victor in a battle to lead this strange new world.

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The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley · 448 pages

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1633

Eric Flint, David Weber · 643 pages

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