Downs-lord Dawn (The Downs-Lord Triptych)
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Thomas Blades, a seventeenth-century English curate living in the North Downs, finds a portal to another world in the grandfather clock that he inherits from his father. He finds a landscape that matches the geography of the North Downs, but seems completely empty, without houses, roads or agriculture. There are humans there, but living in primitive conditions in underground burrow complexes, as the savage eight feet tall purple humanoids known as the Null are the top predator, hunting humans for meat and tearing them apart when they catch them. Blades rationalises the presence of the Null, saying that they must be biblical giants who never made it into Noah's Ark in our world
He resolves to help the humans fight back against the Null, with the help of seventeenth-century weaponry. Gradually the humans build an above ground society, helped by slaves from our world, who are kidnapped to order for their skills. Blades becomes their Emperor, the Downs-Lord, but his many wives and children are jockeying for power and his is not the only portal into this world.
I hadn't heard of this author before reading this book, but I enjoyed it. I prefer alternate history stories that don't include fantasy elements, and "Downs-Lord Dawn" just made it, as the Null seemed more like aliens or the result of alternate evolution than fantasy creatures.
He resolves to help the humans fight back against the Null, with the help of seventeenth-century weaponry. Gradually the humans build an above ground society, helped by slaves from our world, who are kidnapped to order for their skills. Blades becomes their Emperor, the Downs-Lord, but his many wives and children are jockeying for power and his is not the only portal into this world.
I hadn't heard of this author before reading this book, but I enjoyed it. I prefer alternate history stories that don't include fantasy elements, and "Downs-Lord Dawn" just made it, as the Null seemed more like aliens or the result of alternate evolution than fantasy creatures.
Journal Entry 2 by kittiwake at Purple Pumpkin Patch OBCZ in Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Saturday, June 11, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (6/11/2016 UTC) at Purple Pumpkin Patch OBCZ in Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom
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At the Loughborough BookCrossing meet.
Journal Entry 3 by Katisha50 at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, December 3, 2017
Not sure why I picked this up from the PPP, unless it was taken to the Uncon and it was left over.
Journal Entry 4 by Katisha50 at Kings Heath - York Road - Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, December 3, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (12/3/2017 UTC) at Kings Heath - York Road - Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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On the shelf to the left as you go into the back room.
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