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This book, the 3rd in his series of transplanted Nantucketers, was very enjoyable. Like the previous 2 (Island in the Sea of Time and Against the Tide of Years) before it Stirling manages to make you feel right there next to the characters, both good and bad, amidst the tall grasses on the plains of unexplored America, at the parapets of a fort, on the deck of a rolling frigate, even in the swelter of the Early Middle East. I have read almost everything this author has written and he keeps outdoing himself. Stirling is writing or has written (sometime in 2006) 3 novels which will follow the tale of those transplanted into modern day America when these were sent back in time. I am looking forward to them.
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Follow up to 'Island in the Sea of Time" A very intersting study of how societies transition-- set in the "what if?" genre

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10 yearsa ago the 20th century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by a mysterious Event in the decade since, the Republic of Nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the past. SOme of these peoples have become allies. Some have turned instead to the renegade Coast Guard officer William Walker and for 10 yrs the two sides have tseted each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the future.