One day in late 1979, the Anglo-Chinese alliance lands Gurka troops on Concepcion to reclaim the former colony and they take the USA med students there as hostages. Finally, we have Clifton Bonner, AKA 'hack', who was a med student at an island university (Concepcion) in the Caribbean. "Pissant' Jackson, the leading physicist behind the USA moon program and now a hopeless drunk at a midwestern university. The story centers on three characters- Bastard Child, the daughter of Bitch Alice, and the leader of Blunt Instrument, a Wracker band. Meanwhile, the Anglo-Chinese geared up their own version of a space program and by 1979 have a moon colony along with a large manned space station, while the USA has squat. Wrackers heard and destroyed the Dallas space center with a massive riot, setting back the USA space program for years, if not ever. Bitch Alice's last words to Earth were something like "Make Dallas pay" (Dallas, rather than Houston being the center of the space program). In 1957, seeing how it was so safe and ready for tourists, they took along the queen of the Wrackers- Bitch Alice- where see was going to perform up there, but a terrible accident left her and all the others on the mission dead. In this world, the USA/federation began (using ex-Nazi scientists) a space program back in the late 40s and had several launches to the Moon. The 'straights' are your basic citizens who hoover up mass media and constitute the status quo.
'Wrackers' can be seen as something like a punk counter-culture, totally against established authority.
The novel is set at the end of 1979 through early 1980.
Like real history, a cold war soon arose. What was left were two superpowers- the USA and its 'central federation', basically colonizing Russia, and the Anglo-Chinese alliance. The Russians allied with Hitler, however, and the USA invaded Russia and took it over to end the war. WAR is set in an alternative history FDR died choking on a chicken bone in 1933, but WWII still happened. Totally wild ride by Denton here, and it wracks and rolls! Trying to describe this novel will be difficult, as I have never really encountered anything like it.
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