Maybe there’s a God above this subGod, who’s busy for a few Godminutes with something else, and will be right back, and when he gets back will take the subGod by the ear and say, ‘Now look. “Maybe the God we see, the God who calls the daily shots, is merely a subGod. Just this quote, on God, from The 400-Pound CEO: Capitalism taken to excess, armed militia groups roaming the land, ecological hazards, and the depraved exploitation of the weak – it’s all here, and haunting in how close to the present day it seems. Nowhere is it more successful than in the novella, Bounty, which imagines a dystopian America in which people with physical flaws are enslaved. The writing is fantastic though, and the blend of humor with criticisms of humanity is compelling. These are all rather dark stories, and as a criticism I would say the writing tends to get a little too one-note, with the recurring theme of working in lousy jobs, those that use high-tech but in ways that are dehumanizing, for horrible bosses. In CivilWarLand in bad decline, George Saunders gives us six short stories and a novella.
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