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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: Dec 2011
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 400
Mike Gabrieli's ne'er-do-well brother Tom has disappeared after mysteriously gaining possession of a priceless Aztec artifact. Now Mike sets out on a quest for Tom that takes him back in time to the dawn of the Spanish Conquest of South America. The descendants of the Incas have a plan to keep Pizarro and his conquistadors from overthrowing their ancestors' empire. Mike is sympathetic, he now faces the very real possibility that, while creating an alternate world with the Incas ascendant, he may be wiping out his own future in the process.
In addition to Fred Saberhagen's novel The Mask of the Sun, seven top writers have contributed stories set in the same universe. The contributors include New York Times best-selling authors David Weber and Harry Turtledove, as well as Walter Jon Williams, John Maddox Roberts, Jane Lindskold, and more, expanding on Fred Saberhagen's concept and bringing their own perspectives to this volume of exciting alternate universe adventure.
About Fred Saberhagen:
"Immensely, deservedly popular."—Booklist on SF legend, Fred Saberhagen.
". .. original and truly excellent. . . ."—Science Fiction Chronicle
" . . . intelligent, lively, fun-loving adventures. . ."—The New York Review Science Fiction