Spectacular Fiction

By Scott BorchertThe IndypendentNovember 17, 2010 Near the end of Terry Bisson’s utopian novel Fire on the Mountain, one character,…

Bisson’s Fire on the Mountain: alternate history in which John Brown wins at Harper’s Ferry By Cory DoctorowBoingBoingJuly 28, 2010…

By Ron JacobsCounterpunch Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane released an album titled Blows Against the Empire…

The Aqueduct Gazette NewsletterWinter 2011(V8) It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova…

By Jade BovéRain TaxiWinter 2011/2012 Terry Bisson’s latest collection of short stories, TVA Baby, presents thirteen science fiction tales that…

By Sam J. MillerGuysLitWireAugust 13th, 2014 Maybe you remember John Brown from your history class. An abolitionist, he believed that…

Big Pulp Starting with a simple twist to American history—What if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded? What…

By Jo WaltonTor.comApril 22nd, 2009 After reading Kindred, I wanted to read something where the slaves were freed, and not…

By Marion DeedsFantasy LiteratureOctober 17th, 2012 What if America’s Civil War had been, not a war of unification, but a…

By Jon LandBooktribMay 20th, 2019 Rhode Islander Michael Fine’s suavely and elegantly fashioned Abundance (PM Press) puts Liberia center stage…