Gunpowder Empire

Gunpowder Empire

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author = Harry Turtledove
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country = United States
language = English
series = Crosstime Traffic
genre = Alternate history
publisher = Tor Books
pub_date = December 5, 2003
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 288
isbn =076530693X
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followed_by =Curious Notions

"Gunpowder Empire" is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the first part of the Crosstime Traffic series.

In the novel, Jeremy and Amanda Solter are two teenagers living in the late twenty-first century. Their parents work for Crosstime Traffic, a trading company using time travel to go back and forth from parallel versions of Earth to trade for resources to help sustain their version of Earth. One summer, the children work with their parents, going to Polisso, a village in what is our Romania, in a Roman Empire that never collapsed. When their mother becomes sick, their father takes her back to their home time for treatment before the time travel equipment suffers a break in link, stranding Jeremy and Amanda in Polisso, which comes under siege by barbarian Lietuvans. At the same time, the Roman authorities begin to grow suspicious of their trade mission.

External links

* [http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/gunpowder.html Tor review]


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