Good News (novel)

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Good News

First edition
Author	Edward Abbey
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Dutton
Publication date	1980, 1991
Media type	print (hardback and paperback)
Pages	242 (original) 256 (reissue)
ISBN	0525115838
Preceded by	The Brave Cowboy (partially)

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]

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.

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

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