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In High Places (Crosstime Traffic #3)
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 Kha...more
Mass Market Paperback, 270 pages
Published
February 6th 2007
by Tor Science Fiction
(first published December 27th 2005)
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Best so far of the cross-time series. An easy read, probably is understated on the interpretation of slavery (e.g. prospective young reader, try reading Alex Halley's ROOTS, or Octavia Butler's Kindred). But Turtledove has dealt nicely with several themes in history, e.g. the eventual removal of slavery from both an ethics and economic perspective and concurrently the ongoing pervasiveness of slavery in modern culture (Hint, Mr Turtledove, you might consider a brief afterword essay for this...more
"I very much enjoyed this novel set in southern France/northern Spain in an alternate Middle Ages world where Crosstime travelers from our modern era travel covertly to other Earths to trade for resources that are running out at home. The lead characters are Annette, a 17-year-old Jewish girl who plays the role of the daughter of a Muslim merchant, and Jacques, a young man in the army of the Duke of Paris in the Kingdom of Versailles. Turtledove is a professional historian well known in sc...more
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The Crosstime Traffic series is one that isn't very coherent. Not all of the books are excellent in terms of their plots and the only common thread is the background, not what's going on in each novel. I've been reading my way through, partly out of order and I'm finding that I can't predict what I will or won't like.
This is certainly one of the better Crosstime Traffic books that I've read.
This is certainly one of the better Crosstime Traffic books that I've read.
Aside from being just plain dumb and loaded with inconsistencies the chief problem was that the story was over-the-top preachy. Entirely too much pretentious high-mindedness. Crosstime Traffic are heroic & legitimate interlopers and exploiters but those bad-apple users of the pirated Transposition Chamber are e-v-i-l. Really? Come on Harry, you can do better than this. At least you USED to be able to write better...
Okay, I get it Harry, 'slavery' is a bad thing even when African ...more
Okay, I get it Harry, 'slavery' is a bad thing even when African ...more
Best of the Crosstime novels so far - the characters are stronger, the plot is interesting & unpredictable, and there are some very interesting philosophical/spiritual questions raised. (I don't agree with all his conclusions, but I'm glad someone is using "young adult fiction" to bring up important issues.)
Not a bad young adult sci-fi book. Likable characters and good plot.
But it isn't one of those young adult books that tickles the adult fancy because although the science (travel between alternate histories) aspect was very intriguing but it raised a ton of issues that distracted me from the actual plot.
But it isn't one of those young adult books that tickles the adult fancy because although the science (travel between alternate histories) aspect was very intriguing but it raised a ton of issues that distracted me from the actual plot.
Interesting idea of alternate timelines and travel between them, but a bit boring in the execution of it.
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