Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780345440914
ISBN: 0345440919
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 27, 2001
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: February 27, 2001
Sales Rank: 856142
Studio: Del Rey
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Rating:  - WHAT IF...
I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED WHAT THE WORLD BE IF GERMANY AND JAPAN HAD WON. WHAT WE WOULD HAVE AND BE IF ALL THE PEOPLE KILLED IN WARS HAD SURVIVED AND REPRODUCED. WHERE WE WOULD BE AND WHAT WE WOULD BE DOING IF THE LIBRARY
AT ALEXANDRIA HAD NOT BURNED. POMPEI HAD NOT HAPPENED. TOBA.
AND I HAVE WONDERED TOO IF, TO US, THERE WOULD BE A DIFFERENCE. WOULD WE KNOW WE WERE CHANGED? WOULD IT MATTER AT ALL? IS ONE REALITY AS GOOD AS ANOTHER?
GHOSTS FROM THE PAST AND SOME FROM THE FUTURE ... Read More
Rating: - Linked short stories
Kieth Robert's novel, "Pavane", is an alternate history that reads like literate fiction. Told with linked short-stories ala "Erdrich's Love" Medicine or Kincaid's "Annie JohnP", this underappreciated classic ended up on Anthony Burgess' list of 99 great novels.
Highly recommended
Rating:  - Prejudiced and lacking a historical basis.
I really wish I could have given this book a half star as I feel that is the most it merits. This book is unrealistic in the extreme. While one has to remember that it is "alternate history," allowing the author some creativity with facts and language,he might have tried to be more on the ball. Had Spain's Armada actually triumphed and the English succumbed it is highly unlikely the world would have been so offset as to appear like the Middle Ages in the 20th century. Certainly the Protestant Reformation ... Read More
Rating:  - Dreary Alternate History
PAVANE is made up of six interconnected stories, all taking place in an alternate universe where Elizabeth I was assassinated and the Spanish Armada defeated the British navy, thereby paving the way for the Catholic Church to keep a stranglehold on Europe until the twentieth century.
All the stories take place in the gloomy region of Durnovaria, starting in the 1960s and stretching out over thirty years or so, recounting the events which lead up to the final revolt against the Catholic Church. ... Read More
Rating: - Beautifully Written
This book is marketed as Alternate History but I disagree. The content is broken down into mini stories detailing matters seldom written about. My favorite coda was the Semaphore story. If you buy this book and are expecting in-your-face alternate reality, then you'll be disappointed.
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