In the middle of the nineteenth century, the world was hit by a catastrophe. Some parts of the earth's surface were erased, ocean levels rose. Whole states disappeared, others were created. One of them was the Czecho-Slovak Kingdom.
By the mid-twentieth century, the kingdom is a maritime power with colonies and states around the world.
And stories from this anthology take place all over the world, too. Ten authors have undertaken to tell stories spanning one hundred years of this new history. From the home soil of the Czecho-Slovak Kingdom to the distant American coast. From Paraguay to India. From South Africa to the Sea of ​​Japan. Here we find a Czech writer traveling in America, the work of spies and the clash of fleets of battleships on the open sea.
All of them eventually become heroes of the Czech lands.
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Eleven short stories by ten Czech, Slovak and American authors map the world of alternative Czech countries.
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* The author of the series, Jan Kotouč, first describes the events immediately after the disaster in the short story After a Big Storm, and almost a hundred years later, in the short story National Hero, he depicts the ruthless fight of Admiral Karel Berg's fleet against Spanish superiority.
* Joelle Presby describes the battle of American whalers against British submarines in the story Scream at Sea.
* The life of Crown Prince Tomáš is threatened by the sabotage of his ship in the short story In Below Deck by Vendula Brunhoferová.
* The efforts of royal agents to save the son of the Turkish sultan on the eve of the Russian invasion were portrayed by Marek Brenišin in the story Adan in flames.
* A Czech writer becomes involved in a dangerous espionage game on the Texas prairie in the short story Comanche Moon by Vladimír Šlechta.
* An elite Czech pilot with a prototype of a new fighter will help solve thefts in South Africa in the story České diamanty by Vlad Ríš.
* The doctor investigating a strange death in the short story Velká jáma II by Karel Doležal will also visit the mines in South Africa.
* Tomáš Banžuch leads a Czech immigrant in Paraguay on the trail of treasure in the short story Přání szychnych krajů.
* A group of Czech adventurers must prevent the sabotage of manganese mining in India in the short story Holy Law by Lucie Lukačovičová.
* The secret of the Great Storm, the space catastrophe that changed the course of history, is revealed by Julie Nováková in the story From Another World.