The Lincoln Hunters

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The Lincoln Hunters
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First edition
Author Wilson Tucker
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Rinehart & Company
Publication date
1958
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages192
OCLC 25188710

The Lincoln Hunters is a 1958 science fiction novel by American writer Wilson Tucker. [1]

Contents

Plot

The novel, set in the year 2578, details the story of a historian from the oppressive society of that year, who travels back in time to record Abraham Lincoln's Lost Speech of May 19, 1856, in Bloomington, Illinois.

It contains a vivid description of Lincoln in the early stages of his career, seen through the eyes of a future American who feels that Lincoln and his time compare very favorably with the traveler's own.

Legacy

The book is mentioned in 11/22/63 , a novel by Stephen King that also centers around time travel and an assassinated president. Furthermore, King's protagonist time travels to 1958—the year "Hunters" was published—to alter the timeline by 1963.

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References

  1. O’Bryant, Jeff (2021-09-10). The Mythic Mr. Lincoln: America's Favorite President in Multimedia Fiction. McFarland. p. 30. ISBN   978-1-4766-8602-8.