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Description:
It's
1876, twenty-three years after the executions of the Peoples' Revolutionary
leaders Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, and Richard Wagner -- and spectres
in the guise of these three men are haunting Communist Europe, specifically
the city of Dresden. Officer Rienzi, from the Peoples' Department
for Security, is called in to investigate. Are these spectres truly
ghosts of the Revolution's leaders? Or is there a larger conspiracy
afoot? And if a conspiracy, does it involve Comrade Leader Eisenmann,
who became head of the Peoples' Federated States of Europe following
the death of Wagner?
With A Better World's in Birth!, author Howard Waldrop has skillfully
crafted another of his trademark alternate history stories, this
one about the peoples' revolutionary leader (and German composer)
Richard Wagner. More than 10,000 words of pure Waldrop.
In the Afterword, the author details the story behind this story
that was twenty years in the making. With scintillating wraparound
cover art by artist Nicholas Jainschigg.
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