Mission District historian, activist, and tour guide Chris Carlsson uses his own city as the staging ground of his new dystopian novel.
Chris Carlsson holding his new book When Shells Crumble in front of San Francisco bookstore City Lights Books. Photo provided by Chris Carlsson.
The book opens in 2024 with a judicial coup: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns election results in swing states Arizona and Wisconsin, handing the White House over to a Republican president who replaces the Democratic incumbent. Mass protests follow, ending in a declaration of national emergency and three years of punishing martial law. The federal government is further eroded by a barrage of natural disasters, including heat waves, food shortages and flooding.
ML: In “When Shells Crumble,” there are several subplots. Which one is your favorite? Which one was the first to be born? And what was the process of joining them all together — did it come to you naturally, or was it planned from the start? : Good question. I started out with the Robertson clan.
I’ve been an activist of sorts since the late 1970s I’ve lived through a lot, from publishingand distributing it on the streets of the Financial District during the Reagan/Bush years, to the eruption of Critical Mass and bike politics and activism from the early 1990s through its first 20 years, to the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, to Occupy in 2011, and much in between and after.
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