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Britain has fallen to the technological might of the Aztec Empire whose armies have rampaged across the globe. Now, for the first time in a millennium, the British are a subject race.

Inevitably there is resistance - and among those determined to fight the invaders is Princess Catherine, elder daughter of the British monarch. But she is torn between her patriotism and her growing involvement, political and personal, with the Aztecs - and with one Aztec in particular. Then her sister is arrested and exiled for her part in an alleged terrorist attack - and Catherine finds herself walking a perilous tightrope...

Sweeping from occupied Britain to the horrors of the Russian front and the savage splendour of the imperial capital in Mexico, Aztec Century is a magnificent novel of war, politics, intrigue and romance, set in a world that is both familiar - and terrifyingly alien.

Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1993

A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A TROUBLED MAN

The world of Chimeras is very like our own. But for one difference. In Christopher Evans' evocatively portrayed land, some people have an incredible gift. They can create dazzling works of art from the nothingness of the space before them. Moving statues of incandescent gold shimmer into life, literally out of the air. The very best artists conjure wonderful pageants of soldiers glorious in battle or rich Lords helping the common man. They bring a little magic into the drudgery of the peasants' lives - and re-write history into the bargain.

Table of Contents:

• 5 - Transmutations - [Vendavo 1] - novelette
• 42 - Birth-Rites - [Vendavo 2] - novelette
• 81 - The Bridge - [Vendavo 3] - novelette
• 121 - The Wailing Woman - [Vendavo 4] - novelette
• 145 - Artefacts - [Vendavo 5] - novelette
• 169 - Coda - [Vendavo 6] - short story

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert Holdstock and Christopher Evans
• Crying in the Rain - short story by Tanith Lee
• The Facts of Life - short story by Christopher Evans
• Small Heirlooms - short story by M. John Harrison
• The Emir's Clock - short story by Ian Watson
• The Price of Cabbages - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• Fullwood's Web - short story by Graham Charnock
• Scarrowfell - novelette by Robert Holdstock
• The Frozen Cardinal - short story by Michael Moorcock
• Triptych: The Black Wedding; Murderers Walk; Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands - short story by Garry Kilworth
• Sanctity - short story by R. M. Lamming
• Moonlighter - short story by David Garnett
• In a Land of Sand and Ruin and Gold - short story by David Langford
• Piper's Wait - short story by Keith Roberts
• The Wound - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• Contributors - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Chris Evans and Robert Holdstock
• On the Watchtower at Plataea - (1988) - novelette by Garry Kilworth
• She Shall Have Music - short story by Graham Charnock
• Dazzle - (1988) - short story by Scott Bradfield
• Waltz in Flexitime - (1988) - short story by Michael Cobley
• The Resurrection Man - (1988) - short story by Ian Watson
• Laiken Langstrand - (1988) - short story by Gwyneth Jones
• Roman Games - (1988) - short story by Anne Gay
• Eden Sounding - shortfiction by John Clute
• Confluence Revisited - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• Getting Together - shortfiction by Josephine Saxton
• The Gift - (1988) - novelette by M. John Harrison
• The Wish - short story by Colin Greenland
• Remaking History - (1988) - short story by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Approaching Perpendicular - (1988) - novelette by Ian McDonald
• Mars - (1988) - short story by Michael Moorcock
• A Madonna of the Machine - (1988) - novelette by Tanith Lee

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock
• The Grey Wethers - novelette by Keith Roberts
• The New Mapper - novelette by J. D. Gresham
• The Disciples of Apollo - short story by Eric Brown
• The Way to His Heart - short story by Sherry Coldsmith
• Rainmaker Cometh - short story by Ian McDonald
• Blessed Fields - short story by Simon Ings
• Country Matters - short story by Gill Alderman
• The Droplet - short story by Stephen Baxter
• Cry - short story by Louise Cooper
• The Wailing Woman - novelette by Christopher Evans
• When the Music Stopped - short story by Christian Lehmann and Garry Kilworth
• Wintertime Beauty - short story by Christina Lake
• Passion Play - short story by Keith Brooke
• Losing Control - short story by Chris Morgan
• Heart's Desire - short story by Lisa Tuttle
• A Tupolev Too Far - novelette by Brian W. Aldiss