Underground Airlines (CD-Audio)

from voracious

In a parallel universe, the United States exists much like it does today, with the exception that the Civil War never happened and slavery remains legal in four states. In this world, Victor, an ex-slave himself, is now employed by the government and required to track down escaped slaves as a bou...

from JBD1

Ben Winters' "The Last Policeman" trilogy was good, but he takes it to the next level with Underground Airlines. Set in an alternate America where the Civil War never happened and slave culture clings on in four southern states, Winters' tale is chock full of slightly-twisted historical threads -...

from rosalita

In Ben Winters' 19th century America, the Civil War never happens. On the brink of that cataclysmic event that tore a nation in two over the issue of slavery, a president is assassinated and the North blinks. Instead of war, the two sides hammer out a compromise that allows slavery to continue in...

from gypsysmom

Covering much of the same ground as the Pulitzer Prize winning The Underground Railroad, I suspect this book will not get the same attention since it comes from a science fiction writer. I thought it was just as well written and just as disturbing. In this alternate history version of the US, sla...

from elenchus

The central fact of Underground Airlines is that Winters describes the present moment in an imagined U.S., and that moment matches ours in almost all particulars, except in arriving from a different past. It is perhaps tempting to argue that is a worse, more horrific history than ours, so Winters...