Fire on the Mountain is a 1988 novel by the American author Terry Bisson. It is an alternate history describing the world as it would have been had John Brown succeeded in his raid on Harper's Ferry and touched off a slave rebellion in 1859, as he intended.
Fire on the Mountain is a 1988 novel by the American author Terry Bisson. It is an alternate history describing the world as it would have been had John Brown succeeded in his raid on Harper's Ferry and touched off a slave rebellion in 1859, as he intended.
It's 75% tell, 25% show. A lot of the narrative reads as more of an alternate history textbook instead of an actual story with developed characters and plot.
It's 75% tell, 25% show. A lot of the narrative reads as more of an alternate history textbook instead of an actual story with developed characters and plot.
