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Something cool I just found, an alternative history western set in an industrializing roman empire. https://soaringtwenties.substack.com/p/a-message-for-avaricum

May Be Some Time by Brenda W. Clough Over a century after his disappearance during Robert Falcon Scott's failed South Pole expedition, Captian Lawrence Oates wakes up in a hospital bed in a future where disappearances with no body found means no paradoxes if rescued by time travelers. Poor guy.

Paris chooses Athena instead of Aphrodite and her gift turns him into a one-man industrial revolution. A decade later, the last hope of the desperate alliance of greek city-states against the nascent trojan empire with its flintlocks and aeolipile-powered ships is a scheme created by wily...

Peace In Our Time by Garth Nix The tyranny which had ruled the entire world for generations had fallen, destroyed by one of their own superweapons. The sole survivor, the former ruler of said tyranny is visited by an outsider. Both are confused, the tyrant because he thought his regime had no...

The People’s Machine by Tobias S. Buckell Aztecs, alternate history, TOS star trek-style civilization-controlling computer overlords and a murder mystery.

Smoke and its sequel Soot by Dan Vyleta. An alternate history in a Victorian England where the idea of a collective unconsciousness allowing for the spread of thoughts and emotions between individuals and their detection at range without interaction is demonstrable. Sinners are visibly marked by...

Mark Hodder's Burton & Swinburne Series. A blotched intervention by a time traveler trying to stop Edward Oxford's attempted assassination of Queen Victoria leads to an escalating butterfly effect and reverse-engineered steampunk technologies. Also while I've got no absolute proof, I strongly...

More free online stories... Prayers of Forges and Furnaces by Aliette de Bodard - the tyranny of the Aztec pantheon is overthrown. The new, true god demands no sacrifices of blood and lives, merely labor and raw materials to continue expanding itself. Arbeitskraft by Nick Mamatas - marxists...

A few free online stories... Zeppelin City by Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn - turn of the century wellsian notions of technocracy, conspiracies and airship racing aces. Minutes of the Last Meeting by Stepan Chapman - alternate history, tsarist russia, orwellian surveillance, russian...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World Nine The Cog is Dead Victor Frankenstein If you want books rather than other media, I've got loads more.