FITZPATRICK'S WAR

New York: DAW Books, 2004. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The novel is structured as a critical edition of a memoir of a future conflict published in a postwar dystopia with rigid class and gender distinctions." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Judson's second (and first SF) novel, FITZPATRICK'S WAR (2004), "is constructed as the memoir of an older person intimate with the corridors of power, in this case an ostensibly democratic government ruled by a self-aggrandizing mass-murderer. The setting is a ruined Earth America where any relics of high technology are controlled by a secret elite; the world depicted is estranged from traditional post-holocaust tales set in a pastoral America about to rediscovery technology, and the memoir form of the text adds to a sense that this world is not on the verge of transformation." - John Clute, SFE (online). Publisher's publicity sheet laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#103304) (Inventory #: 103304)