false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238800932m/5997978.jpg 5997978 3 <B>From the Hugo-winning author of <I>Spin</I>, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America</B> In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation’s spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. Then out of Labrador come tales of a new Ajax—Captain Commongold, the Youthful Hero of the Saguenay. The ordinary people follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is…troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the falsely accused and executed Bryce. Treachery and intrigue dog Julian’s footsteps. Hairsbreadth escapes and daring rescues fill his days. Stern resolve and tender sentiment dice for Julian’s soul, while his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients, and his adherence to the evolutionary doctrines of the heretical Darwin, set him at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion. Plague and fire swirl around the Presidential palace when at last he arrives with the acclamation of the mob. As told by Julian’s best friend and faithful companion, a rustic yet observant lad from the west, this tale of the 22nd Century asks— and answers—the age-old question: “Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?” 6172639 book 9 6 2009 Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America total:93|5:23|4:37|3:30|2:3|1:0| 93 359 272 37 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 11:31:20 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 15:38:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 28 10:28:53 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 10:29:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:56:55 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 10:59:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 00:12:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 00:21:29 -0700 2009 1
Adam Hazzard, Wilson's narrator, is a ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 20:11:09 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:05:21 -0700 2009
If you've been following this blog in the usual voyeuristic manner, you will have noted by now my attraction to post-apocolyptic literature. ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 04 20:04:17 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 20:53:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 21:02:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 17:20:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 20:35:15 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 06:31:41 -0700 2009
Set in a late 22nd century USA, essentially - 2172-2176 - with glimpses from the past and an epilogue so...more...]]> 5 5 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 19:21:51 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 12:57:01 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 18:58:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 11:34:26 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:18:21 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 10:13:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 10 false false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 24 14:17:01 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 22:06:59 -0800 2009 Spin.)

Let's be clear that this book is not about Julian Comstock. It is about the narrator, a young man named Ad...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 30 11:26:55 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 11:26:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 14:50:45 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 16:58:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 06:53:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 14:08:59 -0700 2009 Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America - both exploring retrofutures/throwback society's post-collaps...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 12:36:16 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 21:24:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 09:25:53 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 20:37:41 -0700 2009 Julian Comstock depicts a fallen America. Hit hard by Peak Oil and global climate change refugees, America has re-imagined itself as an officially Christian nation. With technology and social norms on par with the nineteenth century—which the Dominion of Jesus Christ on Earth ext...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 16:54:27 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 17:00:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 08:06:01 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 08:08:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 17:40:11 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:25:07 -0700 2009 Spin, but without the sense-of-wonder that really sold me on his other novel.

I might be off base here, but the book seems to be more of an awkward political allegory than anything else.

That aside, the story is e...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5997978