In the wake of the Trump led attack on the Capitol a few weeks ago and the ongoing global pandemic, there could not have been a better (worse?) time to read this book. This is the state of the world in Omar El Akkad’s cli-fi thriller, American War. Meanwhile, Northern unmanned drones - Birds, as they’re known - roam the Southern skies and reign hellfire down on enemy and civilian alike. It now finds itself locked in a long and bloody guerilla war against the North. The Free Southern State (FSS), which consists of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, has seceded from the Union over the North’s aggressive restrictions on fossil fuel usage. A high wall encloses South Carolina to quarantine its war-ravaged population from spreading a deadly disease to the rest of the country. as a result of rising sea levels which have eaten away much of the Atlantic coast and completely submerged Florida and the entire city of New Orleans. In the East, the seat of government is now Columbus, Ohio, moved from Washington, D.C. Though nominally called the Mexican Protectorate, the Southwest resembles something akin to a lawless frontier. California is burnt to dust because of global warming. America is in the throes of a second Civil War. Omar El Akkad’s Map of the United States c.
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