Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore, is a 1953 novel of alternate history. The point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the American Civil War. Includes an introduction by John Betancourt."An important original work... richly and realistically imagined." —Galaxy Science Fiction.

Two classic science fiction stories about a California family fleeing a nuclear holocaust, written in an era when a dystopian future seemed inevitable.An atomic bomb has struck Los Angeles, and the streets are filled with cars fleeing the city. But Mr. Jimmon knows that things will be different for his family. He has meticulously prepared for such an event, and now that it has arrived, he carries out his plan almost gleefully. The Jimmons get in their station wagon,...

Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore.

In "Bring the Jubilee," Moore presents a world where the Confederate States won the American Civil War, altering the course of history. The novel is set in a timeline where the South emerged victorious, leading to a vastly different United States. The protagonist, Hodge Backmaker, explores this alternate reality and its implications, reflecting on the consequences of historical events and the concept of "what if."Moore's writing style in "Bring the Jubilee" is characterized by its introspe...

Ward Moore's classic novel "Greener Than You Think" posits a world with Bermuda grass running out of control -- choking out every other plant and destroying the food supply of animals and humanity alike. Greener Than You Think is a satire rather than an adventure story. One plant (a Bermuda grass treated with a special growth chemical) slowly spreads across California and beyond, swallowing cities and making vast tracks of land uninhabitable. (Goodreads) This edition has been fully restore...

Two D.C. politicians discover an Appalachian man who may know the secret to immortality in this satirical science fiction fantasy classic.A United States veteran's pension of $11 a month seems highly unusual. Congressman Tully Weathernox believes the man should be earning more after serving his country. Congresswoman Lucinda Rose Habersham thinks he's a fraud leeching off the government. What kind of name is Isachar Joyleg anyway?Determined to uncover the t...

Governor Almon Lampley, a widowed political power on a private detour, returns to the shabby small town of his youth and finds it shrunken by time, its decaying hotel a grim emblem of lost vitality. What begins as a sentimental overnight stop becomes a descent into a world where manners, bodies, and memory all seem warped beyond recognition. Inside the hotel, a broken plumbing system, a strange clerk, and a cramped dining room full of unsettling residents lead him into an even darker hidde...

In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rural New York with his parents, decides to head to the city to escape his otherwise inevitable future of poverty and indentured servitude.But the specter of war betwee...

Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously in the form of prophetic fiction wherein a pushy salesman, a cash-strapped scientist, and a clump of crabgrass accidentally merge forces with apocalyptic consequences. A triple-genre combo of science fiction, horror, and satire, Greener Than You Think is a forgotten classic th...

"One of the most ingenious parallel world stories ever written." — Richard A. LupoffWhat if Robert E. Lee won the Battle of Gettysburg and his army went on to capture Philadelphia? What if the United States government was forced to recognize Confederate independence?In this acclaimed work of alternative history, the wealthy and prosperous Confederacy is a superpower, locked into a bitter struggle with its European rival, the German Union. The United States, conversely, is ut...

When Governor Lampley makes an unplanned stopover in a small, dying town, he finds himself checking into a mysterious hotel where reality and illusion intertwine. As he descends through the hotel's subterranean floors, he encounters pianos that play themselves, mythical creatures, and shifting passages that lead him on a disorienting, Kafkaesque journey deep into his own psyche. What will he find in the haunted depths?Ward Moore's 1960 novel explores perception, identity, and the e...

In "Greener Than You Think," Ward Moore likely presents a cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of human actions on the environment. The narrative may revolve around the discovery of a new substance or technology that promises to enhance plant growth and agricultural productivity. However, as the substance is deployed on a large scale, it leads to unforeseen and catastrophic ecological consequences, such as the rapid spread of uncontrollable plant life.As the story unfolds, rea...