Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
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On 9/17/2024 10:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/
"2020 Vision edited by Jerry Pournelle (1974)" looks very familiar. And
I passed on "Directive 51" and the others.
I've got another book at the back of my mind but it refuses to release
the name so far. Maybe "Wolf and Iron" by Gordon Dickson ???
https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Iron-Gordon-R-Dickson/dp/0812533348/
Or "World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler which one reviewer said
is set around 2015.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Made-James-Howard-Kunstler/dp/0802144012/
On 9/17/24 08:10, James Nicoll wrote:
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/
Not a one.
On 9/17/2024 10:10 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/
"2020 Vision edited by Jerry Pournelle (1974)" looks very familiar. And
I passed on "Directive 51" and the others.
I've got another book at the back of my mind but it refuses to release
the name so far. Maybe "Wolf and Iron" by Gordon Dickson ???
https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Iron-Gordon-R-Dickson/dp/0812533348/
Or "World Made by Hand" by James Howard Kunstler which one reviewer said
is set around 2015.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Made-James-Howard-Kunstler/dp/0802144012/
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/
On 9/18/2024 8:03 AM, BillGill wrote:
And now the chips in the head would be a problem, because
how would you upgrade to the new and better chip every
couple of years? And how would you incorporate a camera?
And what would you do when your chip in your head got hacked ?
You know it happen.
On 9/18/2024 12:37 AM, Titus G wrote:
On 18/09/24 13:14, BCFD 36 wrote:
On 9/17/24 08:10, James Nicoll wrote:
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/
Not a one.
One. I enjoyed Stross' Halting State but did not enjoy Rule 34, (Halting
State 2). I think I just didn't like the writing style and can't
remember the plot nor content despite reading James' outline but I think
that their smart phones were chips in their heads.
And now the chips in the head would be a problem, because
how would you upgrade to the new and better chip every
couple of years? And how would you incorporate a camera?
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
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But I happen to be curently reading "Aftermath" by
Charles Sheffield which is set in 2026 published in 1998.
In this novel the world is suffering a double crisis. Alpha Centuri
has gone supenova and the radiation hit the Suuthern Hemisphere
and set offgsome very unpleansanbt weather but the wave of hard
radiation causes a EMP and wipes out all computers not in
Faraday cages.
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:
But I happen to be curently reading "Aftermath" by
Charles Sheffield which is set in 2026 published in 1998.
In this novel the world is suffering a double crisis. Alpha Centuri
has gone supenova and the radiation hit the Suuthern Hemisphere
and set offgsome very unpleansanbt weather but the wave of hard
radiation causes a EMP and wipes out all computers not in
Faraday cages.
This is written by someone who is unfamiliar with the inverse square law? --scott
On 9/22/24 15:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:
But I happen to be curently reading "Aftermath" by
Charles Sheffield which is set in 2026 published in 1998.
In this novel the world is suffering a double crisis. Alpha Centuri
has gone supenova and the radiation hit the Suuthern Hemisphere
and set offgsome very unpleansanbt weather but the wave of hard
radiation causes a EMP and wipes out all computers not in
Faraday cages.
This is written by someone who is unfamiliar with the inverse square law?
--scott
I dunno what Sheffield is familiar with aside from excellent story
telling skills. But the microchip ending event is the very hard
radiation delayed by the expanding shell of the supernova.
Within the story the effects are credible. In real life asfawk
Alpha Centuri is not the correct sort of star to become a supernova. In
the story that point is raised and then dropped because in the world
of the story it happened regardless of supernova theory.
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/22/24 15:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:I dunno what Sheffield is familiar with aside from excellent story >>telling skills. But the microchip ending event is the very hard
But I happen to be curently reading "Aftermath" by
Charles Sheffield which is set in 2026 published in 1998.
In this novel the world is suffering a double crisis. Alpha Centuri >>>> has gone supenova and the radiation hit the Suuthern Hemisphere
and set offgsome very unpleansanbt weather but the wave of hard
radiation causes a EMP and wipes out all computers not in
Faraday cages.
This is written by someone who is unfamiliar with the inverse square law? >>
radiation delayed by the expanding shell of the supernova.
Within the story the effects are credible. In real life asfawk
Alpha Centuri is not the correct sort of star to become a supernova. In
the story that point is raised and then dropped because in the world
of the story it happened regardless of supernova theory.
I believe in the second book, Alpha C's nova turns out to have
been assisted, and also that the explosion was assymetric.
James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/22/24 15:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:I dunno what Sheffield is familiar with aside from excellent story >>>telling skills. But the microchip ending event is the very hard
But I happen to be curently reading "Aftermath" by
Charles Sheffield which is set in 2026 published in 1998.
In this novel the world is suffering a double crisis. Alpha Centuri >>>>> has gone supenova and the radiation hit the Suuthern Hemisphere
and set offgsome very unpleansanbt weather but the wave of hard
radiation causes a EMP and wipes out all computers not in
Faraday cages.
This is written by someone who is unfamiliar with the inverse square law? >>>
radiation delayed by the expanding shell of the supernova.
Right, and as the shell gets larger and larger, it becomes less and less >dense. The radiation still has lots of energy, but there is less of it.
James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/22/24 15:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:I dunno what Sheffield is familiar with aside from excellent story >>>telling skills. But the microchip ending event is the very hard >>>radiation delayed by the expanding shell of the supernova.
But I happen to be curently reading "Aftermath" by
Charles Sheffield which is set in 2026 published in 1998.
In this novel the world is suffering a double crisis. Alpha Centuri >>>>> has gone supenova and the radiation hit the Suuthern Hemisphere
and set offgsome very unpleansanbt weather but the wave of hard
radiation causes a EMP and wipes out all computers not in
Faraday cages.
This is written by someone who is unfamiliar with the inverse square law? >>>
Right, and as the shell gets larger and larger, it becomes less and less >dense. The radiation still has lots of energy, but there is less of it.
We get very high energy cosmic rays here that are very high energy,
enough to easily penetrate through the Van Allen belts and the atmosphere
and my roof. They leave annoying streaks on the photographic film stored
in my freezer, and they keep on going. But there aren't a lot of them,
so other than some fogging they aren't a serious threat.
--Within the story the effects are credible. In real life asfawk
Alpha Centuri is not the correct sort of star to become a supernova. In >>>the story that point is raised and then dropped because in the world
of the story it happened regardless of supernova theory.
I believe in the second book, Alpha C's nova turns out to have
been assisted, and also that the explosion was assymetric.
A CME directed toward the earth might make for something more measurable >here, although it would have to be pretty narrow.
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
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[email protected] (James Nicoll) wrote:
Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/
This reply is a bit late, but I was just looking at my database of books bought and read and a comment I made decades ago for one book caught my attention. I give you _Touch the Stars: Emergence_ by John Dalmas and
Carl Martin (published by Tor in 1983). The chapter heads include dates, chapter 1 being set on September 16, 2024. I don't remember much about
it (I think it could be called a gadget story), but there appears to be
a E-book edition available. Oh, the comment: "King Charles III makes a
brief appearance".
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