A Different Flesh

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This novel by the New York Timesbestselling master of alternate history explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly).

What if mankinds missing link, the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the New World had chanced on these primitive creatures and seized the opportunity to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the sims were their slaves.

This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry TurtledovesA Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans three hundred years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists desperate hunt for a human infant kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late-eighteenth-century contest between a newfangled steam-engine train and the popular hairy-elephant-pulled model, to the sim-rights activists daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped named Matt whos being used for animal experimentation, Turtledove turns our world inside out in a remarkable science fiction masterwork that explores what it truly means to be human.

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[A] striking premise... Involving and intricate. Publishers Weekly

Turtledoves gift for historical speculation is always provocative. Library Journal

Author Bio

Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy.Publishers Weeklyhas called him the master of alternate history, and he is best known for his work in that genre.Some of his most popular titles includeThe Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history.Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters.The family lives in Southern California.