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Originally Posted by BenG
Think of it as Science Fiction. It did win the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel published in 2016. It's an alternate history where the underground railroad was a literal railroad. So yes, liberties were taken.  |
Major liberties!
I stopped reading soon after she got on a literal underground railcar pulled by a steam engine. The skyscraper in South Carolina really perturbed my sense of accuracy in historical fiction.
I get what the author was trying to do in taking the last 150 or so years and condensing it into a fictional work loosely based on the underground railroad, but it was just too much for to keep reading.