Synopses & Reviews
This novel of alternate history occurs in an America still unconquered by Europeans. In 1946, ex-marine John Rolfe VI blunders through a portal into a mind-bending pre-1492 mirror image that he can scarcely understand. Engaging from the first words of the prologue to the finish.
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"Stirling is a facile and interesting writer. Politically, he seems to be a right-winger who admires authority. But he also sounds like an environmentalist, and many lyrical passages in Conquistador celebrate nature....Conquistador is first-rate sf adventure fiction, the start of what should prove to be a very entertaining series." Martin Morse Wooster, The Washington Post
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"[M]esmerizing....In this luscious alternative universe, sidekicks quote the Lone Ranger and Right inevitably triumphs with panache. What more could adventure-loving readers ask for?" Publishers Weekly
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"Stirling's endlessly and sometimes perversely fertile imagination now realizes a world in which Alexander the Great lived to old age....This is even more of a romp than Stirling's Peshawar Lancers, but while its action scenes are state-of-the-art and its femmes wonderfully formidable, it is the sort of romp that has four appendixes of historical backgrounding, not to mention a blatant opening for a sequel." Roland Green, Booklist
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"One of the best time travel/alternate history stories I've ever read, period." Harry Turtledove
Synopsis
A new alternate history from the bestselling author of The Peshawar Lancers. It is 1946. The white man is about to discover America.