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  <title><![CDATA[Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History]]></title>
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  <default_description>A new alternate history of America from the author of &lt;i&gt;The Peshawar Lancers&lt;/i&gt;, the bestselling novel the &lt;i&gt;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;/i&gt; called &quot;a pleasure to read&quot; and Harry Turtledove hailed as &quot;first-rate adventure all the way.&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; 1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence. 21st century: The two realities collide...</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[S.M. Stirling]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My husband has recently devoured the &quot;Dies the Fire&quot; series, but since he checked them out from the library I haven't had opportunity to read them.  Instead this stand-alone story was my first Stirling, and I found the author to live up to his hype.  <br/>Obviously there's a pretty signif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42462395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45824458">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thus far I have read the Change trilogy and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179021.The_Peshawar_Lancers" title="The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling">Peshawar Lancers</a> all from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14002.S_M_Stirling" title="S.M. Stirling">S.M. Stirling</a>.  This story is what I wished all of them were.  This story grabbed me at the beginning and kept me enthralled throughout.  The last 1/4 of the book was a real page turner that I could not put down. (In spite of seve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45824458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47075193">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 15:14:59 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 21 14:16:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Interminable would be a word to describe this alternate world tale that would have been a fast paced adventure story at half the length. Shortly after world war two, a slightly injured soldier rents a place in Oakland. He sets up a shortwave radio in the basement and somehow opens a portal into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47075193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60398670">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 06:26:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 04 04:45:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Conquistador is a phenomenal book.  It's scifi only in the sense that it introduces the idea of a parallel world.  This book is part western, part police mystery, part military action.  S.M. Stirling has created a parallel world so fully fleshed out from an anthropological and historical perspective...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60398670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41980112">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 11:36:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 21 08:58:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I agree with most of the other people who reviewed it--this was a great idea, but the author got really hung up in all the &quot;look how great this universe is&quot; thing. I would have been interested in more history and more interaction with the people of this alternate universe. Also, the ending...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41980112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63350780">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[SM Stirling is perhaps the best SF author writing today. He creates real characters in unusual situations; he offers books of adventure in unusual places that prompt one to reflect on our own world. Stirling must surely be an environmentalist; I can't read some of his descriptions a &quot;wild&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63350780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67712662">
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 17 05:30:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 17 05:33:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a horrible, worthless piece of drek.  This is what happens when a couple of stoners have a &quot;what if...?&quot; session at 2am after a bender.  It is easily one of the worst books I've read and will personally hunt down anyone who bothers to read it, take it out of your hand, hit you over th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67712662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49677779">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 18 11:32:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 25 11:44:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting concept, but not that great. It kindof dragged, in fact, and then turned into a war-hero type thing. But, it wasn't awful, and i did finish it, so...But it is maybe worth it b/c the author photo is exactly how you would imagine a geeky alternative history sci-fi fantasy war-games author ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49677779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19782224">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fairfax, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 09 05:45:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 09 05:54:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started slowly, but I was rather enjoying it by the end.  It's a very simple read in many ways: there are no real twists in the plot, the you can connect with the characters (albeit on a medium shallow level), and things are not overly technical.  That said, there aren't any monster holes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19782224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78417039">
    <user id="179951">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristeen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 20 06:58:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first alternate history book and was pretty interesting. But note to author: Just because a guy is from ND, that doesn't mean he always say &quot;you betcha.&quot; I got so sick of reading that. Not a single &quot;oh yeah, oh yeah, sure.&quot; Not even an &quot;uff da.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="4110177">
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    <name><![CDATA[Abby]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tucson, AZ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 05 11:42:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A portal to another California opens up in post-WWII Oakland, California when John Rolfe (descendant of Rolfe and Pocahontas) turns on a radio he'd refurbished.  In the alternate reality, Europeans never found America, the Native Americans are the only ones here, and the Aztec empire is well past it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4110177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61185031">
    <user id="1772265">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Vancouver, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very good book.  It seemed it was a bit of fantasy only in the creation of his alternate earth.  The cultural references were good as were the action scenes.  I appreciated the essays at the back of the novel explaing how and why he thought the world might have gone a different route.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61185031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16761207">
    <user id="143331">
    <name><![CDATA[Joshua]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm into time travel/alternate history quite a bit, so this novel is right up my alley. It seems a &quot;gate&quot; to an alternate America is discovered in 1946. This other America had no Europeans coming over--so the country is a vast, underpopulated wilderness.                   <br/>            ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16761207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18510430">
    <user id="909119">
    <name><![CDATA[Harold]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I also am a big fan of alternate reality stories, and I enjoyed this one. I found the first third of the novel a bit slow, but then it picked up nicely. I do tend to get caught up with the “suspension of disbelief” aspect of novels. Although the main plotline of the book requires that you buy of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18510430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18609293">
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  <read_at>Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's obvious I'm not going to get around to finishing this.  I enjoyed what I read (about 40 pages), especially the &quot;big men in Armani suits who look just like what they were--thugs dressed up in Armani suits&quot;, but it's not really my normal type of read and my son said he did like any of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18609293">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25507296">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kyle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A mesmerizing look at a CA that might have been had Europeans not colonized the new world.  In this world Alexander the Great didn't die at 32 like in real life but lived to ripe old age adn consolidated a vast Eurasian empire.  Fast forward to CA in 1946 and see how things turned out.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25507296">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37544282">
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