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"It has taken almost five years for the United States of Europe to stabilize its position in 17th-century Europe. Now it turns its attention to the New World, where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. There are vast lands and rich resources across the Atlantic for any nations powerful enough to rule and control them-and equal incentive for other nations to block their path. The time-displaced Americans know about the future path...
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Baen Publishing Enterprises
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[2023]
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330 pages ; 26 cm.
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English
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"The United Sovereign States of Russia struggles to set in place the traditions and legal precedents that will let it turn into a constitutional monarchy with freedom and opportunity for all its citizens. At the same time, they're trying to balance the power of the states and the federal government. And the USSR is fighting a civil war with Muscovite Russia, defending the new state of Kazakh from invasion by the Zunghars, building a tech base and...
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Arcane America volume 2
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Baen Publishing Enterprises
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[2019]
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468 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The passage of Halley's Comet in 1759 is catastrophic. The comet appears to strike the Earth, sundering the New World from the Old. A chain of mountains rises in the Mid-Atlantic. No ship from the Old World arrives in America. No ship from the New World can find a passage to the Old--and most who try simply disappear. The comet has also unleashed magic forces, which soon spread everywhere. Slaves begin using powers derived from African witchcraft,...
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Boundary volume 6
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Baen
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[2020]
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365 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Surviving crash-landings and monsters and island-eaters was only the beginning! The Kimei family and the second group of castaways, led by Sergeant Campbell, had finally joined forces after both had been forced to land on the bizarre planet Lincoln, whose "continents" were huge floating coral colonies, inhabited by even stranger lifeforms. They had survived crash-landings and venom-filled bites and disease, their own despair, and even the destruction...
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Ring of fire volume 5
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Baen Books
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2007
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728 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 compact disc.
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"The emperor is dead; long live the emperors! The assassinated Shah Jahan lies entombed beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal, while their progeny drag the Mughal Empire into a three-sided struggle over the succession to the Peacock Throne. The diplomatic and trade mission from the United States of Europe is openly siding with Princess Jahanara and her brother Dara Shikoh. The mission, made up largely of Americans transplanted in time by the Ring...
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Boundary volume 4
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Baen
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[2015]
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288 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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"NEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING BOUNDARY SERIES. Stranded humans must adapt alien technology to survive on a dangerous planet. Lost in the dark, half a year into their journey to the colony world of Tantalus, Sakura Kimei, her family, and her best friend, the alien "Bemmie" nicknamed Whips, are torn from the safety of their colony ship. In a crippled lifeboat, they had one chance to find a habitable world. But even then, they would find that their...
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Queen of the sea volume 1
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Catapulted two thousand years into the past by a cosmic force, the crew and passengers of a cruise ship struggle to survive in Egypt during the war-torn years of the Ptolemaic era.
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Queen of the sea volume 2
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"It's been more than a year since the cruise ship Queen of the Sea was transported in time and space to the ancient Mediterranean not long after the death of Alexander the Great. Captain Lars Floden and the other "Ship People" are trying to plant the seeds of modern civilization. It's not an easy task, to put it mildly, even if they have a tacit alliance with the co-regents of Alexander's empire, his widow Roxane, and Eurydice, the wife of his half-brother....
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Baen
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[2020]
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292 pages ; 25 cm
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"Captain Pausert just can't catch a break! First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire-and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared Witches of Karres-but how was he to know that?! And after he defeated the Worm World (with the help of the witches, of course),...
11) 1632
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
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In this first installment, a West Virginia town is transported from the year 2000 to 1631 Germany at the height of the Thirty Years' War. Thrust into conflict, the town residents must also contend with moral issues such as who should be considered a citizen.
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Ring of fire volume 35
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Baen
Pub. Date
2022.
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517 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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"Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project so that tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what's to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648. An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes...
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Two Complete Stellar Guild Books:
The Aethers of Mars by Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon
Tau Ceti by Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Sevile
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THE AETHERS OF MARS
Welcome to Mars…circa 1900. Cecil Rhodes rules Mars and is on his way to transforming the British Empire into his vision of a powerful force, managed by the "right" type...
14) Worlds 2
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Known for his New York Times bestselling alternate history novels, Flint is equally a master of shorter forms, and this second large volume gathers more of Flint's shorter works. Including several stories and a short novel set in Flint's celebrated Ring of Fire alternate history series. A commemorative novelette set in Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos universe. A story with Dave Freer, set in his and Flint's popular Rats, Bats, and Vats series. Several...
15) 1824
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ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM A MASTER
The relocation of the southern Indian tribes to Oklahoma engineered by Sam Houston following the War of 1812 also swept up many black inhabitants of North America. Many of the states in the USA-free as well as slaveholding-have
passed laws ordering the expulsion of black freedmen. Having nowhere else to go, they joined the migration of the southern Indian tribes and settled in Arkansas.
What results by 1824 is a...
16) 1812
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In this alternate history of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era, a small change takes place in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812.
What results is a cascade of new developments that becomes an avalanche. In our world, Ensign Sam Houston, just turned 21, led the charge on the creek barricade in that battle and almost died from a terrible wound that took him a year to
recover from. In this world, his wound is minor,...
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 3: JULY 2013
Edited by Mike Resnick
Stories by: Heidi Ruby Miller, Eric Flint, Laurie Tom, Barry Malzberg, Muxing Zhao, Jack Williamson, Brennan Harvey, C. L. Moore, Ron Collins & Michael Flynn.
Serialization: Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Book Reviews: Paul Cook.
Galaxy's Edge is a bi-monthly (every two months) magazine published by Phoenix Pick,...
18) Castaway odyssey
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Boundary volume 5
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Baen
Pub. Date
[2016]
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312 pages ; 25 cm.
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Assiti shards volume 5
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Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Michael and Melanie Anderle are hauling a tanker full of oil with their Peterbilt eighteen-wheeler when they're struck by a temporal irregularity that sends them, the truck, and their daughter back in time a thousand years. The bubble that transports them also grabs a chemist and her two young children, along with half a convenience store in the middle of the United States They just want to make a decent life for themselves in this new world of the...
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