on Fairland. A limited nuclear exchange between Asia
and the North Americans in 2033 set both peoples back
to the Middle Ages. Conservatives, largely
annihilated in the Revolution of 2034, were either
prosecuted as enemies of the state or eliminated.
Thus rose the Liberal fairyland,
Fairland. Established within the borders of the US
and Canada, it was a country of ultimate caring,
fairness and equality. Fairland's citizens are cared
for with a firm but loving hand by the beneficent
dictator, Big Mama, who knows each of her dependents
by name. Big Mama loves each of her charges equally,
but--as John Winston is to discover--some are more
equal than others. 2084 is parody, but also biting
satire. As in the satire of Voltaire and Swift, 2084
bends outrageous plot and motley characters to the
cause of exposing the hypocrisy of the present and
recent past with a humor as irresistible as it is
acerbic. Read it and laugh...but not too much.
