It’s anti–sci-fi, set maybe ten to twenty years out. This isn’t a sci-fi view into a future one hundred or fifty years away. Such is the fictionalized world envisioned by James Howard Kunstler in his new book, World Made by Hand. It’s as round and as large as it’s ever been. The globe is no longer flat (sorry, Tom Friedman!). The federal government has retreated to Minnesota, of all places (because who would attack them up there?), and with resources limited, race wars have erupted across the South. The Chinese have reportedly landed a man on the moon, but that’s probably more legend than fact in these paranoid times. Oil, or access to what’s left of it anyway, is as good as gone. A flu pandemic has wiped out a good third of the population, maybe more. That puts the global economy into a smoking tailspin. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS have blown up Los Angeles and DC.
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