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74th Annual Hunger Games

• The hunger games by Suzanne Collins

Age of Sail

• The Far Side of the World (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 10) (Book 10) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Fortune of War (Aubrey / Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• H. M. S. Surprise (Aubrey / Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Hundred Days (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 19) (Book 19) by Patrick O'Brian
• Master and Commander (Book 1) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Mauritius Command (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 14) (Book 14) by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• Treason's Harbour (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 9) (Book 9) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 18) (Book 18) by Patrick O'Brian

Aiel War

• New Spring: A Wheel of Time Prequel (Now a major TV series) (The Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan

Anglo Saxon period

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell

Armageddon

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• Illuminatus! Part 1: The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea
• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Assassination of Martin Luther King

• Illuminatus! Part 1: The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea

asteroid impact

• Footfall by Larry Niven

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Argaon

• Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell (1803-11-28)

Battle of Assaye

• Sharpe's Triumph: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #2) by Bernard Cornwell (1803)

Battle of Bussaco

• Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe & the Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #10) by Bernard Cornwell (1810-09-27)

Battle of Cynwit

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (878)

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro

• Sharpe's Battle: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 by Bernard Cornwell (1811-05)

Battle of Isstvan III

• The Flight of the Eisenstein (Horus Heresy) by James Swallow
• Galaxy in Flames (Horus Heresy) by Ben Counter

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of Mallavelly

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Prospero

• Prospero Burns (the Horus Heresy) by Dan Abnett

Battle of Quoriston

• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Battle of Salamanca

• Sharpe's Sword by Bernard Cornwell (1812-07-22)

Battle of Sluis Van

• Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn

Battle of Sultanpettah Tope

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Battle of Talavera

• Sharpe's Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809 by Bernard Cornwell (1809-07)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Battle of Toulouse

• Sharpe's Revenge (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #10) by Bernard Cornwell (1814)

Battle of Trafalgar

• Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #4) by Bernard Cornwell

Battle of Vienna

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

Battle of Vitoria

• Sharpe's Honor (Richard Sharpe's Adventures, No. 7) by Bernard Cornwell (1813-06-21)

Battle of Waterloo

• Waterloo (Sharpe's Adventures, No. 11) by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-18)

Battle of York

• The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (867-03-21)

the Big Ride

• Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

Black Death

• Eifelheim by Michael Flynn (1351)
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1350)

Bloody Assizes

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut

the break up of the Moon

• Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

Burning Man

• Homeland by Cory Doctorow

Butlerian Jihad

• The Battle of Corrin (Legends of Dune #3) by Brian Herbert
• Dune: Machine Crusade [Paperback] [2003] by Brian Herbert
• Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Book One of the Legends of Dune Trilogy (Dune, 1) by Brian Herbert
• Dune by Frank Herbert (mentioned)
• God Emperor Of Dune: The Fourth Dune Novel by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

The campaign in northern Portugal, spring 1809

• Sharpe's Havoc (Sharpes) Richard Sharpe and the Campaign in Northern Portugal, Spring 1809 by Bernard Cornwell

CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN

• Dead Lies Dreaming (Laundry Files Book 10) by Charles Stross
• Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files, 11) by Charles Stross

Christmas

• Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor

climate change

• Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North

Clone Wars

• Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) (Star Wars: Thrawn) by Timothy Zahn

Cold War

• The Coldest War (The Milkweed Triptych, #2) by Ian Tregillis
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
• Footfall by Larry Niven
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1991)

Coordinated Attack by the Tooks

• The Inverted World: A Novel by Christopher Priest

The Council of Elrond

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J. R. R. Tolkien

Council of Nikaea

• Prospero Burns (the Horus Heresy) by Dan Abnett

COVID-19 pandemic

• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Crimean War

• Anti-ice by Stephen Baxter

Cultural Revolution

• The Three-Body Problem 1 by Cixin Liu

The Death

• Eon by Greg Bear

The death of Edward, King of Wessex

• Sword of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #12) by Bernard Cornwell

Death of Katherine of Aragon

• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-01-07)

Destruction of Almeida, August 1810

• Sharpe's Gold (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #9) by Bernard Cornwell

Destruction of Earth

• The Call of Earth (Homecoming #2) (Homecoming Saga, 2) by Orson Scott Card
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Disappearance of the Dolphins

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) by Douglas Adams
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Divorce/annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Dominion War

• Stitch in Time: No. 27 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) by Andrew J. Robinson

Duchess of Richmond's ball

• Waterloo (Sharpe's Adventures, No. 11) by Bernard Cornwell (1815-06-15)

Edict of Fontainebleau

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

Elite Conscription Act

• Forever War, The by Joe Haldeman (1996) (fictional event)

Elm Creek raid of 1864

• The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles

End of the Universe

• Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) by Douglas Adams
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The End of Time

• The End of All Songs by Michael Moorcock

End of Time

• City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
• The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock

English Reformation

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Execution of Anne Boleyn

• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1536-05-19)

Fall of Rapture

• BioShock: Rapture by John Shirley (1959)

First cattle drive from Texas to Montana

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

First contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms

• Anomaly by Peter Cawdron

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Galactic Civil War

• Alphabet Squadron (Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron, #1) by Alexander Freed
• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
• Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Star Wars.Volume 2: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

