What if Germany had won World War II or Lincoln hadn't been assassinated? The following books explore the world of alternative histories and can be found alphabetically by the author's last name in the Adult Fiction or Science Fiction area. If you need assistance please ask at the desk.

Location Codes:
MN - Main Library
DR - Dobson Ranch Branch
RM - Red Mountain Branch (East Mesa)

Allbeury, Ted. Cold Tactics. 
After British SIS agent James MacKay discovers that the newly-elected U.S. president has ties to the KGB, he engages in a race against time to prove his suspicions before he and all those who can help him are murdered. Fiction. (MN, DR, RM)

Barnes, Steven. Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America.
After the peoples of Africa colonize the Americas, the fates of two families--one Islamic African aristocrats, the other Druidic Irish slaves--collide as two young men, one of each dynasty, confront their world and each other. Science Fiction. (MN)

Coburn, Andrew. Birthright.
A haunting novel based on the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby speculates on what would have happened if that the child had grown up in the family of his kidnappers, never knowing who he was until he was about to run for governor. Fiction. (MN only)

DuBois, Brendan. Resurrection Day.
In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry, a young reporter, searches for the killer of a veteran of the 1962 war and begins to suspect that the victim may have held the key to a terrifying conspiracy. Fiction. (MN, DR, RM)

Flint, Eric. The Tide of Victory.
Armed with lancers, breech-loading rifles, steamships, and galleys, General Belisarius, accompanied by his ally from the future, ventures into the Malwa Empire, a sixth-century kingdom ruled by Link, a horrifyingly evil entity from the future. Science Fiction. (MN, DR, RM)

Harrison, Harry. Stars and Stripes in Peril.
In 1863 and British troops from Mexico prepare to invade the United States through Texas. Lincoln sends Grant to counter the attack. In the meantime he has Lee and Sherman plan a naval invasion to launch an assault on British soil. Science Fiction. (MN)

Kantor, MacKinlay. If the South had Won the Civil War.
What might of happened if General Ulysses S. Grant had been killed in an 1863 equestrian accident, leading to a Confederate victory in the Civil War. Fiction. (MN, RM)

Kinsolving, William. Mister Christian: The Further Adventures of Fletcher Christian, the Legendary Leader of the Bounty Mutiny.
A fictional retelling of the story of mutineer Fletcher Christian considers what his life would have been like had he survived the South Pacific uprising and follows his romance with the beautiful Daphne. Fiction. (RM)

Lowy, Jonathan. Elvis and Nixon.
In December 1970, a drug-addled Elvis Presley escapes from his entourage and embarks on a cross-country odyssey that leads him to a meeting with Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, in a surreal portrait of America during the Vietnam era. Fiction. (MN)

Myers, Bill. Eli.
When Conrad Davis, a TV journalist who is critical of the religious establishment, is thrust into another world where Jesus Christ did not appear 2,000 years ago, but in the present, he finds that he has earned some very powerful enemies. Fiction. (MN, DR, RM)

Niles, Douglas. Fox on the Rhine.
A cadre of SS generals seizes Nazi Germany from Hitler and places Himmler in power, as he immediately concentrates all his forces against the West, laying the ground work for a vastly different Battle of the Bulge with even higher stakes for the Allies. Fiction. (MN, RM)

Podrug, Junius. Dark Passage.
Determined to change the course of history, twenty-first-century jihad terrorists slip through a temporal hole, and three unlikely heroes, Marie Gauthier, John Conway, and David Ben-Dor, armed only with swords and daggers, are sent back in time to return the terrorists, but first they must survive the beasts and warriors of the ancient Roman arena. Science Fiction. (MN, RM)

Roberts, John Maddox. Hannibal's Children.
More than one hundred years after Rome falls to Hannibal, and its inhabitants are sent into exile, the Romans have re-grouped and are primed for the ultimate battle for supremacy of the ancient world. Fiction. (RM)

Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Years of Rice and Salt.
In an alternate history world in which the population of Europe is almost completely wiped out by the Black Death during the fourteenth century, three superpowers--China, India, and the nations of Islam--battle for supremacy in a World War destined to create a new world order. Science Fiction. (DR, RM)

Stirling, S. M. The Peshawar Lancers.
On an alternate Earth irrevocably transformed by a violent spray of comets in the 1870s, the planet is controlled by two superpowers--the British Empire and Russia--who appear to be heading for a deadly showdown. Science Fiction. (MN, DR, RM)

Tarr, Judith. Devil's Bargain.
In 1191 in the Holy Land, the crusaders under the command of Richard the Lionheart battle the armies of Saladin for control of Jerusalem, while in Cyprus, Richard's mother Eleanor strikes a devil's bargain to ensure her son's victory. Science Fiction. (MN, DR)

Turtledove, Harry. American Empire-The Victorious Opposition.
The Confederacy, under president Jake Featherston, ignites old hatreds in the midst of the Great Depression to renew hostilities with the United States as they become embroiled in the Second World War. Fiction (MN, DR)

Weber, David. The Excalibur Alternative.
Lying helpless during a raging storm in the North Sea, a fleet of medieval ships finds sudden rescue in the arrival of a powerful group of aliens, who offer salvation in exchange for eternal bondage fighting as star soldiers. Science Fiction. (MN, DR)

Updated 6/05, KG; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL