Science-fiction novel in which a parallel world is born out
of all the lies Donald Trump tells. The force of his lies generates this
other place. In some cases, the new reality is superior to our present one. For
example, global warming now really is a Chinese hoax! Others are more ominous:
Trump really did have the largest inauguration crowd in US history. While
others are bizarre and fantastical: Tens of thousands of undocumented
immigrants somehow manage to vote in the 2016 election, despite voter registration
and ID laws and the fear these immigrants have of being arrested and deported.
How this happens, I cannot say; the novel would have to puzzle it out. Or how
about this one: On the afternoon of 9/11/2001, thousands of Muslim Americans amass
in Jersey City to cheer Bin Laden and his mass murder in Manhattan. This one is
quite macabre in its paranoiac grandeur. It is, but it is just one crooked square
on the jagged quilt that is the reality of this new world based upon the outlandish,
the fevered and the deranged. What a world would be born.
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