A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor

When a stranger carrying a shiny,metallic valise steps aboard a train carrying Abraham Lincoln home from a 2 year stint in Congress, everyone stares, wondering about the stranger's odd clothing and strange footwear with the word Nike emblazoned on them.

When the strange man shows up in Lincoln's office at the White house 14 years later, still wearing the same clothes, carrying the same valise and looking not a day older, the president and his staff know something is odd.

But when Edwin Blair opens his valise and projects a 3d image of the Earth on Lincoln's wall, then proceeds to tell a fanciful tale about time traveling aliens preparing to land at Gettysburg on July 3rd, they are sure they've met a lunatic.

Unfortunately for them, they're wrong.

A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor, is the first book in a new science fiction series that follows the adventures of Edwin Blair and the aliens knowns as Pests as they chase each other through all the centuries of Earth's past, present and future.
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Published by Alternate Dimensions Press [Available now directly from the publisher as well as Amazon and Barnes & Nobel.]

http://www.cyberwizardproductions.com/Altered_Dimensions_Press/A_New_Birth_of...

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[eflint1]

More Union propaganda. Boring.

[rpielke]

@eflint1 Hmmmm....don't see that...??

[rpielke]

A lot of fervent discussionizing....but most of it has nothing to do with the book or the video....

Alas....!

[rpielke]

@rpielke It certainly qualifies as SF/Alt Hist!!  ;-)

[PowerPlantEngineer]

This seems right. The flow of history was toward human rights - consent of governed, freedom of press, all men created equal. The US was a bold dramatic experiment based on those principles.

The Confederacy was based on EXACTLY the opposite idea -- that God wanted one race to enslave another, that torture and terror were legitimate tools for goverment to keep millions of people in slavery. Guess who said so?

Southern leaders BRAGGED about it. Go read Cornerstone speech.

[rpielke]

@PowerPlantEngineer My novel expands on that idea -- that the extension of rights is desirable....but complicated.

[Cwizprod]

Union what? The book's a science fiction, time travel, alt-history tale that just happens to take place at the battle of Gettysberg. How is that Union propaganda? Did you READ the book, eflint1?

[rpielke]

@civilwarcow hahahahaha....paradies are great, and they're humorous if and only if there's some kind of connection to the hisorical events in question.

[Maetel22]

@spartanunoob you are defending the enslavement of another human being? i dont even want to talk to you now

[spartanunoob]

@Maetel22 no it was the states rights slavery was one of the rights the federal government was trying to ban most people who support the south know this we dont give a shit about slavery but it should have been up to the states to decide whether they wanted it or not of course with some limits if u couldnt kill your slave and such it wouldnt have been anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be not every slave owner killed their slaves and such saying they did is wrong

[FLDixie1]

I'm sorry Powerplant, your a fool. Alexander Stephens, the speaker of the Cornerstone Speech, and also the Vice president of the CSA, was an extremely benevolent man to both blacks and whites. He was a lawyer for 32 years, defending blacks over and over, even volunteering to defend a black slave woman who was accused of murder and getting her acquitted. Torture and terror had nothing to do with the Confederacy. Don't be another Yankee Propagandist.

[Maetel22]

@robertiacomacci what loving, tolerant person would support the "southern cause"? I'm sorry, but slavery was indeed the "cornerstone" of the CSA, and things would have been far worse for blacks if they had managed to achieve their "cause"