CHANGE THE COURSE OF
HISTORY—OR DIE!
One moment Conrad Schwartz was suffering from
a severe hangover as he hiked through the mountains of present-day
Poland, the next he was running for his life from an angry Teutonic
knight. Things went downhill from there, and he finally had to face
the disheartening fact he had somehow been stranded in 1231 A.D.
He would have been happier if he had known
less history. But there was very bad news in his new future, so he
set out to turn Medieval Poland into the most powerful country in
the thirteenth century. It wouldn't be easy. He would be
investigated by the Inquisition (he should have expected that), be
knighted, round up vassals, build a city, survive armed combat with
the Champion of the Teutonic Knights, invent the steam engine and
cloth factories, establish universal education, and organize an
army.
He needed that army most of all, because he
knew that the Mongol hordes would attack in only ten years and
destroy medieval Poland—and that would really mess up Conrad's life.
Three novels in the Locus best-selling
series in one volume.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leo Frankowski's popular Cross-Time Engineer
series, the first three novels of which fill this volume, has gone
through six novels to date, with frequent reprintings and translated
editions in Italy, Spain, and Poland. In addition, he has written
the novels A Boy and His Tank, The Fata Morgana and
Conrad's Time Machine for Baen. In collaboration with Dave
Grossman, he has also written The War With Earth, Kren of the
Mitchegai, and The Two-Space War. Frankowski was
nominated for the John W. Campbell award for best new writer. His
occupations have ranged from scientist in an electro-optical
research lab to chief engineer to company president. His work in
chemical and optical instrumentation has earned him several patents.
Currently a writer and consulting engineer, he lives in with his new
Russian wife and teenage daughter in Tver, Russia. Further
information about Leo Frankowski is available at his website:
http://www.leofrankowski.com/
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