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Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers

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Tor dot com article 556, 2025 article 25

444 articles to go to article 1000

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ReacTor is refusing to post again, so...

It's background, but in Lupoff's Space War Blues, all the various peoples on all the various planets were sort of forced off Earth by the Pan-Semitic Alliance -- or, as the N'Alabamians call them, the Jewrabs; and something similar seems to have happened at the end of Anderson's The High Crusade.

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Isn't the backstory of Haldeman's Conferacion stories a dominant Brazil?

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