| Against the Tide of Years Contributor(s): Stirling, S. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0451457439 ISBN-13: 9780451457431 Publisher: Ace Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has striven to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on conquest by modern technology. The Republic has no alternative but to face the inevitable war brought on by one of their own. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel - Fiction | Alternative History |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002561962 |
| Series: Island |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 4.16" W x 6.7" (0.58 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "STIRLING HAS SURPASSED HIS PREVIOUS WORK," raved Science Fiction Chronicle of his bestselling novel Island in the Sea of Time, and George R. R. Martin hailed it as "an utterly engaging account of what happens when the isle of Nantucket is whisked back into the Bronze Age." Now, the adventure continues... In the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to recreate the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology. When Walker reaches Greece and recruits several of their greater kinglets to his cause, the people of Nantucket have no choice. If they are to save the primitive world from being plunged into bloodshed on a twentieth-century scale, they must defeat Walker at his own game: war. |