167 pages
English language
Published Jan. 22, 1988 by Arbor House.
Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry had been successful. Chronicling life in a thriving black nation founded by Brown in the former southeastern United States, this dramatic story opens 100 years later, just as Nova Africa is poised to celebrate its first landing of a spacecraft on Mars. The prosperous black state will soon be tested when the granddaughter of John Brown returns from Africa to reunite with her daughter and share with her a secret that will alter their lives forever.
Should be part of the canon
One measure of the best scifi is that it makes you think about your own world through a critical lens. By that measure this is certainly some of the best sci-fi ever written. And it is entertaining to boot.
