Multigenerational, sweeping across three continents.
Inventive and absorbing alternate history.
-Nancy Kress The date is 1854.
The place is the Australian goldfields in the British colony of Victoria-the richest prize on earth.
The story begins with a stockade.
The flag of independence is unfurled.
Men driven beyond endurance take arms against British redcoats.
At their forefront are two hundred Colt-wielding Americans, the California Rangers, led by the charismatic and idealistic Captain James McGill.
The stockade falls.
The Rangers are scattered.
But from the ashes will rise a new revolution-a revolution powered by the sun.
And this one will not fail.
In the 19th century, just how close did we come to a world run on solar power? The Five Star Republic is history with a twist, the story of a world that might easily have been-the future you'll wish we'd had.
Original and enthralling.
an alternate history imbued with hope and promise.
-Pamela Sargent.
