It would be a good satire of capitalist "human nature" arguments and American individualism
"Those damn pinkos actually made it..."
It would be a good satire of capitalist "human nature" arguments and American individualism
"Those damn pinkos actually made it..."
We never actually see china at all right? I like to imagine it's just perfectly fine, they just left america to play by itself in the irradiated wasteland
"Why did you never tell us, China?"
"You never asked. Also you tried to fucking nuke us."
Turns out that after America went into their shelters, all the surviving countries got together in the UN and agreed to treat us like an isolated island tribe in India.
The Wild Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson is basically about this; the US gets the fuck nuked out of it and then the rest of the world takes turns patrolling the US coasts to make sure nobody leaves
Is it any good? Loved the Mars trilogy but Aurora, Ministry for the Future and 2312 was disappoining.
It's one of his very early books and there isn't actually a ton that happens in it. As part of his Three Californias trilogy there was some interesting stuff but overall I'd probably consider it a pass. Though I really enjoyed Aurora and 2312, so our tastes may not necessarily align
I suppose Aurora was actually decent, just a bit anticlimatic. 2312 had a lot of memorable and cool worldbuilding but the story was almost non existing.
If I remember correctly, basically every country except the United States got fucked by the war to the point of uninhabitability. The United States just got the least fucked.
The only places I remember being discussed in the story are North America, Europe, and China. Europe nuked itself to glass years before the great war. America was invading mainland China and apparently making significant progress. I don't recall anywhere else being discussed in any detail.
Australia: wtf mate