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Updated Sunday 15 May, 2011 12:18 PM |
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'GUNPOWDER EMPIRE' by Tom Hamilton Harry Turtledove has started a new AH series of novels with "Gunpowder Empire", a book that combines elements of Heinlein's "Tunnel in the Sky" with H. Beam Piper's Paratime series. The biggest difference is that Turtledove focuses on the traders, while Piper focused on the police. The motivations are similar: about 40 years in our future, as oil runs out and environmental disasters loom, the situation is saved by the discovery of transport to alternate time lines, with their goods being brought back to feed and supply the world. Inflation has reached the point where a pound of apples (altho the USA is finally using metric) is about $120. The novel probably will be marketed as YA, since the
two main protagonists are 17 and 16 year old siblings, but their experiences
trapped in a beseiged town of a Roman Empire that has lasted a couple thousand
years are fairly unpleasant. Dr. T seems to feel a need to have several
series running simultaneously, and with the long running battle with the Lizards
presumably concluding with the immanent release of "Homeward Bound",
and the likely approaching end of the series pitting a successful Confederacy
against the USA, he is initiating this "Crosstime Traffic" series. |
