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and it becomes the target of time travellers from 2007, from alternate versions of Laura's own future, all seeking to change the course of history.
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looming, it concerns 14-year-old Laura Mann, who has been entrusted with a strange key and code number to memorize by her father, an RAF officer at
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reviewed the novel favorably, commenting that Baxter's novel was realistic and mostly avoided the clichés associated with stories of
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The vibrant popular culture of 1960s Liverpool features prominently in the novel, the climax takes place during a
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medium, calling it "a gripping, informative, extremely likeable little novel".
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This article about an alternate history novel of the 2000s is a
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Index


Paul Cornell
Stephen Baxter
Science fiction
Faber and Faber
Paperback
ISBN
0-571-23279-5
science fiction
Stephen Baxter
Liverpool
Cuban Missile Crisis
Strike Command
High Wycombe
Vulcan bomber
Beatles
The Cavern Club
Cilla Black
SF Site
time travel
dystopias
the apocalypse
Adam Roberts
young adult
Arthur C. Clarke Award
Strange Horizons Reviews: It Happened Otherwise? Three Alternate Histories, reviewed by Paul Kincaid
"The SF Site Featured Review: The H-Bomb Girl"
"Punkadiddle: Stephen Baxter, The H-Bomb Girl (2007)"
"Previous Clarke Award Shortlists"
the original

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