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Neo-opsis Review
The Apparition Trail
By Lisa
Smedman
(Steam punk /Alternate
history)
ISBN: 1-894063-22-8
I thoroughly enjoyed The
Apparition Trail. Lisa Smedman has created a wonder story of adventure,
with Corporal Marmaduke Grayburn of the North West Mounted Police leading the
reader through 1884 Canada. This is not the Canada of our history books. How
could it be? In this slice of alternate history there are perpetual motion machines,
magic, and the moon’s rotation has even
been changed.
The Apparition Trail is told from Corporal
Marmaduke Grayburn’s perspective. It is done in such an easy flowing manner
that I could almost believe that he truly existed, and that in some fluke of
alternate dimensions, or cracks in time space, Lisa Smedman actually met the
man and got his story. If you are looking for an author who will do great
things in the future, you might want to keep an eye on Lisa Smedman. I am a fan
of alternate histories, but even if I wasn’t I would have enjoyed The
Apparition Trail.
Review
by Stephanie Ann Johanson.
Originally
published in Neo-opsis #5, 2005.
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