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Science Fiction

Generation Liberty

by Deborah Griffin Hawke and Simon Hawke

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America was promised liberty. What it got was obedience. President Patricia Hanssen came to power on anger, certainty, and the promise to give the country back to the people who believed it had been taken from them. Now dissent has become dangerous, armed loyalists enforce a new kind of order, and the institutions meant to restrain presidential power are beginning to bend. But resistance is growing. An underground network is exposing what those in power would rather keep hidden, while ordinary Americans are forced to decide how much freedom they are willing to surrender for the promise of order. Generation Liberty is a near-future dystopian political thriller about power, obedience, resistance, and what happens when the institutions meant to protect liberty begin to fail.

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Mood: Suspenseful Thought-provoking
Setting and world: Dystopian future Real world, real problems
Themes: Survival

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Authors: Deborah Griffin Hawke and Simon Hawke
Genre: Science Fiction
Formats: Ebook
Kindle Unlimited: Included

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Deborah Griffin Hawke

I write speculative fiction about women, power, family, and what happens when the world people thought they understood begins to shift beneath them. Sometimes that shift involves inherited magic. Sometimes it involves a country discovering how quickly institutions can bend. My fantasy novels are about women who discover that the stories their grandmothers told them may not have been stories after all. They blend folklore, inherited magic, family secrets, and contemporary life—with women who have accumulated enough years and experience to know that discovering magic doesn't make the ordinary complications of life disappear. Generation Liberty, co-written with Simon Hawke, moves into near-future dystopian fiction, exploring power, obedience, resistance, and what happens when the institutions meant to protect liberty begin to bend. Before turning my attention to fiction, I spent much of my career in higher education, where I learned that people are considerably more complicated than any character a novelist could invent. That probably explains why I'm as interested in what extraordinary circumstances do to people and relationships as I am in the circumstances themselves. I write as Deborah Griffin Hawke. The Enchanted Legacy of Elizabeth Marchand begins my Lore of the Grandmothers series, followed by The Secrets of the Thistle & Shield. If you like folklore wandering into the present day, old family mysteries, complicated women and relationships—or speculative fiction that asks what people do when the familiar rules stop working—you'll probably feel at home in my books.

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