- Hardcover: 420 pages
- Publisher: Roc; First Edition edition (Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451458486
- ISBN-13: 978-0451458483
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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- #87 in Books > Fiction > Science Fiction > Alternate History
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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Stirling Tale,
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This review is from: The Peshawar Lancers (Mass Market Paperback)
This is an excellent read. It combines elements of the classics of Hope, Kipling and Haggard, into an alternative universe of the 21st Century. The basic premise is a meteorite strike in the 1870's essentially scoured civilisation from Europe and North America. The remains of the British empire have decamped to the Jewel in the Crown, India. A century latter, the author carefully recreates the world which results from this event, as a backdrop to a trilling adventure story. It was interesting of the author, an American, not to have the US present except as a collection of struggling city states. Also the empire is not an English empire, but more an Indian one, where the former conquerors have been blended and mixed into the gloriously diverse makeup of the subcontinent. I have not been really a fan of the author, lukewarm to his Drakkan series & finding his Islanders fairly okay. Hopefully, this will the start of a new series.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A new fascinating alternate history scenario,
By Marino (marino_bibl@yahoo.it) (Rome, Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Peshawar Lancers (Hardcover)
After the Fall (multiple asteroids or comets impacting the Earth at high speed in 1877) the Western civilization survives in British India and is menaced by a true evil empire, a Czar ruling from Samarkand and worshipping the Black God with human sacrifices. As a character says, the plot has "vile villains, a beautiful princess and a valiant knight" in it, but on the background you can appreciate the meticulous research which led to a successful world building: history, politics, religion, technology, all subtly different from ours. The only flaw lies IMHO in too much clearcut good vs. evil characters, unlike the more ambiguous, but more rich in depth, characters of his former novels, like Eric von Shrakenberg in the Draka trilogy or Isketerol in the Nantucket series.All in all, another must for AH buffs (and not only for them) from a leading author
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Balls of Fire!,
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This review is from: The Peshawar Lancers (Mass Market Paperback)
After massive cometary impacts in the late 1800s that had made life in the Northern Hemisphere effectively impossible most of the British upper classes and military had been evacuated to British India. Now, more than a hundred years later, India is the centre of a new Empire holding the subcontinent, Australasia, the coastal areas of North America and even the old Home Islands of the British Isles. However, as ever, the Raj's greatest threat lies to the North in the shape of the Czar of all the Russias with his Seat at fabled Sammerkand. A Czar who worshipped, not Christianity, but the foul Tchernobog who demanded that his followers eat human flesh in remembrance of the time they spent under the Dark. Although still calling themselves English, and appearing as such on the surface, the rulers of India retain few of their ancestors' ways and have become greatly Indianised in the time spent as the rulers of the vast subcontinent. As Athelstane King and his sister make their way through the twisted threads that make up the attempt of a Russian agent to destroy the ruling dynasty, we get to look at the strange civilisation that is still being formed in this new empire, for just as the Indians had their effects on their foreign rulers, those rulers had had their own effect on those they ruled. _The Peshawar Lancers_ is a great book however you look at it - a brilliant adventure story in the old Imperial style of derring do and great world building, making a truly alien world appear real.
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