DislikedIt was never a book I was that keen on even though I love this author. I never finished it when I read it. I didn't think it was one of his strongest, but I did have the urge to go back to it.
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The Gate of Worlds (1967)
Creators: Mixed Imagine that the Black Death of 1348 destroyed most of Europe's people instead of only one-fourth. As a result the Turks rule Europe, Africa is the world's cultural center, and America in 1963, is a semi-savage continent governed by Aztecs. North America is the setting where a young Englishman seeks fortune and adventure.
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Lovedthe story follows 18-year-old Dan bamp who leaves an impoverished England in 1967 to seek his fortune in the Aztec empire he's accompanied on his journey by an Aztec sorcerer named qux and together they explore the unfamiliar culture and power structures of this alternate world
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GentleThere Is More Than One History Of The World...In the mid-fifteenth century there was Burgundy, the jewel of Europe - opulant and powerful, the undisputed center of an uncivilized world.In an epoch of war and madness there was Ash. A girl born in mud and dung, she slew her first men while only eight. Scarred and ravaged, but still beautiful, she rose up to lead a great mercenary army before the age of twenty - and followed a sacred voice wise in the bloody ways of battle to a pinnacle unattainable to even the most potent of legends.In a time when empires and alliances shifted like sand - when Mithras the bull was worshiped freely alongside the Christ - a great cloud arose out of Africa to darken the sun. The Visgoths came with their terrible machines - powered by magic or a science unknown to this day - and aimed their irresistible might toward the rich Burgundian prize, wrenching the wheel of civilization in an unknown and unexpected direction. And with their coming, one incomparable warrior raised on Destiny's ash heap became more than anyone thought one woman could be.
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