Message of the Day – Political Fiction

The cartoon creators of Shoe don't think too much of the Sunday morning TV interview shows, it appears.

Have to admit that I like fiction with a political twist.

It’s interesting to see how realistic authors are.

Lots of conspiracies in such works, of course.

I remember in college having the Conspiratorial Theory of History denigrated.

Then I got involved in Illinois politics.

No doubt that conspiracies abound.

When I first glanced at this Sunday cartoon, I thought it was about reading political fiction in newspapers.

But, upon taking a closer look, it appears that Uncle Cosmo is reading the section about what’s on Sunday morning TV.


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Message of the Day – Political Fiction — 6 Comments

  1. So would Fox news and CNN breaking the ACA ruling incorrect yesterday be an example of political fiction?

  2. I wish I never subscribed to this newsletter!

    It’s like a damn virus….can’t get rid of it!

    Nowhere to unsubscribe and even Cal Skinner can’t stop it from flooding my computer with meaningless babble!

  3. For a good novel about Washington political skullduggery, check out “Lust Takes The White House.”

    It depicts the efforts of CIA Chief Melvin Shultz, the Cosmetics Company tycoon owning Lust Cosmetics, to blackmail President Robert “Buck” Porter to leave the White House.

    Shultz has manipulated the U.S. Presidential through bribery, blackmail and false advertizing, to put Porter, an inept, woman-chasing ex-Governor of Oklahoma, into the White House.

    Unexpectedly asked by Porter to head the CIA, Shultz attempts to do a good job, only to become disillusioned by the Porter administration.

    The CIA Chief must now decide whether to risk disgrace and possible imprisonment if he resorts to the same tactics he used to put Porter into office to blackmail him into resigning.

  4. The novel Against Nature by John Nelson is a modern political dystopia.

    It’s about a plague that threatens to wipe out the planet, but the sins of our recent past (torture, secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, and such wash up on our shores and come back to haunt us.)

    In Pandemic America, a government that is no longer accountable to the people soon turns against them.

    It’s a fast-paced read and a great example of modern political fiction with a dystopian-edge. Not unlike our current political dysfunction.

  5. KRANK: Love in the New Dark Times.

    This a Canadian time-travel novel by award-winning writer Sarah Sheard.

    The book involves Bertolt Brecht– the controversial Berlin playwright of the thirties (and a “person of interest” to the Nazi Party) — coming back to life in 2009.

    He has a bizarre and eccentric love affair with a Toronto woman, and sees current economic & political things that remind him of Germany’s slide into fascism.

    Available internationally on eBook. More info: http://www.krankthebook.com/

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