num_pages: 448
description: If you could re-create civilization, what would you do differently?Oakland, California, 1946. Ex-soldier John Rolfe, newly back from the Pacific, is about to make a fabulous discovery. It happens with a flip of his shortwave radio switch, a thunder crack of sound, and a blinding light. He blinks his eyes to discover a portal to an alternate world where Europeans have never set foot on the land he knows as America. Able to return at will to the modern world, Rolfe summons the only people with whom he is willing to share his his war buddies. And tells them to bring their families.What mistakes would you repeat?Los Angeles, twenty-first century. Fish and Game warden Tom Christiansen is involved in the bust of a smuggling operation. What he turns up is something he never a photo of authentic Aztec priests decked out in Grateful Dead T-shirts, and a live condor from a gene pool that doesn't correspond to any known in captivity or the wild. These finds soon lead to a woman named Adrienne Rolfe - and a secret that's been hidden for sixty years.As danger brews on both sides, two realities are threatened, and so too are the lives of everyone who crosses the boundary between them.
language: English
title: Conquistador
titlecomplete: Conquistador
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 3194
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Sidewise Award
category: Alternate History
publisher: Roc Hardcover