Steve Sharp

Fitzpatrick's War is an unknown classic, and is surely my favorite book to date. This book has great insights to historical revisionism, critiques of modern politics and culture, and an outstanding narrative in a very wonderfully constructed futuristic world. This book breaks away from most post-apocalyptic fiction by creating a world where the culture of North America has essentially shifted back to that of the American Gilded Age, with steampunk technology and a fascinating worldview that reflects upon the new and old world. Similarly to "alternate history," I'd describe the genre of Fitzpatrick's War as "alternate future." Perhaps one of the greatest books written so far in the 21st century. It's an absolute shame that so few have read it.