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Bubblequake
The year is 2180, and former Senator Jim Liu has switched parties and is now running for president as a Republican. Battling chronic pain, he faces an uphill election battle as his resistance to joining World War Four puts him at odds with most members of his party. Things get more complicated when Jim's long lost sociopathic brother surfaces, he receives an ear in the mail, and many of the bubbles that America relies on for food, housing, and industry are destroyed in a cascading bubblequake. Adding to the mystery and confusion, strange blue individuals, speaking an unfamiliar language, emerge from an unregistered bubble, leaving society in bewildered disarray.
433 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 21, 2023
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February 24, 2024
Like a great trilogy should, the third installment doesn’t deviate from what works: follow Jim on yet another presidential campaign. The early quirkiness of the series has dulled considerably by this point, and in 2180 the world is considerably darker. The geopolitical turmoil of a long-running world war, which played out in the background of the first two books, becomes a prominent plot point this time around, and is introduced as the top issue in the upcoming election—until something bigger comes along.
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. It’s paced well and written fearlessly. There were occasional moments of extreme drug use, sex, or gore, but it never really felt gratuitous. I thought it was clever how Haradon seemed to take political considerations in modern discourse (such as the decriminalization of drugs and sex work, or a universal basic income) and examine how those decisions might shape future generations (mainstream drug use and commercialization, widespread sexual promiscuity, a calendar full of ridiculous federal paid holidays), but he did so without injecting a strong political bias. Even the rare aspersion to political figures of past or present felt more farcical than malicious.
I recommend this series to anyone who dreams of a world united by the metric system. Five stars.
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. It’s paced well and written fearlessly. There were occasional moments of extreme drug use, sex, or gore, but it never really felt gratuitous. I thought it was clever how Haradon seemed to take political considerations in modern discourse (such as the decriminalization of drugs and sex work, or a universal basic income) and examine how those decisions might shape future generations (mainstream drug use and commercialization, widespread sexual promiscuity, a calendar full of ridiculous federal paid holidays), but he did so without injecting a strong political bias. Even the rare aspersion to political figures of past or present felt more farcical than malicious.
I recommend this series to anyone who dreams of a world united by the metric system. Five stars.
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