Lethe

by Joseph MacKinnon

An updated version of Joseph MacKinnon's 2019 thriller, "The Gunpowder Coast", with the author's original title. The world has been ravaged and dehumanized by technocratic totalitarians allied with the Communist Chinese. The few remaining free men and women constituting the resistance on the coast continue to defy the dictatorship of the resentful, but know that their time is running out. Rather than have the tide take them or surrender outright, the resistance is mobilizing to mount one final stand. If any are to survive the regime’s mental collectivization, they will need a miracle and plenty of gunpowder.

324 pages, Hardcover

Published May 5, 2021

Reviews

[Bruce Newsome · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fashionable educators and publishers of “English literature” would leave you blind to “anti-woke science fiction.” I have coined the term as an update to a long tradition. Think of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), Ayn Rand’s Anthem (1938), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and Evelyn Waugh’s Love Among the Ruins (1953). These works were anti-Marxist, before the failed Marxists recast themselves as “woke” by replacing economic justice with social justice...[read more at https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/05/th...

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining and thought provoking

A little slow starting but well worth it. An updated version of 1984 that actually has an exciting plot and is an interesting take on democratic socialism and trans humanism.