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REVIEW: Finding Minerva
Apr. 6th, 2008 04:41 pmFinding Minerva: Frances Thomas. Pont, 2007.
I love 'alternate universe' stories. Does anyone remember Sliders, where the main characters moved from alternate Earth to alternate Earth? Here be dragons, hippies, mutants or tyrants...I've just been reading Black Powder War by Naomi Novik, part of the 'Temeraire' series about the Napoleonic wars in a world where dragons exist. I love stories that are set in a world that asks what if history had branched off at some critical point, leading to a similar but different world to ours.
The premise of this young adult book, to borrow an Americanism, is that the Romans never left Britain because the Roman Empire never fell and so the world developed at a different pace. ( Read more... )
I love 'alternate universe' stories. Does anyone remember Sliders, where the main characters moved from alternate Earth to alternate Earth? Here be dragons, hippies, mutants or tyrants...I've just been reading Black Powder War by Naomi Novik, part of the 'Temeraire' series about the Napoleonic wars in a world where dragons exist. I love stories that are set in a world that asks what if history had branched off at some critical point, leading to a similar but different world to ours.
The premise of this young adult book, to borrow an Americanism, is that the Romans never left Britain because the Roman Empire never fell and so the world developed at a different pace. ( Read more... )
