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by Carla, January 6, 2006 12:25 PM
I love stories about alternate universes, and this one is just so well done that Charles Stross makes it seem like a fresh idea. On the cover is a young woman with a pistol in hand, approaching a formidable castle ? how's that for an attention-getting theme? Well, that's only a glimpse of what's in store for Miriam. First, her boss fires her on trumped up charges. Then she gets a locket that belonged to her long dead mother and is transported to another reality. Arriving disoriented and with a splitting migraine, she has to run from a knight who's astride a horse as he's shooting at her with a rifle! A real page-turner!
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