Title: Implausible and Stilted
Review: Steve Stirling's Peshawar Lancers starts off with an interesting premise: that European civilization is nearly destroyed in 1878 when a disintegrating comet rains down on the northern hemisphere. Unfortunately that is where the innovative ideas end. Instead of seeing how the rest of the world develops in that power vacuum Stirling assumes that British simply relocated to India and gives us a rehash of the Flashman novels. Peshawar Lancers takes place about 150 years after The Fall (as he calls it) and there has been very little technological, sociological, or geopolitical change in that period. It seems that Stirling wanted to freeze history rather than explore the genuine alternative history that would arise in his scenario.
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