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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:09:03 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vcq5h2$2cdcj$1@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>On 9/22/24 15:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>> 	But I happen to be curently reading "Aftermath" by
>>> Charles Sheffield which is set in 2026 published in 1998.
>>>   In this novel the world is suffering a double crisis.  Alpha Centuri
>>> has gone supenova and the radiation hit the Suuthern Hemisphere
>>> and set offgsome very unpleansanbt weather but the wave of hard
>>> radiation causes a EMP and wipes out all computers not in
>>> Faraday cages.
>> 
>> This is written by someone who is unfamiliar with the inverse square law?
>> --scott
>
>	I dunno what Sheffield is familiar with aside from excellent story
>telling skills. But the microchip ending event is the very hard 
>radiation delayed by the expanding shell of the supernova.
>
>	Within the story the effects are credible. In real life asfawk
>Alpha Centuri is not the correct sort of star to become a supernova. In
>the story that point is raised and then dropped because in the world
>of the story it happened regardless of supernova theory.

I believe in the second book, Alpha C's nova turns out to have
been assisted, and also that the explosion was assymetric. 
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