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Armageddon Crazy [Paperback]

Mick Farren (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Sphere Books; paperback / softback edition (26 April 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0747404704
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747404705
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 380,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Written by the same author as "Their Master's War", "Synaptic Manhunt" and "The Neural Atrocity", this futuristic fantasy concerns America in the year 2000 AD which has become a dystopia run by religious fanatics called the Deacons.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100", but nastier - and better 30 Oct 2011
By D. R. Cantrell
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After the first couple of pages I was sure I'd read this before. And I had, sort of. The setup is remarkably similar to that of Heinlein's "Revolt in 2100", and also bears resemblances to that of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale": modern America has tipped over the edge into a theocratic basket-case dictatorship. In order of publication, Heinlein was first, then Atwood, then Farren, and I'd not be at all surprised to learn that Farren had read both of the others. But that's OK. He has taken those same ideas and gone in a radically different direction, his story being far grimier and more accessible than Atwood and, unlike Heinlein, lacking a happy ending. Farren's revolution eats its children and according to the epilogue actually ends up as an even worse police state than it started.

I whole-heartedly recommend it. It's very accessible and will easily transcend the boundaries of genre. I recommend it to everyone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 2000AD. The year of America's ultimate special effect... 29 May 2006
By Alan Burridge TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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Near Future America: The president is a preacher, the constitution is suspended, the strong-arm deacons send sinners and malcontents to prison.

Harry Carlisle: Disaffected New York Cop, treading a thin line between obedience and heresy.

Cynthia Kline: Secret agent in the deacon organization, terrified that at any moment her cover might be blown wide apart...

Charlie Mansard: Special effects wizard, risking everything to create the most spectacular holographic show ever for the president's greatest rival.

They never suspect the key roles they would play in a plot to overthrow the government and restore freedom. And they never dreamed that they would be bang in the middle of the chaos when everything fell apart.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Religious war 20 May 1998
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Image America with a fanatical religious zealot as the President; where confessionals can be found on street corners, taping people recounting their sins; where the police are outranked by deacons. This is the America of "The Armageddon Crazy."

This was the first book by Mick Farren I read, and I was captivated by it. It was an example of ultimate power corrupting ultimately a body considered uncorruptable: the church. To see how far the religious fall is quite amazing.

"The Armageddon Crazy" is not an attack on Catholicism. For lack of a better word, it is a parallel world where something MIGHT happen, if certain circumstances are followed through.

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