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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9669952" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Last week I started next month's book club book, and wound up finishing it too, between it being a light read and taking a day off sick with a cold.&nbsp; After the Revolution by Robert Evans is a recent (2022) cyberpunk-esque book set mostly in 2070 Texas after the US has balkanized into several rival or outright warring states. Our three perspective characters are Manny Sanchez, a fixer and former child refugee in the remains of Dallas giving tours to foreign war correspondents, Sasha, a secretly devout Christian high schooler who decides to flee her relatively cozy home in the AmFed (the closest successor to the old USA) for the most extreme of the Christian Nationalist factions (the Heavenly Kingdom, more fundamentalist than the United Christian States), and Roland, an absurdly cyber-enhanced retired veteran and special forces operative, who became a leftist revolutionary before losing much of his memory to various injuries.&nbsp; Ultraviolent and full of drug use, largely an adventure story but gets into elements of the need to belong and for people to build intentional communities in search of meaning and happiness.&nbsp; With a sub-theme also of people dealing with trauma and PTSD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9669952, member: 7026594"] Last week I started next month's book club book, and wound up finishing it too, between it being a light read and taking a day off sick with a cold. [I]After the Revolution[/I] by Robert Evans is a recent (2022) cyberpunk-esque book set mostly in 2070 Texas after the US has balkanized into several rival or outright warring states. Our three perspective characters are Manny Sanchez, a fixer and former child refugee in the remains of Dallas giving tours to foreign war correspondents, Sasha, a secretly devout Christian high schooler who decides to flee her relatively cozy home in the AmFed (the closest successor to the old USA) for the most extreme of the Christian Nationalist factions (the Heavenly Kingdom, more fundamentalist than the United Christian States), and Roland, an absurdly cyber-enhanced retired veteran and special forces operative, who became a leftist revolutionary before losing much of his memory to various injuries. Ultraviolent and full of drug use, largely an adventure story but gets into elements of the need to belong and for people to build intentional communities in search of meaning and happiness. With a sub-theme also of people dealing with trauma and PTSD. [/QUOTE]

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