Revolution

Revolution is the second novel in the intended dystopian Death Fight trilogy that has never been completed. It picks up roughly where Death Fight leaves off, at the beginning of the revolution, but whereas Death Fight follows the male protagonist, Revolution returns to the female protagonist after the two have been forcibly separated. Like my other dystopian effort, To Protect and to Serve, it restricts itself primarily though not exclusively to the perspectives of its central characters, who are “pawns in the game of life,” as a famous movie character once humorously put it. This is deliberate, given that the victims of utopian fantasies are always the same people: the deplorable horde, who suffer disruption in their lives—and sometimes much worse—to satisfy the dreams of elitist fanatics who would “change the world” by punishing the hell out of it. The main characters in Death Fight and Revolution find themselves essentially in survival mode until circumstances compel them to act. Aftermath, the final novel in the intended series of three, was to have reunited the two original protagonists at the end of the revolution. I know how their love affair is finally resolved, but that resolution will probably remain in my head since I’m now too damn lazy to complete the trilogy.