FKA USA: The Complete Unabridged and Annotated Edition

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TitleFKA USA: The Complete Unabridged and Annotated Edition
Year for Search2019
AuthorsKing, Reed [pseud.]
Pagination465 pp.
Date Published2019
PublisherFlatiron Books
Place PublishedNew York
ISBN Number978-1250108890
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The novel is set in a future fragmented United States in which much of each coast has disappeared due to earthquakes or flooding and the rest is composed areas of various sizes controlled by corporations, religious groups, ethnicities, and so forth, often in conflict with each other. Severe pollution and shortages. It begins in an area controlled by a corporation producing food completely out of chemicals using what is, in effect, slave labor. A young man chosen to deliver a talking goat to San Francisco has to cross through hostile territory and is joined by an android who wants to be human. The novel ends with appendices on What Is a Human (441-44), Defining Dissolution (445-46), Annie Waller V. Kitty Von Dutch, Katty Von Dench, and Katie Von Dulch (446-51), Politics and Natural Disaster: The Unexamined Link (453-55), The Android Freedom Fighters, 2050-2070s (457-60), The Rumpelstiltskin Roaches, and Other Lies From the Golden Age of Genetic Engineering (461-63).
Pseudonym

King, Reed [pseud.]. 
Full Text

2019 King, Reed [pseud.]. FKA USA: The Complete Unabridged and Annotated Edition. New York: Flatiron Books. 465 pp.

The novel is set in a future fragmented United States in which much of each coast has disappeared due to earthquakes or flooding and the rest is composed areas of various sizes controlled by corporations, religious groups, ethnicities, and so forth, often in conflict with each other. Severe pollution and shortages. It begins in an area controlled by a corporation producing food completely out of chemicals using what is, in effect, slave labor. A young man chosen to deliver a talking goat to San Francisco has to cross through hostile territory and is joined by an android who wants to be human. The novel ends with appendices on What Is a Human (441-44), Defining Dissolution (445-46), Annie Waller V. Kitty Von Dutch, Katty Von Dench, and Katie Von Dulch (446-51), Politics and Natural Disaster: The Unexamined Link (453-55), The Android Freedom Fighters, 2050-2070s (457-60), The Rumpelstiltskin Roaches, and Other Lies From the Golden Age of Genetic Engineering (461-63).