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I still think the Southeast should have come through at least as well as Iowa did. Barring the Deathzone around Atlanta, you have pretty much nothing but farm country a single days walk from any township or city in the Georgia/Alabama/Mississippi area. I don't see the US military just...

I started off really enjoying the book, then got pissed off by the end of the series as the Author failed to maintain internal consistency. Also, between books two and three he skips about two years of storyline. It's like he got bored and just jumped to the end. Major characters are killed...

Heh, I could survive till spring plantings come in at harvest time then. I probably wouldn't be happy about it, but might actually fit into my high school football jersey again.

I actually enjoyed DtF far more than I thought I would and look forward to the next installment. I get them on kindle and they're good airplane reading (which I seem to be doing an awful lot of lately :mad:). As for good steampunk reading, check out Steampunk I and Steampunk II anthologies...

I hate how the South East is assumed to be a dead zone. I would think that Alabama, Georgia, Florida, etc would eat themselves. Outside of Atlanta, sure, but most of the south is still pretty rural. A new Confederacy, based upon the agricultural traditions of the south and protected by the...

Any discussion about withholding atomic arms goes out the window. Atomics would be used to cover the evacuation, at a minimum.

As I recall, there was a proposal to 'loan' a US carrier to the British. Crewed by American 'technical advisors', but commanded by British officers and flying the Union Jack.

I don't believe nuclear attack would serve the function you desire. Although I understand where you're going, I remember the t-shirts that said "Nuke Iran, till they glow, then shoot them in the dark". Better, I think would be to sieze and occupy the Iranian side of the Straits of Hormuz and...

I saw that movie. Frightening. As I recall, the President's wife was in NYC and he wouldn't allow any special effort to get her out. No, they did not evacuate the city, nor warn anyone of incoming. A US bomber was over NYC awaiting word wether or not Soviet AA belt outside Moscow stopped...

I like Stephen Baxter, but only in small doses. The man writes some depressing (and sometimes stupid) work. One theme that runs throughout nearly every story of his is how Western (read US) civilization is unable cope with the future and turns into a degenerate state that ultimately either...

By Vilhelm Bergsoe. Originally published in Dutch, translated for Steampunk II. This was a remarkably funny story set in an alternate 1969, with the protagonist a Dutch engineer invited to attended the opening cermonies of the Panama Canal, recently completed by the American Empire (this was...

Only his proctologist can say...:p

Somebody gets nuked, I imagine. Straight up use of WMDs on US soil. US doctrine is to respond to a WMD with a WMD, and the only one we have goes boom. Anyone who even looks guilty might be advised to resign as dictator-for-life and flee to Switzerland and beg asylum. I would find it neigh...

Tanks were a technological response to the stalemate of trench warfare. No trenches means no tank development.

Just an aside, my cousin worked on the Phoenix.

I don't think things would be that dire. The nuclear weapons option would be removed from China's arsenal in the opening shots of the war. In an all-out, no holds barred fight, US conventional, precision weapons could eliminate ALL Chinese nuclear arms capable of reaching the US. Chinese...

Maybe I'm misinformed, but wouldn't diseases still have decimated the Indian population? I read about a tribe that lost all but two individuals to small pox after trading with a passing vessel in California. Could the people develop immunities if they hadn't been under pressure from American...

Wait wait wait! Why does a World War have to involve both the US and Soviet Union? I mean, come on. World War I had the Russians drop out and the US didn't get involved until late in the game. World War 2 kicked off without either one. Just because they're the two heavies, doesn't mean a...

It may be totally out there, but MAN does that look cool! I'm game.

Meh. No one pisses me off more than David Gerrold. I'm about 2/3s way through HKoM. No great surprises, I knew this was going to be a transitional book. Looks like he's going for the trilogy of trilogies thing, so 12 books in all. Never read ISoT, so can't comment; however I do have...