The Ottoman Secret
- by Raymond Khoury
- Novel
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, War
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury (Michael Joseph, May 2019).
Secret police agent Kamal teams with his sister-in-law Nisreen, fleeing through time from pursuing gunmen who killed Nisreen’s family because toprotect the secret that their world was created by a violent temporal disruptor who altered history in favor of an autocratic Islam theocracy.
—Michael Main
Nisreen: I want to know how it is different and why he wanted to change it. Don’t you see? That’s how the world was supposed to be.
Ramazan: Assuming no one else had gone back and changed things before he did.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1600 to 1699: The siege of Vienna 1682 to ’83 or ’84
- Circa AD 1700 to 1799: Briefly, when Rasheed returns from the hospital
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: Kamal and Nisreen’s first trip
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: July 2017 and earlier times in the 21st century
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Alternate Histories
- Chases through Time: Taymoor chases Kamal and Nisreen, and perhaps they are chasing Rasheed.
- Fix History!: Initially, Rasheed sees the second seige of Vienna as an historical event that must be fixed. Later, Kamal and Nisreen see the same event as something they must reset to its “original” outcome.
- Nude Travel
- Real-World Tags
Variants
(4)
- The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury (Michael Joseph, May 2019).
- audio reading.
The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury (Penguin Books Ltd, May 2019). - alternative title.
Empire of Lies by Raymond Khoury (Forge, October 2019). - audio reading, alternative title.
Empire of Lies by Raymond Khoury (Macmillan Audio, October 2019). - Le secret ottoman [The Ottoman secret] by Raymond Khoury (Presses de la Cité, March 2020).
- Osmański sekret [The Ottoman secret] by Raymond Khoury (Sonia Draga, November 2019).
Translations
(2)
- The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury (Michael Joseph, May 2019).
- audio reading.
The Ottoman Secret by Raymond Khoury (Penguin Books Ltd, May 2019). - alternative title.
Empire of Lies by Raymond Khoury (Forge, October 2019). - audio reading, alternative title.
Empire of Lies by Raymond Khoury (Macmillan Audio, October 2019). - French.
Le secret ottoman [The Ottoman secret] by Raymond Khoury (Presses de la Cité, March 2020). - Polish.
Osmański sekret [The Ottoman secret] by Raymond Khoury (Sonia Draga, November 2019).