Extollager
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Plots, settings, predicaments, atmosphere. The real Cold War era on this planet, not sf stories that are veiled allegories of the Cold War, etc.
Could include tensions leading to atomic war. I’d allow Alas, Babylon. But not post-atomic war stories about mutants. Anxiety, irony, shadows, escapes, secret losses and victories, rumor, courage, betrayal, ordinary people in danger, the unthinkable, some of these might be in these stories.
Budrys’s Who? is a good example of what I’m seeking. Powers’s Declare.
Could include tensions leading to atomic war. I’d allow Alas, Babylon. But not post-atomic war stories about mutants. Anxiety, irony, shadows, escapes, secret losses and victories, rumor, courage, betrayal, ordinary people in danger, the unthinkable, some of these might be in these stories.
Budrys’s Who? is a good example of what I’m seeking. Powers’s Declare.
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