"A highly original cautionary tale...on more levels than the reader might first suspect." -Analog "A jaunty, corkscrew ride through a skewed future." -Alan Dean Foster "First-rate satire, with a serious core" - Library Journal The year is 2110, and the Bank owns everything.. It's called simply The Bank because its full name is six hundred and sixty-six words long. Over its first ten years it secretly gained controlling interests in Alphabet, Disney, China National Petroleum, Deutsche Bank, Colombia, Fox, CNN, Egypt, and the Mafia-among many other international corporations, cartels, and...

Before Harry Turtledove and Cherie Priest There was THE SHILOH PROJECT "The uneasy peace that has existed for more than 100 years between the Confederate States and the United States may be over...." -- Civil War Times The South won at Gettysburg in 1863. Today the Mason-Dixon Wall divides Union and Confederacy . . . and many other things are different from the world we know. There was no Russian Revolution and no World War Two. The Wright brothers died in fiery crashes, and gigantic Zeppelins cruise the skies. Nevertheless, a shaky peace has prevailed between North and South. For decades...