"Multigenerational, sweeping across three continents...Inventive and absorbing alternate history." --Nancy Kress The date is 1854. The place is the Australian goldfields in the British colony of Victoria--the richest prize on earth. The story begins with a stockade. The flag of independence is unfurled. Men driven beyond endurance take arms against British redcoats. At their forefront are two hundred Colt-wielding Americans, the California...