It was morning and the power was not yet on. Zach and Renee lay in the
heat of the bed listening to the city wake outside the building's
windows. Water rations are down to one gallon per person per day...the
mayor is proposing digging a trench to the Pacific Ocean...dried out
West Coast cities are crumbling and being abandoned by the east...and in
Portland, Oregon, water is declared a communal right but hoarding and
riots persist.
Amidst this, a young water activist nicknamed Maid Marian (a.k.a. Renee,
20-something, barista, and eternal part-time college student) becomes a
hero. She rides her swelling popularity in opposition to the city
government and becomes an icon to a city in need.
Even as Maid Marian and her compatriots build a new community one
neighbor at a time, they make powerful enemies in the city government
and the National Guard. Their idealistic dream is quickly caught up in a
brutal fight for survival.
Sherwood Nation is a postcollapse nonapocalyptic novel! It is the
story of the rise and fall of a micronation within a city. It is a love
story, a war story, a grand social experiment, a treatise on hacking and
remaking government, on freedom and necessity, on individualism and
community.
