Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

In article <v34o3q$seb$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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Well, I do like Rands Atlas Shrugged and We the living, but that is of
course not SF.

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I'd call Atlas Shrugged more fantasy than SF, but the deus ex machina of
the free power technology has some SF elements.  I have to admit that I
liked the book even though it was totally unrealistic.  However, it has a
bad reputation because of the number of people who believe it could come
true and that miraculous technologies just drop from the sky.
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Although, now that I think about it, I think that for most people, they
have the general perception that miraculous technologies DO drop from the
sky because they never see the enormous effort in developing them and only
see them when they arrive complete and functional on the market.
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In terms of SF, Neal Stephenson I appreciate, the early stuff, and
Heinlein as well. The moon is a harsh mistress is good.
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Ohh... and then there was another one... Poul Andersons Nicholas van Rijn
books, those are quite nice as well. =)
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Anything else, based on that, you could recommend?

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Ever read the Gateway series by Pohl?

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Kritzer's Liberty's Child is about a teen who lives in a utopian
libertarian seastead.
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Marcia Martin and Eric Vinicoff's The Weigher details first contact
between humans and some obligately libertarian aliens.