Ameritopia 2075

by Corey Simmins

Overview

In a world of perceived utopian ideals, 21st Century Americana triumphantly straddles the globe as the predominant economic, military, and societal power of the world. With racism, social inequality, and economic disparity eradicated, America’s social engineering presents a dark underbelly to two promising and aspiring teachers who must complete an arduous journey to become members of a secret society—the Academy of Principals. Follow Murray Mallory Moore and Jacob Wilde as they are nominated into the fraternity of principals, who unbeknownst to them, serve as the gatekeepers of society, utilizing student data to determine who matriculates to a university, who advances to vocational training, who proceeds to work, and who faces a far grimmer fate.

In this political castigation of early 21st Century American politics, the United States, overrun by a group of radical moderates, has managed to solve innumerable divisive societal dilemmas such as: gay marriage, abortion, birth control, welfare, health care, and immigration, along with conquering the debt and deficit. But at what cost? Left-wing liberalism suppressed and shunned. Conservatism extinct. A penal colony for the criminality. Targeted assassination of societal pariahs. Paying homage to an amalgamation of classic dystopian novels, Ameritopia rains literary allusions and historical references upon the reader all the while asking what strain upon their collective compunction would Americans be willing to endure to celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to live in AMERITOPIA?

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940016242149
Publisher:	Corey L Simmins
Publication date:	03/14/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	279
File size:	257 KB

About the Author

Corey L Simmins, a secondary Language Arts teacher in one of Ohio's largest high schools, teaches AP Language and Composition, pre-AP literature, and Science Fiction. Being a self-proclaimed, bombastic anglophile-reeking of chutzpah and panache-he perpetually attempts to find the balance between his romantic notions of the world and the grim Conradian reality which surrounds him.
As a chronic logophile and swaggering elitist, Corey L Simmins possess a penchant for dystopian and utopian works, along with a predilection for allusions. Ameritopia 2075, inspired by student requests and constructed utilizing social media, represents his first publication in any form.
After graduating from Northern Kentucky University in 1995 and studying abroad at King's College London, Corey L Simmins-married with three children-continues to live in a delusional Miniver Cheevy-esque world opining about the lost age of British heroic idealism that once supplied the world with the likes of Shackleton, Nelson, Scott, and Mallory.
Born in the insignificant city of Dayton, Kentucky, many who know the author, often juxtapose the exile James Joyce felt with his native Dubliners to that of Corey L Simmins and his estranged relationship with his home town. Due to his chronic abhorrence of pathetic diction, Mr. Simmins composed his novel refusing to utilize the words "is" or "was" for he claims they represent "the gateway to ignorance." Being a misanthrope of the first order, rumor has it that the author surrounds himself with an eclectic group of inklings to stave off the madness brought on by being trapped on this God-forsaken mud ball called Earth with the likes of 7 billion people, most of which are willful idiots.
Many who know him realize that his hope of fulfilling his goal of dying in obscure misery is quickly coming to fruition. Though the noble demise of Virginia Woolf fascinates him, Corey L Simmins wavers with his favor between the stolidity of George Orwell's self-imposed exile into oblivion on the Isle of Jura and Aldous Huxley's trip through the doors of perception into the after world.