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The landmark alternate history novel by "one of the best American writers" (Ray Bradbury). In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rural New York with his parents, decides to head to the city to escape his otherwise inevitable future of poverty and indentured servitude. But the specter of war between the Confederacy and the other great global power, the German Union, haunts the entire region, and a nationalist terrorist group has other plans for Hodge. Before long, he is swept up in the politics of the day and becomes involved with a beautiful physicist who is working on a machine intended to change his fate-and the fate of the world. Long before Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South, Bring the Jubilee was the first novel to pose the question "What if the South had won the Civil War?" A counterfactual classic, it was included in renowned science fiction editor David Pringle's list of the 100 Best Science Fiction Novels. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ward Moore including rare images from the author's estate.… (más)
Desde su victoria el la guerra de la independencia sureña los Estados Confederados han llegado a convertirse en la nación mas rica de Norteamérica. Wahington, Saint Louis y Leesburg crecen en la opulencia y son las ciudades más prósperas del continente. Hodge Backmaker, llegado a Nueva York (sólo una pálida sombra de lo que podía haber sido) en su juventud , se abre camino en la vida como librero y más adelante como historiador. Especialista en la guerra de la independencia sureña, no duda en aprovechar la oportunidad que se le ofrece de viajar en el tiempo para observar in situ el periodo histórico que tanto le fascina,y en el que vivirá insólitas peripecias.
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What he will he does, and does so much That proof is call'd impossibility -TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
It is always the puzzle of the nature of time that brings our thoughts to a standstill. And if time is so fundamental that an understanding of the true nature is for ever beyond our reach, then so in all probability is a decision in the age-long controversy between determination and free will. -THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE BY JAMES JEANS
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For Tony Boucher and Mick McComas who liked this story
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Although I am writing this in the year 1877, I was not born until 1921.
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The short walk to the river was through streets lacking the glamour of those of the day before. The tenements were smoke-streaked, with steps between the parting bricks where mortar had fallen out; great hunks of wall were kept in place only by the support of equally crazy ones abutting. The wretched things I wore were better suited than Pondible's to this neighbourhood, though his would have marked him tramp and vagrant in Wappinger Falls.
I recalled Tyss's, "You are a spectator type, Hodgins." And once I had called him out of my memory I couldn't escape his familiar, interminable, sardonic argument. Why are you fussing yourself, Hodgins? What is the point of all this introspective debate? Don't you know your choice has already been made? And that you have acted according to it an infinite number of times and will do so an infinte number of times again? Relax, Hodgins; you have nothing to worry about. Free will is an illusion; you cannot alter what you are about to decide under the impression that you have decided.
It was Catty's first excursion away from Haggershaven since the night I brought her there. Looking at the world outside through her perceptions, at once insulated and made hypersensitive by her new status, I was shocked afresh at the harsh indifference, the dull poverty, the fear, brutality, frenzy and cynicism highlighting the strange resignation to impending fate which characterised our civilisation. It was not a case of eat, drink, be merry, for tomorrow we die; rather it was, let us live meanly and trust to luck - tomorrow's luck is bound to be worse.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The landmark alternate history novel by "one of the best American writers" (Ray Bradbury). In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rural New York with his parents, decides to head to the city to escape his otherwise inevitable future of poverty and indentured servitude. But the specter of war between the Confederacy and the other great global power, the German Union, haunts the entire region, and a nationalist terrorist group has other plans for Hodge. Before long, he is swept up in the politics of the day and becomes involved with a beautiful physicist who is working on a machine intended to change his fate-and the fate of the world. Long before Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South, Bring the Jubilee was the first novel to pose the question "What if the South had won the Civil War?" A counterfactual classic, it was included in renowned science fiction editor David Pringle's list of the 100 Best Science Fiction Novels. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ward Moore including rare images from the author's estate.
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Hodge Backmaker, llegado a Nueva York (sólo una pálida sombra de lo que podía haber sido) en su juventud , se abre camino en la vida como librero y más adelante como historiador. Especialista en la guerra de la independencia sureña, no duda en aprovechar la oportunidad que se le ofrece de viajar en el tiempo para observar in situ el periodo histórico que tanto le fascina,y en el que vivirá insólitas peripecias.