《The Signaller 》作者：- Keith Roberts【EPUB】

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KEITH ROBERTS The Signaller One of the most powerful talents to enter the field in the last thirty years, Keith Roberts secured an important place in genre history in 1968 with the publication of his classic novel Pavane, one of the best books of the 1960s, and certainly one of the best Alternate History novels ever written (rivaled only by books such as L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall, Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee, and Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle). Trained as an illustrator—he did work extensively as an illustrator and cover artist in the British SF world of the 1960s—Roberts made his first sale to Science Fantasy in 1964. Later, he would take over the editorship of Science Fantasy, by then called SF Impulse, as well as providing many of the magazine’s striking covers. But his ca- reer as an editor was short-lived, and most of his subsequent im-pact on the field would be as a writer, including the production of some of the very best short stories of the last three decades. Roberts’s other books include the novels The Chalk Giants, The Furies, The Inner Wheel, Molly Zero, Gráinne, Kiteworld, and The Boat of Fate, one of the finest historical novels of the 1970s. His short work can be found in the collections Machines and Men, The Grain Kings, The Passing of the Dragons, Ladies from Hell, The Lordly Ones, and Winterwood and Other Hauntings. His most recent book is a new collection, Kaeti On Tour. In “The Signaller”—one of the stories that was later melded into Pavane— he takes us sideways in time to an alternate England where Queen Elizabeth was cut down by an assassin’s bullet, and England itself fell to the Spanish Armada—a twentieth- century England where the deep shadow of the Church Militant stretches across a still-medieval land of forests and castles and little