alternate history

Official website of science fiction author Cliff Ball. Promoting a new novel, Out of Time.

The story is about a cloned scientist who invents the means to time travel and the adventures he and his time traveling crew have through 20th century history, including quite possibly causing the Roswell Incident in 1947.

So you've snapped up Michael Chabon's Nebula Award winning novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and now you want more thoughtful alternate histories to fill your brain and bookshelf. While there are literally hundreds of alternate histories out there (many of them written by various Michael Moorcocks and Harry Turtledoves in different timelines), a few standouts will help you get into the genre.

Find out what really happened at Roswell; did aliens really land; do they have some sinister plans for mankind? Or is it some massive government conspiracy?

Gettysburg, a novel by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and science fiction writer William Forstchen, begins with an old man, weary of war and worn out by life’s tragedies, riding his horse near the encamped Army of Northern Virginia in the Cumberland Valley.

Settling Accounts: In at the Death is the eleventh and it is said the last of the long running Southern Victory Series by master of alternate history Harry Turtledove. But since In at the Death sets up so many possibilities for future stories, one should not bet any money on it being the last.