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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-100765306964

ISBN-139780765306968

eBay Product ID (ePID)46971405

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn High Places

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Alternative History

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorHarry Turtledove

Book SeriesCrosstime Traffic Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-016792

Reviews"The modern master of alternate history." -- Publishers Weekly on Harry Turtledove "Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing placesâ€¦I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere." -- San Jose Mercury News on Harry Turtledove "One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history." -- Dragon on Harry Turtledove "Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoyâ€¦Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that 'adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off." -- Publishers Weekly on Gunpowder Empire, "The modern master of alternate history." -- Publishers Weekly on Harry Turtledove "Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places...I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere." -- San Jose Mercury News on Harry Turtledove "One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history." -- Dragon on Harry Turtledove "Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy...Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that 'adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off." -- Publishers Weekly on Gunpowder Empire, "The modern master of alternate history." --Publishers WeeklyonHarry Turtledove "Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing placesâ€¦I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere." --San JoseMercury Newson Harry Turtledove "One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history." --Dragonon Harry Turtledove "Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoyâ€¦Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that 'adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off." --Publishers WeeklyonGunpowder Empire

Series Volume Number3

SynopsisTeenager Annette Klein and her family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, sending commodities of the future back to their own timeline. During an attack she is separated from her parents, taken as a slave, and then the really scary thing happens--her purchasers take her to an unofficial crosstime portal., Teenager Annette Klein and her family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, sending commodities of the future back to their own timeline. During an attack she is separated from her parents, taken as a slave, and then the really scary thing happens--her purchasers take her to an "unofficial" crosstime portal., In the 21st-century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that's wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway.But teenaged Khadija, daughter of a prosperous family of Moorish business travellers, is unfazed. That's because Khadija is really Annette Klein from 21st-century California, and her whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, trading for commodities to send back to our own timeline. Now it's time for Annette and her family to go home for the start of another school year, so they join a pack train bound for their home base in Marseilles, where the crosstime portal is hidden.Then bandits attack while they're crossing the Pyrenees. Annette/Khadija is separated from her parents and knocked out, and wakes up to find herself a captive in a caravan of slaves being taken to the markets in the south. She's in a tight spot.Then the really scary thing happens: her purchasers take her, along with other newly purchased slaves, to an unofficial crosstime portal... leaving open the question of whether Crosstime Traffic will ever be able to recover her!, In the 21st-century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that's wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway. But teenaged Khadija, daughter of a prosperous family of Moorish business travellers, is unfazed. That' s because Khadija is really Annette Klein from 21st-century California, and her whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, trading for commodities to send back to our own timeline. Now it's time for Annette and her family to go home for the start of another school year, so they join a pack train bound for their home base in Marseilles, where the crosstime portal is hidden. Then bandits attack while they're crossing the Pyrenees. Annette/Khadija is separated from her parents and knocked out, and wakes up to find herself a captive in a caravan of slaves being taken to the markets in the south. She's in a tight spot. Then the really scary thing happens: her purchasers take her, along with other newly purchased slaves, to an "unofficial" crosstime portal... leaving open the question of whether Crosstime Traffic will ever be able to recover her!

LC Classification NumberPS3570.U76I5 2006