Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America
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Liberation is a science fiction novel by Brian Francis Slattery
about a post-economic collapse America, where a combination of capitalist and criminal forces reshape the United States into a grouping of Balkanized microgovernments and lawless slave plantations.
A group of supercriminals known as the "Slick Six," led by an assassin named Marco Oliveira, regroup to steal America back from a New York kingpin named "The Aardvark." The Aardvark has usurped power in the wake of disaster and borrowed an immense amount of money from Japan in order to re-institute slavery and run his criminal empire from a makeshift tower of slag in Manhattan.
Brian Francis Slattery
Brian Francis Slattery is an American writer and an editor at The New Haven Review. He has published two novels, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song and Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America .Spaceman Blues was nominated for best novel by both...
about a post-economic collapse America, where a combination of capitalist and criminal forces reshape the United States into a grouping of Balkanized microgovernments and lawless slave plantations.
A group of supercriminals known as the "Slick Six," led by an assassin named Marco Oliveira, regroup to steal America back from a New York kingpin named "The Aardvark." The Aardvark has usurped power in the wake of disaster and borrowed an immense amount of money from Japan in order to re-institute slavery and run his criminal empire from a makeshift tower of slag in Manhattan.
External links
- "Liberation: A Review" at The Fiction CircusThe Fiction CircusThe Fiction Circus is a Brooklyn-based online literary magazine that currently publishes short fiction and essays on the arts. The group also holds staged multimedia fiction readings accompanied by electronic music and incorporating visual art and theater as a frame narrative...
- "Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery" at Strange HorizonsStrange HorizonsStrange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
- "We're All Slaves Of History, In Sprawling Dystopian Novel" at io9Io9io9 is a blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media. The blog focuses on the subjects of science fiction, futurism, and advancements in the fields of science and technology....
- "Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America" at Las Vegas WeeklyLas Vegas WeeklyLas Vegas Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper based in Henderson, Nevada, covering Las Vegas arts, entertainment, culture and news. Las Vegas Weekly is published by Greenspun Media Group. The paper was founded in 1992 by James Reza as a free monthly publication called Scope covering...