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Sideshow

W. R. Thompson (1988)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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It is the year 2000, and the U.S. sways under the deepest Depression it has ever experienced. Radical groups proliferate, drawing their members from the jobless and the frightened: THE IRON GUARD — Neo-Nazis whose master plan is an American dictatorship. THE NEW REDEEMERS — Religious fanatics who obey no law except the word of their leader, the Reverend Fountain. SERE — an extremist "save-the-ecology" group that believes civilization must collapse before the world can be clean again. The only group that might save the country from dissolution and decay are the telepaths — if they can survive. "Witch-hunting" is an all-too-popular sport…