It is 2017, and the centennial of the Russian Revolution is about to be celebrated in an alternative world socialist computopia where the Marshall Plan has failed and the world is caught in a bipolar Cold War between the Soviet Super-Union and the Caliphate. Setzer's bots have been deployed. In this world, technological innovation is given a freer hand. The global soviet is gearing up for a massive celebration of the Revolution, replete with propaganda and the genetic engineering olympics of reintroducing mammoths. Computational materialism, secret freebooters, stultifying layers of...