Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History
10 best books like Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History (Gardner Dozois): The Anubis Gates, Lest Darkness Fall/To Bring the Light, The Orphans of Raspay, Chronicles of the Black Company, Penric's Demon, The Two Georges, Penric’s Mission, Resurrection Day, Penric and the Shaman, The Prisoner of Limnos
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 0441004016 |
Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency...
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 0671877364 |
Abisso del Passato è un racconto lungo ma molto intrigante, a differenza del racconto di Mark Twain "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court" qui la ricostruzione storica è vera ed eccellente. Uno storico americano dei gioorni nostri è colpito da un fulmine davanti al Pantheon a Roma, e si ritrova...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...
Chronicles of the Black Company
| Author | Glen Cook |
| ISBN | 0765319233 |
Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.
Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more…
This omnibus edition comprises The Black...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is The Bastard, "master...
| Author | Richard Dreyfuss |
| ISBN | 0812544595 |
A precious and historic painting has been stolen by terrorists—radical separatists who will stop at nothing to shatter the union. Colonel Thomas Bushell, the government’s most fearless agent, is the only man who can stop them.
But this is not our world. For the stolen painting depicts...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
In his thirtieth year, Penric fell in love with light…
Learned Penric, a sorcerer and divine of the Bastard’s Order, travels across the sea to sunlit Cedonia on his first covert diplomatic mission, to attempt to secure the services of a disaffected Cedonian general for the Duke of Adria....
| Author | Brendan DuBois |
| ISBN | 0515129496 |
Very good alternative history book. The Cuban Missile crisis is not averted; instead, the Soviets launch 10 missiles, causing devastation in a number of cities and the U.S. destroys the Soviet Union. Ten years later, the U.S. is still recovering, with substantial support from the British. Boston...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in “Penric’s Demon”, Penric is a divine of the Bastard’s Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
In this sequel novella to “Mira’s Last Dance”, Temple sorcerer Penric and the widow Nikys have reached safety in the duchy of Orbas when a secret letter from a friend brings frightening news: Nikys’s mother has been taken hostage by her brother’s enemies at the Cedonian imperial court, and...
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl. When the body of a sorceress is found in the woods, Oswyl draws him into another investigation;...
