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sofa king

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2. That was one scary-ass book.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Mar 26, 2014, 06:52 PM

Mar 2014

What scared me the most about The Fate of the Earth was the fact that Schell's work was almost immediately proven to be speculatively tame.

The book's publication pre-dated the TTAPS (the "S" stands for Carl Sagan) team's first computational models of "nuclear winter" by only a year or so.

So by the time I got around to reading it in the late '80s, Schell's work was already "the good old days" of nuclear survival literature.

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Jonathan Schell, Anti-War Activist, Dead at 70 (Author of 'Fate of the Earth') [View all] Hissyspit Mar 2014 OP

RIP n/t RainDog Mar 2014 #1

That was one scary-ass book. sofa king Mar 2014 #2

I remember that. Hissyspit Mar 2014 #4

Reading that book when it first came out, I had the experience of enough Mar 2014 #6

Damn, that's a loss. bemildred Mar 2014 #3

Recommend! Sorry to lose his voice... KoKo Mar 2014 #5