Mir Fantastiki
"Popes and Phantoms" (1993) followed the success of "A Dangerous Energy" and featured the stoic and somewhat chilly ‘Admiral Slovo’ (a family name often favoured in Whitbourn's works) blazing a trail across the Italian Renaissance – albeit Whitbourn's idiosyncratic and wildly skewed alternate history version of same. Many of the prominent figures of the time are met within and influenced (not always for the better) by their encounter with Slovo. "Popes and Phantoms" was also published in Russia by "Mir Fantastiki". In 2021 the book was republished in its original and substantially larger form as "Popes and Phantoms – Redux! Resurgam!" complete with new cover. It included a previously deleted whole second ‘Book’ and ending, plus the author’s comments in a "Foreword &amp; Apology" (not least for the title's extension) and "Afterword &amp; Apologia", together with sundry "Odd Thoughts".