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'''''Liberation''''' is a 2008 [[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. |
'''''Liberation''''' is a 2008 [[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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-08-25 |title=Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America by Brian Francis Slattery |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780765320469 |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nussbaum |first=Abigail |date=2008-12-17 |title=Strange Horizons Reviews: Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum |url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/12/liberation_by_b.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302172719/http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/12/liberation_by_b.shtml |archive-date=2009-03-02 |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=[[Strange Horizons]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dickensheets |first=Scott |date=2008-10-30 |title=Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America |url=https://www.lasvegasweekly.com/ae/print/2008/oct/30/liberation-being-adventures-slick-six-after-collap/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=[[Las Vegas Weekly]]}}</ref> |
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== Summary == |
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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. |
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. |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090302172719/http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/12/liberation_by_b.shtml "Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery"] at [[Strange Horizons]] |
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*[http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/oct/30/liberation-being-adventures-slick-six-after-collap/ "Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America"] at [[Las Vegas Weekly]] |
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[[Category:2008 American novels]] |
[[Category:2008 American novels]] |
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[[Category:American science fiction novels]] |
[[Category:American science fiction novels]] |
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[[Category:Dystopian novels]] |
[[Category:Dystopian novels]] |
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Revision as of 00:54, 28 September 2024
Liberation is a 2008 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.[1][2][3]
Summary
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.
References
- ^ "Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America by Brian Francis Slattery". Publishers Weekly. 2008-08-25. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ^ Nussbaum, Abigail (2008-12-17). "Strange Horizons Reviews: Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum". Strange Horizons. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
- ^ Dickensheets, Scott (2008-10-30). "Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America". Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
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