![]() ![]() Two scare-novels about grim Near-Future prospects are Leonard Engel's and Emanuel S Piller's Future War take World Aflame: The Russian-American War of 1950 ( 1947) and Isabel Moore's The Day the Communists Took Over America ( 1961). On a purely utilitarian basis, it was convenient for Western sf writers to have a standard bogeyman, the Red Menace of communism, to replace such former incumbents as the Yellow Peril and the Nazis as a source of all-purpose default Villains. Such past hopes of salvation as the Pax Aeronautica were no longer even credible. The prolonged post- World War Two (roughly 1946-1991) state of tension between the West – principally the USA and its NATO allies – and the Warsaw Pact countries headed by the USSR was inevitably reflected in sf written in the shadow of what at times seemed to be an inevitable nuclear World War Three. ![]()
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