Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove

Author:Harry Turtledove [Turtledove, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction, Alternate History
Published: 2011-01-08T06:00:00+00:00

“Because I never got stuck in an alternate before,” Amanda blazed. The more reasonable Jeremy tried to be, the less reasonable she wanted to be.

He went right on trying: “It has to be something natural, something possible, for heaven's sake.“

“What's so impossible about somebody else discovering crosstime travel?” Amanda asked. “We did ourselves, and we worry about it on some of the timelines that aren't far from ours. Why not somebody else, a long time ago?”

“Well, if somebody else did do it, they're liable to come up from the subbasement and wipe us out in the next twenty minutes,” Jeremy said. “What are we going to do about that?”

Amanda hadn't the faintest idea. She hadn't thought she could feel any worse than she did already.

Now she discovered she was wrong. “Thanks a lot,” she told her brother. “You just gave me something brand new to worry about.”

He shook his head. “Nope. No point worrying about that, because we can't do anything about it. What we can do is worry about this lousy official report, and about selling as much as we can, and about doing whatever we can to make sure the Lietuvans don't take Polisso. Getting captured and sold into slavery can ruin your whole day.“

“So can getting killed,” Amanda pointed out. “That, too,” Jeremy said.

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