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Publishers Weekly called Daughter of the Empire a "full-bodied dynastic fantasy" with "the sweep and drama of a good historical novel about an exotic time and place." [4] A column in Vector compared the first book to "a female ShÅgun with fantasy/SF elements" and praised its characterization. [5]
The books cover the British Empire, from the earliest days of the East India Company to the troubled years of independence and nineteen-sixties post-colonialism. The books were written and published over a ten-year period, beginning in 1968 with Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire. The books in chronological order are;
The Narratives of Empire series is a heptalogy of historical novels by American author Gore Vidal, published between 1967 and 2000, which chronicle the dawn-to-decadence history of the "American Empire"; the narratives interweave the personal stories of two families with the personages and events of U.S. history. Despite the publisher's ...
Outposts: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire is a book by Simon Winchester.It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the British Empire and was first published in 1985 in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton under the title Outposts and in the United States by Prentice Hall as The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire.
Iron Empires is a science fiction comic series written and painted by the American artist Christopher Moeller.It has three parts: Shadow Empires: Faith Conquers, first published as a limited series by Dark Horse in 1994, Sheva's War, published by Helix in 1998, and Iron Empires: Void, published by Forged Lord Comics in 2013.
The new medium of "the wireless" (TL-191's name for a radio) offers novel ways for politicians to reach the people.Jake Featherston is the first politician to realize its potential, and soon people sitting in their homes can hear his raspy, thundery voice shouting from their radio sets, telling them the "truth" about the Yankees, Whigs, and Black Southerners.
Empire is a book by post-Marxist philosophers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. It is part of a trilogy which includes Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004) and Commonwealth (2009). Written in the mid-1990s, it was published in 2000 and quickly sold beyond its expectations as an academic work. [1]
The three Empire books, first published between 1950 and 1952, are Asimov's three earliest novels published in his own name (David Starr, Space Ranger was published before The Currents of Space, but had been published under his pen name "Paul French", and the Foundation books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels).