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

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Sujet : Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020
De : kludge (at) *nospam* panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written
Date : 23. Sep 2024, 00:19:21
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
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?
>
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.

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.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Date Sujet#  Auteur
17 Sep 24 * Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 202021James Nicoll
18 Sep 24 +* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20207BCFD 36
18 Sep 24 i`* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20206Titus G
18 Sep 24 i `* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20205BillGill
19 Sep 24 i  +* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20202Lynn McGuire
19 Sep 24 i  i`- Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20201Scott Dorsey
19 Sep 24 i  `* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20202Titus G
26 Sep 24 i   `- Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20201BillGill
18 Sep 24 +* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20204Lynn McGuire
18 Sep 24 i+- Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20201Robert Woodward
18 Sep 24 i`* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20202James Nicoll
19 Sep 24 i `- Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20201Lynn McGuire
18 Sep 24 +- Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20201Garrett Wollman
22 Sep 24 +* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20206Bobbie Sellers
23 Sep 24 i`* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20205Scott Dorsey
23 Sep 24 i `* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20204Bobbie Sellers
23 Sep 24 i  `* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20203James Nicoll
23 Sep 24 i   `* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20202Scott Dorsey
23 Sep 24 i    `- Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20201Paul S Person
25 Sep 24 `* Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20202Robert Woodward
26 Sep 24  `- Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 20201Robert Woodward

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