2104 is a satirical novel by about President George W. Bush and specifically his infamous war on terror.

Plot

The story centers around Zstyom Iayozs, who is a member of a secret underground group which opposes President-King George U. U. Tree the Third, the corrupt ruler of the "Eunited States" (a merger of America and Europe, in other words, the opposite of the American Revolution). Things are going pretty badly as it is, but when the army of Ireq (the also recently-merged Middle Eastern countries) begins to invade, things really begin to get bad.

Iayozs, however, has realized that both they and the supposed enemies are opposed to the tyrannical and incompetent rule of Tree, and soon enough they have united to fight against the Eunited States. However, they are soon captured, and sentenced to execution by atomic dissolution – a nasty process by which every single atom in the victim's body is separated, one by one, until the entire body is gone. By a twist of dumb luck, Iayozs manages to escape, however, so that he can free the rest of them as well.

Because of what's happened, the Ireqis soon decide that they no longer want to have any Americans with them, so Iayozs and company are kicked out as traitors. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to leave the city and head out towards the neighboring town.

That night, Iayozs is having trouble getting to sleep, and has a lot of strange dreams. To make matters worse, the next morning, the Ireqis break in to the hotel they are staying in and kill one of their friends. Iayozs runs away from this whole thing, and suddenly finds himself in a strange colorless void where the only other thing in sight is a strange woman who talks in riddles.

Iayozs is informed that he has somehow broken the speed of light and travelled through time. He is then given the chance to go back into the past, when everything began, and solve everything once and for all.

The book ends with the Eunited States holding free elections, directly poking fun at the Bush vs. Kerry campaign of 2005.

Publication

Ultima says that he originally planned to have the book published normally – in other words, printed and bound and sold in stores – but decided instead to release it for free so that he could spread the message to the entire world, somewhat like Dan Brown did with Digital Fortress. All 145 pages are available from his web site in PDF format, in a single 450kb file.

External Links

Official homepage, with downloadble copy of text