 McAuley, Paul J. Pasquale's Angel. Morrow 1995 (cover art by Donato). |  McAuley, Paul J. Pasquale's Angel. Translated to the French as Les Conjurés de Florence, Denoël 1998. |  McAuley, Paul J. Pasquale's Angel. Translated to the German as Pasquales Florenz, Bastei-Lübbe 1997. |
McAuley, Paul J. Pasquale's Angel
Divergence: c 1470 CE
What if: Leonardo da Vinci, the Great Engineer, kicked off the Industrial Revolution three
centuries early.
Summary: In 1518 Florence, artist Pasquale and journalist Niccolo Machiavegli investigate
a locked-tower murder with implications of possible war with Spain and papal Rome.
Series note: Story "The Temptation of Dr. Stein" is also set in this timeline.
Published: Gollancz 1994 (0575054891), 1995 (0575059176);
Morrow/AvoNova 1995 (0688141544BUY);
Avon 1997 (0380778203BUY);
and
Orion/Millennium 1999 (1857989090).
Original in: English.
Translation: French by Olivier Deparis as
Les Conjurés de Florence, Denoël 1998 (2207245624);
Gallimard/Folio 2004 (2070302865).
(Note: The Gallimard edition also includes the related story
"La tentation du Dr Stein", translated from "The Temptation of Dr. Stein" by
Marie-Catherine Caillava.).
Translation: German as
Pasquales Florenz. Ein Renaissance-Roman,
Eichborn 1995, Bastei-Lübbe 1997 (3404127099).
Awards: Winner: 1995 Sidewise Award for best long-form alternate history.
Nominee: 1995 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
McAuley, Paul J. "The Temptation of Dr. Stein"
Series note: Set in the same timeline as Pasquale's Angel.
Published: In The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein
(ed. Stephen Jones), Robinson 1994 (185487330X);
The Best New Horror: Volume Six (ed. Stephen Jones), Raven 1995 (1854874217);
Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1996;
and
The Invisible Country, Gollancz 1996 (0575060727).
Original in: English.
Translation: French by Marie-Catherine Caillava as
"La tentation du Dr Stein", in
Aventures Lointaines 01, Denoël 1999 (2207249565);
and
Les Conjurés de Florence, Gallimard/Folio 2004 (2070302865).
Translation: Greek by Christodoulos Litharis as
"O Pirasmos tou Doctoros Stein", in
Apagorevmenos Planitis #4 (January-February 1997).
Translation: Italian by Gianni Pilo as
"La tentazione del dottor Stein", in
Tutte le storie di Frankenstein
(ed. Stephen Jones), Newton & Compton 1996 (8881831996).
