The Underground Railroad, a fantastic reimagining of US slavery, takes the UK’s pre-eminent science fiction prize a day after being longlisted for the Man Booker
Fresh from being nominated for the 2017 Man Booker prize, Colson Whitehead’s alternative history of slavery in the US, The Underground Railroad, has won the UK’s top honour for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award.
A fantastical take on the real-life Underground Railroad, which was a network of safe houses and routes that allowed slaves in the south to escape to the free states in the north, Whitehead’s novel sees the network reimagined as an actual railway system and follows a slave escaping from a cotton plantation in Georgia.
Related: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead review – luminous, furious and wildly inventive
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