1610
1610 (Gollancz SF S.) Mary Gentle,
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 057507552X
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2004-11-25
Summary:
Valentin Rochefort, professional duellist and down-at-heels
aristocrat, arranges the assassination of Henri IV, King of France.
Fleeing from the consequences, he makes for England, on the way
picking up two companions - a young boy, Dariole, and a ship-wrecked
'demon'. Dariole is discovered first to be a girl, and then to be
Rochefort's sister; the 'demon' is Tanaka Saburo, a Japanese samurai
on ambassadorial mission to England from the Shogun; and Rochefort is
found by a pack of Hermetic mages and conspirators, who want him to
arrange the same thing for King James I/VI of England as he did for
Henri of France. Rochefort is blackmailed into arranging the death of
King James at the performance of a Hermetic magic play. Meanwhile,
Dariole is busy making forays into Shakespeare's theatre as England's
first (and worst) female actor . .. 1610 really isn't Rochefort's
year - And as the play's performance and the assassination approach,
Rochefort's dreams of the future that may spring from this crucial
year grow increasingly stranger and more contradictory. He realises
he must act - but, how? What is the right choice? And how much of the
future will depend on what he does?
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