On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 3:16:29 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:=20
On 7/14/2021 9:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:=20
Five Speculative Visions of a Future America=20
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merica/=20
Dude, you did not mention a Heinlein book in your list ? I am shocked,=
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totally shocked.=20
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I would have mentioned "Revolt in 2100"
Just a civil war, nothing to see here.=20
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or "Methuselah's Children"=20
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I don't recall what the state of the USA was in this book. Whatever it wa=
s I don't think it=20
was particularly central.
at a=20
minimum. Or even "Stranger In A Strange Land" or the freakout "I Will=
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Fear No Evil".
IIRC neither seems to apply. But it's been decades since I read either. A=
nd I tend not to remember books=20
I didn't like.=20
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Someone pointed out in comments that the US is fractured in "Friday". But=
I recall nothing of=20
that novel, either.=20
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In Pangborn's "Davy" not only the US but even the northeast is fractured.=
Kingdoms/states mentioned in the=20
book include Penn, Moha, Katskill, Lebannin, and Nuin. Nuber is an indepe=
ndent holy city. South and west of Penn is jungle, and the secretive folks =
of Penn aren't saying anything about that. Only religion unites them (and P=
enn isn't really on board even with that).=20
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But in that book not just the US but the whole world is fractured, as in =
many post WWIII novels.=20
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In Leiber's "A Spectre is haunting Texas" (also post WWIII, but a relativ=
ely mild one) the US is split into at least two and possibly three parts. T=
exas, which is most of the warm part of continent, some pacific state whose=
borders are not well stated in the book but may be the whole coast of the =
current US and Canada (Alaska and northern Canada are Russian) and (I think=
) an independent northeast.=20
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The US is also fractured in Dick's The Man in the High Castle,=20
and Poul Anderson's Maurai series (many short stories, plus
the novel Orion Shall Rise).