Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020

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/

Curiously enough I have read several of those but think I
missed the Philip Dick novel and the anthology.
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.
  The USA is center stage of course along wiht a group of aged cancer victims who have been following a course of treatment involving destroying the telomeres of their cancer treatment.  The Presiden
t is a sane but single man. A Mission is returning from a Mars Landing and no communication from Ground to Space is available. The technology is a bit more advanced as the cancer patient have home gendnome sequencers which of course not long work nor does much htat used
integrated circuit chips.
Capital punishment is gone and in its place we have Judicial Sleep
which is suspended animation with normal aging. This opens with
a serial killer undergoing Judicial Sleep.
That is as far as I have gotten.
bliss
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