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The Accidental Alchemist
Paperback
Series: Survival Through the Ages, Book 7
Bedtime & DreamsHistoryScience Fiction
Publisher: Carrie Ray
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Waking up in a dense bamboo forest in 10th-century China, 15-year-old Robert stumbles upon a secret workshop where Song Dynasty scholars are accidentally creating The Fire Drug-the world's first black powder. While the alchemists struggle to control the volatile substance, Robert uses his modern mechanic's brain and knowledge of physics to show them how to use bamboo tubes to direct the energy. He effectively invents the first fire arrows and spinning ground fireworks, turning a dangerous accident into a controlled wonder.
The situation turns deadly when the local military discovers the breakthrough and demands Robert turn his celebration powder into a weapon of war. Caught between the peaceful inventors and a ruthless general, Robert must use his tactical hunting skills and his newly engineered pyrotechnics to stage a massive, distracting Festival of Light escape. As he outmaneuvers the soldiers under a sky of primitive fireworks, he tracks the shimmering glitch through the smoke, plunging through it to wake up safely in his own bed in 2020.
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