A rich, intense story of time travel, aliens, and alternate history from one of Canada's celebrated SF writers. A group of human prisoners in a high-tech alien prison escapes, only to find themselves enmeshed in a war between two alien races for control of the human past in which the key lies back in the time of the Italian Renaissance.

Published
1998
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Scott Mackay

Scott Mackay is a Canadian science fiction author from Toronto, where he still lives with his wife and two children. He is the award-winning author of eleven novels and over forty short stories. His short story, Last Inning, won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction. Another story, Reasons Unknown, won the Okanagan Award for best Literary Short Fiction in early 1999. His first Barry Gilbert mystery, Cold Comfort, was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery novel, and his science fiction novel, The Meek, was a finalist for the prestigious John Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2001.…