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Socrates flees Athens for Egypt, triggering events that lead to the fall of Rome to Carthage. From here on in this alternative history, the history of the world--Old and New--is turned on its head. Slave ships carrying white slaves and black and brown owners set out for the New World, discovering not the United States but Bilalistan, an ethnically diverse and warring land ruled by Zulus, Arabs, Aztecs, Vikings, and Indians. The main story line tracks the conflicted and intense relationship between a white slave, Irish Christian Aidan O'Dere, and his master's son, African Muslim Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid, from youth into adulthood. When an epic war breaks out between the ruling factions, the two men face off, and confront the meaning and possibility of freedom.
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In this collaboration between two titans of the horror genre, 12-year-old Jack Sawyer goes an a transnational and transworld journey to find The Talisman, and stop a great evil.
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One of the most famous of Heinlein's juvenile science-fiction novels, this book follows the adventures of a teenager with a secondhand space suit and dreams of visiting the Moon. Along with his friend, a 9-year-old girl, he travels into space and to all kinds of exotic planets, but something always comes up to prevent him from getting to the Moon.
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Ari, the youngest in a long line of witches who have long tended the Old Places, becomes the target of suspicion and persecution on the part of her neighbors, just as the harmony between the spiritual and the natural begins to break down and the the roads between the mortal world and the world of the Fae begin to disappear. Original.
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The book was written in two parts: The Coming of the Martians, which details the Martians' landing and conquering; and The Earth Under the Martians, which is a post-apocalyptic account of the Martians' reign and their subsequent vanquishing by microbes which they are unprepared for. Mars, and the possibility of life on it, had apparently intrigued Wells for some time. In an interesting aside, as Bernard Bergonzi notes in his Early H. G. Wells,
the author also had some fun writing scenes in which the aliens destroyed characters modeled on his neighbors. Adapted by Orson Welles and Howard Koch for the notorious 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, this story sent hundreds of frenzied families onto the highways in an attempt to escape the alien threat.
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