Name: Arslan
ISBN: 9780575095021

M.J. Engh

A classic of political science fiction Arslan is a young Asian general who has conquered the USA and then the world, with a small town in Illinois as the capital of his new empire. Praised by the likes of Orson Scott Card and Samuel R. Delany, ARSLAN is a thoughtful but uncompromising work, one which still retains the power to shock.

Arslan

M. J. Engh

Arslan is a young Asian general who conquers the world in a week without firing a shot and shortly thereafter sets up his headquarters in a small town in Illinois. A masterpiece of political science fiction and a book to challenge such works as Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, Arslan is a book that others are now measured against. "It's about fathers and sons, about power, about a genuinely ruthless (but not unfeeling) mind in pursuit of a practical solution to the world's problems." So M. J. Engh describes Arslan. This is a novel of power and depth that is unforgettable.

Ewan

The first half is OK, but incredibly racist (of course someone from Kazakhstan would rape some kids what else would they do?)(first chapter - not really a spoiler), - I would be interested to see the response if the character was a US general who committed these crimes. i doubt it would have the praise it seems to get.

But when it switches narrator it just didn't work. The author tries to hard to have two distinct voices and what you have is

person 1 - doesn't really use adjectives
person 2 - uses 50 adjectives a sentence.

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