Campaign 2100: Game of Scorpions: Game of Scorpions

Presidential politics dominates the news. Few stories are more compelling than a bare-knuckle, fight-to-the-finish political campaign-but where are the science fiction novels that cover this? Campaign 2100 dramatizes and satirizes politics; it is West Wing in the 22nd Century.

The year is 2100, and the world has adopted the American two-party electoral system. Toby and Lara Platt are the father/daughter cutthroat campaign directors who get candidates elected by any means necessary-including the current president of Earth, Corbin Dubois of France. But when an alien claiming to be an ambassador from Tau Ceti lands outside the United Nations and has an altercation with the president, Dubois orders her attacked. Toby resigns in protest, but his daughter Lara takes over Dubois' corrupt reelection campaign.

The alien survives the attack and tags along as Toby challenges the two major parties-one conservative, one liberal-and runs for president himself with an impossible third-party moderate challenge. Amid rising tensions and chants of "Alien go home!" the campaign crisscrosses all seven continents as father and daughter battle for electoral votes and clash over the ideas and issues facing the world of 2100 in this nail-biting political campaign. The world is watching. And so is the alien.

''A tense, taut political thriller that rings much truer than you would suspect, given that it won't be happening for another 8 decades.''-MIKE RESNICK, 5-time Hugo winner, record 37-time nominee, and editor of Galaxy's Edge