I am a sucker for alternate histories, and this story has the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan not only taking over the entire world, but also maintaining control for a thousand years and discovering interstellar travel thanks to the relics of a long-gone and unimaginably alien race. All this provides a great canvas for a tale of brutal politics, complex spywork, parallel worlds, space battles, and ponies. It sometimes feels like a short story aching to be a novel, but it has enough rewards in its own right to be worth the read.
It won't take you long, anyway.
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