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Kirk Combe, Denison’s resident master of satire, just released his first science-fiction novel, entitled 2084.

Reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World, 2084 serves as the author’s critique of unrestrained free market capitalism, investigating “a corporate-controlled America and its culture’s mindset in a year deep into the 21st century.”

2084 is a world run and employed by a single mega corporation, whose reach extends into the very brains of the population, tapping into their fantasies and their base drives at the expense of everyone and everything around them. This technically controlled society is opposed only by the shrinking members of a free-thinking humanity.

While Combe, a Professor of English, has authored several books and articles, including A Martyr for Sin: Rochester’s Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society, Theorizing Satire: Essays on Literary Criticism, his latest literary creation embodies his “lifelong interest in the power and place of satire in literature.”

For more on 2084, check out Evelyn Frolking’s article on Newark Advocate, or buy it online at Amazon.

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