These Science Fiction Writers Inspired Einstein...

[5fish]

"Mars" series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

It is the only book of his with a Civil War background, the hero John Carter, a Confederate veteran... link...

https://virginiahistory.org/learn/john-carter-mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), best known as the creator of the Tarzan books, also wrote a popular science fiction series featuring the thrilling adventures of John Carter of Mars (and Virginia). The eleven books deal with the exploits of Captain Carter, a Confederate officer who left his native state of Virginia after the Civil War and headed west to prospect for gold. He found ore worth millions but was attacked by Apaches before he could mine it. He escaped to a mysterious cave, fell asleep and awoke to find that he had been transported to Mars, a dying planet inhabited by warring kingdoms. Displaying great courage and skill, Carter rose to the position of Warlord, after battling giant rats, headless humans, and a deadly radio beam known as the Gridly Wave.

 

[LJMYERS]

The Heinz History Center never heard of anyone by the name of Lincoln or Lincoln PA now named Glassport PA. Although the Belle Boyd Museum has extensive records on Lincoln PA for some unknown reason. They never heard that Lincoln PA name was changed Glassport right after Abraham Lincoln's death.

 

[O' Be Joyful]

I tried to verify your assertion about a Lincoln series, unless you are being facetious... I do have a series for you which will make your fantasies come true... an alternative history of the Civil War and into the future... I think they will enjoy them for @O' Be Joyful did...

Harry Turtledove - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Southern Victory - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Southern Victory series consists of 11 books, published between 1997 and 2007. The first book in the series is How Few Remain, and the remaining 10 form three sub-series: The Great War (1998–2000) trilogy, The American Empire trilogy (2001–2003), and The Settling Accounts (2003–2007) tetralogy. (The author changed some aspects of the timeline and narrative between How Few Remain and the remainder of the series, producing some inconsistencies.)

Link next one...

The Guns of the South - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The story deals with a group of time traveling members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) from an imagined 21st-century South Africa, who supply Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s and other advanced technology, medicine and intelligence. Their intervention results in a Confederate victory in the war. Afterwards, however, the AWB members discover that their ideas for the Confederate States and Lee's are not one and the same as they believed and the general and the men of the South have a violent falling out with the white supremacists from the future

Oh yes I did read all of them, BUT I very much doubt that Tom will enjoy the conclusion of the last book where the character whom I assume would be his beau ideal/hero meets his well deserved end.

 

[TomEvans]

I tried to verify your assertion about a Lincoln series, unless you are being facetious...

Sadly, no. In 1861, he really did write the legal science-fiction, that the states formed a national union in 1776, which was political superior to the states-- and then he proceeded to USE that legal fiction to seize de jure national sovereignty over the 34 sovereign nations in the international union through Total War.... and claim that it changed the actual past, where the states had actually formed an international union of 13 separate sovereign nations.
I guess it was the inspiration for that ill-fated Star Trek prequel series..... I don't know, never watched it.

 

[5fish]

n 1861, he really did write the legal science-fiction, that the states formed a national union in 1776

You want your timeline to be a distortion of the timeline... Read Turtledove...

 

[5fish]

I guess it was the inspiration for that ill-fated Star Trek prequel series..... I don't know, never watched it.

Read a pre civil war alternative history series... Maybe gets some ideas you need new ones...

Trail of Glory Series by Eric Flint

1812: The Rivers of War (Trail of Glory, #1) and 1824: The Arkansas War (The Trail of Glory)

www.goodreads.com

 

[TomEvans]

You want your timeline to be a distortion of the timeline... Read Turtledove...

No need, I read US history, where the states formed an international union of 13 de jure popularly-sovereign nations; and then the US government says they only formed a NATIONAL union of 13 dependent states under plebiscite-democracy, and everyone blindly accepts it.

 

[5fish]

where the states formed an international union of 13 de jure popularly-sovereign nations; and then the US government says they only formed a NATIONAL union of 13 dependent states under plebiscite-democracy, and everyone blindly accepts it.

I forgot you already live in an alternative timeline from the rest of us...

 

[TomEvans]

I forgot you already live in an alternative timeline from the rest of us...

Oh right, the REAL one where the American Revolution established 13 free, sovereign and independent STATES.... and you don't know what that means.

AI Overview
"Free, sovereign, and independent states" refers to political entities (countries) that have supreme, self-governing authority over their own territory and people, meaning they make their own laws, manage their own affairs (like economy and foreign relations), and aren't controlled by any higher external power. Sovereignty is the core concept, granting the ultimate power, while independence emphasizes freedom from subordination to other nations, and "free" highlights their self-determination.

And no, the US government NEVER said that the Constitution united those 13 de jure sovereign nations, as a SINGLE sovereign nation; but only claimed that it supposedly CONTINUED the "national union" that was supposedly formed in 1776, which was supposed political superior to the states.

 

[LJMYERS]

As I said, I get all my information now from part time Actor and School Bus Driver Earnest Heinz. He just received School Bus Driver of the Year by Time Magazine due to the 31 counts of Road Rage on the NJ Turnpike.

 

[5fish]

31 counts of Road Rage

Two links...

Future Shock: 8 Crime Novels that Blur the Lines Into SciFi

Whether you believe our future will be a utopia or a dystopia—a warmed-over planet run by bots or a new age of enlightenment and peace—chances are there will still be crime. It’s what we humans do.…

crimereads.com

https://www.bookbub.com/blog/science-fiction-murder-mysteries

 

[LJMYERS]

I have been after Christopher Walken and his friends for years.

 

[TomEvans]

Two links...

Future Shock: 8 Crime Novels that Blur the Lines Into SciFi

Whether you believe our future will be a utopia or a dystopia—a warmed-over planet run by bots or a new age of enlightenment and peace—chances are there will still be crime. It’s what we humans do.…

crimereads.com

https://www.bookbub.com/blog/science-fiction-murder-mysteries

Not to mention the claim that events in 1861 determined what happened in 1776.....

 

[5fish]

Not to mention the claim that events in 1861 determined what happened in 1776.....

The claim that events in 1861 were set in motion by those in 1776, 1787, and 1832 is more accurate...