{"product_id":"books-fka-usa-by-reed-king","title":"FKA USA","description":"FKA USA is a wildly imaginative, funny, oddly prescient, and brilliantly futuristic dystopian tale with eerie contemporary relevance about a young man in 2085 who realises the world he lives in might be its very own Emerald City.  Reed King's amazingly audacious novel imagines a final, disastrous president of the United States, whose self-interested rule provoked the splintering of the states into individual countries. The novel follows Truckee Wallace, a young man plucked from obscurity from the factory line where he works, hand-picked by the president to lead a covert mission: to bring a talking goat to the other side of the continent and hopefully save civilisation. Along the way, he picks up an android who wants to be human and a well intentioned former convict who has had a lobotomy. As this strange foursome encounters an environmentally depleted and lawless continent, the parallels to our own times become devastatingly - and hilariously - clear.  Filled with footnotes that could be an incredible novel in their own right, FKA USA is insanely smart and brimming with social satire. A futuristic novel that is a mirror to our contemporary world, FKA USA deserves to be shelved alongside such classics as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669602885905,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781250108913.jpg?v=1781509479","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-fka-usa-by-reed-king","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}