2084 Quartet, Book 2
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2023
Department
English
Abstract
Greetings and the Big Picture
Welcome to the world of 2084 Quartet. Please know that it can be a violent, deceptive, and at times uncanny place. It might also be someplace where we’re all headed—if we’re not already halfway there.
2084 Quartet is a work of science fiction in the vein of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale or, more recently, The MaddAddam Trilogy and The Testaments. Like those works, my novels are dystopian speculative fiction and dark social satire envisioning an apocalyptic near-future. The broad action of these novels is the conflict and eventual warfare between a North American corporate state called TexArc versus a European commonwealth called EVe. As such, 2084 Quartet delivers a provocative warning: our current social-economic-political organization is horribly flawed; we must change course now or catastrophe is guaranteed.
Put more plainly: Duh.
2084 Quartet is a tetralogy—a series of four novels. They are:
Book 1: Signifier/
Book 2: /Signified
Book 3: The Cure of All
Book 4: White Nights and Yellow Laughter
2084 Quartet is a work-in-progress. Book 1 and Book 2 are complete, ready for publication, and coming your way. Book 3 is well into draft stage. Book 4 is in planning stage.
CONTENTS
You Can Trust Your Car to the Man Who Wears the Star
Chapter 5: Great Salt Lake Desert Storm
Chapter 6: Optimism of the Will
Rights
Copyrights by the author
Publisher
Substack
Recommended Citation
Combe, Kirk, "2084 Quartet, Book 2" (2023). Faculty Publications. 1761.
https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/facultypubs/1761