ย NEW TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER:ย Flint's Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then, a new tale of persons displaced in time, fighting for their lives.
Twice before, mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the Earth across space and back in timeโfirst, with the Grantville Disaster in West Virginia, and then again with a maximum security prison in southern Illinois.
Now, the planet is struck with yet another such cataclysm, whose direct impact falls upon theย Queen of the Sea,ย a cruise ship in the Caribbean. When the convulsions subside, the crew and passengers of the ship discover that they have arrived in a new and frightening world.
They are in the Mediterranean now, not the Caribbean. Still worse, they discover that the disaster has sent them more than two thousand years back in time. Following the advice of an historian among the passengers, Marie Easley, they sail to Egyptโor, at least, where they hope Egypt will be.
Sure enough, Egypt is thereโruled over by Ptolemy, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty and one of Alexander the Greatโs chief generals.
Alexander the Great, it turns out, died just two years ago. The western world has just entered what would become known as the Hellenistic Period of history, during which time Greek civilization would spread around the Mediterranean and beyond. But the first fifty years of the Hellenistic Period was the Age of Diadochiโthe Time of the Successorsโwhen Alexanderโs empire would collapse into chaos. By the time the Successors finished their strife, every single member of Alexanderโs dynasty would be murdered and only three of the generals who began that civil war would still be alive.
That is the new world in which theย Queen of the Seaย finds itself. Can Marie Easley and Captain Lars Flodden guide the crew and passengers through this cataclysm? Fortunately, they have some help: a young Norwegian shipโs officer who forms an attachment to Alexanderโs widow; a French officer who is a champion pistol marksman; a canny Congressman from Utahโand, most of all, many people of the time who are drawn to a vision of the better world of the future.
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About Eric Flintโs Ring of Fire series:
โThis alternate history series isโฆa landmarkโฆโโBooklist
โ[Eric] Flint'sย 1632ย universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.โโBooklist
โโฆreads like a technothriller set in the age of the MedicisโฆโโPublishers Weekly
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