In High Places

By: Harry Turtledove

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Paperback | 6 February 2007

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In the 21st-century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that's wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway.
But teenaged Khadija, daughter of a prosperous family of Moorish business travellers, is unfazed. That's because Khadija is really Annette Klein from 21st-century California, and her whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, trading for commodities to send back to our own timeline. Now it's time for Annette and her family to go home for the start of another school year, so they join a pack train bound for their home base in Marseilles, where the crosstime portal is hidden.
Then bandits attack while they're crossing the Pyrenees. Annette/Khadija is separated from her parents and knocked out, and wakes up to find herself a captive in a caravan of slaves being taken to the markets in the south. She's in a tight spot.
Then the really scary thing happens: her purchasers take her, along with other newly purchased slaves, to an "unofficial" crosstime portal...leaving open the question of whether Crosstime Traffic will ever be able to recover her

Industry Reviews

Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere." One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history. Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that 'adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off." "Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places...I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere." --San Jose Mercury News on Harry Turtledove

"One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history." --Dragon on Harry Turtledove

"Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy...Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that 'adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off." --Publishers Weekly on Gunpowder Empire Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere. "San Jose Mercury News on Harry Turtledove" " "

One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history. "Dragon on Harry Turtledove"

Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off. "Publishers Weekly on Gunpowder Empire"" "Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere." --"San Jose"" Mercury News" on Harry Turtledove "One of the genre's leading purveyors of alternate history." --"Dragon" on Harry Turtledove "Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy Turtledove presents his teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that will particularly resonate with younger fans. This is a rousing story that reminds us that 'adventure' is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off." --"Publishers Weekly" on "Gunpowder Empire""

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