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Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.
The Killer Angels is a 1974 historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.The book depicts the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and the days leading up to it: June 29, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and ...
American Civil War alternate histories; A Rebel in Time, another Civil War alternate history involving time travel and a racist sending advanced weapons to the Confederacy. "Still Valley", a The Twilight Zone episode focusing on the Civil War. Southern Victory, a series of books by Turtledove focused on a Confederate victory and its aftermath.
This category contains fictional works (books, films, games) that speculate about a second American Civil War. Pages in category "Second American Civil War speculative fiction" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year after its publication, and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. [2] [3] A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. [4] It was adapted as a 1998 movie of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey.
Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. [1] It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War who walks for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life; the story shares several similarities with Homer's Odyssey, [2] with the protagonist's ...
Gods and Generals is a novel which serves as a prequel to Michael Shaara's 1974 Pulitzer Prize–winning work about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels.Written by Jeffrey Shaara after his father Michael's death in 1988, the novel relates events from 1858 through 1863, during the American Civil War, ending just as the two armies march toward Gettysburg.
Card was contacted by Donald Mustard and offered the chance to develop the game's storyline as well as a novel to set the series into action. [10] The Xbox Live Arcade Game Shadow Complex was announced by Donald Mustard to be a tie-in to the second installment of Orson Scott Card's Empire Trilogy and is a prequel to the Empire novel that is ...