Book description
Omega: an apocalyptic rumour from the Eastern Front. Omega: something
that will alter all the strategic calculations of the Earth's great
military blocs. Omega: the code name for a weapon that may well bring
doomsday with it. But if Omega is indeed the agent that will destroy the
world, that world is not our own. For this is a timeline in which World
War Two never truly ended: a timeline in which Hitler died in a plane
crash, Britain joined Germany in its battle against Communist Russia,
and the present is an age of intermittent, but deadly, armed conflict
between the USSR, the European Alliance, and the USA. The frontier
regions are radioactive wastelands, nuclear winter threatens
catastrophe, global confrontation could erupt again any time - and
that's before Omega is taken into account...This is the reality
experienced by Owen Meredith when an accident forces his consciousness
from the England we know into the mind of his cognate self in that other
darker, Europe. Switching back and forth between being plain Owen
Meredith and troubled Major Owain Maredudd, Owen is faced not only with
a Cold War going Hot, but with a deep crisis of identity. Who is he?
Whose twisted destiny is he treading? Did the ordinary domestic life he
remembers ever even take place? Perhaps the universe of Owain and Omega
is merely a symptom of mental illness - but if so, why is it so urgently
tangible? Christopher Evans is a British chemist, teacher and SF under
his own name and a number of pseudonyms. In addition to writing, he
edited the Other Edens anthology series with Robert Holdstock. He won
the BSFA Award for Best Novel in 1994 with AZTEC CENTURY.
