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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-12-09 09:24 AM
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TERRORIST STRIKE DESTROYS SPACE ELEVATOR
Edited on Thu Mar-12-09 09:24 AM by Ian David
Okay, who knows what this viral marketing campaign is actually promoting?



TERRORIST STRIKE DESTROYS SPACE ELEVATOR
The Phoenix Space Elevator’s destruction has shocked the world. Terrorist group Autumn Rain’s motives remain unknown, and they have promised further attacks


More:
http://www.greateramericanews.com/


See also:

http://www.spacecommandcenter.com/



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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-12-09 09:32 AM
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1. Okay, look what I found!
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008
"The Mirrored Heavens" by David J. Williams

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YhrLAYLQ8So/SDdlABFnMEI/AAAAAAAAC9U/83xCwQLFK5Q/s400/The+Mirrored+Heavens.jpg

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PLOT SUMMARY: In the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave new world is the Phoenix Space Elevator. Built by the United States and the Eurasian Coalition following a second cold war, the Elevator is the grand symbol of the new alliance between the superpowers. And it’s just been destroyed.

The mysterious insurgent group Autumn Rain claims responsibility for the attack, but with suspicions rampant, armies and espionage teams mobilize across the globe and beyond. Enter Claire Haskell and Jason Marlowe, U.S. counterintelligence agents, and former lovers—though their memories may only be constructs implanted by their spymaster. Bound together by the enigma of their past, they can trust no one. For in a time of shifting loyalties, the enemy could be anyone—from a shadowy assassin on the dark side of the moon, to a Euro data thief, to a fugitive making one last border run.

As the hunt for Autumn Rain escalates and the superpowers move to the brink of war, the lives of all those involved will converge in one explosive finale—and a startling revelation that will rewrite everything they’ve ever known—about their mission, their world, and themselves…

More:
http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

On Powells at: http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780553385410-0
ISBN13: 9780553385410


It was published May 2008.

Is there a movie or a game coming out based on this book?



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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-12-09 09:33 AM
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2. The Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-12-09 09:36 AM
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4. From their blog....
Jump, you fuckers
March 9th, 2009

Those immortal words, flung in abuse by a protestor on Wall Street last fall, also constitute the title of Dan Hind’s essay on the economic crisis. Hind, the author of a book on our use/abuse of the Enlightenment, seeks to get to the root causes of the accelerating economic downturn, and finds them in the dismantling of the Bretton Woods agreement, which allowed the U.S. to run up massive debts even as the rich became disproportionately richer—and the overall system became ever more unstable amidst the orgy of profit-taking green-lighted at the very highest levels of the political/economic elite, all at the expense of the Average Worker. This is the kind of explanation you’re unlikely to see much of among the elite’s Tame Intellectuals (as Hind so aptly calls them), who are charged with continuing to proclaim their Faith in the Free Markets, as well as “let’s not blame the system for a few bad apples”, but it’s one of the more compelling arguments I’ve read thus far on what we’re facing.

It also gets at one of the things I thought about a lot while writing MIRRORED HEAVENS: the notion that our civilization is heading rapidly toward some kind of mega-discontinuity/overhaul out of which something new will emerge, for good or ill. Again, our Tame Intellectuals don’t help us here—they’ve encouraged us to believe in our current Way of Life as the culmination of everything that went down before (see, Fukuyama, Francis). But imho science fiction is all about this discontinuity, whether it comes in a month, in a decade, or in a century. It’s about somehow unshackling our minds from the tyranny of the now—that mindset that literally can’t envision anything else. We’ve got a long way to go here; preoccupied with its own petty infighting, SF is largely absent from serious debate on the causes or ramifications of our current crisis. One hopes this will change as the situation worsens (as it assuredly will); now, more than ever, we need to take the long view.

More:
http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/


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T Wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-12-09 09:34 AM
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3. I love sci-fi/alternative (or not) histories like this. This looks very cool. Thanks for the tip.
BUt the name Autumn Rain sounds like a porn star (not that I would know about that).
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-12-09 09:53 AM
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5. Mirrored Heavens was a good read....
I enjoyed it. Recommended for SF fans.
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