This novel by the brand new York Times bestselling ‘learn of alternate history’ explores an America reshaped with a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly).

Imagine if mankind’s ‘missing link,’ the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a UNITED STATES continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, as the more complex Homo sapiens built their civilizations somewhere else? Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the brand new World had chanced on these primitive about A Different Flesh animals and seized the chance to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the ‘sims’ had been their slaves.

This is actually the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove’s A Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award champion creates another America that spans three hundred years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists’ desperate hunt for a individual baby kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late-eighteenth-century competition between a newfangled steam-engine teach and the favorite hairy-elephant-pulled model, towards the sim-rights activists’ daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped called Matt who’s being used for pet experimentation, Turtledove changes our world inside out in a remarkable science fiction masterwork that explores what it really means to become individual.