NEW AS OF JANUARY 2024!

Tom Jenney has written a new story — “WHOOM!” — which will appear in a second edition of the American Futures collection. To download a laptop-friendly PDF version of the story, click HERE. To download a smartphone-friendly PDF version, click HERE (it might help to turn your phone sideways).

BOOK SUMMARY AND PURCHASE LINKS

What if you woke up one morning and almost everybody in America agreed with you about politics?  What if America’s governments suddenly started enacting the policies you want?  Things would turn out great.  Right? 

In American Futures, an extraterrestrial civilization is conducting an experiment on America.  They allow you to choose your favorite political ideology from a menu of 14 different ideologies.  The aliens control the minds of a large majority of your fellow Americans, causing them to agree with you.  For a decade, American government is transformed according to your vision.  Then, you choose a random story ending and find out how things turn out in America over the course of the next six decades.  

In 60 different story endings, American Futures explores human nature, economics, technology, culture, and partisan politics.  In the current age of partisan gridlock and highly polarized political discourse, many Americans are worried about what would happen if “the other side” takes control of the levers of power.  American Futures attempts to answer the question, “What would happen if my side won?”

American Futures is now available in three print-on-demand paperback volumes on Amazon. The Kindle version has all three volumes unified in a single eBook.

Link to Kindle eBook version. (All three volumes. Includes all 60 stories endings for the 14 different ideologies.)

Link to Volume I paperback version. Volume I includes the story endings for contemporary American centrism, left-liberalism, progressive social democracy, and democratic socialism.

Link to Volume II paperback version. Volume II includes the story endings for neo-conservatism, nationalist conservatism, individualist libertarianism, paleo-conservatism, and authoritarian mercantilism.

Link to Volume III paperback version. Volume III includes the story endings for paleo-libertarianism, collectivist communism, nationalist fascism, anhrcho-syndicalism, and market anarchism.