Although the initial premise is made up, it is frightening how plausible it could have been. Lincoln’s Bodyguard is an absorbing adventure story with many touchpoints and allegories to contemporary disputes. Years later, he receives a plea for aid from the president of a broken nation still at war. Turner delivers the premise that President Lincoln’s bi-racial bodyguard, Joseph Foster, killed John Wilkes Booth thereby saving the president.įoster is vilified by the South and following the murder of his wife and kidnapping of his daughter, he disappears. And they all start with the simple question of “what if?” The following books are just a few examples of intriguing ways authors have created thought-provoking scenarios. They range from historical fiction to post-apocalyptic zombie wastelands. If you’ve ever wondered what if the first butterfly to have flapped its wings altered the Earth’s wind patterns, along with the course of history? And by doing so, make it so that horses never existed or the Aztecs defeated Cortes, instead of the other way around? Then Alternate history is the genre for you.Īlternative history books take that simple beating of an insect’s wings and shaping the current timeline into whole new worlds of imagination.
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