Golden State by Ben Winters is an ambitious and frighteningly timely novel set in a world where everything is recorded and no one can be trusted. For anyone who loved The Handmaid's Tale, The Power and Station Eleven.
Ben H. Winters is the author of nine novels, including most
recently the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines. His
novel Countdown City was an NPR Best Book of 2013 and the winner of
the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, and The
Last Policeman was the recipient of the 2012 Edgar Award from the
Mystery Writers of America; it was also named one of the Best
Booksof 2012 by Amazon.com and Slate.
Ben also writes books for children and his journalism has appeared
in The Chicago Reader, The Nation, In These Times, USA Today and
Huffington Post. He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife
and their three children.
An entertaining, unpredictable read… very much a dystopia for our
times.
*Financial Times*
Golden State is a prescient, devastating commentary on humanity’s
disintegrating attachment to reality and truth, expertly told
through the prism of a police-procedural, dystopian nightmare.
Winters has written a 1984 for the 21st century. Not just a
thrilling book, but an important one.
*Blake Crouch, author of DARK MATTER and TV series WAYWARD
PINES*
Not many writers would take on Orwell, Ray Bradbury, the nature of
truth, and the current administration all at a blow. Big shoes to
fill--and they fit Ben H. Winters just fine. Golden State grabs
notions of disinformation and literalism and brilliantly turns them
on their head to see what falls from their pockets.
*James Sallis, author of Drive*
A perfectly poised
ontological-thriller-comedy-dystopian-allegorical-page-turner, yet
with tenderly real characters in its chewy center, this turned out
to be just the thing I was looking for.
*Jonathan Lethem*
Smart, intricate and propulsive, Golden State is proof that Winters
deserves our continued attention as one of crime fiction’s most
inventive practitioners
*San Francisco Chronicle*
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