Which book's setting will the US most resemble in 20 years?

Tom Watson's 'The House', obviously.

Riddley Walker, but that might be optimistic.
& compressing the timescale .
BUt the Fox news watchers version of reality might rival the distortion.

None of them. Dystopias are usually a bad way of imagining the future.

I sure hope that Christopher Brown's Rule of Capture won't turn out to be very prophetic in the long run, but so far its extrapolation is proving more relentlessly plausible every day---talked about it recently on Rolling Speculative etc.

voted Butler

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War With the Newts

We're already well on our way to Parable of the Sower. The Dhalgren world is a bit too reliant on the supernatural, unexplainable elements, whereas you could remove that stuff from Parable and still have mostly the same story.

I voted Parable of the Sower, but only because this wasn't an option:
https://www.ft.com/content/2d222ae6-b993-11e7-bff8-f9946607a6ba

(link is to a review of https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543957/american-war-by-omar-el-akkad/ )

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