After the Revolution
A Novel
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Publisher Description
What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the "old" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the forces of the white Christian ethnostate known as the "Heavenly Kingdom."
Out three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess.
This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarized domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.
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A gale of destruction overwhelms the United States in this gripping near-future bildungsroman from Evans (A Bried History of Vice) set not long after "the Second American Civil War." Manny Sanchez, a young fixer who ferries foreign journalists in and out of the war zone between the Republic of Texas and its Bible-thumping rival, the Heavenly Kingdom, is persuaded to postpone fleeing to Europe to take on a rescue mission into the Heavenly Kingdom. Providing the firepower to back up Manny's palaver is Roland, an ex-U.S. supersoldier conflicted between his desire to keep out of another war and the chance to recover memories that might be better off lost. Between facing down pious hypocrisy and high-powered firefights, they meet Heavenly Kingdom native Sasha, a 17-year-old runaway whose dreams of romance and righteousness were dashed by a forced marriage and whose growing disillusionment spurs her to their cause. Evans never shies away from showing the ugly results of political unity failing, and he eschews picking easy targets for disapproval, giving equal time to a wide variety of viewpoints and social arrangements. Bullets fly furiously, but the emotional costs of violence are paid for in full. This is smart, pointed military sci-fi.
