"...a T-shirt with the slogan: ARMAGEDDON WAS YESTERDAY - TODAY WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM." (Part 3, Chapter 18, p. 295)
If "Armageddon" means the destruction of all life on Earth, then this slogan summarizes After Doomsday by Poul Anderson. An American interstellar spaceship with an all male crew returns to the Solar System after aliens have sterilized Earth. Now the Americans must find the all female European ship and must also solve the mystery of who killed Earth...
If "Armageddon" means the final supernatural conflict between Heaven and Hell, then the slogan summarizes The Day After Judgment by James Blish. In the previous volume, many demons were released from Hell, an exorcism of a major demon failed and that demon claimed victory in Armageddon. What happens now?
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is Volume I of Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.
The Day After Judgment is the sequel to Black Easter and the two works comprise Volume II of Blish's After Such Knowledge Trilogy.
After Doomsday is an independent sf novel.
Eight volumes to read or reread, if anyone is interested.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I have read all of these books except Stieg Larsson work.
Amd I remember reading, in Anderson's OPERATION CHAOS, one of the characters discussing how, while it might seem odd to think of Heaven and Hell being "realpolitik," it was still possible that both did not want to bring on a premature Armageddon. Referring, of course, to the problem caused by the kidnapping by a stupid demon of Valeria Matuchek.
Sean
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