[narf poit chez BOOM]

deccan said:
I've just finished reading A Strange Valley by Darrell Bain which is set in a near future USA which is dangerously veering to become a religious right theocracy after the presidency of a certain Bush Jr.

Then someone discovers a strange valley inhabited by atheistic, skeptical, rational humans who turn out to have been mutated by unusual prions and the president does everything in his power to stop the prions from spreading including setting off a dirty nuke. Quite a fun read.

That's another one of those 'if only this happened, everybody would live in peace' stories. Wether it by an invention, a philisophical discovery, a religious ideal or atheism, I don't see the point. The auther sets up the situation that makes something the villian, and then sets up the situation that fixes it. Basically, it's a circular arguement; the auther sets up a philosophy using fiction and then justifies it using fiction.