One of my favorite books. I reread it every couple of years. ( )

An extremely good and in many ways chilling alternate history. The author does a very good job of examining the institution of slavery from a social and psychological perspective. The characters are well drawn and interesting.

This is a single volume edition/revision of 3 earlier books: Marching through Georgis, Under the Yoke and The Stone Dogs. The story holds together well even though a significant amount of material from the earlier books has been omitted. The individual books also contain some very interesting material in appendices that gives a better idea of some of the ways in which this universe differs from ours. ( )