Rock Manning Goes for Broke

2018 Anders, Charlie Jane (b. 1969). Rock Manning Goes for Broke. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press. 122 pp. Parts were previously published as “Break! Break! Break!” In The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 39-50; “Rock Manning Can’t Hear You.” In The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 55-67; and “The Last Movie Ever Made.” In The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 211-23. Chapter 1 was published as “Break! Break! Break!” Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 43 (March 2014). http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/break-break-break/ and in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Rich Horton ([Germantown, MD]; Prime Books, 2015), 217-27. Public

The novel is set in a United States that is becoming a dystopia with the use of what may or may not be a false war to exercise control. Transgender author.