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[james_davis_nicoll]

What are the noteworthy election-related SF novels?

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I already reviewed one of those. (http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/directive-51)

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Don't spend any time reading the other two. I did enjoy many of the ideas in the series, but it was a lot of work to get to each of those crunchy bits of goodness. "The Last President" nearly made me put Barnes on my "don't bother reading" list - and he's historically been one of my favourite authors. This is a shame, as the bones of some really good stories lay there - he just fleshed them out with dull, repetitive politicking about who would be the powerless figurehead of a dwindling population of desperate survivors.

I do have to say that I only found the books dull, and not offensive. So many of my formerly favourite authors have become racist, sexist idiots, but happily Barnes is not one of them.

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't remember where I read this, but I recall Barnes saying that what he wanted to write and what the publisher wanted out of those was very different, so he's basically planning a reworking some time in the future when he has time. Me, I'm still waiting for "A Far Cry", but...