lenny nero
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A soldier comes back from WW2 and buys a house in San Francisco and discovers a doorway into an alternate version of our world, one where North America was never discovered by the Europeans. It's kept a secret until 2009 when a game warden stumbles upon it during an investigation.
I went into this one with high hopes of a good alternate history story with lots of high adventure, instead I got pages and pages of landscape descriptions of how California would've looked if we weren't there. We get a little action toward the end but after 500 pages it's not enough to save it.
Stirling has written in this genre before, most notably with The Peshawar Lancers and the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy, and hopefully, there not as boring as this one. Avoid. First published in 2004. 596 pages.
I went into this one with high hopes of a good alternate history story with lots of high adventure, instead I got pages and pages of landscape descriptions of how California would've looked if we weren't there. We get a little action toward the end but after 500 pages it's not enough to save it.
Stirling has written in this genre before, most notably with The Peshawar Lancers and the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy, and hopefully, there not as boring as this one. Avoid. First published in 2004. 596 pages.
