It's a grim and gritty antiwar story, although it I read this Cold War era tale of a Third World War back in the '60s when the Vietnam War was raging and the Korean War was not yet a distant memory. There's no glorification of plucky resistance fighters a la Red Dawn. But mostly Kornbluth carries it off because he's a superior writer who creates believable characters and puts them in interesting situations. So this story of Soviet conquest and occupation didn't seem that far fetched, at the time. I read this Cold War era tale of a Third World War back in the '60s when the Vietnam War was raging and the Korean War was not yet a distant memory. He has been shoveling snow out of the way all morning… Just because I read and now I’m watching 11.22.63 a note to time travelers: I advise going back back to 1958, renting a car, and giving Kornbluth a lift. What I wouldn’t have given to read this without Pohl’s hand at re-writing… Their tendency is to assume that one’s probably all right and that anyway it’s not business of theirs.’
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Hollerith offers Justin high position, but he declines to kneel in prayer with Sparhawk, fearing mutual assured destruction.more A radio message declares the satellite will destroy Moscow & Peiking in 24 hours if occupation soldiers don't evacuate American soil & release war prisoners. Coordinated by Gen Hollerith, the paraplegic, area bridges are blown up & arsenals sabotaged as townspeople are armed & fight as the satellite is launched. He & Sparhawk are sent back there with a specialist.ĭespite Soviet torture of a local farmer, they're kept ignorant of what "Xmas Eve", a mild oath they hear sworn by citizens, means til battle begins. He's given instructions about an assault planned for Xmas Eve on Chiunga Ctr to liberate the satellite. He & Sparhawk are exiled at the town border & soon arrive at Washington. Justin attempts to pass himself as one of Sparhawk's converts who can't be molested due to the Democratic Republic's freedom of religion. Arrested by a military patrol, they're separated. With a traveling preacher, Sparhawk, he walks from Chiunga to Washington. Receiving messages hidden in mail Betsy Cardew delivers, Justin deduces that the contacts he needs are in Washington, PA. The Soviet military police soon apparently capture all of them but himself & the general. Buried in Chiunga County is a half-finished weapons satellite that requires parts & technical know-how to orbit it. The former turns out to be an army general. When Justin enters the nearest town, Norton, for supplies, he's drawn into a conspiracy with the paraplegic & others. A paraplegic comes to Justin's farm asking for work. Other than a garrison, disarmament & establishment of food production quotas, the surrender leaves Chiunga Center largely untouched. Over the next months, they consolidate their hold, dividing the US at the Mississippi, forming between them the Democratic People's Republic of N America.
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