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The Cusanus Game

The Cusanus Game

Author: Wolfgang Jeschke

By the middle of this century, Northern Europe is a nuclear wasteland, with economic and political consequences that threaten the whole of human civilisation. In Italy, a young woman is recruited by an institute trying to find the only possible solution to all the world's woes, in the past. She is transported into the Middle Ages, only to find that she is in danger of changing the entirety of human history.Why it's on the listBeautifully written, vividly told, this novel is a brilliant example of what science fiction is capable of achieving in other cultures.