Challenge 747

Don’t Go There

In Dan Rice’s “The Future of Our Prosperity”:
1. Does the near-future setting presuppose a change in the form of government in the USA?
2. The story’s premise is: “If this goes on...” Are any of the events in parts 1 and 2 unprecedented, i.e. far-fetched?
3. Why is Gabe interested in hacking the crashed Autonomous Surveillance Unit? Why is Maggie interested?
In Ásgrímur Hartmannsson’s Attack on an Evil God:
1. In the 13 chapters to date, how many characters have been introduced?
2. How many characters have been killed?
3. Who are the adversaries in the plot?
4. What seems to be Maggi’s function in the story?