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After an accident, an engineer from the twenty-first century finds himself in the body of an eighteenth century apprentice living in Peter the Great's Russia. Surrounded by filth, hard physical labor, and a bloody war with the Swedes, all he wants is to survive and get on in the world. And, yes...

What if the history you learned in school were only one version of events? In Crossroads of Destiny, H. Beam Piper turns an ordinary conversation about alternate history into something increasingly difficult to dismiss. A group of travelers debate how Columbus, political elections, wars, and...

1859, Nigeria. In the fishing village of Itu Agan, nine-year-old Alabi and his inventor father test a new steamboat prototype when a platoon of automaton soldiers raid their village. The metal invaders execute the village chief and capture Korede, Alabi's father, leaving him and his mother alone and devastated. There is no choice but to accept the new order. All the village boys begin work as fishermen and plantation farmers as soon as they become teenagers and, for nine long years, Alabi must put the promise of invention nurtured in his childhood to rest.