Caliphate

by Tom Kratman

Genres: Science Fiction; Sci-fi Action & Adventure; Space Opera

Synopsis

Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics
have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe
has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Such
Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second class
citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially
taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their
daughters are subject to the depredations of the continent's new masters.
In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of
nine to pay her family's yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day,
Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmother's diary, a diary
detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across
the sea: America.
But it will take more than magic to free Petra and Europe from their bonds; it
will take guns, superior technology, and a reborn spirit of freedom.

Release date: April 1, 2008

Publisher: Baen

Print pages: 400