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					Originally Posted by Malleus Dei
					
				 
				Just stumbled on this. Shades of Harry Turtledove! 
			
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 Definitely. I've read most of Turtledove's books (even the one he wrote as H.N. Turteltaub about the Roman emperor Justinian). He was an inspiration for this, though I'm taking the timeline in a slightly less confrontational direction.