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[james_davis_nicoll]

As mentioned in comments, Dan Simmons has a dystopic novel coming out.

Canada, used to dividing itself into smaller parts to appease ethnic groups, languages, and claims to prior ownership, [...]

Is that a snipe at Nunavut?

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

How is Canada a sharp tip of a crescent? Or is the sharp top of the Caliphate somehow impaled in Canada, possibly stuck in Manicouagan Crater?

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

What's the other tip? How do Bangladesh, Xinjiang, Indonesia, and Malaysia fit in with this?

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

As places neither on North America nor poised to invade North America, they don't count and do not appear in the story.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Bah! From Malaysia it's just a small open raft sail to Polynesia, and from there just a little more to Hawaii, and from there to Los Angeles, and from there to Washington and New York, and before long you're poised to invade America! It's the Kon Tiki Domino Theory!

[(Anonymous)]

So it's illegal to invade America from the West?

Bruce

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

::applause::

I would *totally* read that book.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't be much less plausible than many books which have been written. I think the best part would be the invasion of Los Angeles. When the Polynesian Muslims (yeah, I know) have taken over Hawaii they can ally with the massive Hawaiian Separatist movement and then, um... Which leads to the invasion of America!

If the author has a sense of humor, we'll see someone trying to advance a column of BMPs through LA traffic. Good luck with that.

[caper-est.livejournal.com]

It's a hydra-headed crescent, whose tips are constantly multiplying.