Bitter Seeds

Ian Tregillis

St. Martin's Press, Apr 24, 2012 - Fiction - 467 pages

It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between.

Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.

When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities—a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present—Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.

Alan Furst meets Alan Moore in the opening of an epic of supernatural alternate history, Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis is a tale of a twentieth century like ours and also profoundly different.

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User Review  - Skybalon - LibraryThing

I'm going to copy the same review into each of the editions. Ultimately while the books each are separate--the whole series needs to be read for any sort of real understanding and closure. First of ...

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User Review  - CSDaley - LibraryThing

One of my favorite alternate history novels of all time. The 2nd book in the series is suppose to be even better. I look forward to finding out.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 18
• Section 3: 41
• Section 4: 75
• Section 5: 95
• Section 6: 120
• Section 7: 150
• Section 8: 171
• Section 9: 190
• Section 10: 193
• Section 11: 226
• Section 12: 249
• Section 13: 278
• Section 14: 319
• Section 15: 322
• Section 16: 347
• Section 17: 391
• Section 18: 417
• Section 19: 429
• Section 20: 431
• Section 21: 461

About the author

IAN TREGILLIS lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a member of the Wild Cards writing collective, directed by George R. R. Martin. Bitter Seeds is his first novel.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bitter Seeds; Volume 1 of Milkweed Series; Volume 1 of Milkweed triptych, Ian Tregillis; Tor fantasy
• Author: Ian Tregillis
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0765361205, 9780765361202
• Length: 467 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Alternative History; Fiction / Fantasy / General; Fiction / Occult & Supernatural; Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel