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Zone 23 Paperback – May 1, 2017

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ZONE 23 ... a darkly comic dystopian satire about being human, all-too-human, featuring two of the most endearing Anti-Social anti-heroes that ever rebelled against the forces of Normality. Set in the post-catastrophic future, in a peaceful, prosperous, corporate-controlled society where all dissent and non-conformity has been pathologized, and the human race is being genetically corrected in order to establish everlasting peace on Earth, Zone 23 is a hilarious, heartbreaking affirmation of the anarchic human spirit, and a defiant departure from the norms of both the genre sci-fi and literary novel.
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Critical acclaim for C. J. Hopkins' previous award-winning work ...

"A brilliant (and hilarious) critique of the emptiness of American life and the meaninglessness of the popular culture that attempts to fill the void." -- Toronto Globe & Mail

"A blistering revelation ... Hopkins' body of work owes a huge debt to the absurdists and so manages to blast beyond the merely political or allegorical to the existential." -- Time Out New York

"Sharp, brilliant, intense, fast-moving, made for the moment we live in ... a portrait of a culture caught in a strange and painful paradox between progressive and reactionary attitudes." -- The Scotsman, Edinburgh

"A feral ferris-wheel of comedy, confusion, contradiction, obfuscation and bent-out-of-shape straight talking that leaps out of the room at you and harnesses you to its mischievous mindset." - Metro, UK

"America's relationship with consumerism and the media is unerringly skewered." -- The Times, London

"Hilariously at odds with the mainstream, and much bigger and deeper than the sum of its apparent parts." -- The Herald, Scotland

"Stimulating and thought-provoking ... a welcome addition to the canon of all things absurd and beautiful." -- The List, Edinburgh

"A gripping satire, which spills into sinister weirdness." -- Die Tageszeitung, Berlin

About the Author

C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright and political satirist. His early plays and experimental stage-texts were produced during the 1990s in New York City. Since 2001, his plays have been produced and have toured internationally, playing theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7 Stages (Atlanta), English Theater Berlin, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Brighton Festival, and Noorderzon Festival (the Netherlands). His playwriting awards include the 2002 Best of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts (Horse Country), the 2004 Best of the Adelaide Fringe (Horse Country), and a 2005 Scotsman Fringe First (screwmachine/eyecandy). His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing/Methuen Drama (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. (US). His political satire and commentary has appeared on NPR Berlin, in CounterPunch, ColdType, and other journals, and has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Zone 23 is his debut novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant (May 1, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 502 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3000555269
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3000555268
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.26 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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C. J. Hopkins is an American playwright, novelist and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured internationally, playing theatres and festivals such as Riverside Studios, 59E59 Theaters, Belvoir St. Theatre, Traverse Theatre, the Du Maurier World Stage Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and Brighton Festival, and are published by Bloomsbury (Methuen) and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His playwriting awards include: the 2002 Best of the Fringe Firsts in Edinburgh, Scotsman Fringe Firsts for New Writing in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best of the Adelaide Fringe award. His political satire and commentary is published by Consent Factory, Inc., and is widely republished and translated. His debut novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant.

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Customers find the book easy to read and a great read. They find the humor funny, guffaw-provoking, and satirical. The plot is intricate and holds their interest. Readers appreciate the perceptive writing style and smooth pacing. They also mention that the writing flows smoothly with quickly-moving action and well-placed humor.

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Customers find the book engaging and thought-provoking. They describe it as an entertaining, action-packed read that offers a glimpse into the future of mankind. Readers praise the author's craftsmanship and serious tone.

"...unstable, perceptive, lunatic, laugh-out-loud mad and profoundly observant and prophetic novel I have read in a long, long time...." Read more

"...that it reminded me of a Naked Gun movie, but in the end it was absolutely perfect. The most violent and vulgar character quickly became my favorite...." Read more

"...There was perfect symmetry to the story and it all came together beautifully. As I got toward the end, I was wondering how is he going to end this?..." Read more

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Customers enjoy the humor in the book. They find it irreverent and funny, with an insightful look at the times. The satire is described as brilliant and provoking laughter.

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"C.J. Hopkins presents us with a brilliant political satire of a dystopian world set in the year 2610 (Gregorian calendar) where global corporations..." Read more

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"...Not really dystopian science fiction, more of an alternate satirical look at how we live today. Highly recommended" Read more

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Customers enjoy the intricate plot of this dystopian novel. They find it engaging and entertaining, with a futuristic setting and themes like cyberpunk. The story is described as action-packed and prophetic, with perfect symmetry.

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Customers enjoy the writing style. They find it suitable for the situation, with a flow that keeps them engaged. The author excels at writing short and humorous essays, but is not always good at longer works.

