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The Disunited States of America (Crosstime Traffic)

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The Disunited States of America

Crosstime Traffic (Volume 4 of 6)

Harry Turtledove

Tor Science Fiction, June 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5378-8, ISBN10: 0-7653-5378-4,
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 288 pages,

Awards: Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library

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Time travel doesn't work. You can't go backward or forward; you're stuck at "now". What you can do is travel sideways, to the same "now" in another timeline where history turned out differently.

So far, only our home timeline has figured out how to do that. We use it to conduct discreet trading operations in less advanced timelines, selling goods just a little bit better than the locals can make. It's profitable, but families who work as Time Traders have to be careful to fit in, lest the locals become suspicious.

Justin's family are Time Traders. The summer before he's due to start college, he goes with them to a different Virginia, in a timeline where the American states never became a single country, and American history has consisted of a series of small wars. Despite his unease, he accompanies Randolph Brooks, another Time Trader, on a visit to the tiny upland town of Elizabeth, Virginia. He'll only be away from his parents for a few days.

Beckie Royer thanks her stars that she's from California, the most prosperous and advanced country in North America. But just now she's in Virginia with her grandmother, who wants to revisit the tiny mountain town where she grew up. The only interesting thing there is a boy named Justin--and he'll be gone soon.

Then war between Virginia and Ohio breaks out anew. Ohio sets a tailored virus loose on Virginia. Virginia swiftly imposes a quarantine, trapping Beckie and Justin and Randolph Brooks in Elizabeth. Even Crosstime Traffic can't help. All the three of them can do is watch as plague and violence take over the town.

It's nothing new in history, not in this timeline or any other. It's part of the human condition. And just now, this part of the human condition sucks.

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“One of alternate history’s authentic modern masters.”
--Booklist on Harry Turtledove

“One of the genre’s leading purveyors of alternate history.”
--Dragon on Harry Turtledove

“Turtledove excels in alternate history.”
--Library Journal on Harry Turtledove

“Readers nostalgic for the SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy…This is a rousing story that reminds us that ‘adventure’ is really someone else in deep trouble a long way off.”
--Publishers Weekly on Gunpowder Empire

"Turtledove has proved he can divert his readers to astonishing places. He's developed a cult following over the years; and if you've already been there, done that with real-history novelists Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy Dunnett, or George MacDonald Fraser, for your Next Big Enthusiasm you might want to try Turtledove. I know I'd follow his imagination almost anywhere."
--San Jose Mercury News on Harry Turtledove

“Harry Turtledove is probably the best practitioner of the classic alternate-history story since L. Sprague de Camp.”
--Locus on Harry Turtledove

About the Author(s)

Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove, “the modern master of alternate history” (--Publishers Weekly), lives in Los Angeles.

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