2084: The Year of the Liberal

on Fairland. A limited nuclear exchange between Asia

and the North Americans in 2033 set both peoples back

to the Middle Ages. Conservatives, largely

annihilated in the Revolution of 2034, were either

prosecuted as enemies of the state or eliminated.

Thus rose the Liberal fairyland,

Fairland. Established within the borders of the US

and Canada, it was a country of ultimate caring,

fairness and equality. Fairland's citizens are cared

for with a firm but loving hand by the beneficent

dictator, Big Mama, who knows each of her dependents

by name. Big Mama loves each of her charges equally,

but--as John Winston is to discover--some are more

equal than others. 2084 is parody, but also biting

satire. As in the satire of Voltaire and Swift, 2084

bends outrageous plot and motley characters to the

cause of exposing the hypocrisy of the present and

recent past with a humor as irresistible as it is

acerbic. Read it and laugh...but not too much.