Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers

[james_davis_nicoll]

Improbable, but not impossible, ascents to the world stage...

Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers

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[james_davis_nicoll]

Tor dot com article 556, 2025 article 25

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[jhetley]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Continent_Makers_and_Other_Tales_of_the_Viagens

[sturgeonslawyer]

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.

[chrysostom]

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

[estrevan]

David Drake’s Reaches trilogy - a space opera retelling of the career of Sir Francis Drake - has a world-dominating Canada in the role of Spain. But it’s not foregrounded and may only become clear in the last book

[james_davis_nicoll]

Ah, that would be one of the Drake series I bounced off hard.

[estrevan]

Can’t blame you for that. I quite like it, but perhaps more for insight into what Vietnam did to the author than as space opera adventure

[(Anonymous)]

That might make a good column for James. 5 SFF stories that are actually about the Vietnam war.

Barry B Longyear's The Tomorrow Testament would be a candidate for that.

-Awesome Aud

[patrick_morris_miller]

Don't forget Star Wars!