cover image Slog

Slog

Richard Jr. Bellush. Robert D. Reed Publishers, $24.95 (300pp) ISBN 978-1-931741-09-5

In a hot, future world decimated by tropical diseases and biological weapons (over seven billion people died in a matter of years), George Custer is the ""landlord and proprietary Governor"" of what used to be northern New Jersey. Life rolls along about as well as can be expected, until his double-crossing lover gets him involved in a struggle between what remains of the French and American populations; after that, there's no going back home in Richard Bellush Jr.'s oddball, pop-culture saturated Slog.