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Trump Sky Alpha: A Novel
Written by Mark Doten
Narrated by Christina Delaine
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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A novel on the political madness of our time and the Internet's deep workings, by the author of The Infernal.
Twice a week, the president pilots his ultraluxury airship Trump Sky Alpha (seats start at $50,000), delivering, as he travels between D.C., New York City, and Mar-a-Lago, a streaming YouTube address to the nation, in which he trumpets his successes and blasts his enemies-until the day his words plunge the world into nuclear war. One year later, with 90 percent of the world's population destroyed, a journalist named Rachel has taken refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. Rachel goes on assignment to document the final throes of humor on the Internet in those moments before the end, hoping along the way to discover the final resting place of her wife and daughter.
What she uncovers, hidden amid spiraling memes and Twitter jokes in a working archive of the Internet's remnants, are references to a little-known book that inspired a shadowy hacktivist group called the Aviary. Their role in the downfall of the Internet, and the enigmatic presence of a figure known only as Birdcrash, take on immense and terrifying dimensions as Rachel ventures further into the ruins of the Internet. Mark Doten, a satirist of unparalleled vision, brilliantly details how the Internet has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, laying the groundwork for the tumult of our current political moment, and, in the kaleidoscopic, queer, all-consuming, parallactic swirl of Trump Sky Alpha, for the future headed our way.
Twice a week, the president pilots his ultraluxury airship Trump Sky Alpha (seats start at $50,000), delivering, as he travels between D.C., New York City, and Mar-a-Lago, a streaming YouTube address to the nation, in which he trumpets his successes and blasts his enemies-until the day his words plunge the world into nuclear war. One year later, with 90 percent of the world's population destroyed, a journalist named Rachel has taken refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. Rachel goes on assignment to document the final throes of humor on the Internet in those moments before the end, hoping along the way to discover the final resting place of her wife and daughter.
What she uncovers, hidden amid spiraling memes and Twitter jokes in a working archive of the Internet's remnants, are references to a little-known book that inspired a shadowy hacktivist group called the Aviary. Their role in the downfall of the Internet, and the enigmatic presence of a figure known only as Birdcrash, take on immense and terrifying dimensions as Rachel ventures further into the ruins of the Internet. Mark Doten, a satirist of unparalleled vision, brilliantly details how the Internet has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, laying the groundwork for the tumult of our current political moment, and, in the kaleidoscopic, queer, all-consuming, parallactic swirl of Trump Sky Alpha, for the future headed our way.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This curate's egg of an experimental novel reminded me more than a little of the storied sandwich of many a joke which consists of two luscious slices of bread with an odious meat inserted between; it begins with an intriguing (if presented with the unpleasant literary parlor trick of twentysome pages of runon sentences) narration of World War III being initiated by the President of the United States as he pilots the flagship of his worldwide zeppelin passenger fleet, and ends with a hilarious sendup of his rhetorical style as he narrates the last day of the world as we know it. In between, unfortunately, one must wade through two hundred pages of a leaden (but nonetheless thin), uninteresting, fragmentary, at times incomprehensible, plot presented mostly with huge dollops of computer jargon and internet in-references. Contrary to the reviews, this book is rarely funny; I've not read a blacker book, and I'm hardpressed to think of a single likable character herein, certainly not the narrator, who manages to be at one and the same time self-hating and ego-tripping. If you come to this with a solid background in computer lingo and chatroom bafflegab and low expectations, you might not be let down.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsBoth with a bang and a Trumpian whinge.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Almost intolerable because it's so plausible.