num_pages: 445
description: Edward Exeter, seemingly a golden child of a golden age, has a past spattered with tragedy and blood. His present is marred by the outbreak of the Great War, and it is further stained by the death of his friend, Timothy Bodgley, in circumstances that leave Edward in hospital, implicated as Bodgley's murderer. Strange chains of history and causality tighten on Edward's life: He is the unwilling key figure in an otherworldly prediction of salvation and/or disaster, bound to break the prophecy or fulfill it.
language: English
title: Past Imperative
titlecomplete: Past Imperative (The Great Game, #1)
genres: High Fantasy, Science Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 721
series: The Great Game
publisher: William Morrow & Co