Trump Sky Alpha, Mark Doten
Trump Sky Alpha, Mark Doten
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Trump Sky Alpha
A Novel

Author: Mark Doten

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/19/2019

Categories: Fiction, Satire


Synopsis

A novel on the political madness of our time and the Internet's deep workings, by the author of The Infernal.

Twice a week, the president pilots his ultraluxury airship Trump Sky Alpha (seats start at $50,000), delivering, as he travels between D.C., New York City, and Mar-a-Lago, a streaming YouTube address to the nation, in which he trumpets his successes and blasts his enemies—until the day his words plunge the world into nuclear war. One year later, with 90 percent of the world's population destroyed, a journalist named Rachel has taken refuge in the Twin Cities Metro Containment Zone. Rachel goes on assignment to document the final throes of humor on the Internet in those moments before the end, hoping along the way to discover the final resting place of her wife and daughter.

What she uncovers, hidden amid spiraling memes and Twitter jokes in a working archive of the Internet's remnants, are references to a little-known book that inspired a shadowy hacktivist group called the Aviary. Their role in the downfall of the Internet, and the enigmatic presence of a figure known only as Birdcrash, take on immense and terrifying dimensions as Rachel ventures further into the ruins of the Internet. Mark Doten, a satirist of unparalleled vision, brilliantly details how the Internet has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, laying the groundwork for the tumult of our current political moment, and, in the kaleidoscopic, queer, all-consuming, parallactic swirl of Trump Sky Alpha, for the future headed our way.

About Mark Doten

Mark Doten's writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, The Believer, and New York magazine. He has an MFA from Columbia University and is the recipient of fellowships from Columbia and the MacDowell Colony. Mark is currently a senior editor at Soho Press and lives in Brooklyn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Drew on January 03, 2019

I think it's the Kirkus review of this book that mentions that it's a satire that might've been funnier in less-horrifying times. And that's... that's not entirely wrong. Doten manages, in both the bravura opening sequence and in an equally impressive late-game passage, to capture the disordered and......more

Goodreads review by Doug on November 11, 2020

Credit were credit is due, Doten's "voice" of Trump is outstanding. Most of it is as hilarious as it is horrifying. I'm not sure reading this during election week was the best idea, but it definitely made some of the content strike much harder. The meat of Trump Sky Alpha is a barely comprehensible......more

Goodreads review by Erik on December 31, 2019

I am neither a fan of political satire nor dystopian novels so you can imagine my own surprise at how much I truly enjoyed Mark Doten's experimental, post-modern book imagining the causes and consequences of a Trumpian apocalypse. "Trump Sky Alpha" tells the story of Rachel, an investigative journali......more

Goodreads review by Maxwell on August 12, 2021

Internet fiction--the inevitable domain of my fellow Zoomers & Coomers as they become the next generation of published artists--is still in its infancy. References to memes and video games, central to our cultural identity, will replace gaudy allusions to Fine Literature®. Chapter 2_2_INTERNET_HUMOR......more