Post by Nalkarj on Aug 8, 2017 3:05:53 GMT
I've asked this question on both LibraryThing's "Name That Book" and AbeBooks' "BookSleuth," to no response thus far. I'm hoping that someone knows what it is (if it actually exists).
Here's what I wrote:
Here's what I wrote:
Strange kind of request, because I don't know if it's one book, several I've conflated, or just some kind of an oddly specific dream.
Nonetheless, if you know it or something similar, please let me know.
Protagonist was a young (or maybe teenage?) boy, interested in history, who awakes one morning in an alternate universe. Twist is that the British won the Revolution and the U.S. are still 13 colonies or something like that—either way, there's an absolute monarch ruling the land. (Yes, I know that's not historically accurate even in George III's time.)
Hero finds three friends who are like Dumas' Musketeers—dashing, brave, and bold. He is the D'Artagnan to their Athos, Aramis, and Porthos, and thus joins their merry group and goes on great adventures.
The problem is this: the people who believe in liberty and democracy, and wish to break free of the absolute monarchy, are considered terrorists in this world. They have a group—possibly called "The Sons of Liberty"? (Not sure about that.) The majority of the populace, however, consider democracy a quaint 18th century fad at best and a murderous ideology at worst. The hero's friends are loyal subjects of the king and fight determinedly against the "Sons." The question for the hero is if he is doing the right thing. He loves his new friends but cannot reconcile his (and, most likely, the reader's) ideals with what those friends are fighting for.
I remember there is a scene in which the "musketeers" (for lack of a better word) rescue the hero from the "Sons" and carry him to a boat waiting in the harbor.
There is also a scene in which the leader of the "Sons" reveals that he knows the hero is from a different universe—he might be from "our" universe as well?
Can't remember the ending (if I finished it at all). It's not Dreyfuss and Turtledove's The Two Georges, though I know there are many similarities.
Any help is, of course, greatly appreciated.
Nonetheless, if you know it or something similar, please let me know.
Protagonist was a young (or maybe teenage?) boy, interested in history, who awakes one morning in an alternate universe. Twist is that the British won the Revolution and the U.S. are still 13 colonies or something like that—either way, there's an absolute monarch ruling the land. (Yes, I know that's not historically accurate even in George III's time.)
Hero finds three friends who are like Dumas' Musketeers—dashing, brave, and bold. He is the D'Artagnan to their Athos, Aramis, and Porthos, and thus joins their merry group and goes on great adventures.
The problem is this: the people who believe in liberty and democracy, and wish to break free of the absolute monarchy, are considered terrorists in this world. They have a group—possibly called "The Sons of Liberty"? (Not sure about that.) The majority of the populace, however, consider democracy a quaint 18th century fad at best and a murderous ideology at worst. The hero's friends are loyal subjects of the king and fight determinedly against the "Sons." The question for the hero is if he is doing the right thing. He loves his new friends but cannot reconcile his (and, most likely, the reader's) ideals with what those friends are fighting for.
I remember there is a scene in which the "musketeers" (for lack of a better word) rescue the hero from the "Sons" and carry him to a boat waiting in the harbor.
There is also a scene in which the leader of the "Sons" reveals that he knows the hero is from a different universe—he might be from "our" universe as well?
Can't remember the ending (if I finished it at all). It's not Dreyfuss and Turtledove's The Two Georges, though I know there are many similarities.
Any help is, of course, greatly appreciated.