検索キーワード： 歴史改変

Imagine a world where everything is perfect. Everything. Harmony between all people...between humanity and nature...between people and God. Now imagine yourself transported to this paradise. Just when Carter Friese thinks life can’t get any better - it does. Carter is transported to Gomor, where he gets a taste of what his world (our world) would have looked like if no one ever sinned. Scene after scene unfolds to Carter’s amazement. As he grows in knowledge of God’s original plan for creation, he is satiated with joy and beauty.

The bond between a mother and her child is the strongest in the natural world. So, why would a young woman, dreaming of America, throw her newborn baby into the waves of the wild Atlantic ocean? Life in the Scottish Hebrides can be harsh - 'The Edge of the World' some call it. For Kirsty MacLeod, the love of Murdo promises a new life away from the scrape of the land and the repression of the church. But the Great War looms, and Kirsty is overpowered and raped by an unknown assailant.

In the early 23rd century, time travel is a reality. Germany proposes the correction of humanity's worst atrocity, the Holocaust. The United Nations agrees, and a committee is formed to work up a plan. Like many before them, they fail, and with that, a new and terrible foe becomes aware of their intentions, hell-bent on revenge. Now the UN must fight against time itself to achieve success before the future, the present, and the past are controlled by the Fourth Reich.

What if Rome never fell? Electa, on the cusp of womanhood, faces an uncertain future in Latia, the capital state in Appia. While sun-drenched Latia may be a paradise for some, it is a prison for others. Her talent for deception is the only thing keeping her alive, for now, but if Electa is anything, it’s defiant, and she will defy the path fate has laid before her and the will of men who try to control her until her last breath. Electa’s fight started as one for survival and freedom, but revelations about her own nature will change her and Appia forever.

In this sequel to The Anaconda, A New Earth, and A War of Myths, crew members from an asteroid mining ship that mysteriously traveled 400 years into the past continue to pursue their private missions - a global war of liberation for slaves and native peoples, two 23rd-century capitalists seeking to control the Ottoman Empire, and an effort to protect civilization’s greatest treasures in a museum hidden away on a South Pacific island.

Tras irrumpir en el panorama literario internacional con Purga, que vendió más de un millón de ejemplares en más de cuarenta países y recibió el aplauso unánime de los lectores y la crítica, además de numerosos premios y honores, Sofi Oksanen, una de las principales voces de la narrativa finlandesa actual, vuelve a sorprendernos con Norma, una novela intensa y asombrosa que combina con gran eficacia la intriga, el realismo mágico y la crítica social.

Born the bastard daughter of a painted lady, Marilia was told she would live out her days within the walls of her mother's brothel, a companion for the rich men of Tyrace. But after a terrible betrayal, 10-year-old Marilia's world turns upside down. With the help of her twin brother, Annuweth, she flees the only home she's ever known in search of the one man who can offer her a chance at a better life: one of her deceased father's friends, the Emperor of Navessea's greatest general.

Daughter of a Norse king, 15-year-old Åsa dreams of becoming a shield-maiden. When she spurns a powerful warlord, he rains hellfire on her family, slaughtering her father and brother and taking her captive. To protect her people, Åsa must wed her father's killer. To take vengeance, she must become his queen.

This is the ultimate traffic nightmare - city-wide gridlock! In this savagely satirical view of the near future, vehicular traffic in Los Angeles finally loses its liquidity, transforming into slow-moving slush, then finally hardening into sun-baked mud. With cars and trucks and buses paralyzed across 100 miles of freeway parking lot, the city grinds to a painful stop - or does it? Plus, a bonus story: "Afternoon with a Dead Bus" - a bizarre urban fantasy that only Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Gerrold could write.

During one of the earliest blockade actions of the Civil War, Sergeant Alexander Philips of the United States Marine Corps witnesses an unspeakable horror. With no explanation, he finds himself in charge of a group of hotheads and misfits in a strange, unorthodox unit. His new commander is the enigmatic Lieutenant Addison Green, who knows nothing about the military, but a great deal about something else entirely. He comes bearing a collection of weapons geared toward fighting something other than Confederates.

