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Star spangled collapse

By Erik Curren | December 8, 2014

Apparently, people who write titles for politico-military thrillers about nuclear brinksmanship find the language of The Star Spangled Banner just too good to resist. It must be the power of dark irony, to turn words of patriotic celebration into a warning for patriots. For example: Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 drama starring Burt Lancaster as a renegade air force … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: George Washington, James Howard Kunstler, John Michael Greer, oil war, peak fiction, secession movements

Convergence: A novel of a catastrophic future

By Staff Reports | July 12, 2013

quarantine on plane

Below is an excerpt from Convergence: A Novel of a Catastrophic Future by Paul Boerger. The novel deals with a global collapse due to climate shift, endless wars and a global pandemic "converging" to end civilization. The piece below is a version of the book's Chapter 1 condensed by the author for Transition Voice. 2220 CE Post-convergence, North American survivor enclave “It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: economic collapse, oil war, pandemic, Paul Boerger

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