A Different Flesh Audiobook (Free)

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

What if mankind’s ‘missing link,’ the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, as the more complex Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere? Now suppose 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 as well as the ‘sims’ were their slaves.

This is actually the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove’s A Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans three hundred years of developed history. Through the Jamestown colonists’ eager search for a individual baby kidnapped by an area 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 save of an unfortunate biped called Matt who’s getting used for pet experimentation, Turtledove turns the world inside out in a remarkable technology fiction masterwork that explores what it really means to become human.