Bring the Jubilee

Ward Moore

Victor Gollancz Limited, 2001 - Fiction - 194 pages

Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War. Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that fateful turning point his actions change history as he knows it, leaving him in an all too familiar past.

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Review: Bring the Jubilee

User Review - Goodreads

A wonderful alternative history that dwells more on the politics than on the military tactics (ahem, most modern alternative history writers). The only downside is the clunky prose and pacing all too common in golden age sci fi. A possible text for my class on politics and science fiction.

Review: Bring the Jubilee

User Review - Goodreads

What would the 1950's have been like in a world where the US lost the Civil War? Ward Moore's "Bring the Jubilee" tells the story of an introverted man's search for a meaningful life in a gaslit ...

About the author

SALES POINTS* #42 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written.* 'Seminal . . . concise and elegiac' Encylopedia of Science Fiction* 'A classic alternative world story' Brian Aldiss* 'One of the best American writers' Ray Bradbury

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bring the Jubilee; Volume 42 of SF Masterworks
• Author: Ward Moore
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz Limited, 2001
• ISBN: 1857987640, 9781857987645
• Length: 194 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Alternative History; Fiction / Historical