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Customers find the book's pacing engaging. They appreciate the author's perceptive and insightful observations of the times. The book prompts self-reflection and provides an interesting extrapolation of the dystopian present into the future. Readers also mention that the book has many gems in its words and is excellent at explaining where we are in our human evolution.

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I did not give this book 5 stars because it's some glittering literary gem. I gave this book 5 stars because -- like "Fight Club" or "Jennifer Government" or "The Peripheral" -- there isn't a day goes by that some 'news' story doesn't make me think of this book. The dystopian near?-future Hopkins presents is hideous, relevant, burning hot and waaay too close to our own emerging political reality for comfort. Prescient, I tell you. There is emetic truth in this fiction.
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  • T. Prentice
    5.0 out of 5 stars ZONE 23: A head-on collision among George Carlin, Philip K. Dick, Star Wars, Spaceballs and Rocky & Bullwinkle.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2018
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    Zone 23 by C. J. Hopkins is like a head-on train crash between comedian/linguist George Carlin and science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

    Sort of a “Twilight Zone, Star Trek and Star Wars” collision into Mel Brooks’ film “Spaceballs.”

    Sort of an out-of-control Noam Chomsky Vulcan Mind Meld meets the film “Scary Movie” with a dose of “Fractured Fairy Tales” from “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”

    Or a head-on collision between the films “”The Matrix and “Young Frankenstein” -- but in words. NOT streaming on your Viewer. Or other PRIMITIVE device.

    The setting is the high-tech dystopian utopia of the Northeast Region 709 of the 27th Century “United Territories” (or is it a utopian dystopia?) on a truly “Climate-Challenged” Planet Earth where sunsets inspire true awe -- and confusion sometimes -- because they can look an awful lot like an Improvised Thermonuclear Device went off – which make the IEDs of the Good Guyz in the very early 21st Century Invasion and Occupation of Iraq look like, well, firecrackers and bottle rockets.

    In full disclosure, this review is being written in response to the Will of The One who is Many who is also The Many Who Is One – who/which has threatened to fire a $20 trillion Godsend missile manufactured by Pfizer-Lockheed into my tiny yuppie living quarters built for Normals (while I sleep totally maxxed out on mandatory required ZaxoFlaxiThorinal) if I fail to write it, and do so PDQ!

    Not only does the 27th Century One Who Is Truly Many know when I am sleeping, it knows when I am awake, it knows when I’ve been bad or good, you know the drill. Indeed, it knows everything about me – and in nano-second-by-second faster-than-light-speed real time. The Godsend missile firing thing is just a tiny algorithm away, just a quick point and click away. I tremble with anti-ci-pation or terror, I can’t decide which.

    Zone 23 is stupefyingly good. This short novel is the most rollicking, hilarious, demented, deranged, chuckle-inducing, crazed, unhinged, guffaw-provoking, disturbed, unstable, perceptive, lunatic, laugh-out-loud mad and profoundly observant and prophetic novel I have read in a long, long time.

    Zone 23 is for the 21st Century what Orwell’s “1984,” Huxley’s “Brave New World” and “Brave New World Revisited” and William Goldings “Lord of the Flies” was to the late 20th Century. But Orwell, Huxley and Golding in a head-on collision with comedian/linguist George Carlin George Carlin and Mel Brooks. In a word: Thermonuclear.

    Boring it ain’t because this novel is where “bad stuff” gets laugh-out-loud real.

    So, yes, Zone 23 by C. J. Hopkins is like a head-on train crash between comedian/linguist George Carlin and science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

    Sort of a “Twilight Zone, Star Trek and Star Wars” collision into Mel Brooks’ film “Spaceballs.”

    Sort of an out-of-control Noam Chomsky Vulcan Mind Meld meets the film “Scary Movie” with a dose of “Fractured Fairy Tales” and “Boris and Natasha” from “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”

    Or sort of a head-on collision between the films “The Matrix” and “Young Frankenstein” -- but in words. NOT streaming on your Viewer. Or other PRIMITIVE device.

    Read This Book. The One who is Many who is also The Many Who Is One has so ordered. Remember those Godsend Missiles manufactured by Pfizer/Lockheed/Bayer/Raytheon. Go in peace.
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  • A. J. Amen
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you can get past the beginning you will love it
    Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2021
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    I only heard about this book because of a tweet I saw by the author in which he stated, "Apologies for my 2017 dystopian sci-fi novel Zone 23. I didn't think they would use it as a blueprint." At which point I immediately downloaded it and read it.

    The style of writing was off-putting at 1st and I really didn't know where it was going and wasn't sure I wanted to continue. However, the author made the characters interesting enough that I wanted to keep going, even though I was totally lost, just so I could understand the bigger picture and see how eventually their lives would intersect.

