Doctor Benjamin Franklin's dream America: a novel of digital revolution

✍ Scribed by Damien Lincoln Ober

• Publisher: Night Shade Books
• Year: 2013;2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Edition: First Night Shade Books edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1597806226

✦ Synopsis

Gore Vidal's Burr meets Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash in this blazingly original alt-history that weaves twenty-first century technology into a saddle-punk retelling of the American Revolution.

It is 1777, in a colonial America where the internet, social media, and ubiquitous electronic communications are fully woven into the fabric of society. Hours after a top-secret Congressional sub-committee uploads the Articles of Confederation, a mysterious internet plague breaks loose in the cloud, killing any user who accesses a networked device. Seven in ten Americans are dead, the internet is abandoned. Seizing the moment, the British take control of New York and Philadelphia, scattering what little remains of the rebellion.

Just when all seems lost, George Washington reappears from off-the-grid to pin the British army at Yorktown. Independence is won, but with the countryside in ruins and internet commerce impossible, the former colonies teeter on...