Lots. I think nowadays, most. Turtledove's 2 novels turning on the Confederacy winning are interesting in that regard. He did the SF version first. I get the impression the SF aspect of it bothered him artistically. It is after all a heavy duty deus ex machina to bring in modern weaponry via...
I think there are several where it is public knowledge in at least one of the timelines. In L. Neil Smith's series beginning with The Probability Broach it is definitely public knowledge in one, and known-to-many in several. It's a really nice series. It is particularly clever in using many...
This is actually the original painting from which the cover was made apparently. I can't find a good enough image of the actual book cover to do it justice The book is The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerold & Larry Niven. To explain why this is hilarious would be a terrible spoiler. Those who...
You do know they came back and did a movie, right? There is also a very funny derivative series called Con Man wherein Mal and Josh (I forget their real names) portray fictional versions of themselves going to cons. My own appreciation of Firefly/Serenity, video above, short essay below...
T. J. Martinel's The Stringer.
It's a horribly plausible near future "dystopia with hope" to use a phrase cribbed from Niven. Genre blending, noir 30s vibe, done with a light touch. Very underappreciated author. Might be the best novel I've read in the last few years.
BTW, I shouldn't have let my word pedantry about "dark ages" or "decline" distract me from the actual point of the title question. Darn tootin' [will that pass the cussin' filter?] it could. It looks to me like we are in imminent danger of our Great Filter moment. Not that I expect a sudden...
I jumped into this thread to more or less support your point that the term "dark ages" was misleading. I'll grant that I'm a contrarian Devil's advocate by reflex, and that you are perhaps reacting to my
[Maybe I'd have emphasized the "most" if I had suspected any were in the house, but I stand...
I'm not sure I'd be willing to claim "above all others" for anything, but Print Crime by Doctorow comes immediately to mind and no other does. At least the best in several years.
It would be easy to cite a lot of people who started in the 70s, but who'd believe me? I'm a huge fan of this guy though, and I think most people don't consider him famous yet:
https://www.tjmartinell.com/
I had an account for several years but about a month and a half before the 2018 election I was banned for "synthetic sharing". A lot of people are in denial about the problem. If their own Niemoller moment ever comes I'll have no sympathy.
I think that's, to some degree, because most historians have a strong pro-Roman bias & the "dark ages" were mainly the European face of the decline of Rome. They have a pro-Roman bias partly because they have a pro Great Big Polity bias. They usually speak of successful conquerors in approving...
I'm not sure when this was made. I remember that people were still discussing this and some similar controversies in the 70s.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/913TrYExz6A1/
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