I put on the news to go with breakfast, and caught the end of Trump’s victory speech. Not a great way to start a Wednesday.

This US election, I’ve been too preoccupied to do my usual pimping of Sounds of Soldiers, but here we are.

I started this book in 2008, based on the premise of McCain/Palin winning the US elections that year, McCain dropping from the stress, and Palin being exactly as crazy as she appeared when she got power. That’s all hinted at in the back story, but it’s really about how a second American civil war affected Europe, and the narrator in particular. In some ways, it’s an optimistic book, as everyone is rebuilding, and finding better ways to do things. But there’s still all the death and terror that took the world to the place they had to rebuild from.

All of the above is to say- buy Sounds of Soldiers (also available from Smashwords if you don’t want to give Bezos any money). And start working out how we’re going to deal with the shit a second Trump presidency will shovel on the world.