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The Peshawar Lancers is a 2002 [[Alternate History]] novel by [[SM Stirling]], author of the ''[[The Draka]]'', ''[[Island in The Sea of Time]]'' and the ''[[Emberverse]]'', ''[[The Peshawar Lancers]]'' takes place in a world where [[Colony Drop|a series of comet strikes]] destroyed much of Western Europe and North America in 1878, the resulting long winter finishing off most of civilization in those areas. Most of the survivors that didn't become [[I'm a Humanitarian|cannibal savages]] fled to their overseas colonies, in particular the French remnants relocated to their North African possessions and the British to India, South Africa and Australia. By the early 21st Century, the latter (at least in India) have gone native to the point of referring themselves as the Angrezi Raj.

 

* [[The Woobie]]: Yasmini was born and raised as a slave of an apocalyptic death-cult, gets dragged around India by the main villain who treats her like dirt, fully expects to start going mad and then be forcibly 'bred', and has increasingly unpleasant fainting fits and bouts of waking dreams as the story progresses. Couple that with her frequently remarked upon exotic beauty and you have the literary equivalent of a [[Moe|Moeblob]].

* [[Zeppelins From Another World]]: Powered by ''Stirling''-cycle engines.

 

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