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In 2068: A novel of America divided, a writer, a government official, and a spy find themselves drawn into the center of events that will determine the future of two nations: Cascadia, a country created when Washington, Oregon, and California seceded from the United States; and what's left of the United States itself. Years after the split, the American government finds its citizens nearly ungovernable in the face of climate-driven disasters, loss of jobs to AI, a widening income gap, and the taunt of a more successful nation right next door.
Marley Jun is a successful writer who has never wanted to be anything else, but when AI takes not only their job but their entire profession, they must reinvent themselves, and in doing so, they find themselves becoming part of Cascadia's best hope for survival.
Audrey Adams, newly arrived in Cascadia to live, cares only about preventing a war the United States seems only too eager to start--even if her only way of doing that is to sabotage the Cascadian government as an American spy.
Gene Ajou, head of the Cascadian Agency of Resilience and Disaster Recovery, is tasked with preparing Cascadia for an invasion, but finds that one of key causes of the danger is closer to him than he could have imagined.
Set in a world where our society has taken the necessary steps to turn around climate change, 2068 realistically depicts a carbon neutral world, where everything has changed but little has been lost. Even so, the damage already done means humanity will continue to face climate disasters for many years to come. The key difference is that in this version of the future, we know the world will come back to something like what it used to be.
As stark as the differences are between Cascadia and America, and even the differences within each of those countries, 2068 also digs into the question what can we do to heal the divide?