Books like The Separation
The historian Stuart Gratton comes across a puzzle in Churchill's memoirs, a J. L. Sawyer who seems to have been at once a bomber pilot and a conscientious objector, and the answer lies with Jack and Joe Sawyer, identical twins who rowed for Britain at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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The Man in the High Castle
In an alternate 1962 where the Axis won WWII, a Japanese official and an American antique dealer discover a novel that imagines the Allies victorious.
The Dragon Waiting
In a fifteenth century where Byzantium rules much of Europe and the old gods were never quite driven out, a Welsh wizard, a Florentine physician, a German mercenary and a Byzantine prince come together around the young Duke of Gloucester.
Declare
In 1963 Andrew Hale, a British academic who was a wartime spy, gets a coded phone call that sends him back to Operation Declare, the secret mission on Mount Ararat that went wrong in 1948.
Inverted World
On reaching the age of six hundred and fifty miles, Helward Mann leaves the crèche of the city called Earth, which is winched along rails across a hostile land to stay near a moving point its people call the optimum, and joins the guild that lays the track.
Group Portrait with Lady
A researcher pieces together, from interviews with everyone who knew her, the life of Leni Pfeiffer, a Cologne woman who fell in love with a Soviet prisoner of war during the Second World War.
The Light Brigade
Dietz joins the corporate army after the Blink wipes São Paulo off the map, and soldiers are broken down into light to be beamed to the front, and Dietz starts arriving at the wrong times.
The Prestige
In the 1890s two London stage magicians, Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier, fall into a lifelong feud over a trick each believes the other has stolen, and a century later their descendants meet to read what they left behind.
Darkness Visible
A small boy walks out of the flames of the London Blitz, terribly burned, and grows up into Matty, a strange, devout wanderer whose path will cross that of a pair of twin girls.
The Calcutta Chromosome
Antar, an Egyptian clerk at a global health agency in near-future New York, finds a damaged ID card on his computer that sets him tracing a former colleague who vanished in Calcutta while investigating Ronald Ross, the man who found how malaria spreads.
Gnomon
In a near-future Britain run by the System, which watches everything, Diana Hunter, a dissident, dies under interrogation, and Inspector Mielikki Neith, going through the recordings of her mind, finds in them the stories of four other people.
His Majesty's Dragon
During the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy captain Will Laurence captures a French ship carrying a dragon egg, and when it hatches and the dragon chooses him, he must leave the sea for Britain's aerial corps.
Forever Peace
In 2043, Julian Class, a physics professor, spends ten days a month linked mind to mind with his platoon, operating remote combat machines in an endless war in Central America.