Revolution is the story of a world where electricity no longer works. In the opening scene we see a man who knows what is going to happen, his wife who knows what is going to happen, and his brother who gets a call warning him about what is going to happen. Then it happens-click-everything stops working. Cars rolls to a stop, planes fall from the sky, computers and TVs switch off-and will never switch back on again. Welcome to the revolution. We flash forward 15 years or so and find ourselves in a cul-de-sac turned into a farm where the man…
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Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
I first read Man Without a Country not long after it came out in 2005 and I still totally agree with everything Kurt has to say. Kurt was a humanist who had the radical idea that war was bad, over population was bad, The Bushes-Chaneys-Rumsfelds of the world were bad, and that the idea that The Free Market will self correct and fix everything is total bullshit. My kind of a guy. Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven now, along with Issac Asimov. Just kidding. They were both famous atheists who prefered the rational to the fantastical, except for their writing.…