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.

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