Charles L. Fontenay 38 min read

Atop a rise above the plains of Tennessee, General Beauregard Courtney watches his grey troops mesh and drift, in a Confederacy that never fell, still fighting its endless war.

Charles L. Fontenay's 1957 story is a haunting alternate-history and time-travel tale of a South that won. Atmospheric, poignant golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a different Civil War outcome shapes a strange present, turning on the fate of one woman.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

38 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay