Near future. Book 2 of trilogy: Ambient , Terraplane , Heathern . 2nd novel.
"Terraplane , his second novel, is narrated by a black army officer of the future who is transported by time machine back to an alternate version of the segregationist South." --Jim McClellan (from the intro to an interview with Jack Womack, 1995).
Check Jim McClellan's homepages on the web for full interview transcript: http://www.gold.net/oneday/jim/
"On the walls of the bars and restaurants of twenty-first century Moscow Big Boy grins down from the ads in twelvecolour holograph. GO NOW AND BUY. MONEY IS LIFE -- SPEND IT. THRIFTY ARE TRAITORS.
"But Luther and Jake are not touristing: they've got a job to do for O'Malley and Dryco: to steal Oktobriana Osipova and the experimental transferral device from under the nose of the Dream Team.
"It's a bold and dangerous plan that goes fatally wrong.
"Twentieth-century New York. 1939. It's a nightmare. The slave trade has only just been abolished. It's a world of identity passes, police roadblocks and imminent war. Churchill is dead. Roosevelt has been assassinated, Europe lies vulnerable. Luther, Jake and Oktobriana find themselves trapped in warped history, in an unfamiliar world racing headlong to destruction, with only a chance in a million of escape..." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1989]
Hardcore cyberpunk.
Recommended.
