Goldstein
by Troy J. Grice
Devin Moore broke ‘The Law’ in this dystopia set in the not-too-distant future. For his crime, he is exiled from the last free colony of Goldstein, Alaska. His journey into fascist Amerika is an odyssey of chaos, delusion, and violence as he experiences the ravages of hyperinflation, the mind-numbing holovision, omnipresent surveillance and the societal rot imposed by the imperious nanny-state.
"The Land of the Free" had become a 'serfdom' where 'you have nothing to worry about if you are being good'.
But Devin cannot embrace the role of ‘gelded rebel’ and his exile becomes a mission of self-discovery.
Pursued by the ‘leathery-faced’ Director Morgenthau and his vicious 'National Police' minions (aka 'nats') who seek to ‘hotwire’ his brain, Devin contemplates making a mysterious ‘Delivery’ that will exonerate him and allow him to return home…home to GOLDSTEIN.
**From the Back Cover
"[National Police] needed to maintain, at least in their own minds, the illusion of control-- if obliteration of the enemy is in fact a form of 'control'. P220
"If we get any more of this global warming we're all going to freeze to death." P17
"You are what the government says you are." P62
"An alarm sounded which was not unlike the pulsating and terrifying NaPol sirens. The little blue shirts aligned themselves into files by age group and were driven back into the windowless, cinderblock (school) building under an archway that read...BUILDING A BETTER CITIZEN" P95-96
"You anti-pats are always evoking that damn Constitution. Well I've got news for you...it's just a god damn piece of paper." P122
About the Author
Troy Grice has been an avid reader of dystopian novels and science fiction since his teens. He describes his own stories as "abrasive satire" and "counter-propaganda." His fiction questions authority, attacks establishment corruption, and decries the semi-lucid who enable it. He believes that true journalism is extinct and that the novelists, musicians, and bloggers comprise the last Fourth Estate.
When he's not working or writing, he enjoys making noise on his Gibson Les Paul, and spending time with his family in the foothills near Evergreen, Colorado.
"The Land of the Free" had become a 'serfdom' where 'you have nothing to worry about if you are being good'.
But Devin cannot embrace the role of ‘gelded rebel’ and his exile becomes a mission of self-discovery.
Pursued by the ‘leathery-faced’ Director Morgenthau and his vicious 'National Police' minions (aka 'nats') who seek to ‘hotwire’ his brain, Devin contemplates making a mysterious ‘Delivery’ that will exonerate him and allow him to return home…home to GOLDSTEIN.
**From the Back Cover
"[National Police] needed to maintain, at least in their own minds, the illusion of control-- if obliteration of the enemy is in fact a form of 'control'. P220
"If we get any more of this global warming we're all going to freeze to death." P17
"You are what the government says you are." P62
"An alarm sounded which was not unlike the pulsating and terrifying NaPol sirens. The little blue shirts aligned themselves into files by age group and were driven back into the windowless, cinderblock (school) building under an archway that read...BUILDING A BETTER CITIZEN" P95-96
"You anti-pats are always evoking that damn Constitution. Well I've got news for you...it's just a god damn piece of paper." P122
About the Author
Troy Grice has been an avid reader of dystopian novels and science fiction since his teens. He describes his own stories as "abrasive satire" and "counter-propaganda." His fiction questions authority, attacks establishment corruption, and decries the semi-lucid who enable it. He believes that true journalism is extinct and that the novelists, musicians, and bloggers comprise the last Fourth Estate.
When he's not working or writing, he enjoys making noise on his Gibson Les Paul, and spending time with his family in the foothills near Evergreen, Colorado.