The Gilded Age, a Time Travel (65 page)

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The year is
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railroad and on transoceanic steamships. The Zoetrope demonstrates the
persistence of vision, patent medicines addict children to morphine, and women
are rallying for the vote. In San Francisco, saloons are the booming business,
followed by brothels, and the Barbary Coast is a dangerous sink of iniquity.
Atop Telegraph Hill bloody jousting tournaments are held and in Chinatown the
tongs deal in opium, murder-for-hire, and slave girls.

Zhu Wong, a
prisoner in twenty-fifth century China, is given a choice--stand trial for
murder or go on a risky time-travel project to the San Francisco of 1895 to
rescue a slave girl and take her to safety. Charmed by the city’s opulent
glamour, Zhu will discover the city’s darkest secrets. A fervent population control
activist in a world of twelve billion people, she will become an indentured
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