Fragmented America #1-2 by Ron Goulart
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Overview: Ron Goulart, a "remarkably prolific science fiction, fantasy, mystery and romance novelist who cast Groucho Marx as a detective and collaborated with William Shatner on a series of books set in the 22nd century," died at age 89, the New York Times reported. Goulart wrote at least 180 books, "and that number may underestimate his output. His goal was to write as many books as Isaac Asimov, who at his death was credited with having written about 500." Goulart was also a comic book historian; the writer of a syndicated comic strip in the 1970s (Star Hawks, drawn by Gil Kane); and a cultural critic.
One of his best-known SF novels, After Things Fell Apart (1970), was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. It was the first of five books in his Fragmented America series, which he wrote in the 1970s and ’80s
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
01 After Things Fell Apart
The time is a few decades from now, the place what used to be the United States, now disrupted by internal factionalism as well as a short-lived foreign invasion.
Out of this chaotic background Ron Goulart has produced a swift-moving, witty and constantly delightful novel, a story of a future odyssey through:
*The Nixon Institute, where aging former rock stars reminisce about the days when they still had hair;
*the wide-open sin-town of San Rafael, run by the Amateur Mafia (no Italians allowed);
*Vienna West, a detailed replica of Sigmund Freud’s 19th Century city where psychiatric patients live and abreact together;
*the Monterey Mechanical Jazz Festival, featuring the music of pinball machines, jack hammers and Laundromat washers…
All this plus a dozen or two of the oddest characters you’re ever likely to meet.
02 Gadget Man
The Republic of Southern California was in serious trouble. The casually repressive rule of the junta was threatened, not only by the growing band of guerrillas in the south, but also by the sudden, inexplicable outbreak of riots in the Republic’s wealthiest suburbs. Then word reached the Social Wing of the Police Corps that the daughter of the guerrillas’ leader had information about the cause of the riots, and Sergeant James Xavier Hecker was sent to investigate. Hecker was an unlikely policeman: not only did he lack any overwhelming personal ambition, but he also retained a vestigial faith in the good will of the men and women around him. And his odyssey through the rubble of our consumption-oriented, gadget-filled, anything-for-kicks society-by turns surprising, appalling, and devilishly funny-makes an unusually entertaining and perceptive novel.
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