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"The Big God Network" is a brilliant debut novel by author J.C. McGowan that mixes near-future sci-fi scenarios, vivid virtual-reality scenes, and hilarious political satire. Published at the tail end of the Bush 43 era, it predicts that things will get even worse in the U.S. over the next twenty years, resulting in in a "post-American" outcome. Some twenty years from now, political polarization has split the United States into a handful of politically themed new countries, including liberal Pacifica (the West Coast) and the country's theocratic heartland, known as New America. The latter, not surprisingly, is run by a president obsessed with the Christian rapture. Part of the… Read more
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