Future Schlock 2047 edition by RM Krakoff Literature Fiction eBooks
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Future Schlock 2047, by RM Krakoff, is the story of a world turned upside down in the year 2047.
The story follows two Polish laborers, three nominees for President, five Naval Admirals, an ambitious Minister of Finance for the African Union, and a beautiful Maasai woman, through a much-changed world during a cut-throat fight for the Presidency in 2047.
By the year 2047, the global landscape is ruled by world banks, Wall Street and mega-corporations. The leading world governments have merged into massive Continental Unions. Even the USA is now the Union of Federated Americas (UFA), incorporating the US, Canada and Mexico.
As such, the UFA finds that it's lost its foot-hold as a world leader, and fallen to forth power position behind the Asian Union, European Union and the emerging African Union. The three candidates for the Presidency of the UFA vie for their party’s nomination through fiercely competitive means, some honest, direct, cunning and deceitful. All carry the banner to bring the country back to #1 position.
The leading candidates for President of the North American Continent in 2047 are a 300-pound black family man, a bachelor exercise and computer geek with war aspirations, and an Hispanic Obama-wanna-be with a flair for CocaCola-like marketing.
The story portrays the world shifts in geopolitical, human and ethical reforms in the first half of the 21st century. Cars run on pig-excrement, education is delivered by Starbucks, computers regulate everything, including nutrition. The next battle for civil rights wages between the obese and the non-obese.
As natural resources within the UFA dwindle, for the first time in history, the African continent emerges as a major power. To handle demands for its resources, Africa starts a massive foreign worker program. In an effort to out-pace corporate greed learned in American graduate schools, the African ministers cut costs with their worker program. Internet rumors circulate that white slavery is alive and thriving in Africa.
Each candidate wants to use the crisis for their own campaign advantage, but each bungle in their own way. The characters are comical, poignant and imperfect as they strive for their personal power or peace.
The story is written with biting wit of author R.M. Krakoff, author of Die Laughing, with his irreverent sense of the absurd. However, as a futuristic black comedy, it weaves a finely-woven tapestry that leaves one asking..." What if this could actually happen?"
Future Schlock 2047 edition by RM Krakoff Literature Fiction eBooks
This book sits on the bookshelf in my house in Costa Rica. I left it there because I collect different kinds of books for visitors with time on their hands who want to explore a variety of reading. It was meant for the plane ride because I knew it would be entertaining. I wound up saving it up for when I arrived in Costa Rica, and pieced out the fun over a series of days.A fun geo-political read with excellent (outrageously insightful and funny) character development, I found it also tapped subconscious social trends. In fact, the characters reflected some of the social and ethical values gone south to the nth degree, near caricatures but still characters doing what the dubious do.
I agree with the other reviewer about tense issues. The reader knows the author is attempting some artful time phase maneuvering, but probably the tense manipulation was not the best vehicle to accomplish it.
Krakoff is a humorous imaginative thinker who runs social and political parallels out into the future nearly forty years and he does so with wit and vision. That feat alone is enough to recommend this book. His next wise cracks are never more than a couple pages away. His author's voice is of a writer you think you'd like to have a conversation with.
It's been eight months since I read Future Schlock, but that's how long the humor, insight, and creativity has lingered: a fun book.
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Future Schlock 2047 edition by RM Krakoff Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Future schlock 2047 is an entertaining look at the world in the year 2047. Much has changed in this futurist world, but human nature stays the same. The author has a nice sense of humor and quite an imagination, which is seen in the storyline.
This book is a fun read, and it will keep you wanting to turn the page and read more.
Set in a globally warmed 2047, the story is a mad-cap chronicle of political and personal maneuvering and skulduggery. It makes you laugh and keeps you turning the pages to see what's going to happen next as the managerie of characters dish out their own portions of schlock in a world gone schlock.
The author has a funny way of imagining and portraying a near future that isn't funny at all. He lays out a harrowing situation interlaced with the craziness of his characters. The tale is droll, with a gentle-to-biting sarcasm towards 21st century culture and politics. The story races along in a crisp, charming style that madly between present and past tense, sometimes in the same sentence. You get the impression the story just pours out of the author;s imagination onto the page. You sense that he sort of likes his characters, even though they're scoundrels and he somehow creates an undercurrent of tolerance for their very human selfish stupidity.
All in all it's a good read - you'll enjoy it.
This book sits on the bookshelf in my house in Costa Rica. I left it there because I collect different kinds of books for visitors with time on their hands who want to explore a variety of reading. It was meant for the plane ride because I knew it would be entertaining. I wound up saving it up for when I arrived in Costa Rica, and pieced out the fun over a series of days.
A fun geo-political read with excellent (outrageously insightful and funny) character development, I found it also tapped subconscious social trends. In fact, the characters reflected some of the social and ethical values gone south to the nth degree, near caricatures but still characters doing what the dubious do.
I agree with the other reviewer about tense issues. The reader knows the author is attempting some artful time phase maneuvering, but probably the tense manipulation was not the best vehicle to accomplish it.
Krakoff is a humorous imaginative thinker who runs social and political parallels out into the future nearly forty years and he does so with wit and vision. That feat alone is enough to recommend this book. His next wise cracks are never more than a couple pages away. His author's voice is of a writer you think you'd like to have a conversation with.
It's been eight months since I read Future Schlock, but that's how long the humor, insight, and creativity has lingered a fun book.
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