Sofie remembers:
"'I remember the tail-end of the Years of Hunger, and then the Years of Madness, and the Socialist Depression - people in rags, starving; you could see their bones - and a riot once, and the marching uniforms, and the great craters -...'" (IV, p. 37)
She remembers the craters? But how will they be removed from the landscape?
In another of Poul Anderson's post-nuclear war scenarios, great "Craters" remain and come to be inhabited. See Existence And Craters. That future also has Centers which are the large apartment buildings under another name.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And maybe some craters were turned into ponds, which might be useful for both recreational and agricultural purposes. If they were large enough, of course.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I can't see the radiation dying down that fast.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Unless missiles with very short half lives were used. So a few decades might be be enough to make them safe.
Ad astra! Sean
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