December 1943. Adolf Hitler is dead. Having turned aside the Soviet Union's initial assault into the Greater Reich, the Wehrmacht is now stymied at the gates of Moscow. Indifferently equipped, the young men of the American Air Expeditionary Force are thrown into action in order to keep the Soviet Union in the war. December 1965. Tabitha Cobb, a master's student at Berkley University, sets out to learn the truth about the AAEF and the scars it left on its survivors. Attempting to earn a scholarship, Tabitha quickly learns that sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss.

The Earth Chronicle Series was riddled with unfinished tales, leaving a conundrum of questions. To get answers (even if in conjecture) Stephen James’ imagination conjured a variety of speculative civilizations, ancient realms, evolving worlds, and races clashing in explosive rites of conquest, adventure, and romance, which all would escalate up to Nibiru’s destiny: a destiny whose celestial seed would salt and catalyze life on Tiamat: Earth.

Every evening Rose Ransom looks in the mirror and marvels that she's even alive. A mere woman, her role in the Leader's death has been miraculously overlooked. She still works at the Culture Ministry, where her work now focuses on the outlawed subject of Poetry, a form of writing that transmits subversive meanings, emotions and signals that cannot be controlled. Therefore all Poetry is banned and Rose is appointed a Poet Hunter.

Der Druck lastet schwer auf der Sondereinheit der Geistkrieger um den eingewanderten Schotten Finnley: Im Fall des "Gabensammlers" tappen sie im Dunkeln. Mit äußerster Brutalität reißt der Unbekannte denen, die gesegnet sind, ihre besondere Gabe aus dem Bewusstsein, um sie selbst zu nutzen und auf diese Weise immer mächtiger zu werden. Doch die Nation der Powtankaner wird noch von einem weiteren Übel bedroht: Immer mehr Menschen benehmen sich äußerst merkwürdig, das Ganze scheint sich wie eine Seuche auszubreiten. Ausgerechnet jetzt geraten die Geistkrieger in den Fokus widerstreitender politischer Interessen.

In 17th-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty are all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king, sacrificing fortune, principles and even sacred family bonds. By the 50th year of his reign, Louis XIV has made France the most powerful state in the western world, but the Sun King's appetite for glory knows no bounds.

It is April 1964 in a world in which the "swinging '60s" never happened. Two Soviet tank armies have fallen on Iran and are pouring down from the Zagros Mountains onto the Iraqi floodplains of the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers like wolves upon the fold. In the United States, the overwhelming popular mood is one of "America first". The "victory" of the October War has never seemed more pyrrhic, or all the death, destruction, and grief more futile, than it does in the second week of April 1964. Only one thing is certain: The world is about to be turned upside down again.

By the 27th century, mankind has finally mastered time travel - and is driving recklessly toward wiping itself out. The guerilla environmentalist group WorldSave, with its chief operative Ashday’s Child, uses the Timeshaft to correct mistakes of the past in an effort to extend the life of the planet. But, the enigmatic Ashday’s Child has his own destiny to accomplish, and will do whatever it takes within a complicated web of paradoxes to do so.

Professor Johan Eschbach's lovely wife, Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous vocalist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household.

Народная поговорка говорит, что от сумы и от тюрьмы не надо зарекаться. А наш герой зарёкся и совершенно напрасно, потому что следующий этап его приключений разворачивается в камере смертников федеральной тюрьмы Сан-Квентин.

Убит единственный сын Бартынова, могущественного аристократа. И главный подозреваемый я. Есть только три дня чтобы найти доказательства своей невиновности. В противном случае ничего хорошего ждать не приходится. Тот, кто был фаворитом смерти, может в миг стать её аутсайдером. Мертвым аутсайдером.