Meanwhile, in Poul Anderson's Shield, the megalopolis stretches from Boston, Massachusetts, to Norfolk, Virginia, and also to Pittsburgh and toward the Chicago complex. Visible above are:
"...sunset embers..."; (II, p. 12)
skyscrapers and Centers still reflecting daylight;
Venus;
relay satellites;
aircars on twenty traffic levels;
a trancontinental liner "...bound for Cape Cod seadrome." (ibid.)
There has been a nuclear war and there is now a Protectorate but also continued conflict with China.
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Kaor, Paul!
The heavily urbanized northeast of the US is pretty much a megalopolis already, what some call the "BosWash" (Boston and Washington, DC) corridor.
And the US, in some ways, is already at conflict with mainland China. And I hope we still manage to dodge a nuclear war! And the Protectorate in SHIELD arose as one of the consequences of the nuclear war mentioned in that book. I remember Koskinen thinking it was a lousy solution to international chaos, except that sometimes a lousy solution is the best we can hope for.
Sean
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