Good News is a 1980 novel by Edward Abbey. Good News is Abbey's only work of science fiction and can be considered a distant sequel to The Brave Cowboy.[1]

Good News
First edition
AuthorEdward Abbey
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDutton
Publication date
1980,
1991
Media typeprint (hardback and paperback)
Pages242 (original)
256 (reissue)
ISBN0525115838
Preceded byThe Brave Cowboy (partially) 

Summary

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It is set in a Phoenix, Arizona of the near future after the economy and government have collapsed. Small bands of people (including Jack Burns, previously from The Brave Cowboy) are trying to live freely, but a would-be military dictator has other plans and is trying to set up a dictatorship using Phoenix as his base.

Publication history

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The book was first published in October 1980 with 242 pages and later reissued in January 1991 with 256 pages by Plume.

References

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  1. ^ "Good News". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-12-31.