Product Description

Rome never fell. Hitler won. Now they are at war.

Marcus Americanius Scriptor's memoirs of the war between every parallel universe where Rome never fell, and every parallel universe where Hitler won the Second World War, have long been regarded as the definitive account of that turbulent time.

Scriptor's life story, from his early life among the housesteads of an obscure province to his role in the ultimate confrontation with Nazism, was intimately connected with the major political and social developments of his time. His highly personal record of events was praised even in his own lifetime for its honesty and intimacy, as well for capturing the scale of a war that consumed thousands of worlds.

This exciting new translation of a classic work of military history is accessible to new readers and existing students of the War alike.

This is the third original Faction Paradox novel.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1733646 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
[Faction Paradox is] in equal parts enraging and enlightening, fascinating and frustrating, infuriating and intriguing, marvellously epic and maddeningly elusive. -- Enlightenment

About the Author
LANCE PARKIN has written a fair few novels, non-fiction books and edited the diary of Amanda Dingle, a former workmate. He was a storyline writer on UK soap "Emmerdale" for a couple of years, he wrote a biography of Alan Moore and writes "Miranda," a creator-owned science fiction comic. Current projects include a guide to the writer Phillip Pullman, a comic that's a hush-hush revamp of a character you've all heard of and the last of the BBC Books’ regular Eighth Doctor adventures, "The Gallifrey Chronicles," which features an evil talking mule. Mad Norwegian will publish the forthcoming updated edition of his Doctor Who chronology, "A History of the Universe," in 2005.

Customer Reviews

Lance gone wild.
The Faction Paradox books pose a question to readers: what would * write, if we took all the safety catches off?
Lance Parkin produces the definitive version of both the "What if Hitler had won?" and the "What if Rome never fell?" storyline, and then some.
This book sounds horribly complicated from the back cover, but the prose is fluid and crystal clear, easing the transition into what could have been quite a mess.
You haven't read a book like this before. The simple fact is that alternate history books and stories tend to restrict themselves to a single alternate reality--or at least one reality at a time. In this book Lance Parkin strides around the many possibilities of inter-reality commerce and warfare with such confidence and raw ability that the sires of the Golden Age of Science Fiction would be proud.
The book is extremely well thought-out and executed. It's a pity that so few people will read it because of its status as a franchise novel.
This book can be read by anyone, even and especially those who have no idea what Faction Paradox is.