Space War Blues

by Richard A. Lupoff

Other authorsHarlan Ellison (Introduction), James R. Frenkel (Introduction)
Hardcover, 1980-05

Status

Available

Call number

PS3562 .U6

Publication

Gregg Press (Boston, 1980). 1st Gregg Press edition, 1st printing. 326 pages.

Description

New Alabama. A planet that's a fair reproduction of long-lost Dixie, filled with down-home, racist rednecks. The N'Alabamians have carried their tribal prejudices to the farthest reached of the galaxy, like the other minorities expelled from the Earth by the dominant Pan-Semitic Alliance. There's New Transvaal. New Cathay. And New Haiti, a black world where Papa Doc's descendants carry on the old ways.When New Alabama and New Haiti go to war with each other, it's a bloody black-versus-white stalemate. Until the N'Haitians develop a horrific new secret weapon based on a very ancient tradition.Imagine you're a clean-cut N'Alabamian good ol' boy, giving your all up there in the space fleet, and you suddenly realise the enemy crews aren't human at all. They're what people back on Earth used to call Zombies...… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member RobertDay
This is a novel-length adaptation of the short story 'With the Bentfin Boomer Boys in Li'l old New Alabama' which appeared in Harlan Ellison's 'Again, Dangerous Visions'. This takes a tired old trope - militaristic sf - and gives it a different twist with a) the interstellar war being between two
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human colonies, one Confederate American and the other French-colonised Afro-Caribbean, and b) the Confederate American segments being written wholly in dialect.

Odd fact - the UK paperback was twice as thick but had no additional material.
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Language

Original language

English

ISBN

083982596X / 9780839825968

Local notes

Ex-library copy (Multnomah County Library).
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