Mairead
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Mon Oct-13-03 10:14 AM
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For a fictional look at a far-right/Patriot Act/PNAC world, |
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have a look at Harry Harrison's 'Homeworld', the first book in his 'To the Stars' trilogy. It was published in 1980, and imo the man must have the Sight. I'm re-reading it for the first time in years and it makes my skin crawl.
Do read it! If you have any interest at all in a well-written glimpse into The Future According To The Rightwing Nutters, read this book.
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Mon Oct-13-03 10:42 AM
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1. Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out. |
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If you have read it already, The Handmaid's Tale, I can't remember the author's name, is a good read along the same sort of lines.
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Mon Oct-13-03 11:37 AM
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(who could win the Booker Prize this week).
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Mon Oct-13-03 10:55 AM
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2. The old stand-by /1984/ is pretty good... |
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...even though I think the society described there is supposed to be more like a deviant form of communism (Orwell himself was a socialist critical of the direction communist nations had taken). But the stuff on revisionist history and propaganda is pretty good.
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Mon Oct-13-03 10:57 AM
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With news stories on-line, it is much easier to remove or edit news after the fact. No need to destroy every slip of paper.
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Mon Oct-13-03 11:58 AM
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5. Starhawk's "The Fifth Sacred Thing" |
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It's a pagan book, but shows what would occur from that perspective.
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