Captain Blackman

John A. Williams. Thunder's Mouth Press, $10.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-938410-68-3

Wounded during a search-and-destroy mission in Vietnam, Captain Abraham Blackman lapses into a coma and hallucinates about the role of the black soldier past and present in this time-machine variation. PW called this ``a dramatically sound and exciting retelling of history.'' (October)

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