Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories About Underground Resistance Movements

The Horny Goat wrote:

Don wrote:
>

Off the top of my head, both the Heinlein and the Russell occurred to
me, as well as:
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ALONGSIDE NIGHT by Schulman (literally underground)
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Rand (plutocratic inverted underground)
CRYPTONOMICON by Stephenson (data underground)
DUNE, THE EYES OF HEISENBERG, and HELLSTROM'S HIVE by Herbert (the
 latter literally underground)
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Bradbury
LANAGUE FEDERATION series by Wilson
LOGAN'S RUN by Nolan
NEW ATLANTIS by Francis "Shakes" Bacon [1] (a scientistic underground)
PERRY RHODAN (sundry settings sometimes literally underground)
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH by Dick
TRANSISTION by Banks

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If those are the criteria you are using then you should also include
William Gibson's Burning Chrome and Neuromancer.
>
And much as I like Philip Dick, I'm not at all sure The Man in the
High Castle belongs in this sub-genre since unlike the others which
are mostly about the overthrow of a totalitarian regime, TMitHC is
primarily about overthrowing a foreign power that had conquered the
United States by a conventional invasion.
>
(And like many such stories the scenario that led to this whopping
good story is complete handwavium to get to where the author wants to
be. For what it's worth I feel the same about Marching Through Georgia
and the rest of the Domination of the Draka series. And given my 25+
year participation in soc.history.what-if and alt.history.what-if you
can safely assume I know my way around counter-factuals)

Most of the resistance in HIGH CASTLE is covert, categorically
idiosyncratic rather than organized. Instead of Prof goading Loonies
into open rebellion, HIGH CASTLE's quietly rebellious.
    Frank Frink foxily fabricates Americana to showoff superior
indigenous craftsmanship. Abendsen's banned meta-novel, THE GRASSHOPPER
LIES HEAVY, subverts fascist narratives. It inculcates taboo thoughts
that contradict official history.
    The story's Operation Dandelion internecine intrigue is different.
It contains classical cells organized into an underground, or at least
occult, movement.

Regardless, in the end, you are correct. Although HIGH CASTLE hints at
underground elements around its edges, it's primarily explores the
nature of reality. It seeks truth from a cornucopia of fake.
    A counterintuitive take on Tagomi theorizes he transits to reality
while meditating on the park bench. While the world where the USA lost
is shared delusion...

Danke,

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