 Womack, Jack. Terraplane: A Novel. Tor 1990 (cover art by Nicholas Jainschigg). |  Womack, Jack. Terraplane: A Novel. Translated to the French as Terraplane: roman, Denoël 1991 (cover art by Peter Andrew Jones). |  Womack, Jack. Elvissey. Translated to the French as L'Elvissée, Denoël 1995 (cover art by Michel Borderie). |
Womack, Jack. Dryco Novels.
Series note: Series about Earth's more violent near future,
with alternative history content in
Terraplane,
Elvissey, and
Going, Going, Gone.
Other, apparently non-allohistorical volumes in the series are
Ambient and
Heathern.
Divergence: 1861 CE
What if: Lincoln was murdered in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration, and Teddy Roosevelt freed the slaves in 1905. Later, Zangara killed FDR and World War II ended when the Soviet Union dropped the bomb on Berlin.
Comments: Although 1861 is the obvious divergence point, there are two references in Terraplane to the existence of an Albigensian form of the Catholic church.
 Womack, Jack. Elvissey. Grove 1997. |
Womack, Jack. Terraplane: A Novel.
Series note: A Dryco novel.
Divergence: 1861 CE
Summary: Fleeing capture by competitors in an ultra-violent future Moscow, corporate agents end up in the 1939 New York of a different past and are aided by two former slaves.
Published: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1988 (1555841651);
Unwin Hyman 1989 (004440302X);
Unwin 1990 (0044406169);
Tor 1990 (0812506235);
Grafton 1991 (0586213414);
and
Grove 1998 (0802135625).
Original in: English.
Translation: French by Jean Bonnefoy as
Terraplane: roman, Denoël 1991 (2207305236).
Translation: German by Walter Brumm as
Terraplane, Heyne 1991 (3453049861).
Bookstore: Listed by Amazon.com in hardcover, in paperback and in trade paperback.
Womack, Jack. Elvissey.
Series note: A Dryco novel.
Divergence: 1861 CE
Summary: Two agents from the future go back to the alternate world's 1953 to kidnap the analog of their messiah, Elvis Presley.
Published: Tor 1993 (0312852029);
HarperCollins UK 1993 (0246138394), 1994 (0586213015);
Easton 1993;
Diane 1993 (0788151177);
and
Grove 1997 (0802134955).
Original in: English.
Translation: French by Jean Bonnefoy as
L'Elvissée, Denoël 1995 (2207305554).
Translation: German by Bernhard Kempen as
Elvissey, Bastei-Lübbe 1994 (3404241819).
Awards: Winner: 1994 Philip K. Dick Award.
Bookstore: Listed by Amazon.com in paperback.
Womack, Jack. Going, Going, Gone.
Series note: A Dryco novel.
Divergence: 1861 CE
Summary: In the alternate world's 1968, a man with certain talents in distributing psychoactive substances is coerced into getting to know a member of the Kennedy family. But why is he seeing ghosts and who are the two mysterious women who search him out because of it?
Published: HarperCollin UK/Voyager 2000 (0006511058);
and
Grove 2001 (080211685X).
Bookstore: Listed by Amazon.com in hardcover.
