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What are all those container ships than?There aren't enough ships
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What are all those container ships than?There aren't enough ships
Not for people. They don't have the ca[acity for feeding, sanitation, etc.. If they started to convert en masse it would be to obvious to hide, and then their troops would be sitting ducks for several weeks as they crossed the Pacific. The better move would be to partner with Mexico on the promise of restoring lands "stolen" by the US.What are all those container ships than?
Not truly an invasion. It is slow. They ain't invading to invade. They are "helping".Not for people. They don't have the ca[acity for feeding, sanitation, etc.. If they started to convert en masse it would be to obvious to hide, and then their troops would be sitting ducks for several weeks as they crossed the Pacific. The better move would be to partner with Mexico on the promise of restoring lands "stolen" by the US.
A good invasion story line woul d be Mexico resolving it cartel and corruption problems allowing them to have an economy that rivals the US, and then wanting those lands back. At the same time, Califirnia for poliutical reasons (thinking they could rule Mexico) jumping ship.
China is about to stumble nadlt due to the one child policy giving a mulit generational gap in manpower. They are more likely to go after Asian countrie to provide labor to keep the factories humming. But, then there is the Indian juggernaut getting ready to surpass them...
Personally i found some of the ideas of the "Jericho" tv series very compelling: 1) Limited nuclear blasts in certain cities, 2) introduced disease plus limited vaccine (as i recall) that was controlled by corporation that pulled the strings for one of the country/states 3) independent county-states within the former US (similar to man in high castle that way) 4) corporate control and politics so intermixed you couldn't tell where one let off and the other started.As some of you might remember, I wrote the Brushfire Plague trilogy several years ago. This was a pandemic survivalist/action scenario...yes pre-Covid...and set in Portland as civilization starts to crumble in the face of a virulent and deadly plague. As I'm getting ready to start writing seriously again, I wanted to ask everyone: are there any particular apocalyptic scenarios that would grab your eye if you heard about it or saw it on a bookshelf? Another way to think about it is: what are your favorite scenarios in that genre?
thanks!
Unfortunately, it is hard to find an Amazon Kindle book/series where there is not a evil warlord/etc. to fight against. And almost every protagonist is someone who is ex-SEAL/SP/CIA or at least LEO. Another part of the tired formula is that there is a child/wife/GF/BF/etc. that the protagonist is separated from and he (sometimes she, but rarely) has to go find/rescue before they can proceed on with the story.No need to get all James Bond style "evil" National (nor international) "protagonist". Those types of novels are pretty stupid. -IMO.
Modern "Little House on the Prairie." But for the sake of realism in contemporary times, you'd probably have to throw some marauding tweakers (sp. tweekers?) or whatever in there. Update on Indian raid sort of thing. The basic concept appeals to my fancy for individual struggle stories. Heaven knows Charles Ingalls had his share of problems without EMP or the Chinese.I would like to find a well written story/book/etc., where the character(s) simply exist in a rural or wilderness area and are working/learning to exist against/with nature, with little to no constant struggle against some evil army/warlord/drug lord/etc. and the protagonist is just a simple person with little to no military special experience/skill/history. So far, I have mostly failed in finding such a story on Kindle, of late.
Are these the guys who took out Thomas Wales?motivate them to band together and start removing certain 'figures' from the game thus equalizing the odds,
+1 on the protagonist being just a normal person, whatever the type of novel.Unfortunately, it is hard to find an Amazon Kindle book/series where there is not a evil warlord/etc. to fight against. And almost every protagonist is someone who is ex-SEAL/SP/CIA or at least LEO. Another part of the tired formula is that there is a child/wife/GF/BF/etc. that the protagonist is separated from and he (sometimes she, but rarely) has to go find/rescue before they can proceed on with the story.
I would like to find a well written story/book/etc., where the character(s) simply exist in a rural or wilderness area and are working/learning to exist against/with nature, with little to no constant struggle against some evil army/warlord/drug lord/etc. and the protagonist is just a simple person with little to no military special experience/skill/history. So far, I have mostly failed in finding such a story on Kindle, of late.
My story, set in Oregon, is entirely fiction. I had to google 'Thomas Wales' to even see who that was.Are these the guys who took out Thomas Wales?
This would be interesting and I haven't seen anybody touch it.If I had the talent and the time, I would base a series on what would happen if the Cascadia fault let loose.
The "ring of fire" has been done I think. I know the Yellowstone involvement has been done.In addition to the direct damage to the PNW, there would be sympathetic events triggered due to it's size and magnitude. You could see dormant volcanoes in the Cascades become active as well as more activity in Alaska. The Yellowstone supervolcano icould be in play as is the New Madrid fault that rocked the Mississipi in 1912. Even the San Andreas fault is linked to Cascadia. The scope of damage for a fictional piece is as big as you want, and there is a lot of info already about the preparations for the event to assist with research.
It's also not a "what if" scenario, but an "eventually WILL happen" one.
Yeah - the least expensive I have seen was $55 - not sure why it is so expensive. Maybe it is as the library?@The Heretic you might enjoy an old novel The Last Canadian. It is out there - just seems to be expensive.
That was covered in the movie 2012.This would be interesting and I haven't seen anybody touch it.
The "ring of fire" has been done I think. I know the Yellowstone involvement has been done.
Oh Yellowstone was done well before that - I recall one author who liked to do the "thing come in threes" theme and included Yellowstone a decade or more before the movie. It is one of those PAW fiction tropes, along with EMP/CME (I don't think anybody has done a Miyake event story - that would be original, and since it is much more powerful than a CME its effects would be catastrophic).That was covered in the movie 2012.
Miyake story has been done:Oh Yellowstone was done well before that - I recall one author who liked to do the "thing come in threes" theme and included Yellowstone a decade or more before the movie. It is one of those PAW fiction tropes, along with EMP/CME (I don't think anybody has done a Miyake event story - that would be original, and since it is much more powerful than a CME its effects would be catastrophic).