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

In article <vcq5h2$2cdcj$1@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 9/22/24 15:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> 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.

I believe in the second book, Alpha C's nova turns out to have
been assisted, and also that the explosion was assymetric.
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