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6 alternate-history novels

Stephen King's "11/22/63" is only the latest book that imagines what might have been if history had gone a little differently.

5. "The Years of Rice and Salt," by Kim Stanley Robinson

  • By Molly Driscoll

The Black Death takes 99 percent of Europe's population rather than only a third, and with Europe no longer a dominating world force, the Industrial Revolution comes from the luminaries of India and the New World is discovered by China.

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