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In reply to the discussion: What evil force drives and protects Trump? [View all]Texin
(2,807 posts)That particular series has (in its early books) a very science fiction horror aspect about it, but the books become more pointed about the nature of human existence and the challenges between good and evil. Or, more interestingly, the interplay becomes about an alien neutral force - neither pro or con - humanity and the Earth, an inimical "other" force that is decided an antagonistic adversary, and a force for goodness. Emerging about halfway into the series is a weird group called The Kickers, and they embody to a one the very essence of Trumpism. The members engage in vicious and brutal behaviors much like what we saw in Charleston, SC and other places recently.
In any event, the whole premise of the book series is so eerily familiar and oh so much like what I see play out on television and on Twitter that it's surreal. The Repairman Jack series actually morphed from the first book in the series, The Tomb, which Wilson calls The "Adversary Cycle" and continues through the "Repairman Jack Novels" (though Jack is party of the Adversary Cycle as well). This series also had one of his novels, The Keep, which was first published in 1981 - so the premise behind the books was developing even that early on. The entire cycle of the series is ending soon with the publication of Wilson's last book The Last Christmas, which is being released I believe in September or October.
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