“Escape from the Future”

Title“Escape from the Future”
Year for Search2020
AuthorsClayton, Paul
Secondary TitleEscape from the Future and Other Stories
Pagination9-116
Date Published2020
PublisherAuthor
Place PublishedNp
KeywordsMale author, US author
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About half the novella is a depiction of the protagonist as a teenage boy growing up in a typical middle, working class suburb. The second half is set in 2025 where all the conflicts of the pandemic era continue violently, the suburb has been destroyed and groups protest and kill mindlessly. Government is mostly non-existent or simply incompetent.

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2020 Clayton, Paul. “Escape from the Future.” In his Escape from the Future and Other Stories (Np: Author, 2022), 9-116. PSt

About half the novella is a depiction of the protagonist as a teenage boy growing up in a typical middle, working class suburb. The second half is set in 2025 where all the conflicts of the pandemic era continue violently, the suburb has been destroyed and groups protest and kill mindlessly. Government is mostly non-existent or simply incompetent.