The Aethers of Mars

by Eric Flint

Overview

Welcome to Mars…circa 1900. Cecil Rhodes rules Mars and is on his way to transforming the British Empire into his vision of a powerful force, managed by the "right" type of people.

But what of Savinkov…presumably on board the British aethership Agincourt, traveling from Earth to Mars? Savinkov is a legendary revolutionary and assassin and, with Russian secret agents hot on his heels, is reputedly planning something truly dramatic and Mars-shattering.

This is the sixth book in the Stellar Guild line.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163704224
Publisher:	Phoenix Pick
Publication date:	11/07/2019
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	765,896
File size:	513 KB

About the Author

Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate-history fiction, with more than three million books in print. He is the author and creator of the bestselling 1632 series, also known as the 1632-verse or Ring of Fire series. With David Drake, he has written six popular novels in the Belasarius alternate Roman history series. With David Weber, he has collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War.

Editorial Reviews

03/31/2014
The latest in the Stellar Guild series, which pairs established sci-fi writers with newer talent, features a novella by Flint (the 1632 series) followed by a “long novelette” by Gannon (Fire with Fire). Both are set in an alternative, steampunk universe in which an ambitious fellow named Cecil Rhodes, after using his interplanetary airships to bomb Johannesburg into oblivion in the Boer Wars, has seized control of Mars. Flint’s “In the Matter of Savinkov” is a mild spy story involving czarist agents who board an airship to Mars in order to eliminate a Socialist-Revolutionary assassin. But who is he? Is he on the ship? Does he even exist? In “White Sand, Red Dust,” Gannon focuses on Conrad von Harrer, a veteran of the Boer Wars, who, in a nod to the 1950 film noir drama D.O.A., is on his way to Mars in search of an antidote to the poison he accidentally ingested on Earth. Both stories are solid, if not especially exciting. (May)

Publishers Weekly