{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20261010T034321Z-reviewed-full-unique-works","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D54SJN7F?tag=bookfrontie00-20","asin":"B0D54SJN7F","authors":["Keith Laumer"],"book_id":"9798880925018","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/worlds-of-the-imperium-9798880925018","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9798880925018.jpg?v=b8b78b81990dfdc5","description":"American Diplomat Brion Bayard is on assignment in Stockholm Sweden when he is kidnaped by agents of The Imperium who are from a parallel world. A world where the American revolution never happened and the British Empire which includes America and the German and Austro-Hungarian empires of Europe rule the world. Bayard learns that he was abducted because the Imperium is under attack from another parallel world. A parallel world ruled by a ruthless dictator who happens to be. . . Brion Bayard. It up to Brion to kill his alternate self and step into his place to stop these attacks. But Brion discovers almost immediately that nothing is as it seems.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9798880925018","publication_date":"20240522","publisher":"Start Publishing PD","slug":"worlds-of-the-imperium","subtitle":"","title":"Worlds of the Imperium"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"FIC028050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Military Sci-Fi","score":0.7813,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC028010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Sci-Fi Adventure","score":0.7787,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC028030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Space Opera","score":0.7752,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"FIC028050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Military Sci-Fi","score":0.7813,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC028010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Sci-Fi Adventure","score":0.7787,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC028030","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Space Opera","score":0.7752,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"FIC028010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Sci-Fi Adventure","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"FIC028050","confidence_band":"high","label":"Military Sci-Fi","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"FIC028080","confidence_band":"high","label":"Time Travel Fiction","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Military Sci-Fi","score":0.7813,"slug":"military-sci-fi"},{"label":"Sci-Fi Adventure","score":0.7787,"slug":"sci-fi-adventure"},{"label":"Space Opera","score":0.7752,"slug":"space-opera"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in parallel-world alternate history"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Marion Zimmer Bradley"],"book_id":"9781625589231","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781625589231.jpg?v=ebd99afe0c004495","score":0.7057,"title":"The Door Through Space","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781625589231"},{"authors":["John Meaney"],"book_id":"9781591023081","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781591023081.jpg?v=fdfe61c75fca22db","score":0.7012,"title":"Paradox","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781591023081"},{"authors":["Michael Moorcock"],"book_id":"9781591025962","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781591025962.jpg?v=8c4a661cd50eeded","score":0.7,"title":"Metatemporal Detective","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781591025962"},{"authors":["Richard Cox"],"book_id":"9781597803090","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781597803090.jpg?v=9cd436447a27474d","score":0.6989,"title":"Thomas World","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781597803090"},{"authors":["Keith Laumer"],"book_id":"9781627931168","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781627931168.jpg?v=fa4eb857fce312df","score":0.6877,"title":"Gambler's World","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781627931168"},{"authors":["Sean Williams"],"book_id":"9781591026440","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781591026440.jpg?v=b35038e034e0207a","score":0.6821,"title":"The Crooked Letter","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781591026440"},{"authors":["Robert Sheckley"],"book_id":"9781627930567","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781627930567.jpg?v=8b5abc98a99deb22","score":0.6805,"title":"The Status Civilization","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781627930567"},{"authors":["Mike Resnick"],"book_id":"9781616149918","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781616149918.jpg?v=7c9ba5d24e8e72a6","score":0.6795,"title":"Fortress in Orion","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781616149918"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:speculative alternate history"],"label":"History","score":0.4536,"slug":"history"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:parallel worlds adventure"],"label":"Adventure","score":0.0897,"slug":"adventure"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:mirror world thriller"],"label":"World","score":0.0848,"slug":"world"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:mirror world thriller"],"label":"Thriller","score":0.0631,"slug":"thriller"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:double life impostor"],"label":"Life","score":0.0567,"slug":"life"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Parallel worlds, Authoritarian rule.","Story elements: Alternate self, Parallel-world conflict.","Themes: History, Adventure, Thriller."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.87,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in parallel-world alternate history"],"themes":["Parallel worlds","Authoritarian rule"],"tropes":["Alternate self","Parallel-world conflict"]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":500,"goodreads_reviews_count":58,"quality_score":0.8936}}