Results for "the accidental" in Alternate History

A college party lands freshman Hal Christianson in an America that could have been: no smartphones, no cars, no flush toilets. What he finds is a squabbling bunch of states, the consequence of the colonies having grown up on their own after European civilization collapsed from plague in the 1670s, and they are poised on the brink of war. For a socially awkward young man who takes refuge in online games, this is a bad situation.

If you went back in time, what would you do differently? That was a question I asked myself constantly. Due to a cosmic anomaly in the universe, I was thrust back in time on three separate occasions, spanning three different time periods. Instead of excitement at the prospect of amending old mistakes and rewriting history, my unintended journeys through time gave me something more profound: an emotional and gut-punching experience that shattered my perception of self-discovery and what it means to wield the power to alter the timeline of fate.

A misguided time travel experiment in the 25th century fans out to impact hundreds of parallel universes. Heinrich Schloss had arrived at Berlin's Tempelhof airport in 1982 to pick up his wife. After a brief migraine-like spasm, he opened his eyes to Tempelhof in 1941 to witness Hitler's death in an airplane accident. A history professor who had grown up in a divided Berlin was now a party chieftain in Nazi Germany. All those speculative conversations around the table with colleagues about what could have been changed to avoid the fall of Germany now had immediacy.

Charlie isn’t a hero. He’s not a genius, a spy, or the guy who saves the day. He’s just an ordinary investigator sent to check out a classified site beneath the Antarctic ice. The mission? Simple. Look for anomalies. Report back. Don’t ask questions. Too bad he asks a lot of questions.

Charles Bentley was always due to inherit his late father’s fortune, and he loved to boast about it. He was the typical son of privilege with more money than sense and an appetite for partying that was rarely satisfied - although he did try his hardest. But there’s one thing standing in his way of this fortune; a stipulation that states he must marry before his 35th birthday. With no plans of settling down, but every intention of the getting the money, a plan forms in his head. Jane Miller’s world is turned on its head when Charles asks her to marry him.

It all began with a remark by a presidential candidate about assassinating baby Hitler. A raucous adventure with the real Science of time Travel! This wasn’t the Victorian era Darby learned about in school! What was a 21st Century community college professor doing in 19th Century Bavaria, and the road to find the most notorious figure in history, the dictator in diapers, the Swabian in swaddling?

With their one year deadline quickly approaching Jane and Charles have to decide if they are going to stay married or get divorced. However, when Jane becomes pregnant their simple arrangement becomes very complicated. Jane had always been told she could never get pregnant, making this baby a miracle to her. Charles had always been adamant about not having children. With his own childhood, he always believed he would make a terrible father, just like his own. Will their marriage survive a baby or will it finally be what forces Jane and Charles to face reality?