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| From | Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Brexiit In SF? |
| Date | 2016-06-28 11:05 +0800 |
| Message-ID | <dte7r3Fp100U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 27/06/2016 1:36 PM, mcdowell_ag@sky.com wrote: > On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 12:04:10 AM UTC+1, art...@yahoo.com wrote: >> Perhaps this, although Scotland doesn't stay home either. >> http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/england.htm >> >> Perhaps Terry Bisson was more prescient than he realized/ >> >> Others > > I'm reminded of the background in Greg Bear's "Moving Mars" in which Earth wants to unite with Mars for the purpose of some nebulous scheme which is never properly explained. You could also see Earth's use of almost universal psychiatric treatment and the downfall of a Martian politician in the beginning as a sort of extrapolation of Political Correctness - in a way which meant that Political Correctness would actually make sense, at least from Earth's point of view. > > I regard myself as British but am aware that I am marked by my upbringing in Northern Ireland, which would not have been my first choice - especially as my Mother could quite possibly have arranged for me to be born in Glasgow, had she thought about it. I was therefore entirely bemused to hear an Englishman be consoled by the news that his son was eligible for an Irish passport, and so could escape the coming decline of England. Possibly only in Hoyles's "Ossian's Ride" would such a move make sense. (If anybody can find SF in which Northern Ireland/Ulster/Dalriada rises to world-wide greatness I will regard it as an unprecedented challenge to my WSOD) > There is a great deal of talk about Northern Ireland and Scotland breaking apart from formerly "great" Britain. If the former does not, it is going to have horrible problems with EU customs checkpoints and excise along a very squiggly border that many major roads cross more than once. -- Robert B. born England a long time ago; Western Australia since 1972
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