After the Revolution: A Novel

“Evans never shies away from showing the ugly results of political unity failing, and he eschews picking easy targets for disapproval, giving equal time to a wide variety of viewpoints and social arrangements. Bullets fly furiously, but the emotional costs of violence are paid for in full. This is smart, pointed military sci-fi.”–Publishers Weekly “A fierce book: leftist military science fiction of the first order, full of transhuman ultraviolence and all-too-human consequences.”–Cory Doctorow, author of Walkaway “A world as deep as The Expanse, yet a story so close to home.” –Chelsea Manning “Evans brings years of experience as a storyteller and a war correspondent into this remarkable debut. After the Revolution is somehow both realistic and fantastic, both hopeful and sobering. It is both an introspective analysis of human society and a roaring and readable adventure.” –Margaret Killjoy, author of A Country of Ghosts “Robert’s debut novel kept me glued to the pages–a smart, well-crafted, action-packed military science fiction story that deals with the horrors of war through a trauma-informed lens.”–Justine Norton-Kertson, editor-in-chief of Android Press and Solar Punk Magazine“This is the type of novel where nudist cyborg super-soldiers ride robot horses into battle against bloodthirsty theocrats. Stuff blows up. More stuff blows up. Dudes kill other dudes and then even more chaos ensues. The action all works. Other authors have spilled a lot of ink over America’s internal contradictions, but After the Revolution is unique in its gusto.”–Joe Streckert, Portland Mercury“After the Revolution is part of the rich vein of speculative fiction that considers Texas as its own republic…For writers interested in imagining how a diverse population might organize itself after being oppressed and ignored by those in power, our state is an ideal setting.”–Susan Elizabeth Shepard, TexasMonthly

Robert Evans, the author of A Brief History of Vice, has had an eclectic career as an investigative journalist reporting from war zones in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine, and reporting on domestic radicalism in the US. He hosts the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here for iHeartRadio, is a writer for the humor website Cracked, and an investigative journalist for Bellingcat. He resides in Portland, OR.