A Different Flesh

What if mankind's "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. Follow 300 years in an alternate America, 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 who's being used for animal experimentation.

• | Author: Harry Turtledove
• | Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1504052331
• | ISBN-13: 9781504052337