Books tagged: alternate history

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Don't Mess With Earth    by Cliff  Ball
Price: $2.99 USD. 51100 words. Published on May 15, 2009. .

Some humans leave Earth when a massive flood threatens the planet. Eventually they return to manipulate human history. An alien species follows them, and experiments on the humans. Eventually, the humans of Earth discover this, and President Truman sets the planet on a path that will forever change history.
Iron Maiden: An Alternate History Novel    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $3.99 USD. 89990 words. Published on August 1, 2009. .

Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE inspired this alternate history that takes place during the American Civil War, and tells the story of eight people who come together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. They trick the government into buying more Monitor-class ships.
Tempus Bellator, part 1    by ken kemper
You set the price! 8700 words. Published on August 29, 2009. .

What if time travellers were obligated to change the bad parts of history in order to create a more harmonious corner of the multiverse? When a mutiny breaks out at the news of multi-dimensional translocation becoming reality, nobody is safe. Can history be salvaged? Will they really meet Cleopatra and Churchill?
Tempus Bellator part 1.1    by ken kemper
Price: Free! 6770 words. Published on August 29, 2009. .

Fighting a mutiny of brainwashed time travelers is hard work for anyone, can the Pastore brothers defeat Admiral Dahl or will the past of hundreds of Earths take a turn for the worse?
Kill Edison    by Ray Miles
Price: Free! 4300 words. Published on November 2, 2009. .

This tale is a sci-fi western unlike anything you've read before. Lance has traveled back in time to stop Thomas Edison from inventing the light bulb. He is a madman determined to obstruct the progress of technology, pursued by mercenaries hired by General Electric determined to eradicate him and by his brother Dexter determined to bring him back to the twenty-first century alive.
Republic: A Novel of America's Future    by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Price: $4.99 USD. 137100 words. Published on December 7, 2009. .

Ken Murphy is a 45 year-old widower and senior manager at a computer chip manufacturer in quiet Highview, West Virginia. The local economy is thrown into a tailspin when the plant is suddenly shut down. Murphy must fight for healthcare for his terminally ill son. As he tries to save his son’s life, he is dragged into a deeper conflict between the forces that are ripping our nation apart.
Grizelda    by Margaret Taylor
Price: Free! 75520 words. Published on December 8, 2009. .

Accused by the government of practicing witchcraft, 14-year-old seamstress Grizelda must go into hiding beneath the city to save her life. Problem: the goblins who already live there barely tolerate her presence. The pixies are not to be trusted. And she's tempted to break her hiding for a band of revolutionaries who might end magic persecution once and for all.
Uprising    by Justin Kemppainen
Price: $1.49 USD. 134080 words. Published on December 15, 2009. .

The Citizens of Haven have finally realized their dream; separation. They have ascended. A new layer has been placed upon the city, sealing anyone they deem unfit down below. In the dark slums beneath the city, something has been set in motion that will usher in a change. Something that will rattle the city of Haven to its core and forever alter the lives of everyone within.
Beneath Gray Skies    by Hugh Ashton
Price: $2.99 USD. 110280 words. Published by j-views  on January 2, 2010. .

Beneath Gray Skies describes a 1920s world that might have been, had the American Civil War never been fought. The new Nazi party in Germany, Confederates, and British and American intelligence services engage in intrigue and treachery, as the giant Bismarck–the largest Zeppelin yet constructed–crosses the Atlantic carrying a priceless gift from the Old World to the New.
Where Sheep May Safely Graze    by Roger Parkinson
Price: Free! 17250 words. Published on January 16, 2010. .

The cat stared up at him as though it knew all about the entry and he was being tiresome about it. Then it proceeded to have a bath, the kind of cello-playing bath one feels obliged to look away from unless one knows the cat well. A collection of short (some very short) stories and poems, mostly about New Zealand, or cats, or sheep.