Author: James V DeLong

The following article has been generously contributed by James V. DeLong and appeared originally on the American Enterprise Institute. S. M. Stirling is a science fiction/fantasy writer who specializes in alternate future history. He likes to start from the question “what if X happened?” and then work out the ramifications over many volumes and decades. His current series is called The Change, and it starts off with a simple premise: one day, electricity stops working. What happens next is not pretty. Stirling is a ruthless realist, and without electricity our civilization is about a week from cannibalism. Heat and water…

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