Alison McBain is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author with over two hundred short stories, poems, and articles published worldwide. Her books have been honored with gold in the Literary Classics International Book Awards and National Indie Excellence Awards, as well as being finalists in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards and IAN Book of the Year. When not writing, Ms. McBain is the associate editor for the literary magazine Scribes*MICRO*Fiction and pens an award-winning webcomic called Toddler Times. She lives in Alberta, Canada.
“Captivating, engaging, and brilliantly written, author Alison McBain’s The New Empire is a must-read historical fiction novel of 2022.”
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“Author Alison McBain perfectly captures the spirit of the historical novel with such credibility, atmosphere, and detail that I can readily imagine the alternate universe where this history is playing out right now.”
BookTrib
“McBain builds a believable world by mixing factual ethnology such as Native American religion, wampum belts, Iroquois longhouses and the Iroquois tradition of matriarchy...The New Empire uses the question “What if?” to rewrite the past and expose readers’ minds to the wide-open future.”
Reader Views
“5 stars. A highly imaginative and well-researched alternative history.”