GUNPOWDER EMPIRE: CROSSTIME TRAFFIC - BOOK ONE (SIGNED)

Turtledove, Harry

ISBN 10: 076530693X / ISBN 13: 9780765306937

Published by Tor Books, 2003

About this Item

Hardcover first edition, first printing. First Edition stated on copyright page with "1" present in complete number line.Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Signed by Turtledove on the title page. Not a book club, remainder nor ex-library copy. First in a new series about a family working for a government bureau which manages alternate timelines throughout human history.

Seller Inventory # 003219

Bibliographic Details

• Title: GUNPOWDER EMPIRE: CROSSTIME TRAFFIC - BOOK ONE (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076530693X
• ISBN 13: 9780765306937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sano, Kazuhiko
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SCIENCE FICTION
  • SIGNED BOOKS
  • COLLECTIBLE

About this title

Synopsis

Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California--but during the summer the whole family lives and works on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire that never fell: a parallel timeline, one of an infinity of possible worlds.
For in our timeline, we now have the technology to move among these. Some are uninhabitable; some are ghastly, such as the one where Germany won World War II. But many are full of resources and raw materials that our world can use. So we send traders and
businesspeople--but to keep the secret of crosstime traffic to ourselves, these traders are trained, in whole-family groups, to pass as natives.

But when Jeremy's mother gets sick--really sick, the kind you can't cure with antibiotics. Both parents duck out through the gateway for a quick visit to the doctor. But while they're gone, the gateways stop working. So do the communications links to their home timeline. The kids are on their own, and things are looking bad. The Lietuvans are invading. The city is besieged. The kids are doing their best to carry on business and act like everything's normal, but there's only so much you can do when cannonballs are crashing through your roof.
And in the meantime, the city government has gotten suspicious, and is demanding a *full* report on how their family does business, where they get their superior merchandise, why they want all that wheat ...exactly the questions they don't want to answer.

About the Author

Harry Turtledove is the Hugo-winning author of many SF and fantasy novels. His alternate-history novels, include the bestselling The Guns of the South, How Few Remain, the Worldwar series, and the recent Ruled Britannia. He lives with his wife and daughters in Los Angeles.