Fire on the Mountain

[Thon Taddeo]

Has anyone here read Fire on the Mountain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_on_the_Mountain_(1988_novel)) by Terry Bissom?

[Thon Taddeo]

No one has read it?

[Mr_ Bondoc]

I actually did read the novel when it first came out in the 1980s. It is certainly utopian in its outlook. The idea of a socialist utopia wherein an African-American controlled South dominates by the year 1957 is certainly one of the more unusual settings, but the problem is that much like The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith, it becomes a world wherein the political biases of the writer come out, rather than offer new information about that world.

[Dave Howery]

I haven't read it, but the summation there makes it seem to be wildly implausible...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I haven't read it, but the summation there makes it seem to be wildly implausible...

Well, so are Man in the High Castle and A Canticle for Leibowitz, but they're still good stories. I'll admit it sounds kind of agenda-pushing, especially with the way the scenario is described as a utopia, but I'll see if I can find a copy.

Edit: It looks as if it's back in print (https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=151).