Alternate World Fantasy

Империя отходит от края - фантастический роман Сергея Тамбовского, вторая книга цикла "Империя у края", жанр альтернативная история, попаданцы.

Climate change has caused a global water crisis. China has occupied three Canadian prairie provinces and is hauling fresh river water from Hudson Bay to Beijing by the northwest passage which is open year-round. The story has special insights into Canada's water resources, geography, and history. Environmentalists who appreciate the north and Canada's water resources will enjoy listening to Jeremiah Coffey's first novel.

Hatshepsut, the great king’s wife, is thrust into a world of intrigue and politics when her husband, Pharaoh Thutmose, dies suddenly, leaving Egypt with an heir who is barely two years old. The Queen must step into the role of leader, and there are few whom she can trust. When Hatshepsut is crowned as Pharaoh, she grooms her daughter, Neferure, to take the place of heir, rather than Thutmose’s infant son from another woman.

Anne Frank is a cultural icon whose diary painted a vivid picture of the Holocaust and made her an image of humanity in one of history’s darkest moments. But she was also a person - a precocious young girl with a rich inner life and tremendous skill as a writer. In this masterful new novel, David R. Gillham explores with breathtaking empathy the woman - and the writer - she might have become.

Quinn Bradley has learned to use the magic of another world. And that world is in danger. Having decided to betray CASE Global, he can finally reveal his origins to the Enclave and warn them about the company’s imminent invasion. Even if it means alienating Jillaine...and allying with someone he’s always considered his adversary. But war makes for strange bedfellows, and uniting Alissians against such a powerful enemy will require ancient enmities - as well as more recent antagonisms - to be set aside. The future of their pristine world depends on it.

Set in 1906, Dreamhunter describes a world very similar to ours, except for a special place, known simply as "The Place", where only a select group of people can go. These people are called Dreamhunters, and they harvest dreams that are then transmitted to the general public for entertainment, therapy - or terror and political coercion. Inside The Place, 15-year-old Laura finds out what happened to her missing father and uncovers a government secret.

From the author of the best-selling Contagion comes a new novel in the Living Dead series. When deadly earthquakes devastate the Caribbean, an ancient disease of almost unimaginable destructive force engulfs the globe. As the earth continues to convulse and the seas encroach, the dead rise with an appetite for human flesh. Survivors must learn to navigate a world in which they are now the hunted.

But once Margaret begins to unravel the secrets of Bletchley Park, Betty finds herself thrust—untrained—into the deadly world of counter-espionage. And as the pair begin a critical game of cat and mouse with each other, the situation rapidly becomes ever more desperate. With a highly dangerous newcomer suddenly arriving on the scene, the fate of Britain's most vital war secret hangs entirely on the outcome of the two women’s deeply personal conflict. But which one of them has really been the cat, and which one the mouse?

At 12 years old, Patrick Stoodle already feels like a stranger in his own world. But when a birthday surprise upends everything he thought he knew, he’s forced to question not just his family, but time, truth, and reality itself. Thrust into a future he might not survive in a time machine he doesn’t understand, Patrick finds himself caught between conflicting stories, identities, and belief systems. With society crumbling around him and the adults in his life fractured by secrets, he begins to ask: Who can I trust? And how do you grow up when the Earth is dying?

Three hundred million years ago, the galactic community was taken by surprise. A catastrophic war with a hostile entity threatened to destroy all life until the fight was postponed by a calamitous event known as the Great Conflation. With the majority of pre-Conflation empires in ruins and the Ascended Biologicals wiped out, the hastily formed Wanderer Enclave tasked its fleet with unearthing answers and continuing the fight. One lone ship has found something: an innocuous world it had marked for routine decontamination that may hold vital answers.

In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H.G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to "start over." You will see many similarities between H.G. Wells' new world and today's world due to the recent technological revolution. This stimulating novel will leave you wondering if and when the remaining predictions will come to pass!

The war had taken everything from Lina Sucherin - her parents, sisters, a fledgling romance...even her faith in herself and her psychic abilities. All of it ripped away with the fall of the Third Reich and the brutal Soviet sack of Berlin. Three years later, amid the suspicion, paranoia, and fledgling brutality of communist East Germany, danger threatens the only people Lina cares about, forcing her to overcome her lingering self-doubt.

After months of mystery, the true power of the blue men has finally been revealed, plunging the fate of both new and old worlds into question. Working together with their new dragon allies, Britain and the United States must find some way to survive in a cosmos at war.... But when a new blue man threat is discovered, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, and all the heroes of the new world, must rally for a dangerous mission - one that offers them only a slim chance of survival. The time has come for humanity to truly face the Empire....

The fifth novel of adventure set upon His Majesty's New World. With new allies joining the war against the blue men, humans living on the new world have reason for optimism. But the enemy has not been sitting idly by, and having identified the weaknesses of the American Pacifica Territory, he is now poised to launch a new offensive. Reinforced by veteran General Sir Andrew Skeen and a division of elite soldiers from the Indian Army, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment must help defeat a blue assault, or both new and old worlds might be in peril.

After two relatively successful missions on the new world, the b'ys of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment are enjoying some well-deserved rest. The quiet, however, is not destined to last, as the blue enemy has lost its tolerance for the meddling of the British Empire and the United States. As a new military force moves against the British Selkirk Mandate, Waller, Smith, Emily, Caralynne and the b'ys must mount a response and hope they are not playing into the hands of a clever, determined foe. It will require all of their wits to survive The Reprisal.

This is the second story of adventure set on His Majesty's New World. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment is sent to the American Pacifica Territory to assist with a new mission on the grasslands. Partnered with the buffalo soldiers of the 25th United States Infantry Regiment, Waller, Smith, Emily, Caralynne, and the b'ys must march out onto the new world called Frontier. But the American lands are lawless and full of unexpected foes, and the blue enemy has learned from the Newfoundlanders' previous mission. New challenges await on the Frontier.

Colorado, 1539 - Ricardo and Martin stumble upon an abandoned alien mountain outpost called Cibola. The Entities inside allow Ricardo to jump at will into many worlds. Just before the millennium Ricardo rips Peter Sturgis from Jeannie and his children, and inserts him ahead in time, where Jeannie is a Hollywood star, Jean Carlisle, married to Ricardo. Peter pursues Jeannie but faces his ultimate showdown when Ricardo orders Jeannie's death.

Billy Boustany had the adventure of a lifetime. Now, all he wants to do is to go back to the amazing universe he discovered. But the power brokers over there warned him to stay away and keep his mouth shut. At the same time, Diyami Red Hawk, an idealistic young man from that universe, has connected with Billy’s daughter and is on a mission to build a modern Native American city in our world. But he’s getting nowhere—until he finds support in unexpected places.

When the first Martian cylinder crash lands in England, Ogilvy the astronomer barely survives the deadly heat ray from the attack by aliens. He then accidentally stumbles upon the truth about the Red Weed and sends vital evidence to scientists in France on board HMS Thunder Child, but the ship is attacked by a Martian tripod.

The town of Eden Grove has a legend: In the center of a pine forest there is an aspen grove, and in the center of the aspen grove is an ancient, magnificent tree. A tree that grants wishes. Mayberry and Marshall have heard the stories about the Wishing Tree, but they know nothing like that could really exist near their dreary town. Misunderstood and restless, the teenagers wish for a lot of things, including being on another planet altogether. Somewhere with magic and adventure - someplace where they can be heroes.