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Article: Turtledove, Harry. Gunpowder empire.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

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TURTLEDOVE, Harry. Gunpowder empire. (Crosstime Traffic, Book 1.) Tor. 286p. c2003. 0-765-34609-5. $6.99. JSA

In the first of Turtledove's books that seems aimed at a YA audience, two 21st-century teenage siblings end up stranded in an alternate timeline where the Roman Empire never fell. We have developed the technology to move between timelines, and from necessity have put in place trade groups (usually family units) to preserve secrecy. Jeremy Solter and his sister Amanda are part of such a group with their family, and they spend their summer vacations on trade missions to this Roman Empire timeline. This time, though, their morn gets appendicitis and while ...

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