In the quasi-dystopian setting of Jude Berman’s The Die, the United States of America has fallen, torn apart from within. The authoritarian tides that swirled throughout the early 21st century finally grew strong enough to allow a tyrant, in these pages known only as the Dictator, to take over the federal government. In response, first…
7 DAYS LATER: 20 MINUTES BEFORE “GO ZERO” FUSION CENTRAL, WASHINGTON, DC On May 1, at twenty minutes to noon, Justin Amari, unbreakfasted, rumple-haired, is greeted by a welcome committee outside Fusion Central, a private complex that had sprung up near McPherson Square the year before with odd speed and mystery—“Silicon Valley Billionaire Cy…
A handful of decades in the future, the most popular television show in the world is a reality program called Death Warrant. In every irregularly scheduled episode—the date and time of which are sent out only hours beforehand in a social media blast—one unsuspecting person is executed on live TV. This person, of course, has…
