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1636: The Saxon Uprising

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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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Return Engagement

Harry Turtledove · 639 pages

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Fortune's Stroke

Eric Flint, David Drake · 457 pages

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1635: Cannon Law

Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis · 500 pages

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th-century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between the king of Sweden and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns, in Flint's latest novel.

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1634 The Bavarian Crisis

Eric Flint, Virginia DeMarce · 690 pages

As the Thirty Years War continues to ravage seventeenth-century Europe, the twentieth-century West Virginians, led by Mike Stearns, enter into an alliance with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to gain access to the iron and steel needed to make their machines.

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1635: Papal Stakes

Eric Flint, Charles E. Gannon · 654 pages

Held hostage by a papal usurper, 1635 uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna, become targets in a rescue effort by Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew at the same time the true pope is targeted for assassination.

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1635: The Tangled Web

Virginia DeMarce · 355 pages

Demarce continues the saga of the time-lost Americans as they try to make sense of the strange world into which they have been hurled. Meanwhile, 17th-century Europeans try to understand the abilities and behavior of the visitors from the future. Annotation: Demarce continues the saga of the time-lost Americans as they try to make sense of the strange world into which they have been hurled. Meanwh

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Stalin's Hammer: Rome

John Birmingham · 176 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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An Oblique Approach

David Drake, Eric Flint · 480 pages

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River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

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Everfair

Nisi Shawl · 383 pages

An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.

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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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East of West, Vol. 4: Who Wants War?

Jonathan Hickman · 144 pages

It's the fourth volume of the Eisner-nominated, best-selling East of West. Who Wants War? sees Year Two of the Apocalypse kick into high gear.

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Throne of Jade

Naomi Novik · 399 pages

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 and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Bonaparte's invading forces. Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for

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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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The Mechanical

Ian Tregillis · 471 pages

"The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands bec

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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick · 249 pages

The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian

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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

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Straits of Hell

Taylor Anderson · 447 pages

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A Language of Dragons

S.F. Williamson · 424 pages

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The Battle of the Crater

Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser

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This Rough Magic

Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer · 944 pages

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