The Peshawar Lancers

In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together...

In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King, reluctant spy and hero, will play...

Author: S. M. Stirling
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 01/07/2003
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 6.79h x 4.21w x 1.34d
ISBN13: 9780451458735
ISBN10: 0451458737
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Alternative History
- Fiction | Action & Adventure

About the Author
S. M. Stirling is the New York Times bestselling author of many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Novels of the Change (including Prince of Outcasts, The Desert and the Blade, The Golden Princess, The Given Sacrifice, Lord of Mountains) and the Shadowspawn series (A Taint in the Blood, The Council of Shadows, Shadows of Falling Night).