Another World Without the US
Last month in here we were talking about worlds in which the United States never came into being and what the situations would be there. I found it very interesting this afternoon when I stopped by Barnes & Noble and saw this new book by Harry Turtledove.
The premise of Opening Atlantis, the first of a new trilogy, is that the entire East Coast of North America, from the beaches of the Atlantic to the Western side of the Appalachians (and including the islands of the Caribbean Sea) were formed a thousand or so miles further East to make a small sub-continent in the mid-Atlantic.
I figured that this would be a fine Christmas present for Prescott or anyone else with interest in both history and speculative fiction.
On a side note, I wanted to let everyone know that I’m doing fine; my retirement parties were last weekend (and Augur managed to get to the brunch on Sunday afternoon.) I’ve been writing one of the exclusive stories for the book the last couple of days and am quite pleased that I can do a couple thousand words per day. It’s hard work while I’m banging on the keys, but I love the results.
I hope that the exams for those contributors that are in law school went well and that Billy Joe wasn’t injured when he put his car in the ditch over the weekend. (We got some serious snow on Saturday night.) I’m looking forward to talking to all of you soon. Merry Christmas, Joyous Yule and a very Happy New Year to everyone at Urbanagora.
Tom
