After The Revolution - SFBA Book Club

Paperback, 380 pages

English language

Published Jan. 14, 2022 by AK Press.

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

(2 reviews)

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 …

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.

2 editions

Sally Strange reviewed After The Revolution by Robert Evans

Definitely worth it, it's short and mostly fun, but also brutal and sad.

4 stars

Excellent transhumanist post-apocalypse sci fi adventuring, reckless and fucked up in all senses of the phrase, but also a meditation on trauma and how we cope with it. Worth checking out for the following:

-Rolling Fuck, a mobile city full of posthumans who are mostly high out of their minds -the Big Bad being really awful Christian supremacists -the awful Christian supremacists getting their fucking asses kicked from here to high heaven. Or hell, more likely.

Technically that's a spoiler, but that outcome is something of a foregone conclusion. The truly interesting parts of the plot are about how the people on the "right" side, if there is such a thing, try to prevent themselves from turning into monsters in their fight to stay free, and how they deal with it when they kinda turn into monsters anyway.

One point deducted only because the writing is a bit stiff in …

Excellent transhumanist post-apocalypse sci fi adventuring, reckless and fucked up in all senses of the phrase, but also a meditation on trauma and how we cope with it. Worth checking out for the following:

-Rolling Fuck, a mobile city full of posthumans who are mostly high out of their minds -the Big Bad being really awful Christian supremacists -the awful Christian supremacists getting their fucking asses kicked from here to high heaven. Or hell, more likely.

Technically that's a spoiler, but that outcome is something of a foregone conclusion. The truly interesting parts of the plot are about how the people on the "right" side, if there is such a thing, try to prevent themselves from turning into monsters in their fight to stay free, and how they deal with it when they kinda turn into monsters anyway.

One point deducted only because the writing is a bit stiff in places; the ideas and the story are fantastic but high literature it is not.

CowsLookLikeMaps reviewed After The Revolution by Robert Evans

I haven't binged a book like that in years

5 stars

Robert's absurdist sense of humour paired with the thrilling plot made this one a page turner. Yet at each turn, there were elements that made you ponder heavy hitting questions.