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The Peshawar Lancers

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Penguin, Jan 7, 2003 - Fiction - 496 pages

In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world’s climate forever. And just as Earth’s temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together….

 

In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King, reluctant spy and hero, will play….

 

  

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The ending is far too happy. - Goodreads
The ending felt very contrived, and somewhat forced. - Goodreads
Really bad villians, and heroic good guys. - Goodreads
Fairly entertaining plot, if a bit hackneyed. - Goodreads
This is the definition of a "ripping yarn." - Goodreads
A lot of research obviously went into this book. - Goodreads

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Yeah, well, the first two thirds were fairly gripping. Went to the well with the prophetess thing too many times, I felt. The ending was rather maudlin, which fairly ruined it for me.

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Stirling does a masterful job in his alternative future/past novels. In this one we are in the world about 2025 centuries after an asteriod strikes Earth and creates a massive climate change for ... Read full review

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About the author (2003)

S. M. Stirling is the author of numerous novels, both on his own and in collaboration. A former lawyer and an amateur historian, he lives in the Southwest with his wife, Jan.

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