"A chilling look into a dystopian future that seems all too plausible."--Glenn Reynolds,
Instapundit"The Antifan Girlfriend is Ayn Rand for our politically fraught moment, but with more sex, dark humor, and no lectures. This is a gripping novel about the future we need to prevent."--Lisa Schiffren, political commentator.
It's 2089, and a civil war has divided the US into a Blue socialist dictatorship on the coasts and the still-free Red flyover United States in the interior. The woke "Diversity Justice Republic," a vassal state of China, doles out everything from food to vacations to citizens according to their social credit scores. High social crediteers live in luxury while low social crediteers live in dormitories and scramble for crumbs. "Plores," or Deplorables, are segregated from social crediteers and forced to do menial work to survive. Gun ownership and Christian preaching are now capital crimes.
Malia is illegally reading the dangerous old books she is guarding from the public as a low-credit librarian. She stumbles into a relationship with David, a powerful Antifan Defense Forces commander whose Deplorable background distances him from the woke culture. David vows to help Malia recover the child taken from her by the state years earlier. The search brings her into the orbit of senior bureaucrats who are enriching themselves by conducting lethal experiments on low-level social crediteers at the behest of Beijing. The Antifans turn Malia to spy on the bureaucrats, while seeking to separate her and David. Determined to marry and live in freedom, the couple plan a dangerous escape across the border to the United States.
The Antifan Girlfriend is a spy thriller wrapped around a Cinderella romance. But it's also a warning of a future that in 2021, is becoming all too plausible.
"Do not defy, you must conform! The mask, the chip, are now the norm!"--chant at the 2089 Coronavirus Liberation Day Parade.
