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Author: Harry Turtledove Book Format: Paperback Original Title: Gunpowder Empire Number Of Pages: 286 pages First Published in: November 2003 Latest Edition: October 1st 2004 Series: Crosstime Traffic #1 Language: English Awards: Golden Duck Award for Young Adult (Hal Clement Award) (2004) Generes: Science Fiction, Alternate History, Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Young Adult, Fantasy, Historical, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Alternate Universe, Unfinished, Formats: audible mp3, ePUB(Android), kindle, and audiobook. The book can be easily translated to readable Russian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Malaysian, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Arabic, Japanese and many others. 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For we now have the technology to move between timelines, and to exploit the untapped resources of those timelines that are hospitable to human life. So we send traders and business people --but as whole,family groups, in order to keep the secret of Crosstime Traffic to ourselves. But when Jeremy's parents duck back home for emergency medical treatment, the gateways stop working. So do all the communication links. Jeremy and his sister are on their own, Polisso is suddenly under siege, and there's only so much you can do when cannonballs are crashing through your roof. Gunpowder Empire. From "one of alternate history's authentic modern masters" ("Booklist") comes the first of an exciting new series of parallel-world adventure set during the reign of the Roman Empire--an empire that never fell and continues into the late 21st century. Read More. From "one of alternate history's authentic modern masters" ("Booklist") comes the first of an exciting new series of parallel-world adventure set during the reign of the Roman Empire--an empire that never fell and continues into the late 21st century. Read Less. Gunpowder Empire: A Novel of Crosstime Traffic. In Gunpowder Empire , Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California--but during the summer the whole family lives and works on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire that never fell: a parallel timeline, one of an infinity of possible worlds. For in our timeline, we now have the technology to move among these. Some are uninhabitable; some are ghastly, such as the one where Germany won World War II. But many are full of resources and raw materials that our world can use. So we send traders and businesspeople--but to keep the secret of crosstime traffic to ourselves, these traders are trained, in whole-family groups, to pass as natives. But when Jeremy's mother gets sick--really sick, the kind you can't cure with antibiotics. Both parents duck out through the gateway for a quick visit to the doctor. But while they're gone, the gateways stop working. So do the communications links to their home timeline. The kids are on their own, and things are looking bad. The Lietuvans are invading. The city is besieged. The kids are doing their best to carry on business and act like everything's normal, but there's only so much you can do when cannonballs are crashing through your roof. And in the meantime, the city government has gotten suspicious, and is demanding a *full* report on how their family does business, where they get their superior merchandise, why they want all that wheat . exactly the questions they don't want to answer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Gunpowder Empire. Gunpowder Empire , Tor, 2003, is the first novel in the Crosstime Traffic Series. It follows the adventures of the Solters family, who spend every summer in the alternate universe called Agrippan Rome, more precisely in the city of Polisso, in the Dacia region, which is Romania in their reality. Agrippan Rome is a world where the Roman Empire never fell, thanks to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa's survival against disease, which let him lead the Roman armies against barbarians, bring Germania into the Empire (unlike in the home timeline) and annexing Dacia a century early. The Solters setup shop in Polisso, selling pocket watches ("hour-reckoners"), sharp razors, mirrors, and Swiss knives, all trinkets slightly above the technological know-how of the people. Things start going awry when Mrs. Solters falls ill. She and Mr. Solters leave for the home timeline, leaving their children Jeremy and Amanda behind. All would be well, except that soon after Jeremy and Amanda lose the communication link to their home timeline, and the neighboring kingdom of Lietuva (Lithuania and several neighboring nations in the Solters' home reality) has once again declared war against Rome, and the siege of Polisso begins. Literary Notes [ edit | edit source ] In "Alternate History: The How-to of What Might Have Been," Turtledove says that he wanted to write a story using a reversal of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest as a break-point much earlier, but "It took me more than twenty years to come up with a story to follow on changing things there." [1] The book's plot has much in common with Household Gods , written by Turtledove in collaboration with Judith Tarr - though that book concerns time travel back to the OTL Roman Empire. Both books depict the daily life of a provincial Roman city from the point of view of modern American(s) marooned there, and both deal prominently with such issues as facing a society where slavery is taken for granted, and surviving a foreign invasion of the Imperial territory. "Death in Vesunna" also deals with 21st century English-speaking people living undercover in the Roman Empire. This is the only Crosstime Traffic novel where both POV characters are from the home timeline. References to other Turtledove works [ edit | edit source ] At one point, Jeremy Solters plays a game on his PowerBook which involves aliens invading Earth during World War II. This is a reference to the . Jeremy refers to an alternate in which Germany won . This is Alternate 3477, the main setting of the following novel Curious Notions . Further alternates are discussed when Jeremy is in school, but never revisited in the series. One, where North America was colonized by Vikings, may be the world of "The Wheels of If"/"The Pugnacious Peacemaker". Another, where North America remains a contented part of the British Empire in the 2090s, may be the world of . It is said that in some alternates Nazi Germany won World War II, which may be the worlds of In the Presence of Mine Enemies , "," "The Phantom Tolbukhin," and/or (retroactively) "Shtetl Days". By contrast, in one alternate Spain successfully invaded England with the Armada, but there is reason to believe that this is not the world of Ruled Britannia , which uses a similar POD. Likewise, there is reference to an alternate where the Confederate States won the American Civil War, but there is reason to believe that this is neither The Guns of the South nor .