 In alternative history fiction, Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series features the survival of the Empire of Brazil into the Twentieth Century (along with the Mexican Empire) as a consequence of Confederate secession.In the Great War trilogy, Dom Pedro IV enters Brazil on the side of the Central Powers (Germany, Austro-Hungary and the United States), hastening the defeat of the Entente (Britain, France, Russia and the Confederacy).In "The Peshawar Lancers" by S. M. Stirling, an alternate history, steampunk and post-apocalyptic fiction novel, a meteor shower in 1878 known as 'the Fall' renders the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, resulting in the evacuation of Europeans to their countries' respective colonies and the creation of new empires.