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  _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-13 14:38 -0500
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-13 19:09 -0500
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-14 10:49 +0800
      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 14:14 -0500
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-06-13 20:06 -0700
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-14 03:27 -0700
      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 14:14 -0500
      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 14:16 -0500
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-14 16:19 +0000
      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-14 14:16 -0400
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 08:40 +0200
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2016-06-14 16:56 -0700
      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-06-14 17:22 -0700
        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-14 20:03 -0700
          Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2016-06-14 20:46 -0700
          Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-15 02:20 -0700
        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2016-06-15 23:52 -0700
    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-06-14 20:26 -0400
      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 20:50 -0500
        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 21:03 -0500
          Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-14 21:06 -0500
            Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-06-15 11:55 +0800
              Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 06:11 -0700
                Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-15 11:59 -0500
                  Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2016-06-18 17:47 -0700
                    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-18 19:05 -0700
                      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-18 21:31 -0600
                        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-06-18 23:06 -0500
                          Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-06-19 04:12 -0400
                      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-18 22:37 -0700
                        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-19 09:42 -0600
                          Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-19 09:12 -0700
                      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2016-06-19 07:08 -0700
                    Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-20 18:36 -0500
                      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-20 18:40 -0500
                        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-20 17:42 -0700
                          Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-20 19:34 -0700
                            Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-06-20 21:17 -0700
                              Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-21 14:26 -0500
                                Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-06-21 15:31 -0700
                      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-20 23:19 -0600
                        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-06-27 15:17 +0000
                          Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-28 01:24 -0600
                      Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-06-20 23:20 -0600
                        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes -dsr- <dsr-usenet@randomstring.org> - 2016-06-22 12:50 -0400
                        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-22 14:20 -0500
                        Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-22 13:38 -0600
                  Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 22:29 +0200
              Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-15 14:11 -0500
              Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-06-16 02:15 -0700
                Re: _Once Upon an Apocalypse: Book 1 - The Journey Home (Volume 1)_ by Jeff Motes Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-06-16 13:21 -0500

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#442780

Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:

>>> 5. a series of terroristic events over a couple of weeks,

>And the example book for number 5 is:
>
>5. a series of terroristic events over a couple of weeks, _The Borrowed World: A Novel of Post-Apocalyptic Collapse_.

I was thinking more of
https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html
though the events all pretty much happened in one morning.
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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#443119

Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:
>
>>>> 5. a series of terroristic events over a couple of weeks,
>
>>And the example book for number 5 is:
>>
>>5. a series of terroristic events over a couple of weeks, _The Borrowed World: A Novel of Post-Apocalyptic Collapse_.
>
> I was thinking more of
> https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html
> though the events all pretty much happened in one morning.

Thank you Greg. This part of the story reminds me of rasw. :0)

    I'd bet that three quarters of this bunch is borderline
    autistic. Me, I'm just an @sshole.

My Hurricane Katrina news came from two New Orleans bloggers. One of
them was a Central American who worked at a local restaurant. Each day
he walked around, took about one hundred pictures, captioned them, and
then posted them to his blog. His blog eventually had about five hundred
captioned photos, IIRC. He had no political ax to grind, he just
reported what he saw and felt. Unfortunately his blog went net dead
within a year.

The other blogger operated from a high rise office building. He reminded
me of Felix in "Overclocked." This blogger used the building's emergency
generator to keep the local server and router in his "command post"
accessible by the Inet. He worried about running out of diesel fuel for
the generator. But a truck filled with 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel
arrived in the nick of time.

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU


Russell and Whitehead and Hegel and Kant!
Maybe I shall and maybe I shan't.

Maybe I shan't and maybe I shall.
Kant Russell Whitehead, Hegel, et al.

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#443163

Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:

>Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:

>> I was thinking more of
>> https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html
>> though the events all pretty much happened in one morning.
>
>Thank you Greg. This part of the story reminds me of rasw. :0)

>My Hurricane Katrina news came from two New Orleans bloggers.  ...

>The other blogger operated from a high rise office building. He reminded
>me of Felix in "Overclocked." This blogger used the building's emergency
>generator to keep the local server and router in his "command post"
>accessible by the Inet. He worried about running out of diesel fuel for
>the generator. But a truck filled with 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel
>arrived in the nick of time.

I read that.  I'm not sure whether the timeline works for him to have
inspired Sysadmins.  (Overclocked was the book it was originally
published in.)
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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#442781

Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:

>>> 6. one or more civil wars in the USA

>I do not have a good example book for #6 at the moment.

Can the backstory for Friday count?
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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#442875

On 2016-06-21, Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:
>
>>>> 6. one or more civil wars in the USA
>
>>I do not have a good example book for #6 at the moment.
>
> Can the backstory for Friday count?

That didn't end in apocalypse, though. Fragmentation of North America into about
15 different countries, yes -- but they practically all have border guards and
passports, and everybody takes American Express or Visa, and you can buy a Coke
on L5. 

-dsr-

-- 
https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference.
                there is no justice, there is just us.

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#442885

On 6/21/2016 12:20 AM, Greg Goss wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:
>
>>>> 6. one or more civil wars in the USA
>
>> I do not have a good example book for #6 at the moment.
>
> Can the backstory for Friday count?

