TIME TRAVEL ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM A MASTER. A new tale of
time-displaced persons fighting for their lives in the ancient world,
from 1632 and Boundary series creator Eric Flint.
It's been more than a year since the cruise ship Queen of the Sea was
transported in time and space to the ancient Mediterranean not long
after the death of Alexander the Great.
Captain Lars Floden and the other "Ship People" are trying to plant the
seeds of modern civilization. It's not an easy task, to put it mildly,
even if they have a tacit alliance with the co-regents of Alexander's
empire, his widow Roxane, and Eurydice, the wife of his half-brother.
For they have plenty of enemies, too. Cassander is using every foul
means available to turn Macedonia and Greece into his own empire. The
brutal general Antigonus One-Eye is doing the same in Mesopotamia. And
Ptolemy, the cleverest of them all, is expanding his Egyptian realm to
the Red Sea.
Things aren't any easier in the colony that passengers from the cruise
ship founded on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. President Allen Wiley
is trying to build a twenty-first century democratic nation, but the
people he has to work with aren't the most suitable for the task:
oldsters from the future, local tribesmen, and third-century BCE
immigrants from Europe and Africa.
War, religious strife, assassinations, espionage, poisonings and other
murders--and a fair amount of love, too--all mix together with the Ship
People's knowledge from the 21st century to form a new weaving of the
fates. Hopefully, that will lead to a bright new future. If it doesn't
kill everyone first.
About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Series:
"This alternate history series is . . . a landmark . . ." --Booklist
"[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop
of gifted alternate historians." --Booklist
". . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . ."
--Publishers Weekly
