- Fiction, Comets, International relations, Collisions with Earth
S.M. Stirling's acclaimed hardcover debut-and a top ten Locus bestseller for two months-The Peshawar Lancers takes readers to an alternate 21st century earth, where boats still run on steam, messages are exchanged by telegraph, and the British Empire controls much of the world from India. But the Czar of all Russias is preparing for global conquest...
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Classical in form, epic, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- S. M. Stirling
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 420
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., ROC
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451458735
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