Roads of Destiny - British Library Tales of the Weird (light wear)

Roads of Destiny and Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond / From the British Library's "Tales of the Weird" series, published in 2023 / ISBN 9780712354394 / 350-page paperback / new copies with light wear from inbound shipping

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A poet comes to a fork in the road where three parallel destinies orbit the same violent fate; a child’s rebellious escapade to the city becomes a nightmare when the portal to return is nowhere to be found; rather than abdicate, Kaiser Wilhelm II leads the High Seas Fleet on a doom-laden final voyage.

Delving into the strange imaginings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Sarban, Robert Holdstock and many more, this new collection brings together fourteen tales traversing uncanny collateral fates, weird eddies of alternative history, realms of Dark Fantasy and the unsettling otherworlds bordering our own reality.