Series
A Different Flesh
Harry Turtledove · 3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection · 1985–1988
Harry Turtledove's A Different Flesh is a collection of linked alternate-history stories imagining a North America where Homo erectus survived alongside Ice Age megafauna into the modern era, taking the ecological and historical place occupied by Native American civilizations in our own timeline. The linked stories follow European contact, exploitation, and study of these surviving hominids across centuries of altered American history, from early colonization through more recent settings. It's anthropological alternate history more concerned with what contact does to the newly "discovered" species than with conventional adventure plotting.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1980s8
Shape
3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 1 short story · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:alternate historycolonialismnorth america19th centurychallengingadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 57% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Vilest Beastdarkest
- Trapping Runbrightest · most intense
- Freedomcalmest