In article <ukl60e$3h2o7$
2@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <
michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/12/2023 09.26, James Nicoll wrote:
Five Books That Imagine the Future of Canada
Canada! J. G. Ballard loved it while Bob Shaw loathed it. What have others >> authors made of the cosmologically insignificant time remaining to that
obscure nation?
https://www.tor.com/2023/12/04/five-books-that-imagine-the-future-of-canada/
In your description of _Exxoneration_, it says that this about the US >annexing Canada for its petroleum. Didn't another book that you recently >blogged about also feature this? Is there a whole category like this?
Same author, the book to which Exxoneration is the sequel. Ultimatum
ends with All is Lost, No Way to Stop the US from Conquering Canada, Desectrating Our Holy Places and Impregnating Our Moose. Exxoneration
begins as Canada bitchslaps the US into submission using a military
technique known as Blatant Authorial Bias: the US lands a fuckton
of soldiers at Toronto airport without bothering to secure it in
any way, Canada then kills two planeloads of redshirts with the
massive quantity of weapons with which they've secretly surrounded
the airports, then uses the fifty thousand hostages the US has given
then to bargain for peace. An American election follows almost
immediately [1], the sitting President is obliterated at the polls,
and the US seems to collectively agree to forget the whole thing
happened, much as nothing serious followed the Bay of Pigs.
1: The impending US election was why the President wanted to get Canadian
oil at that particular time.
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