A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor - Softcover

Pielke, Robert G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936021234 ISBN 13: 9781936021239

Publisher: Altered Dimensions Press, 2010

Synopsis

THIS IS BOOK ONE OF THE TRILOGY!
It has taken centuries to recognize that all humans possess certain unalienable rights. There will come a time when we have to consider whether others deserve those rights as well. That time will come on July 3rd 1863.
When a stranger carrying a shiny,metalic valise steps aboard a train carrying Abraham Lincoln home from a 2 year stint in Congress, everyone stares, wondering about the stranger's odd clothing and strange footware with the word Nike emblazoned on them.
When the strange man shows up in Lincoln's office at the White house 14 years later, still wearing the same clothes, carrying the same valise and looking not a day older, the president and his staff know something is odd.
But when Edwin Blair opens his valise and projects a 3d image of the Earth on Lincoln's wall, then proceeds to tell a fanciful tale about time traveling aliens preparing to land at Gettysburg on July 3rd, they are sure they've met a lunatic.
Unfortunately for them, they're wrong.

A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor, is the first book in a new science fiction trilogy involving timetravel, alternate history and double first contact.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"History you can breathe, not that the streets of old D.C. were aromatic, but a sense of history that rings true with a story that will keep you off balance and wanting more! I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I always think 'film' and I know now that you do too.
~ Patrick Gorman, actor [John Bell Hood in Gettysburg  and Gods and Generals and numers other films and TV shows]

From Publishers Weekly:

Pielke draws in the reader with an intriguing opening section—in which a mysterious figure seeks out Abraham Lincoln in 1849 with a very unusual request—before this historical sci-fi novel goes off the rails. Edwin Blair encounters the future president on a train and pays him to agree to meet with him again in 14 years. In need of cash, Lincoln agrees, and in 1863, while in the White House dealing with the Civil War, Lincoln grants Blair an audience at a turning point in the conflict. Blair reveals himself as a visitor from the distant future, 2163, who needs the help of both the Union and Confederacy to save Earth from alien invaders known as the Pests. While the story will continue in at least one additional volume, Blair's indifference to how his intervention in a seminal event in U.S. history would change the future evidences a failure of imagination that will disappoint sci-fi fans. Civil War buffs will find better fictional depictions of the major figures elsewhere.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Altered Dimensions Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1936021234
• ISBN 13: 9781936021239
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 226
• Illustrator: Stone A. R.