"Great Existence, Koskinen thought." (p. 35)
There it is again, like "Cosmos," in some other works.
Is this plausible? -
There was too much radiation for habitation near the "Craters" immediately after the war;
however, as the radiation diminished, the land was cheap or free so the poorest moved there;
the hardiest moved into the Craters;
crater barons exact tribute from low-level slum dwellers;
the police seldom intervene;
upper-level people know little of the Craters.
Two ideas, post-nuclear devastation and criminal control of impoverished urban areas, are uncomfortably combined in the "Craters" which contrast with the "Centers."
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Swearing by "Existence" or "Cosmos" is simply too vague and thin to be convincing.
One thing I recalled about why the police seldom interfered with the gang bosses who controlled the Craters and slum areas seen in SHIELD was because the crime lords at least imposed some kind of order and "peace" in the regions they dominated. Rather like what we see Sumu the Fat doing in the part of Swamptown he ruled in THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS.
Sean
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