The Disunited States of America: A Novel of Crosstime Traffic

The Disunited States of America: A Novel of Crosstime Traffic - Paperback

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The Disunited States of America: A Novel of Crosstime Traffic

The Disunited States of America: A Novel of Crosstime Traffic - Paperback

by Harry Turtledove
$16.99
Sale price  $16.99 Regular price 

Book Overview

In Harry Turtledove's The Disunited States of America, Justin's having the worst trip ever. He and his mother are Time Traders, traveling undercover to different alternate realities of Earth so they can take valuable resources back to their own timeline. In some of these worlds, Germany won World War I or the world has been destroyed by nuclear warfare. Justin and his mother are in an America that never became the United States: each state is like a country, and many of them are at war with each other. Their mission takes them to Virginia, which is on the verge of bloody violence with Ohio.

Beckie is from California, and like the rest of her world, unaware that Time Traders exist. The only reason she's in small town Virginia is because her grandmother dragged her there to visit old relatives. Beckie is just as horrified by the violence and racism of the alternate Virginia as Justin is, and the two are drawn to one another. But when full-fledged war breaks out between the States, including a biologically designed plague, will either of them manage to get back home? Forget about home: Will they make it out alive?
ISBN9780765328243
Author Harry Turtledove
PublisherTor Teen
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults and Adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove, a New York Times bestselling author, has spent forty years dismantling reality to see why the wheels come off. Hugo and Sidewise Awards fill his mantle because he breaks facts for a living. Most people (including Publishers Weekly) call him the Master of Alternate History. That title is just a polite way of saying he is the only man who can make speculative dread feel like a peer-reviewed paper. Now he is applying that same grit to the supernatural with a Los Angeles that is full of vampires and gremlins living and working alongside us. Turtledove lives in the San Fernando Valley and treats these monsters like historical inevitabilities. Ancient demons and the ghosts of history both smell like old paper. This is a pivot by a man who already knows where the bodies are buried.

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