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If Europe is split between Protestant North and Catholic South (and Orthodox East?), which side of the CoC WWIII will each go on?

Anotherr view of the Singularity, which I somehow forgot to mention, is that of Orion's Arm http://www.orionsarm.com/ which is set in the year 12,569 AD. Over the millennia, we build smarter and smarter machines. When they reach a certain level, they undergo a "phase change" of sorts, entering a con...

"Sleepover" by Alastair Reynolds Available for the Kindle in The Year's Best Science Fictiion Twenty-eight Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois and The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF by Mike Ashley. SPOILER ALERT this is a little intricate to describe and I have to give away much of the story. Hyperi...

I am currently reading Nexus by Ramez Naam. It is set in 2040. There was no CoC WWIII, but in 2030 a neo-Nazi group genetically engineered a group of children to be perfect Aryans, and then released a genetically engineered Marburg virus to kill everyone else. Because the incubation period was so sh...

I have started another good one. It is Existence by David Brin. It is set in the mid-21st century, and is a First Contact novel. The Big Event is something called "Awfulday". It seems to involve at least the nuclear destruction of Washington, and perhaps more. It could not have been too awful, howev...

Just a little reminder...
China might have 3,000 nukes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... nnels.html

John says that every nuke will be used. But when? I can see two possibilities. There will be a fear of "use 'em or lose 'em" that might result in the birds flying in the early hours of the CoC war. Alternately, the thought of nukes may be so horrifying that they will be held in reserve until one sid...