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512. Stephen Marche, author of The Hunger of the Wolf and The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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The Next Civil War

i thought of it at the time as distopian, a realism. So i interviewed the colonel who was responsible for drawing up full scale operations in the homeland and essentially just wrote that down. And then put it into some kind of meaning, meaningful context where it works on a narrative level,. But without straying from his ideas at all. Riht, and so everything in the book is like that. Like the fall of new york, which is about what happens when a hurricane hits new York. It actually had big political impacts.

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