Beyond _Blade Runner_ (was Empire...)

Peter Kosenko kosenko at netwood.net
Mon Feb 5 03:36:09 PST 2001


No, but here's another forgotten potboiler -- Whitley Strieber's "Nature's End," set in a world that has been overcome by global warming. For anyone doing research into this topic.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D044651344X/witchsbrewforallA/103-8260599-4197436

Of course, Strieber moved on to become an Art Bell sponsored expert on the alien visitation and abduction circuit.

Peter Kosenko (Not Peter K.)


> Anyone familiar with David Foster Wallace's novel _Infinite Jest_? It's set
> in a near future where global warming has undeniably occured and where
> corporations sponsor the years. Instead of B.C., you have B.S. (before
> sponsorship) and instead of 2010 or 2020 you get Year of the Whopper or Year
> of the Depend Adult Undergarment. Also, North America has evolved into one
> political entity much to the chagrin of radical Quebecois separatists who
> may or may not be behind a terrorist weapon named "the Entertainment," a
> videotape of a "movie" so "good" and pleasurable that people can't stop
> watching it until they're dead.

...

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