Titoli in Storia alternativa

The Narthani, a militant realm who believe their manifest destiny is to rule the entire planet, Anyar, plan to absorb Caedellium into their empire. Yozef Kolsko (a.k.a. Joe Colsco) works to find ways to increase the chances of resistance to the Narthani's planned conquest. The enemy is coming. The odds seem overwhelming, and it will take all Yozef can do, the courage of his new people, and luck, to survive.

Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again. On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul.

The Sound of His Horn is a classic novel of the uncanny. Alan Querdilion becomes a prisoner of war during World War II and then awakes, only to find himself in an alternative future in which the Nazis have won the war. Against a sylvan backdrop, the legend of the wild huntsman is revived and genetic experiments have created strange hybrids. Humans are hunted for game, haunted by the sound of the huntsman's horn.

Alternating between nineteenth-century Europe and present-day New England, this tale follows the great British painter J. M. W. Turner - and his scene of artists, intellectuals, and lovers - and Henry, a middle-aged family man whose otherwise mundane existence is disrupted by the discovery of The Center of the World, Turner’s controversial painting of Helen of Troy that had been thought lost forever.

One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.

Qualcuno sta cercando di cambiare gli avvenimenti del Novecento per trarne vantaggio. Le stragi che si potevano evitare, i massacri inutili, gli incidenti da prevenire. Un secolo pieno di tragici avvenimenti sta per essere "ripulito". Ma non è detto che tutte le conseguenze siano positive. L'incubo di una discronia perfetta, che cambierà la Storia, è raccontata da Lukha B. Kremo, uno degli autori più attivi del movimento letterario del Connettivismo. L'audiolibro è proposto da Kipple Officina Libraria per la lettura di Lorenzo Visi.

What's that, bald monkey? Think everything's dandy because you've got a few missions under your belt and made a bit of a name for yourself on that backward planet of yours? Ha! Think again! I bet you'll be singing a different tune after you've been offered a personal assignment. You'll be a superstar rolling in credits if you succeed, but if you mess it up, you could lose everything. I'm talking "Legionnaire-career-over" kind of everything.

In un multiverso infinito, una donna senza ricordi del proprio passato, intrappolata in un matrimonio e in una realtà alternativa, dovrà affrontare pericoli inaspettati e scoprire la verità sulla sua identità. Il ricordo di altre vite in altri luoghi e di un esperimento fantascientifico, porteranno alla luce il segreto legato alla creazione del "Patriarcato".

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Emilia Pardo Bazán nacida en Galicia- España en el siglo XIX, una de las grandes escritoras de la literatura española. Novelista, periodista y ensayista, destacó por su enorme cultura y por introducir en España las corrientes literarias más modernas de su...

En el año 2014, Carlos Carballo es arrestado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de paño de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, líder político asesinado en Bogotá en 1948. Carballo es un hombre atormentado que busca señales para desentrañar los misterios de un pasado que lo obsesiona. Pero nadie, ni siquiera sus amigos más cercanos, sospecha las razones profundas de su obsesión.

Vaasa hat Reids Leben gerettet – doch zu einem hohen Preis: Als Gefangene des dunklen Magiers Ozik wurde sie von ihrem Hexenzirkel, ihrer Magie und ihrer großen Liebe Reid getrennt und soll nun als Oziks Marionette auf dem Thron von Asteria sitzen. Während Ozik seine Intrigen spinnt, muss Vaasa mit allen Mitteln kämpfen, um ihre Magie, ihr Herz und ihre Freiheit zurückzugewinnen. Reid setzt derweil Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung, um Vaasa zu retten, und führt Krieg gegen Asteria. Doch als ihm die Verbündeten wegbrechen, muss er sich allein hinter die feindlichen Linien schleichen.

Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology, which made Cell a number-one best seller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor...

Night Vale, ein Städtchen in der Wüste. Irgendwo in der Weite des amerikanischen Südwestens. Geister, Engel, Aliens oder ein Haus, das nachdenkt, gehören hier zum Alltag. Night Vale ist völlig anders als alle anderen Städte, die Sie kennen – und doch seltsam vertraut. Jackie Fierro...

In an alternate Renaissance Italy where the church regulates magic and licenses magicians, fiery Fiametta Beneforte wants to be more than her goldsmith-mage father's unpaid apprentice. But when the Duchy of Montefoglia is laid under military and magical siege, she unexpectedly must join with Thur Ochs, a young Swiss miner and foundryman, to tap their skills in both metalwork and necromancy to rescue her father's soul and combat an evil sorcerer.

El gran misterio de la humanidad, la inmortalidad, es la piedra angular sobre la que giran los argumentos de esta novela de Javier Sierra, La pirámide inmortal, una versión revisada, actualizada y ampliada de su novela El secreto egipcio de Napoleón. Después de El maestro del Prado, Javier...

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!

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Arthur Conan Doyle; aunque su nombre estará siempre ligado a Sherlock Holmes, relatos como El cazador de escarabajos permiten descubrir al Conan Doyle más atmosférico y psicológico, un autor capaz de atrapar al oyente en muy pocos minutos y conducirlo hacia...

H. Beam Piper’s Time and Time Again is a classic mid-century science fiction time travel novel about memory, destiny, and the dangerous power of changing history. After suffering fatal injuries in a future war, Allan Hartley awakens in his own thirteen-year-old body with the full knowledge of...

Nach einem Terroranschlag herrscht auf dem friedlichen Planeten Patriam ein Bürgerkrieg. Gewaltsam konnte der Erlöser Balendin die Vorherrschaft über den Mond Aurum erlangen, der die Quelle des Lebens – Divinus – in sich beherbergt. Im herrschenden Chaos versucht Ordnungshüter Peregrin mit dem Widerstand die geheimen Pläne des Erlösers zu durchkreuzen. Er benutzt den patriamischen Aufstand, um sein Ziel voranzutreiben – die Auslöschung des humanoiden Lebens im gesamten Universum.

In Ray Nayler’s speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect. This program is read by fan favorite and...