Reprint: Jennifer Government

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C.M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl, Kingsley Amis, Max Barry, Philip Bobbitt

In his groundbreaking study of science fiction, New Maps of Hell, Kingsley Amis devoted much of his attention and praise to what he called the ‘comic inferno’, and in particular to The Space Merchants by C.M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl, who sadly died just the other day. So this time around I’ve picked a book that references the Pohl and Kornbluth classic, even if it doesn’t come close to matching it. This review of Jennifer Government by Max Barry first appeared in Foundation 90, Spring 2004.