Category Archives: alternate history

Brasyl by Ian McDonald

Posted on September 27, 2019 by portiabridget

Product info (from Goodreads): Three separate stories follow three main characters: –Edson is a self-made talent impressario one step up from the slums in a near future São Paulo, a city of astonishing riches and poverty. A chance encounter draws … Continue reading →

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Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson

Posted on August 17, 2018 by portiabridget

Synopsis (from Goodreads): Rudi is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country country he’s trapped in, a new career – part spy, part people-smuggler – begins. Following multiple … Continue reading →

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Bridge of Separator (Videssos 12) by Harry Turtledove

Posted on May 18, 2018 by portiabridget

Book info (from Goodreads): Rhavas was a good, holy, and pious man-and the cousin of the Avtokrator. He would probably have become ecumenical patriarch of the Empire in the capital, Videssos the city . . . if his world had … Continue reading →

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The Videssos Cycle 01-04 by Harry Turtledove

Posted on March 30, 2018 by portiabridget

The whole cycle, published in the 80s of previous century so rather old, consists of 12 primary and 17 total works. I read the first four od the primary works: The Misplaced Legion (01) An Emperor for the Legion (02) … Continue reading →

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The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

Posted on August 8, 2017 by portiabridget

Synopsis (from Goodreads): For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a “temporary” safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling … Continue reading →

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The Age of Ra (Pantheon 01) by James Lovegrove

Posted on July 18, 2017 by portiabridget

Summary (from Goodreads) The Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated all the other pantheons and claimed dominion over the earth, dividing it into warring factions. Lt. David Westwynter, a British soldier, stumbles into Freegypt, the only place to have remained independent … Continue reading →

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Six of Crows (Six of Crows 01) by Leigh Bardugo

Posted on March 21, 2017 by portiabridget

Synopsis (from Goodreads): Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker has been offered wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But to claim it, he’ll have to pull off a seemingly impossible heist: Break into the notorious Ice Court (a military stronghold that has never … Continue reading →

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Olympos (Ilium 02) by Dan Simmons

Posted on July 12, 2016 by portiabridget

Synopsis (from Goodreads): Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer’s timeless narrative, but that was before twenty-first century scholar Thomas … Continue reading →

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Series review: Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera 01), Academ’s Fury (Codex Alera 02) by Jim Butcher

Posted on May 31, 2016 by portiabridget

Synopses (from Goodreads): Furies of Calderon Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera, grows old and lacks an heir. Ambitious High Lords plot and maneuver to place their Houses in positions of power. A war of succession looms on the horizon. … Continue reading →

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Posted on April 8, 2016 by portiabridget

Synopsis (from Goodreads): On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. Sadly, she dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold … Continue reading →

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