After The Revolution - Žiurkikės

Knyga minkštais viršeliais, 380 psl.

English kalba

Publikuota 2022 m. sausio 14 d., AK Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-84935-462-2
Goodreads:: 59645604

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."

Our 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 …

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."

Our 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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sol2070@velhaestante.com.br apžvelgė autoriaus Robert Evans knygą After The Revolution

Cyberpunk war

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(em português → sol2070.in/2025/09/livro-after-the-revolution-robert-evans/ )

Don't be fooled by the cover, title, independent publisher, or the fact that the book and author are obscure. After The Revolution (2022, 380 pages), by Robert Evans, is an incredible dystopian fiction novel about trauma, the horrors of war, cyberpunk transhumanism, the end of the US, and religious fundamentalism; with action sequences so immersive that I didn't think they were possible in literature (actually, because I was unfamiliar with narratives of this type).

I was curious after seeing praise on Bookwyrm, and what finally convinced me were these recommendations:

"A fierce book: leftist military science fiction of the first order, full of transhuman ultraviolence and all-too-human consequences." —Cory Doctorow

"Evans brings years of experience as a storyteller and a war correspondent into this remarkable debut. After the Revolution is somehow both realistic and fantastic, both hopeful and …

(em português → sol2070.in/2025/09/livro-after-the-revolution-robert-evans/ )

Don't be fooled by the cover, title, independent publisher, or the fact that the book and author are obscure. After The Revolution (2022, 380 pages), by Robert Evans, is an incredible dystopian fiction novel about trauma, the horrors of war, cyberpunk transhumanism, the end of the US, and religious fundamentalism; with action sequences so immersive that I didn't think they were possible in literature (actually, because I was unfamiliar with narratives of this type).

I was curious after seeing praise on Bookwyrm, and what finally convinced me were these recommendations:

"A fierce book: leftist military science fiction of the first order, full of transhuman ultraviolence and all-too-human consequences." —Cory Doctorow

"Evans brings years of experience as a storyteller and a war correspondent into this remarkable debut. After the Revolution is somehow both realistic and fantastic, both hopeful and sobering. It is both an introspective analysis of human society and a roaring and readable adventure." —Margaret Killjoy

2070. The territory of the United States is fragmented into several countries following revolution and civil war. Many align themselves with the far right, some orbit the center-right, and a few territories are more experimental or radical. But the war continues, driven by the dictatorial Christian theocracy Heavenly Kingdom, which invades, annexes, and converts by hanging infidels.

The story intertwines the lives of three characters: a Hispanic-American fixer, an exiled black mercenary whose post-human alterations bring him almost divine powers of destruction, and a fanatical white Christian teenager.

The counterpoint to Gilead (the theocratic dictatorship of The Handmaid's Tale) engaged in universal war that is the Heavenly Kingdom is the cyber-anarchist traveling city Rolling Fuck, a mixture of Burning Man (if its exclusivist side were disregarded) with a Mad Max communist mega-abundance (in the sense that everything belongs to everyone, not the dystopian “communism” of the USSR or China).

It is a page-turner that not only entertains but also reflects current trends in a frightening way.

The violence is shocking, and despite the bloodshed, the author manages to balance it with a critical view of the relentless spiral of destruction.

The amount of drugs is absurd, as post-humans need to numb their ultra-sensitive perceptions all the time. There is also no shortage of humor in situations that could offend conventional sensibilities.

The book ends by suggesting a sequel, which I would gladly read.