The Gladiator (novel)
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| The Gladiator | |
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Crosstime Traffic |
| Genre(s) | Alternative history novel |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
| Publication date | May 2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 076531486X |
| Preceded by | The Disunited States of America |
| Followed by | The Valley-Westside War |
The Gladiator is a 2007 Harry Turtledove novel for young adults. Part of the loose Crosstime Traffic family of books it is set in a world in an alternative history in which the Soviet Union has won the Cold War.
[edit] Plot summary
The Gladiator follows the same concept as the other Crosstime Traffic novels. A parallel world similar in most respects to our has discovered the technology to visit and trade with other parallels, spreading the notions of liberty and capitalism at the same time.
The plot of The Gladiator follows the same formula of the other books in the series with the imperiled company operative and local protagonists being used as guides to the parallel. In The Gladiator it is the capitalist West which has been consigned to the "dustbin of history" and the world has been remade in the image of the Soviet Union.
The protagonists of the novel, Gianfranco and Annarita, are teenagers in an Italian People's Republic satellite to the interests of the USSR. Amidst the grey Soviet Brutalist tenements they discover a strategy game shop that is disseminating capitalist ideas with the games they sell. The shop is a front for the Crosstime Traffic trading monopoly, as the protagonists discover when the shop is closed by the authorities and one of the clerks, Eduardo, turns to the protagonists for help.
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