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American War
by Omar El Akkad
Grim, powerful, thought-provoking, and well-written, this is a future history of the second American Civil War, ca. 2074-2095. This time the southern states secede over fossil fuels, and the geopolitical map is vastly different than it was two hundred years earlier. The still-simmering resentment between south and north, Red and Blue, is overlaid with a case study of what it takes to dehumanize the "other" and to turn an average human being into a killing machine bent on revenge. It doesn't even matter if the underlying motive is based on mistake or misunderstanding. Describing the misshapen stars on the southern flag, “Sarat thought about how easy it would be to fix the mistake, to simply redraw the stars properly. But she knew that even broken history is history. The stars, cast wrong, must remain that way. It would be more wrong to change them.”
Even broken history is history. Perhaps we should be more careful with ours.
Even broken history is history. Perhaps we should be more careful with ours.