A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor
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Publisher Description
In the far distant future, an alien invasion has devastated earth. In the wake of the destruction, Edwin Blair finds himself drafted to travel back through time and convince Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant to lend him their armies. Because the surviving members of the human race have discovered that the aliens are headed to the past as well, and must be stopped at all costs. Even if that means changing the future that Blair knows, and loves.
The problem is, Edwin Blair is not a warrior. He isn't a military genius or soldier. He's a historian specializing in the 1800's. However, history, as he's about to find out, is much different when you're living in it instead of just reading about it.
Now, if he can just convince the historical figures he's come all this way to see that he's not a crackpot.
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 $100 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.
