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The marvelous sci-fi classic of a postapocalyptic future without electricity or “thinking machines,” in an all-new edition! Part memoir, part historical commentary—and all a thought-provoking, ambiguous chronicle of a future packed with heroism, duplicity, and the grand actions of men in momentous times.
Our World Turned Upside Down
It is the twenty-sixth century, and the world is a very different place. Gone are the United States and Canada, replaced by the socially rigid, authoritarian Confederacy of the Yukon. Gone is the electronic age—destroyed in the apocalyptic Storm Times, which devastated the globe and decimated the world’s population in the late twenty-first century. It is now, once again, an age of steam, an age of lighter-than-air craft, an age of feudalism and knighthood, an age of conquest.
Isaac Prophet Fitzpatrick, Consul and Supreme Commander of the Yukon Confederacy, is tall, handsome, dashing and noble. He’s also the man who conquered the world in the name of the Yukons—and destroyed half of humanity in the process.
Fitzpatrick’s closest companion, Sir Robert Mayfair Bruce, elevated from the ranks and brought into Fitzpatrick’s inner circle, owed everything to his mentor and commander. Yet some call the memoir Bruce left behind the work of a lying traitor. Perhaps its author was indeed a disloyal and degenerate scoundrel.
Or maybe he was the only man brave enough to tell his world the truth.
With a two-page, full-color frontispiece spread of the gorgeous first edition cover art by Tom Kidd.
“Theodore Judson takes elements of history, steampunk, and religion and mixes them together to make a compelling story that presses through the imagination the need to contemplate issues of ethics, religion, and warfare. . . . He explores heady themes with wit and precision.”—J.W. Wartick (Reconstructing Faith)
“Although [he] deals with the grand sweep of history and the place of humanity in the universe, the author never loses sight of his characters.”—Berthold Gambrel (A Ruined Chapel by Moonlight)
“Judson’s use of the twin viewpoints allows him to make points about subjects as diverse as history and heroes, academia and ambition, love and shame. Yet like Heinlein, Asimov and other great writers in the genre, Judson never lets his message get in the way of the story.”—Publishers Weekly
“As Bruce's tale unfolds, the author skillfully demonstrates how fallible men become heroes through a deliberate distortion of their deeds. The author's ability to suggest an entire culture from a few telling details makes this an engrossing read.”—Library Journal
"Fitzpatrick's War, ingeniously incorporating two contrasting points of view as a memoir edited by an opinionated historian with numerous annotations and footnotes, is a speculative masterwork that will appeal to a surprisingly wide range of readers. For fans of historical fiction and military-powered science fiction as well as those who enjoy postapocalyptic novels, Fitzpatrick's War will impress—and enthrall.”—The Barnes & Noble Review
“A very effective novel disguised as a memoir. The cumulative effect is quite involving and convincing, making this novel definitely worth a look from fans of military and alternate history.”—Locus
“By writing this two-layered future history, Judson has accomplished a remarkable feat: presenting the memoirs of a generally good man steered into being an accomplice to horrors that make the mind boggle. The very highest recommendation.”—SFRevu