Cleandayville, 2364 A.D. The global capital of the international parliamentary dictatorship is on the verge of a deep political crisis, sparked off by a governmental sex scandal. Freddy Various, Head of Progress for the Global Presidency, seems to be the only one capable of reversing the negative spiral and of assuring the leadership’s electoral victory, by smashing and defeating real and imagined opponents. Cynical and shrewd yet romantic and sensitive, sarcastic and scheming yet naïve, he is the politician of the near future, one who deftly combines the personalities of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one who fully embodies the political amorality of Machiavelli’s Prince in both a delightful and nightmarish fashion.
Curious readers will find some answers to a series of thought-provoking questions regarding the future of humanity. For example, do aliens exist and is there evidence of life on other planets? Will humans be able to settle in space? Why do we believe in gods? What will drugs be like in the future?
Holidays in Helland is a political, science fiction thriller, written with humour. It presents a bleak vision of tomorrow’s society. It picks up where Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World left off. Finally, it is an elegy to lost loves and betrayed friendships, the only traces of humanity that survive this absurd progression on the “road to nowhere”.
Kastaniotis, 2001, 224 p.
