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It's a matter of numbers.  While forced abortions have contributed to the prevention of 400 million births during China's ongoing one-child policy¹, and freely-chosen pregnancy terminations have reduced the population elsewhere, Moslems know no such restrictions on fertility.  Extrapolating this shift in demographics one hundred years into the future -- and its consequences -- is the premise of Tom Kratman's latest novel, Caliphate.

A reunited Islamic world dominates the European continent in the 22nd century, with all non-Moslem citizenry living under oppressive dhimmitude, a humiliating subjugation that strips any rights they previously enjoyed, and taxes the populace into submission. Such is the life of a young sister and brother in this new order, the former sold into slavery and the latter conscripted into military service. An American soldier confronts the compromises his nation has made resulting in this global power-shift, and learns that any situation can call for a hero.

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¹CNN.com: Parents' losses compounded by China's one-child policy