
Splinterlands
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Part Field Notes from a Catastrophe, part 1984, part World War Z, John Feffer’s striking new dystopian novel, takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multiethnic great powers like Russia and China have shriveled. America’s global military footprint has virtually disappeared and the United States remains united in name only. Nationalism has proven the century’s most enduring force as ever-rising global temperatures have supercharged each-against-all competition and conflict among the now 300-plus members of an increasingly feeble United Nations.
As he navigates the world of 2050, Julian West offers a roadmap for the path we’re already on, a chronicle of impending disaster, and a faint light of hope. He may be humanity’s last best chance to explain how the world unraveled—if he can survive the savage beauty of the Splinterlands.
Publication Date: December 6, 2016; order here.
Related Articles
From Here to Dystopia, Foreign Policy In Focus,
Excerpt — AlterNet, December 7, 2016
How Donald Trump Changed Everything, 2016-2050 — TomDispatch, December 6, 2016
Splinterlands: The View from 2050 — TomDispatch, November 10, 2015
Interviews
KGNU, December 27, 2016
Catskill Review of Books, December 23, 2016
C-Realm, December 21, 2016
Event Videos
At the New School on February 16 with Elzbieta Matynia, Jeffrey Goldfarb, and Bill Hartung
Reviews
—Publisher Weekly, Starred Review
“Splinterlands is a compelling account of what may happen to our world if there is no common future. Â At 150 pages, the novel is short and readable. I think it would be an excellent supplemental text for both introductory and advanced courses in International Relations, which can provoke discussion, thought and no doubt consternation in students about the world that they are about to inherit.”
—E-International Relations Review
–Mike Davis
—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickle and Dimed and Living with a Wild God, and founder of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project“A chilling portrayal of where the politics of division could take us. Now I only hope he writes the sequel to tell us how to avoid it!”
—Naomi Oreskes, co-author of The Collapse of Western Civilization