RUTH F. (ruthy) reviewed on 5/13/2009 + 56 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I like Stirling usually. This book isn't one of my favorites. It took me a while to get into the story. It would have helped had I known (and looked) at the appendices at the end of the book. Just starting out reading it, I was lost. Reading the appendices gives a lot of background that would have made it easier to get into the story. It is once again an alternate reality of our world set in the 2020's in India where the seat of British Empire has been moved due to the global calamity of asteroid hits across much of the northern hemisphere much earlier. This book's story doesn't tie into his other series. Stirling does have a set scenario that happens when the world is set back by some huge disaster. If you don't like his set scenario then try not to dwell on some of the nastier parts of it.

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