“Just in time for the 2020 election season, The Blue Sky Rebellion paints a cautionary tale. The president depicted in the novel, President Bridge, bears a striking resemblance to the current occupant of the White House. As the novel progresses, we see President Bridge wage the same attacks on immigrants and Muslims, not to mention on the environment, behavioral norms and common decency. When President Bridge steps over the line that he, like his doppelganger, has stretched so far, it seems only natural and entirely believable. And, frankly, it scares the hell out of the reader. The author of the novel, a longtime city councilmember in Sacramento, brings a wealth of political knowledge to this harrowing tale. Read it and try not to panic as the march toward totalitarianism feels achingly real.”

“I didn’t know Steve before reading this book, recommended to me by a friend. Steve writes with an energy and a novelist’s eye for detail. He makes the reader feel part of the major political issues in California and Sacramento in the latter 1900s and early 2000s.”