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    Fire on the Mountain

    By Terry Bisson

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    Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful. Chronicling life in a thriving black nation founded by Brown in the former southeastern United States, this dramatic story opens 100 years later, just as Nova Africa is poised to celebrate its first landing of a spacecraft on Mars. The prosperous black state will soon be tested when the granddaughter of John Brown returns from Africa to reunite with her daughter and share with her a secret that will alter their lives forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPM Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2009
    ISBN9781604862584
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    Terry Bisson

    Terry Bisson (1942-2024) was the American science fiction and fantasy author of the Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning short story "Bears Discover Fire," as well as the widely-reprinted, all-dialogue short story "They're Made Out of Meat." His many novels include Talking Man, Fire on the Mountain, Voyage to the Red Planet, Pirates of the Universe, and The Pickup Artist. He also published several volumes of short fiction, including Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories, Greetings, and TVA Baby and Other Stories.

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    • 5/5
      I had such a good time reading this book!Though I read all of it, I was tempted to skip the parts that were "present day" (in the 1950s Socialist United States) in favor of reading more about the Harriet Tubman and John Brown's guerrilla war turning into the US Civil War instead of confederate seceding states doing so. What blew my mind was the how international solidarity could have played a part in such a real life situation: troops came by the hundreds from the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania, the Cree, the Garibaldini, the Haitians, the Paris Communards, etc. etc.
    • 5/5
      if only it were true....
    • 3/5
      This is an intriguing story about an alternate history where John Brown's raid was successful and the Southern United States became a Black socialist utopia. I love this premise!Of the novel's three viewpoints, the narrative from the past was the most compelling, in that it actually told a story about a character I cared about. The letters mostly left the other guy sounding really annoying and self-absorbed, even if he did reform in some ways over time. And the narrative of the present... it was okay, but nothing really happened. Left me wanting to know more about how we got from John Brown's army raiding things in the South to a war for the South to be independent as a Black state.Still, though, a cool premise.