The Lincoln Hunters
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| Author | Wilson Tucker |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Rinehart & Company |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 192 pp |
| OCLC | 25188710 |
The Lincoln Hunters is a 1958 novel by Wilson Tucker. 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.
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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