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Syria is in an Awakening War whose magnitude reaches that of the genocidal Crisis Wars which scar generations for a lifetime. How will a war of this magnitude in a Second Turning affect the cycle?

An argument against the Singularity:
http://www.astronist.demon.co.uk/astro-ev/ae090.html
or perhaps the point of diminishing returns comes at a human level equivalent to, say, Einstein or Hawking, Edison or Tesla?

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...