![]() This sets in motion a series of compromise amendments in Congress that avoids war while enabling slavery to remain in those states that have it in place – all bound by a final 18th Amendment forbidding these amendments ever be changed. The tilting point in Winters’s alternative history is having the assassination of Abraham Lincoln occurring just before the Civil War is about to commence. He is standing on the shoulders of writers like Philip K Dick, whose The Man in the High Castle was set in a world where the Allies had lost the war and America was split between the Japanese and the Nazis. Ben H Winters has woven a provocative idea into a compelling narrative, driven fast and hard by a deeply conflicted protagonist.Īlternative histories may not be new, but Winters has made his high-concept novel highly readable as well thought-provoking. Underground Airlines is set in modern day USA – basically the same except for one overwhelming difference: the Civil War never happened, and slavery still exists. ![]() ![]() Tags: Abraham LIncoln/ alternative history/ American Civil War/ Ben H Winters ![]()
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