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The gate of worlds

by Robert Silverberg

In this alternate history, the Black Death has decimated Europe, leaving world power divided among the Turkish, Russian, Aztec, Inca and Japanese empires by the 1980s. A young Englishman travels to an industrialised Mexico in search of fortune.

Accession 9063 ISBN 041704710X Publisher Magnum Books
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