Ernest Callenbach

1 month ago | reactormag.com | James Davis Nicoll |Ernest Callenbach

If there’s one aspect of the future about which we can be completely certain, it is that the United States will either grow larger, stay the same size, or shrink. SF authors looking for reason for the last possibility (shrinking) tend to imagine some institution-shattering large-scale calamity such as a meteor impact, a nuclear war, or pandemic—some disaster large enough to overwhelm civilian and military organizations.