It would be a good satire of capitalist “human nature” arguments and American individualism

“Those damn pinkos actually made it…”

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    Turns out that after America went into their shelters, all the surviving countries got together in the UN and agreed to treat us like an isolated island tribe in India.

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      The Wild Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson is basically about this; the US gets the fuck nuked out of it and then the rest of the world takes turns patrolling the US coasts to make sure nobody leaves

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        Is it any good? Loved the Mars trilogy but Aurora, Ministry for the Future and 2312 was disappoining.

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          It’s one of his very early books and there isn’t actually a ton that happens in it. As part of his Three Californias trilogy there was some interesting stuff but overall I’d probably consider it a pass. Though I really enjoyed Aurora and 2312, so our tastes may not necessarily align

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            I suppose Aurora was actually decent, just a bit anticlimatic. 2312 had a lot of memorable and cool worldbuilding but the story was almost non existing.