About this book
The Great Potlatch Riots by Allen Kim Lang detonates a sly, satirical take on consumer culture and the bureaucracies that feed it. Blending short stories, political economy, and speculative science, Lang imagines a world where rituals of buying and celebration are weaponized, and a handful of oddball officers—like the audacious Captain Wesley Winfree and the cautious Major Stanley Dampfer—find themselves at the center of a very peculiar uprising.
Through sharp, literate vignettes, Lang explores how markets, rituals, and state planning collide: calendars become battlegrounds, gift economies morph into corporate ordinances, and everyday consumption turns into political theatre. The collection probes themes of authority, resistance, and the absurd bureaucracy of prosperity while threading scientific speculation and economic theory into human-scaled comedy and unease. Tone ranges from mordant wit to unsettling imagination, never revealing outcomes but always raising difficult questions about power, value, and the meaning of revolt.
Ideal for listeners who enjoy literary short stories with intellectual bite—fans of political economy, speculative science fiction, and keen social satire—this audiobook rewards attention with inventive worldbuilding, elegant language, and provocative ideas that linger long after the last line.
