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Just finished "Down in the Bottomlands" by Harry Turtledove, bought from Baen in 2001. A trio of "alternate history" novellas, the genre that Mr Turtledove excels at. The first part of the book, and the one which gives the book its title, is a murder mystery set in a world where the Mediterranean sea, blocked off from the Atlantic Ocean by a range of mountains (as has indeed happened at various times in geological history), is a wildlife preserve, rather like the Grand Canyon, but much larger and much deeper. The second two stories are set in a world where a man from our world finds himself in a version of North America ruled by the descendants of Vikings, where southern Europe is an Arab state. An excellent collection. Highly recommended.
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