By Gary R. Sorkin - The world of Preston Fleming’s dystopic novel Forty Days at Kamas is a far cry from the one we know. Canada and Mexico have been more or less annexed, America’s economy has completely collapsed and, in the wake of a turbulent series of troubles known simply as the Events, an authoritarian state has taken the reins, remaking America into a Soviet Union for a new century. As the story opens, Paul Wagner – a businessman sentenced to five years of hard labor for attempting to immigrate to...

