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7 Popular Alternate Universe Science Fiction Books

Here is a list of 7 Popular Alternate Universe Science Fiction Books.

The Wandering Inn: Book 1 (The Wandering Inn #1) by Pirateaba

Alternate Universe Science Fiction

From the blurb:

“No killing Goblins.”

So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours….

Any Way the Wind Blows by Seanan McGuire

Alternate Universe Science Fiction

From the blurb:

Composed of travelers from nine different parallel dimensions, the Cartography Corps crew aboard the airship Stalwart Trumpet of Glory descends on the New York City in our universe to collect and preserve artifacts from the legendary turn-of-the-twentieth century landmark Flatiron building.

Empire Games (Empire Games #1) by Charles Stross

Alternate Universe Science Fiction

From the blurb:

Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines – and infiltrate them.

Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess

From the blurb:

Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States–an alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse–she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York.

Nine by Zach Hines

From the blurb:

In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can’t wait to use them up.

The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade.

The Peacekeeper (The Good Lands #1) B.L. Blanchard

From the blurb:

North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don’t exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the village of Baawitigong, a Peacekeeper confronts his devastating past.

The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg (The Quantum Curators #1) by Eva St. John

Alternate Universe Science Fiction

From the blurb:

When Neith Salah – a quantum curator charged with traveling to our parallel Earth to rescue precious artefacts – is ordered to save a priceless Fabergé Egg, she figures it’s just another job. The only problem: she’s not sure what the egg looks like. Or where it is. Or when it is.

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