DBWI: Have You Read Passing of a Century

Have you read Passing of a Century? It is a scientific romance in the manner of say Mr. HG Wells although it focuses not just on technology but on political and social matters also. Basically it shows the history of the world from now until a century hence in 2011.

Personally I found it quite implausible-although the idea of a Great War is plausible, its absurd that it drags on for four years. After that even stranger things happen such as Germany coming under an insane dictator who tries to kill every Jew on the planet (doesn't the author know Germany is one of the semitophilic countries on Earth?) and Russia coming under a radical socialist dictatorship.
 
Jesus could the author have honestly have come up with a more Mary Sue character than this Adolf Hitler character? It is so laughably bad along with the author's weird and borderline creepy obsession with hunting down and killing Jews.
 

JoeMulk

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Why is such a thing impossible? I mean if you've read about the Dreyfuss affair or the Protocals of the Elders of zionism and seen how common casual anti-semitism can be its not difficult to believe that under the right circumstances even an "enlightened" country like Germany could go down that type of conspiracist path and have it eventually lead to genocide.
 
Personally, I agree with H.G. Wells' astonishment that the author has the United States winning a gigantic competition to reach the moon with explorers, succeeding, and then simply going home, never to return simply ridiculous. What serious nation would do that? I mean, come on!
 
Wait, there is a successful socialist uprising in Russia?!?! But it's a backward agrarian country! If anything France, Britain, Germany, or even the United States should be having socialist uprisings. Doesn't the author realize that the conditions for a hypothetical socialist state are best in a country with a large urban industrial poor class?
 
While the specifics of the novel are...:eek::eek::eek: to say the least...

The basic structure of how things go is pretty reasonable. A massive European war at the end of Victoria's time couldn't have been good for the empires, our monarchies barely managed to hold on without losing an entire generation of men. With the victors almost as defeated as the losers, a peace treaty that harsh is definitely reasonable. A premier world power subjected to such a humiliating treaty, in turn, would bring about strong feelings of wanting revenge. As for the showdown between capitalism and communism, well...monarchism was pretty much dead by then in that world, and humans have to fight about something, right? ;)
 
Personally I found it quite implausible-although the idea of a Great War is plausible, its absurd that it drags on for four years.

Indeed. Any economist worth his salt will prove you that a war on this scale could last six months, maximally.

Jesus could the author have honestly have come up with a more Mary Sue character than this Adolf Hitler character?

Wouldn't "Anti Sue" or such be more appropriate for such an uber-evil character?
 
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