Bring the Jubilee (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ward Moore
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alternate history
- Time of Work: 1938-1952 and 1863
- Setting: An alternate United States of America
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Alternate history
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, 1940’s, 1930’s, Civil War, Time travel
- Locales: Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
Bring the Jubilee has become a classic in the alternate-history subgenre of science fiction. The bulk of the novel is set in an alternate world years after the South won the American Civil War. This first-person memoir begins with young Hodge Backmaker leaving his backwater hometown for New York City in 1938. Life in the twenty-six United States is hard. The War of Southron Independence, as the Civil War is known, has financially and spiritually crushed the North. Backmaker outlines an unfamiliar world in which the telegraph and gaslight are the norm, the...
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