Georgian Era

• Sharpe's Battle: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 by Bernard Cornwell (1837)
• Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe & the Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #10) by Bernard Cornwell (1837)
• Sharpe's Honor (Richard Sharpe's Adventures, No. 7) by Bernard Cornwell (1837)
• Waterloo (Sharpe's Adventures, No. 11) by Bernard Cornwell (1837)

Glorious Revolution

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

The Great Fire of Ankh-Morpork

• The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel (Discworld, 1) by Terry Pratchett

Great Fire of London

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

Great Smog of '52

• Dominion by C. J. Sansom (1952-12-05)

The Great Wars

• The Sword Of Shannara: The Shannara Chronicles by Terry Brooks

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

the Hard Rain

• Seveneves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

Hindenburg disaster

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Hope defends Spirit from a wealthy man.

• Refugee by Piers Anthony

Horus Heresy

• False Gods: The Heresy Takes Root (The Horus Heresy) by Graham McNeill
• The Flight of the Eisenstein (Horus Heresy) by James Swallow
• Galaxy in Flames (Horus Heresy) by Ben Counter
• Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy) by Dan Abnett

the Illearth War

• The Illearth War (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #2) by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson

Invasion of the Kolnari

• The City Who Fought by Anne McCaffrey

Invention of the Locarno Drive

• Cauldron by Jack McDevitt

Jackpot

• The Peripheral (The Jackpot Trilogy) by William Gibson

Kane North injured by IED in Iraq

• Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton (2003)

Last night of the Night of the Proms

• The Annihilation Score: A Laundry Files novel by Charles Stross

Manhattan Project

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Martian invasion of Earth

• Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

Melding Plague

• Chasm City (Revelation Space) by Alastair Reynolds
• Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days: Tales from the Revelation Space Universe (GOLLANCZ S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds

Monmouth Rebellion

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

Napoleonic Wars

• The Fortune of War (Aubrey / Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• H. M. S. Surprise (Aubrey / Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Hundred Days (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 19) (Book 19) by Patrick O'Brian
• Master and Commander (Book 1) by Patrick O'Brian
• The Mauritius Command (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian
• Sharpe's Prey (Sharpe, #5) by Bernard Cornwell
• The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 18) (Book 18) by Patrick O'Brian
• Waterloo (Sharpe's Adventures, No. 11) by Bernard Cornwell (1815)
• Sharpe's Battle: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 by Bernard Cornwell (1815)
• Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe & the Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #10) by Bernard Cornwell (1815)
• Sharpe's Honor (Richard Sharpe's Adventures, No. 7) by Bernard Cornwell (1815)

Nazi Germany; World War II

• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Paleozoic Era

• The End of All Songs by Michael Moorcock

Peace of Amiens

• Post Captain (Aubrey/Maturin) by Patrick O'Brian (1802-1803)

Peninsular War

• Sharpe's Battle: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 by Bernard Cornwell (1815)
• Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe & the Bussaco Campaign, 1810 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #10) by Bernard Cornwell (1814)
• Sharpe's Honor (Richard Sharpe's Adventures, No. 7) by Bernard Cornwell (1814)

plagues

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson (London, 1665)

The Reappearance of Earth

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) by Douglas Adams
• The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Reign of George III

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell

Reign of Tipu Sultan

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

The Scattering

• Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6) by Frank Herbert

The Scattering

• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson

Second Anglo-Maratha War

• Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell (1805)

Second Battle of Copenhagen

• Sharpe's Prey (Sharpe, #5) by Bernard Cornwell (1807)

Seldon Crisis

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Siege of Ahmednuggur

• Sharpe's Triumph: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #2) by Bernard Cornwell (1803)

Siege of Badajoz

• Sharpe's Company: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812 (#13) by Bernard Cornwell (January to April 1812)

Siege of Gawilghur

• Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell (1803-12-15)

Siege of Seringapatam

• Sharpe's Tiger (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1) by Bernard Cornwell (1799)

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Superflu epidemic

• The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass: (Volume 4) by Stephen King
• The Stand by Stephen King

Thirty Years' War

• Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

Threadfall

• Dragonflight (Pern) by Anne McCaffrey

Toulon Blockade

• The Ionian Mission (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 8) (Book 8) by Patrick O'Brian (1813)

Trojan War

• Ilium by Dan Simmons

Tudor Era

• Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) by Hilary Mantel (1603)

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One

• 2001: a Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series) by Arthur C. Clarke

Tycho Magnetic Anomaly Two

• 2001: a Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey Series) by Arthur C. Clarke

Vietnam War

• Watchmen by Alan Moore (1975)

War of the Five Kings

• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) by George R. R. Martin
• A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R.R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) by George R. R. Martin

War of the Usurper

• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) by George R.R. Martin

Wildfire outbreak

• Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2) by Alastair Reynolds

World War II

• Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
• Necessary Evil (Milkweed) by Ian Tregillis
• 1984 by George Orwell (1945)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1945)
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
• Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
• The Martian Chronicles the Grand Master Editions by Michael Whelan
• The Postman by David Brin

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Xenocide of the Formics

• Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series) by Orson Scott Card
• Speaker for the Dead (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
• Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card (Buggers)

Zombie Apocalypse

• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks