I’d write more Civil War stuff like ‘Bring the Jubilee,’ except that it’s a field of overlapping rhetorical minefields. Although I don’t care about the opinions of the monomaniacal historical illiterates, mind you: I’ve been ignoring them for years. No, it’s the monomaniacal historical literates who would eat me alive. And I am not going to spend six months figuring out just what damned buttons George H Thomas or Nathan Bedford Forrest were wearing at the damned battle of Chickamauga. Life is just too damned short.
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Book of the Week: America by Heart.
Mostly because America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag is not even out for the next two days and it’s already #23 on Amazon: my readers are probably going to buy it from somebody, so it might as well be me. Not to mention the fact that the latest book by THAT WOMAN is promising to be the centerpiece of a sharp lesson to Gawker about why you Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Print Conglomerates. Something about how Harper Collins would very much enjoy putting a New Media icon’s head on a stick as a warning to the rest…
And on that cheery note, farewell to Bring the Jubilee.
Moe Lane
‘Bring the Jubilee.’
Not much to say about Bring the Jubilee, except of course that it’s one of the seminal if-the-South-had-won-the-Civil-War novels that made up the backbone of alternate history for so long. It’s also one of those books that the unwary will think of as ‘hackneyed,’ because the plot twists and details will be so familiar… because everybody writing this sort of alternate history ripped off Bring the Jubilee shamelessly. Well worth it, in other words. Good to know the roots of a genre.
And so, farewell to Decision Points.