The Peshawar Lancers
In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hit Earth, decimating
cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever.
And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in
time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together...
In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive
by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi,
controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of
All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no
one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King,
reluctant spy and hero, will play...
S. M. Stirling
Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author.