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To: carriage_hill
I just finished Directive 51 and Daybreak by John Barnes and in the former (set in 2024) when the electronic systems go down there are catastrophic pileups when the GPS autopilot systems go down which allow huge convoys of trucks to efficiently draft each other down the freeways at high speeds.

A minor sub part of the story, but very interesting trilogy (book 3 in progress) in which a self propagating meme has arisen amongst people via the net which evokes itself as a leaderless attempt to eliminate human civilization utilizing the self loathing subsets of radical environmentalists and terrorists.

It's easily as good as One Second After, with the added plus' of slightly into the future and global aspects.

19 posted on 06/25/2012 6:34:00 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith

Thanks for the tips on those 2 books, A. I’m always looking for something *good* to read.


44 posted on 06/25/2012 9:08:06 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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