Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America is a 2008 science fiction novel by American writer Brian Francis Slattery about a post-economic collapse America, where a combination of capitalist and criminal forces reshape the United States into a grouping of Balkanized microgovernments and lawless slave plantations.[1][2][3]
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| Author | Brian Francis Slattery |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | 2008 |
| ISBN | 978-0-7653-2046-9 |
Summary
editA group of supercriminals known as the "Slick Six," led by an assassin named Marco Oliveira, regroup to steal America back from a New York kingpin named "The Aardvark." The Aardvark has usurped power in the wake of disaster and borrowed an immense amount of money from Japan in order to re-institute slavery and run his criminal empire from a makeshift tower of slag in Manhattan.
References
edit- ^ "Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America by Brian Francis Slattery". Publishers Weekly. August 25, 2008. Archived from the original on September 28, 2024. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ Nussbaum, Abigail (December 17, 2008). "Strange Horizons Reviews: Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery, reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum". Strange Horizons. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ Dickensheets, Scott (October 30, 2008). "Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America". Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
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