In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fuelled by hedonistic excess. This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarised domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.
In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fuelled by hedonistic excess. This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarised domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.
Robert Evans, the author of A Brief History of Vice, has had an eclectic career as an investigative journalist reporting from war zones in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine, and reporting on domestic radicalism in the US. He hosts the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here for iHeartRadio, is a writer for the humor website Cracked, and an investigative journalist for Bellingcat. He resides in Portland, OR.
"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."
--Publishers Weekly "A fierce book: leftist military science
fiction of the first order, full of transhuman ultraviolence and
all-too-human consequences."
--Cory Doctorow, author of Walkaway "A world as deep as The
Expanse, yet a story so close to home."
--Chelsea Manning "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, author of A Country of Ghosts
"Robert's debut novel kept me glued to the pages--a smart,
well-crafted, action-packed military science fiction story that
deals with the horrors of war through a trauma-informed lens."
--Justine Norton-Kertson, editor-in-chief of Android Press and
Solar Punk Magazine
"This is the type of novel where nudist cyborg super-soldiers ride
robot horses into battle against bloodthirsty theocrats. Stuff
blows up. More stuff blows up. Dudes kill other dudes and then even
more chaos ensues. The action all works. Other authors have spilled
a lot of ink over America's internal contradictions, but After the
Revolution is unique in its gusto."
--Joe Streckert, Portland Mercury
"After the Revolution is part of the rich vein of speculative
fiction that considers Texas as its own republic...For writers
interested in imagining how a diverse population might organize
itself after being oppressed and ignored by those in power, our
state is an ideal setting."
--Susan Elizabeth Shepard, TexasMonthly
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