THE AFRICAN QUEEN The African Queen is the first short story in our alternate history series, "The African Chronicles," and it builds on "The Rainforest Queen," our first alternate history story. The main characters in our first story, Yarima, the Amazon Rainforest Queen, and Tianshu, a Chinese explorer, kept the conquistadors from colonizing South America, so Yarima resumes her duties at her village, and Tianshu returns to China to report his accomplishments to the emperor. The report pleases the emperor and gives Tianshu a new assignment: try to prevent European explorers from colonizing Africa. THE EGYPTIAN QUEEN The Egyptian Queen is the first short story in our alternate history series, "The Egyptian Chronicles," and builds on "The Rainforest Queen" and African Queen" stories. The main characters in "The Rainforest Queen," Yarima, the Amazon Rainforest Queen, and Tianshu, a Chinese explorer, kept the conquistadors from colonizing South America, so Yarima resumes her duties at her village, and Tianshu returns to China to report his accomplishments to his Emperor. The report pleases the Emperor and gives Tianshu a new assignment: try to prevent European explorers from colonizing Africa, which is presented in "The African Queen", as Tianshu and Yarima join forces with Ladi, a Zulu Warrior Queen, to prevent a similar catastrophe from striking the Dark Continent.