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'' The Forest Of Time '' was written by science fiction writer Michael Flynn . It takes place in an alternative world where the Thirteen Colonies , after getting independent of Britain, did not succeed in creating the United States but developed into separate and mutually hostile nation-states which often fight bitter wars with each other. In that world, Pennsylvanians speak a language which they call "Pennsylvanisch" and which a character describes as "A German dialect mainly derived from Swabian and with many English loan words, which a speaker of High German would find it difficult to follow". This language has a rich literature of which the Pennsylvanians are proud and they feel suspicious of and threatened by the hostile English-speaking nations of New York to their north and Virginia to their south. In that Pennsylvania, it is only the Quaker communities who still speak English as their native language, and are therefore recruited by the Pennsylvanian Intelligence Service as spies to be infiltrated into the territory of the neighboring nations. EXTERNAL LINK ''The Forest of Time'' |
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