Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America - Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel | Futuristic Adventure Book | Perfect for Sci-Fi Lovers & Book Clubs
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From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, comes Julian Comstock, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America.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 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. 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 the war hero "Captain Commongold." The masses 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 President's late brother Bryce―a popular general who challenged the President's power, and paid the ultimate price.As Julian ascends to the pinnacle of power, his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients sets him at fatal odds with the Dominion. Treachery and intrigue will dog him as he closes in on the accomplishment of his lifelong ambition: to make a film about the life of Charles Darwin.
Customer Reviews
Most post-apocalyptic stories are dystopian. This one is neither dystopian nor eutopian; the post-climate change disasters are now largely in the story’s past. What was once the United States and is now the northern US and Canada are united into one nation living, relatively quietly, under a government that’s half evangelical theocracy and half dictatorship.Julian Comstock is the nephew of President Deklan Comstock, a man whose need to protect his own power ended with his falsely accusing his brother, a successful general, of treason, and then having him hanged so his popularity wouldn’t be a threat. Julian is sent west to Athabaska with his father’s closest friend Sam as his protector, and becomes close friends with Adam, despite their differences in class. It’s books that bring them together, although Adam is interested in stories of adventure and derring-do while Julian’s tastes run more to pre-apocalyptic (and forbidden) science and philosophy.Things come to a head when their rural community is visited by military running a mandatory recruitment drive, and the boys and Sam are forced to flee. What follows is the remarkable tale of Julian Comstock, as told to his best friend and amanuensis.Highly recommended.
