The Long Tomorrow
by Leigh Brackett · first published 1955
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"No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." --Constitution of the United States, Thirtieth Amendment Two generations after the Destruction, rumors persist about a secret desert hideaway where scientists worked with dangerous machines and where men plot to revive the cities. Almost a continent away, Len Coulter has heard whisperings that fired his imagination. And then one day he finds a strange wooden box...
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on “Cyberpunk: Then and Now” ↗…the theory that you should smoke 'em if you got 'em. I wouldn't tell anyone to bother learning how blacksmithing or how to grow a three sisters garden in that scenario. If he means a slow apocalypse, a Long Tomorrow style return to a world without electricity, that's a very different conversation. This article feels like a rant to me.
on “Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?” ↗