Ward Moore Bücher

»Obwohl ich dies im Jahre 1877 niederschreibe, wurde ich erst 1921 geboren. Weder die Jahreszahlen noch die Zeitformen sind verwechselt - lassen Sie mich erklären...« So beginnt der unglaubliche Bericht Hodge Backmakers aus Pennsylvanien, jedoch aus einem Pennsylvanien, das in einer anderen Welt liegt. Die Südstaaten haben 1863 die entscheidende Schlacht von Gettysburg gewonnen und damit den Bürgerkrieg für sich entschieden. Die Konföderation ist ein riesiger, reicher Agrar-staat geworden; der Norden, die Union, ist zu einem bedeutungslosen politischen Gebilde herabgesunken, in dem Hunger und Armut herrschen, in dem das ausländische Kapital regiert, sich die Parteien in Untergrundkämpfen zerfleischen und Gangsterbanden das Land verunsichern. Hodge Backmaker hat Glück. Er findet Aufnahme in einer Gelehrtenkommune und bildet sich zum Historiker aus. Sein Spezialgebiet ist der Bürgerkrieg. Er lebt zwar in einer Welt, die noch in der Mitte dieses Jahrhunderts technisch hoffnungslos rückständig ist, die aber eine wesentliche Erfindung aufzuweisen hat: die der Zeitmaschine. Was gäbe es für einen Historiker Verlockenderes, als sich an den Schauplatz des Geschehens zu begeben, das er studiert? Nur kann dies unter Umständen verhängnisvolle Folgen haben und die Geschichte eine andere Wendung nehmen.

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. "Caduceus Wild" is forgotten sci-fi classic by Ward Moore & Robert Bradford. The Medarchy was a tyranny that only a tiny minority considered oppres¬sive. Practically speaking, the Medarchy, was a sane and healthful society where the doctor's prescription was law, and everyone had to carry a medical chart with him at all times. How could the underground opposition--referred to as the maladjusted, or "the mallies"¬--hope to overturn such a system, when so few could see that cradle-to-grave regulation of a person's life (in the name of "health") robbed him of all human dignity? And now, two of the government's most outspoken critics, Cyrus Tarn and Virginia Carling, were faced with a life as fugitives--continually on the run. For should they be apprehended, they wouldn't be exe¬cuted, they'd be cured, robbed of their memories and individualities--a fate that awaited all who disagreed with the iron hand of the Medarchy.

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Alternative cover edition can be found here. Hodge Backmaker lives in twentieth century New York, a city of cobblestones, gas lamps, and ten-storey skyscrapers. In his world, the Confederate South won its independence in the Civil War and North America is divided, with slavery and serfdom still facts of life in the Confederacy and New York a provincial backwater. Bring the Jubilee stands alongside Pavane as science fiction's finest explorations of alternative history.

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, "Rx Jupiter Save Us" deals with the coming of freedom. It was a strange world, where absolutism reigned without violence, and rebels were sure that-once their strength became known-the rulers would abdicate power gracefully. But Green Ed-jo, Jovian freak, knew differently-and saw very little desirability between the tyranny of the Plotbureau...and the chaos of the Readers. Ed-jo and his allies knew that if man wasn't free to choose, he wasn't free at all. And if so, it was better to be superseded by machines. This thought-provoking novel was written by Ward Moore. The second novel, "Beware, the Usurpers!" by Geoff S. Reynard, is an exciting sci-fi horror tale. Monsters in the streets? "Only if you're drunk!" you say? Think again. A shotgun blast to the face could change any man's perspective. Jerry Wolfe knew this, and he paid for his new view on life...with his own life. William Chester and his comrades were determined to take up Jerry's crusade against an invading Alien scourge. The only problem being that not everyone could see the interlopers.

Transient: A man of political clout with a reputation to uphold finds himself in an obscure landscape full of confusion and distorted reality. It is an uncomfortable narrative of one man's off centered thinking

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