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Science Fiction

hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Tue May 15, 2012, 10:15 AM May 2012

So I'm reading Flashback by Dan Simmons. The setting is [View all]

a Right winger's ultimate nightmare - as if every word on Fox were true and America collapses in the next few years because of the liberals and the hippies. My question is, some of this stuff is so over the top, does Simmons really believe this or is it all an elaborate satire?. I mean, there is even a passing reference to wind turbines slaughtering millions of birds.

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So I'm reading Flashback by Dan Simmons. The setting is [View all] hedgehog May 2012 OP

Quoting him: "In a word . . . no. In two words . . . hell no." getting old in mke May 2012 #1

I don't buy it. hedgehog May 2012 #2

He believes it. He's one of the viler writers out there. Posteritatis May 2012 #3

I've really enjoyed his work in the past but a few things I've read make me think he's fucking crazy Rowdyboy May 2012 #4

Dan Simmonds jambo101 May 2012 #5

I think it was published in 2011 hedgehog May 2012 #6

I comfort myself with the idea that we wake up as slightly different people every day. sudopod May 2012 #7

Well, shit. There's another author down the tubes. semillama Jun 2012 #8

Thoroughly. Posteritatis Jun 2012 #9

well, at least we still have David Brin. n/t semillama Jun 2012 #10

Sadly, most of what wingnuts genuinely believe is just that OTT Bucky Jun 2012 #11