Fire on the Mountain
Terry Bisson
(Author)
Mumia Abu-Jamal
(Introduction by)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army.
Long unavailable in the U.S., published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded--and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.
Product Details
Price
$18.95
$17.62
Publisher
PM Press
Publish Date
October 01, 2009
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.0 X 8.0 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781604860870
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About the Author
Terry Bisson is the host of SF in SF, a popular science-fiction reading-series. He is the author of several books, including The Cat's Pajamas, Greetings & Other Stories, and Numbers Don't Lie. He lives in San Francisco.
Reviews
"A book that continues to provoke questions about how and why our world is the way it is--and how it might be different." --Indypendent (NYC)
"You don't forget Bisson's characters, even well after you've finished his books . . . [this book] does for the Civil War what Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle did for World War II." --George Alec Effinger, author, When Gravity Falls
"Few works have moved me as deeply, as thoroughly . . . With this single poignant story, Bisson molds a world as sweet as banana cream pies, and is briny as hot tears." --Mumia Abu amal, death row prisoner and author, Live from Death Row
"A slender novel, but it does the science fiction trick of making you step back from your own world and see it more clearly, and it does so while wrenching your heart and setting your pulse pounding. All in all, one of the best alternate histories I've read." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
"You don't forget Bisson's characters, even well after you've finished his books . . . [this book] does for the Civil War what Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle did for World War II." --George Alec Effinger, author, When Gravity Falls
"Few works have moved me as deeply, as thoroughly . . . With this single poignant story, Bisson molds a world as sweet as banana cream pies, and is briny as hot tears." --Mumia Abu amal, death row prisoner and author, Live from Death Row
"A slender novel, but it does the science fiction trick of making you step back from your own world and see it more clearly, and it does so while wrenching your heart and setting your pulse pounding. All in all, one of the best alternate histories I've read." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
