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May 03, 2017tjdickey rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Usually to create a dystopian future, the author must use a lot of energy to give us context and detail - Harris has the terrifying reality of Nazism, the Final Solution, and Stalinist Russia already in our consciousness, so our fear as readers is immediate, powerful, and well-founded. What if in 1964, Joseph Kennedy's anti-Semitic United States and Nazi Germany are the twin victors of WW2, locked in a nuclear cold war...? Berlin is a frightening capital city of the world; Germany is mired in an asymmetrical war deep in Asia; and no one really knows what happened to so many European Jews...