The Cordwainer
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
What could be wrong with making a few bucks?
Plenty, three friends soon learn, trapped in the company town of Boot Hill. If they can somehow get a trainload of boots over the mountains to the Big City, they could be rich - richer than they ever dreamed.
But in an alternate 1973, Global Warming has brought the world to a standstill and the use of all carbon fuels is tightly restricted. The few means of transportation left are dominated by a corporate behemoth known as the Concession. Store shelves sit empty as shortages run rampant.
But Beanie, Fluky and Mitty have a plan: just one freight car full of boots, across the mountains, and they could be rich...
Richer than they ever dreamed.
And after all, what could be wrong with making a few bucks?
Plenty.
Customer Reviews
An unusual alternative history with great characters
I really enjoyed the adventures of Beanie (the narrator), Flaky, and Mitty in this book. Once you accept the alternate history (global overheating discovered in the 1930s, some different affects of WWII, establishment of Corporatist State in the US), the plot follows logically. You really begin to care about these guys as the try to stick their fingers into the eye of the Concession in an alternative (and depressing) 1972.
Excellent
Excellent writer, (this is what's happening to our country if we continue on with entitlements), the characters are very like able, the story flows.