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This gripping cyberpunk novel — the first in a trilogy — envisions a future in which the economy of the United States has crashed, while the Soviet Union not only remains intact but invades Western Europe. With the collapse of NATO, governments have abdicated control to an ostensibly private antiterrorist…
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a new Soviet Union has invaded Europe, micro-drones fill the sky, providing ubiquitous surveillance to governments and powerful NGOs, the USA is paralyzed by infighting and economic concerns, and in the midst of all of this, a powerful fascist organization has militarized and sells its services to the west—for money, yes, but also for the chance to remake the world in its own twisted image. Nope, that’s not a story ripped from today’s newspapers or nightly news programs, it’s the setup for John Shirley’s Eclipse Trilogy. What had seemed like a wild, typically…
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