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1) Voyage
Author
Series
NASA trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK's planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey—"a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility" (Kirkus).
In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of...
In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of...
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
The prosperous people of Northland, a linear city hundreds of miles long created by the building of a Wall to hold back both the North Sea and the empires of the Bronze Age, contend with a threat from the East when decades of drought bring instability to the Eastern civilizations.
3) Iron winter
Author
Series
Northland trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Many generations ago the Wall was built to hold back the sea. Starting as a simple dam, it's now grown into the vast, linear city of Northland. The city's prosperity has brought the whole of Europe together and so survived wars and feudal unrest; but now darkness is falling. Famine, destruction, and terror creep in the wake of increasingly long winters. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland, one man believes he can outwit...
4) Weaver
Author
Series
Time's tapestry volume 4
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Germany launches a successful invasion of England. But in secret they are waging a war on an even larger scale. Trapped in the middle of it is Mary Wooler, an American historian caught in the Blitz and tangled up in strands of history; her son Gary, fighting a ruthless invader at civilization's frontier; and Ben Kaman, a Jewish refugee whose very dreams place him at the heart of a conspiracy that threatens the very fabric of the...
6) Navigator
Author
Series
Time's tapestry volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land, a rogue Spanish priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. Centuries later, in 1492, as men of vision weary of the strife and are drawn to the unknown West, one such explorer seeks the funding for his voyage--while a mysterious...
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