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Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms de Alasdair Richmond

de Alasdair Richmond - Género: English
libro gratis Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms

Sinopsis

A poet comes to a fork in the road where three parallel destinies orbit the same violent fate; a child’s rebellious escapade to the city becomes a nightmare when the portal to return is nowhere to be found; rather than abdicate, Kaiser Wilhelm II leads the High Seas Fleet on a doom-laden final voyage.

Delving into the strange imaginings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Sarban, Robert Holdstock and many more, this new collection brings together fourteen tales traversing uncanny collateral fates, weird eddies of alternative history, realms of Dark Fantasy and the unsettling otherworlds bordering our own reality.


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3.5?

The anthology was not quite what you might expect from the title. But the selection is still, at the end of the day, quite solid.

Favourite stories: "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Curfew Tolls" by Stephen Vincent Benét, "Branch Line to Benceston" by Sir Andrew Caldecott, "He Walked Around the Horses" by H. Beam Piper, "Calmahain" by Sarban, "Scarrowfell" by Robert Holdstock2 s Neil72 4

'Finding Treasure Island' 5??
The Yellow Wall Paper 3 ??
Roads of Destiny 3??
Bad Lands 5 ??<- this was _greeaat_!
The Death Voyage 1??
The Curfew Tolls 3??
An undistinguished boy 1??
Branch line to Benceston 4??
He walked around the horses 4??
Calmahain 5??
Exit 4??
The Rose Wall 2??
Scarrowfell 3??

Some really outstanding stories concerning alternate dimensions/other universes: Finding Treasure Island, Bad Lands, Branch Line to Benceston, Calmahain, Exit.

And some fun alternative history tales too, mixed with a couple of very meh tales! The alternative history tales actually have a connection!1 Tom680 42

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