Empire of unreason / J. Gregory Keyes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keyes, J. Gregory, 1963-

Series:

Keyes, J. Gregory, 1963- Age of unreason ; bk. 3.

Book three of The age of unreason

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Fiction.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Genre:

Alternative histories (Fiction)

Fantasy fiction.

Science fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

viii, 358 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, 2000.

Summary:

Climatic changes produced by the asteroid that devastated Europe have left the northern American colonies in the grip of an ice age. In the south, Benjamin Franklin and other survivors and refugees of the European Armageddon eke out a precarious existence founded on the mutual trust and cooperation of Indians, whites, and freed blacks.

But the malevolent, aetheric creatures known as the Malekim oppose any who challenge their plans -- especially when their enemies include the likes of Franklin and Voltaire. And the Malekim have their own pawns. Though Tsar Peter the Great of Russia has mysteriously vanished, his vast armies and dark sciences remain. Their forces strike where they are least expected, employing engines of uncanny power and destructiveness. If they succeed in destroying the American colonies, nothing will deter the Malekim from their ultimate goal: the extinction of the human race.

Ben Franklin's ingenuity will be put to the ultimate test in this battle against a royal pretender who has allied himself with the enemies of man. But the war will be decided far to the west, where the Choctaw shaman Red Shoes is drawn by a vision of an ancient, implacable evil -- and of a young boy who shines as brightly as an angel: the fallen, avaricious kind...

Notes:

"A Del Rey book"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0345406095

OCLC:

44043347