    I think it's unfortunate that so many gave up too early because it really unfolds into an entertaining, riveting and action packed story about love, humanity and what happens when you allow inhumanity to reign supreme. As you get into it, you realize the style of writing is perfect for the situation these characters find themselves in. They are, for the most part, proper f****d and there's really no better way to put it so I believe the foul language, violence, sex and vulgarity has its part and is fitting to the storyline.

    This book in some parts reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut, but then in other parts it was so crude and ridiculous that it reminded me of a Naked Gun movie, but in the end it was absolutely perfect. The most violent and vulgar character quickly became my favorite. I think this could easily become a literary classic. One of my all time favorite books, right up there with Pillars of the Earth and Beneath the Scarlet Sky. I could even see a sequel or series of books perhaps with the next one based on Cassandra, Kyle and the next phase of the NIN!
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  • Svein Kjetil Haugset
    4.0 out of 5 stars Extreemly well written
    Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2018
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    I give this book full score for orginality in its critiqe of our society. The timebline of the story should have been confusing, it makes Pulp Fiction seem linear, but it works well; even when a the he steps out of the story in the middle of the heat, to jump back in time to tell the background story, and then, in the niddle of the heat of the background story, he jump back in time to tell the background story of the background story. And without loosing the thread that holds the story together!

    But I must subtract a star for unnecessary foul language.
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  • Levi
    5.0 out of 5 stars great read! a look into the possible future of mankind
    Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2024
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    This book was excellent at expounding on where we currently are in in our human civilization, and what could happen if we remain on the same path without making a major consciousness shift. Pfizer- Lockheed? absolutely.
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  • Amazon Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Messy writing, ok novel
    Reviewed in Mexico on May 16, 2022
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    I was going to give it 2 stars, but the ending was worth it.

    It has everything you want from a dystopian novel: ideas, world-building, somewhat good characters, but THE WRITING IS SOOOO MESSY! A good editor would never let this novel be published in its current state. It can certainly shed 100 pages or so.

    The ending puts everything at odds. Who dominates? The corporations, the human spirit, revolutionaries? Really good for a very flawed narrative.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Want to know what will happen
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2023
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    This guy was charged in Berlin for the next cover of his book. Should tell you all you need to know.
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  • elaine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Zone 23
    Reviewed in Spain on December 25, 2022
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    C.J. Hopkins en su mejor momento. Muy recomendable
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  • Isabelle McEwen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ein wunderbares Buch!
    Reviewed in Germany on December 7, 2019
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    Ich habe gestern Abend die letzten Seiten von "Zone 23" gelesen und mein Herz pocht noch. Es fiel mir etwas schwer durch den Anfang vom Buch zu kommen und ich musste den Mut finden, einige Passagen zu lesen, aber am Schluss konnte das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen. Es ist ein hartes, trauriges, grafisches (aber nicht so wie z.B. "American Psycho"), auch zynisches Buch erzählt von einem Erzähler, von dem man eeigentlich gerne wüsste, wer er ist, denn neutral ist er definitiv nicht. Das Buch ist absolut original in der Form (die Fußnoten sind toll!) und brillant konstruiert aber, was der Erzählung die Emotion gibt, die diese Konstruktion zum Leben erweckt, ist die Liebe von Taylor für seinen kleinen Sohn. In dem Elend, in dem er geboren wird, gibt diese Emotion dem Menschsein irgendwas wie einen Sinn, der anderseiits lachhaft erscheint, aber doch da ist. Ob Max am Ende sterben wird oder nicht, ist egal. Das Ende vom Buch ist purer Optimismus jenseits jeder Vernunft und gleichzeitig ein großartiges Apokalypse-Bild ohne Gott, ohne Verdammte, ohne Erinnerung und ohne Hoffnung.
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  • Monika
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Dantesque vision of our futur - brilliant!
    Reviewed in Germany on April 13, 2018
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    Our modern era, which had begun with so much promise, has turned into a shambolic dystopia. It may seem far away, though in fact it’s horribly close to our present days, and still recognisable for the discerning eye. Excellent at topical details, often very funny and pitiless in his exposition of stuff gone seedy and suicidal, Hopkins steers us into ever darker territories. A horrific yet plausible scenario develops, that keeps us under its spell.
    This novel, however, is not a farce, not just an excess of savage satire. Hopkins’ brilliant mastery of lively, authentic characters makes it a Dantesque vision of the state of the lost. Its style is limpid and classically elegant, well rhythmicised and often poetic, pleasing even in describing the abyss of horror and desolation. One gets ever more attached to the novel’s characters and hopes to read more about them soon.
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