Are you talking about the book _Friday_ by Heinlein?

If so, I need to read that and _The Cat Who Walked Through Walls_ again.

Lynn

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#442887

On 6/20/2016 11:20 PM, Greg Goss wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:
>
>>>> 6. one or more civil wars in the USA
>
>> I do not have a good example book for #6 at the moment.
>
> Can the backstory for Friday count?
>

While Friday does describe a future in which the United States is over, 
its death throws don't seem to have been very violent.

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#442660

Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> writes:

> Totally correct except for the cause of the apocalypse.  The causes of
> the apocalypse are (in no particular order but EMP is number one):
> 1. EMP over USA, _Lights Out_
> 2. financial failure of the USA dollar, _Holding Their Own_

Wasn't that the main driver of the collapse in Gordon R. Dickson's 'Wolf
and Iron'?

Mart

-- 
"We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes."
    --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.

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#442248

On 6/14/2016 10:55 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:
> On 15/06/2016 10:06 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 6/14/2016 9:03 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote in news:njqc9q$n12$1@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 6/14/2016 7:26 PM, William December Starr wrote:
>>>>> In article <njn232$ipo$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The apocalyptic event is a 20 megaton nuclear blast above the USA
>>>>>> causing a massive EMP from coast to coast.  The author believes
>>>>>> that the EMP will cause all cars and trucks to fail due to their
>>>>>> EMS (engine management systems) computer being fried.
>>>>>
>>>>> Didn't you review this book a couple of times already?  <---sarcasm
>>>>>
>>>>> -- wds
>>>>
>>>> There is at least 30 apocalyptic EMP fiction books being hawked on
>>>> Amazon by various authors.  Maybe 50.  Maybe 100.  It is an amazing
>>>> little industry.  Some of these guys have sold so many books that they
>>>> have quit their day jobs.  I think that Amazon gives them 70% of the
>>>> sale for their ebook sales.
>>>
>>> I hope you don't feel compelled to review all of them here.
>>>
>>> These reviews are starting to run together.
>>>
>>> pt
>>
>> 15 more to go!  You might want killfile me.
>
> <smile> Don't give up, Lynn. I do appreciate your reviews.

Thanks.  Am working on Space Opera at the moment, _Cibola Burn_.
    https://www.amazon.com/Cibola-Burn-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316334685/

Lynn

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#442304

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 04:55:34 UTC+1, Robert Bannister  wrote:
> On 15/06/2016 10:06 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > On 6/14/2016 9:03 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote in news:njqc9q$n12$1@dont-email.me:
> >>
> >>> On 6/14/2016 7:26 PM, William December Starr wrote:
> >>>> In article <njn232$ipo$1@dont-email.me>,
> >>>> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> said:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The apocalyptic event is a 20 megaton nuclear blast above the USA
> >>>>> causing a massive EMP from coast to coast.  The author believes
> >>>>> that the EMP will cause all cars and trucks to fail due to their
> >>>>> EMS (engine management systems) computer being fried.
> >>>>
> >>>> Didn't you review this book a couple of times already?  <---sarcasm
> >>>>
> >>>> -- wds
> >>>
> >>> There is at least 30 apocalyptic EMP fiction books being hawked on
> >>> Amazon by various authors.  Maybe 50.  Maybe 100.  It is an amazing
> >>> little industry.  Some of these guys have sold so many books that they
> >>> have quit their day jobs.  I think that Amazon gives them 70% of the
> >>> sale for their ebook sales.
> >>
> >> I hope you don't feel compelled to review all of them here.
> >>
> >> These reviews are starting to run together.
> >>
> >> pt
> >
> > 15 more to go!  You might want killfile me.
> 
> <smile> Don't give up, Lynn. I do appreciate your reviews.

Yes; in this field, I also enjoy your review.  :-)

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#442340

On 6/16/2016 4:15 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 04:55:34 UTC+1, Robert Bannister  wrote:
>> On 15/06/2016 10:06 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 6/14/2016 9:03 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote in news:njqc9q$n12$1@dont-email.me:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/14/2016 7:26 PM, William December Starr wrote:
>>>>>> In article <njn232$ipo$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The apocalyptic event is a 20 megaton nuclear blast above the USA
>>>>>>> causing a massive EMP from coast to coast.  The author believes
>>>>>>> that the EMP will cause all cars and trucks to fail due to their
>>>>>>> EMS (engine management systems) computer being fried.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Didn't you review this book a couple of times already?  <---sarcasm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- wds
>>>>>
>>>>> There is at least 30 apocalyptic EMP fiction books being hawked on
>>>>> Amazon by various authors.  Maybe 50.  Maybe 100.  It is an amazing
>>>>> little industry.  Some of these guys have sold so many books that they
>>>>> have quit their day jobs.  I think that Amazon gives them 70% of the
>>>>> sale for their ebook sales.
>>>>
>>>> I hope you don't feel compelled to review all of them here.
>>>>
>>>> These reviews are starting to run together.
>>>>
>>>> pt
>>>
>>> 15 more to go!  You might want killfile me.
>>
>> <smile> Don't give up, Lynn. I do appreciate your reviews.
>
> Yes; in this field, I also enjoy your review.  :-)

Thanks!

Lynn

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