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The Peshawar Lancers

Books | Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure

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S. M. Stirling
In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world’s climate forever. And just as Earth’s temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together…In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King, reluctant spy and hero, will play…
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Author
S. M. Stirling
Pages
496
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2003-01-07
ISBN
1101098988 9781101098981

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