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The ace of lightning : stories / Stephen-Paul Martin.
LIBRA PS3563.A7292 A6 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Stephen-Paul, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 1863-1914--Assassination--Fiction.
- Franz Ferdinand.
- Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 1863-1914.
- World War, 1914-1918--Causes--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Assassination.
- War--Causes.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : FC2, [2016]
- Summary:
- Stephen-Paul Martin's The Ace of Lightning is a series of interconnected stories focused on a turning point in Western history: the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which triggered World War I, and the mysterious circumstances that led Gavrilo Princip to shoot and kill the heir apparent to one of Europe's most powerful empires. Far from being a conventional work of historical fiction, Martin's collection asks readers to think about what truly constitutes history. What would the past look like if history was written under the influence of Mad Magazine and The Twilight Zone ? What happens when the assassination in Sarajevo becomes "the assassination in Sarajevo," when Gavrilo Princip becomes "Gavrilo Princip," when the past and the present shape a textual future that looks suspiciously like a past that never was and a present that never is?
- ISBN:
- 9781573660587
- 1573660582
- OCLC:
- 952276836
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