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Title: Now it's an AH novel
Review: The thing that strikes me about this book is that it now reads as alternate history. Say Margaret Thatcher never goes into politics, and the Labour ascendency of the '70s is not cut short. Given the grimy, hopeless bitterness of many ostensibly socialist societies, the excesses depicted in this novel become more realistic. The resolution of these excesses (to the extent that they are resolved at all) is, alas, less convincing.Minor spoiler -the idea that the elected government would fall under the general mess could be found in almost any book. The idea thatthe King (Charles Tertius) would emerge as the _de jure_ head of state to get things moving again was pure brilliance.
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