Empire
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3.8 • 90 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone.
The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic geniuses of their own.
When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? And which side will you be on?
Orson Scott Card is a master storyteller, who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near future scenario of a new American Civil War.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Right-wing rhetoric trumps the logic of story and character in this near-future political thriller about a red-state vs. blue-state American civil war, an implausibly plotted departure from Card's bestselling science fiction (Ender's Game, etc.). When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card's heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation. The action is overshadowed by the novel's polemical message, which Card tops off with an afterword decrying his own politically-motivated exclusion from various conventions and campuses, the "national media elite" and the divisive excesses of both the right and the left.
Customer Reviews
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''A disturbing look at a possible future"
(from the book cover)
This book has a few good points and a good plot. I wouldnt advise reading if you dont have an open mind. If you do you are probably going to like this book.
Nope
I didn't like this when I read it initially - too concept driven and very one dimensional- and I like it less given Card's politics.
Transparent Propaganda
This book wears its half-baked politics on its sleeve, serving up naive oversimplifications and archetypes as truth. I couldn't wade through this mess to find the story, and didn't make it past the first few chapters.
I've read Card since I was a teenager, but this embarrassing disaster of a book has put me off for good.