Thuycidides
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This one has stymied me for a decade at least. In the 1990s, I read a piece of military sci-fi that was set in Africa. I'll bullet point what I can remember and indicate my level of confidence in my memory:
-it was set after some sort of calamity, nuclear or environmental, that the world was starting to slowly recover from. (certain)
-I believe there was much talk of everyone living in domed cities to ride out the catastrophe, but that was now past. (nearly certain)
-the main event was a future war set in Africa combining futuristic technology with the extreme resource depletion of the post-apocalypse world (as in, manpower and things like fossil fuels were lacking) (pretty sure)
-the protagonists were mostly either Americans or American-derived (pretty sure)
-the antagonists were some kind of racist or maybe cannibalistic (?) civilization that came out of Africa, maybe South Africa, and was conquering the continent (this is a bit fuzzy)
-the book was a sort of future milSF but not as I recall very well-written. Pulp-ish. Not likely to have been by a major author. (certain)
-the book may have had a one-word title that was pretty generic (not at all sure of this, but it would help explain why repeated searches over years have never come close)
-The book was in English, and I'm pretty sure I had a hardcover or large softcover edition. Not a trade paperback, at any rate.
-I read this in the 1990s. It may be older, but I would doubt it was older than, say, 1980s.
Thanks in advance for anyone who has an idea, and I'll be checking back regularly.
-it was set after some sort of calamity, nuclear or environmental, that the world was starting to slowly recover from. (certain)
-I believe there was much talk of everyone living in domed cities to ride out the catastrophe, but that was now past. (nearly certain)
-the main event was a future war set in Africa combining futuristic technology with the extreme resource depletion of the post-apocalypse world (as in, manpower and things like fossil fuels were lacking) (pretty sure)
-the protagonists were mostly either Americans or American-derived (pretty sure)
-the antagonists were some kind of racist or maybe cannibalistic (?) civilization that came out of Africa, maybe South Africa, and was conquering the continent (this is a bit fuzzy)
-the book was a sort of future milSF but not as I recall very well-written. Pulp-ish. Not likely to have been by a major author. (certain)
-the book may have had a one-word title that was pretty generic (not at all sure of this, but it would help explain why repeated searches over years have never come close)
-The book was in English, and I'm pretty sure I had a hardcover or large softcover edition. Not a trade paperback, at any rate.
-I read this in the 1990s. It may be older, but I would doubt it was older than, say, 1980s.
Thanks in advance for anyone who has an idea, and I'll be checking back regularly.
