alternate history
Watchmen
Dir: Zack Snyder Writ: Alex Tse & David Hayter
Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore & illus. Dave Gibbons
Malin Akerman … Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre II
Billy Crudup … Dr. Manhattan / Jon Osterman
Matthew Goode … Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
Jackie Earle Haley … Walter Kovacs / Rorschach
Jeffrey Dean Morgan … Edward Blake / The Comedian
Patrick Wilson … Dan Dreiberg [...]
Tagged: 8 Stars, Alan Moore, Alex Tse, alternate history, based on comic, Dave Gibbons, David Hayter, sff, superheroes, Watchmen, Zack Snyder
Ilario: the lion’s eye
Author: Mary Gentle
ISBN: 9780575080416 DDC: 823.914
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We are so often a disappointment to the parents who abandon us.
This is a return to the world of Mary Gentle’s alternate world of mercenary captain Ash[1] although this book is set in a different part of the world and 50 years earlier, there is no need [...]
Tagged: 1400s, 1428, 8 Stars, 823.914, alternate history, C15th, carthage, fantasy, feminism, gender, gender confusion, Ilario, Ilario: the lion's eye, Mary Gentle, politics - gender, sff
The Dragon Waiting
Author: John M. Ford
ISBN:9780575073784 DDC: 813
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The road the Romans made traversed North Wales a little way inland, between the weather off the Irish Sea and the mountains of Gwynedd and Powys; past the copper and the lead that the travel-hungry Empire craved.
Where to start with this book’s plot summary? Cause there [...]
Tagged: 8 Stars, 813, alternate history, Britain - middle ages, British royalty - Edward IV, British royalty - Richard III, C11th, C16th, de Medici family, England - middle ages, historical fiction, Italy - Florence, John M. Ford, sff, The Dragon Waiting, Wales - middle ages, War of the Roses, World Fantasy Award winner
Empire of Ivory
Author: Naomi Novik
Book 4 in the Temeraire series.
ISBN: 9780007256747 DDC:
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“Send up another, damn you, send them all up, at once if you have to,” Laurence said savagely to poor Calloway, who did not deserve to be sworn at: the gunner was firing off the flares so [...]
Tagged: 7 Stars, 813.6, alternate history, Britain - Napoleonic wars, dragons, Empire of Ivory, fantasy, historical fiction, Naomi Novik, series, sff, Temeraire
The Separation
Author: Christopher Priest
ISBN: 9780575081154 DDC: 823.914
See also: LibraryThing ; Grumpy Old Bookman ; Singling out the duplications ; Guardian Review ; Excessive Candour ; Sandstorm Reviews
The rain was falling steadily on Buxton that Thursday afternoon in March, the town veiled by drifting low clouds, grey and discouraging.
Jack and Joe are identical twins. Medal winners in [...]
Tagged: 1936 Olympics, 8 Stars, 823.914, alternate history, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, Britain - wwii, BSFA Award winner, Christopher Priest, Germany - wwii, London Blitz, multiple narrators, RAF, sff, War, WWII
Black Powder War
Book 3 in the Temeraire
Author: Naomi Novik
ISBN: 0345481305
DDC: 813.6
See also: LibraryThing ; Wikipedia entry ; aarti chapati
The hot wind blowing into Macao was sluggish and unrefreshing, only stirring up the rotting salt smell of the harbor, the fish-corpses and great knots of black-red seaweed, the effluvia of human and dragon wastes.
I can’t say very much [...]
Tagged: 7 Stars, 813.6, alternate history, Black Powder War, Britain - Napoleonic wars, dragons, fun, historical fiction, Naomi Novik, series, sff, Temeraire
Throne of Jade
Book 2 in the Temeraire series
Author: Naomi Novik
ISBN: 0345481291
DDC: 813.6
See also: LibraryThing ; Naomi Novik’s LJ ; Sandstorm Reviews
The day was unseasonably warm for November, but in some misguided deference to the Chinese embassy, the fire in the Admiralty boardroom has been heaped excessively high, and Laurence was standing directly before it.
In the first book [...]
Tagged: 7 Stars, 813.6, alternate history, Britain - Napoleonic wars, dragons, fun, historical fiction, Naomi Novik, series, sff, Temeraire, Throne of Jade
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