Saturday, July 3, 2021

Four SF works featuring a far-future U.S.A.

At Tor.com James Davis Nicoll tagged four sci-fi works featuring a far-future U.S.A., including:
In Joe and Jack C. Haldeman’s There Is No Darkness, English is an obscure language, spoken only on backwater worlds and a few places on Earth. We don’t know exactly when the book takes place, as year zero has been set to the founding of the (future) Confederacion. We are told the year is A.C. 354.

What we see of a future Texas suggests that it’s still as recognizably American as Justinian’s Constantinople would have been recognizably Roman. While the region seems a bit down at heel, it’s also one of the more optimistic takes on a future America.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue