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ISBN: 9780575061033

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alternate history,contemporary,fantasy,historical fiction,literature and fiction,science fiction,science fiction and fantasy, An ever-expanding subgenre of science fiction is devoted to "alternate worlds" or "alternate histories": fiction in which a crucial event goes differently than in the world we know, and history is changed. Keith Roberts's Pavane (1968) is set in a backward 20th century molded by the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I and the triumph of a militantly antiscience Catholic Church. This is a classic alternate history, in the same company as such highly regarded novels as L. Sprague De Camp's seminal Lest Darkness Fall (1941), in which a modern man slips back in time and attempts to avert the Dark Ages; Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee (1953), set after the South wins the U.S. Civil War; and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle (1962), set after the Germans and Japanese win World War II. Lest Darkness Fall and The Man in the High Castle are justly famous; the other two classics, Bring the Jubilee and Pavane, are less well known, and that is a shame. One reason for Pavane's relative obscurity among American SF readers might be its British setting and author (the Moore and Dick novels are both set in the U.S., and De Camp, Moore, and Dick were all American). Another reason might be that Pavane is a novel created from interrelated but standalone stories (six "measures," or novelettes, and a coda), and the stories are of varying quality. Most are wise, beautifully written, and intensely visualized, especiall.

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London: VGSF 1995 First VGSF Paperback Printing ISBN 0-575-06103-0, 1995 Fine. Just a trace of edgewear, faint crease to spine, otherwise Fine throughout. Wrap-around cover art by Ian Miller.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, N & A Smiles.
London: VGSF 1995 First VGSF Paperback Printing ISBN 0-575-06103-0, 1995 VG. Light edgewear, light creasing to spine, very slight lean, otherwise an attractive copy, very clean throughout. Wrap-around cover art by Ian Miller.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, _nearfine_.
A work of alternative-world fiction, set in an imaginary 20th century in which history has taken a different course: there has been no Industrial Revolution and progress in Europe has been greatly slowed. Now the wind of change is beginning to blow strongly. Paperback, Ausgabe: Reissue, Label: Victor Gollancz, Victor Gollancz, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1995-11, Studio: Victor Gollancz, Verkaufsrang: 12675130.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Booksmith, WEST MIDLANDS, Birmingham, [RE:4].
Creases and roll to spine. Wear to cover edges. Tanning to page edges. Paperback, New edition. New edition.