The cold war for information technology is a captivating new book that uncovers a littleknown but vital battle to gain control over it development that took place in the final two decades of the 20th century. Sf books published during the cold war reflected that periods politics as well as its rapidly. The untold story, looked at what would happen if the nato and soviet war plans interacted. Pat nixon, 19121993 nonfiction 5 books 1 voter previous. The gladiator 2007 the soviet union was able to win the cold war and remake the entire world in their image. This second list of five books are fiction books that provide other perspectives of the cold war. The fifth and best of the james bond novels sees 007 dodging. Utterly unsparing, brutal and compelling, it fictionalises the rosenbergs, the. Science and technology in the global cold war the mit press. This category contains fictional works books, films, games that speculate about a world war iii. It tells the story of harry hubbard, son of a spy, whose own career in the cia charts the heady cold war days when the agency seemed to hold the worlds fate in its hands, in berlin, cuba, and then moscow. The moonrise podcast chronicled the race to the moon, weaving together stories of science fictions influence, cold war nuclear brinkmanship.
In the realm of cold war books dominated by male novelists and white protagonists, lauren wilkinsons american spy stands out. So in that spirit, here are my ten favorite englishlanguage cold war novelsplus my favorite cold war play as a bonus pick. Winner of the 2016 pulitzer prize for fiction, this debut novel could fit into half a dozen genres of vietnam war books from war narrative to immigrant story, from mystery to political, from metafiction to. In the book, which is based on true events, marie mitchell, a black fbi intelligence officer, joins a shadowy task force to undermine the charismatic president of burkina faso thomas sankara who has earned the. Ten vietnam war novels to read council on foreign relations. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Confederation satellite weapons, military aircraft and nuclear weapons. The best books on forgotten cold war thrillers five.
Author jeremy duns says maksim isaev was a kind of soviet james bond and when they rerun the old black and white tv shows the russian crime rate drops because everyone is indoors watching them. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. The cold war affected science fiction during some of its most important and formative years. Many works use the cold war as a backdrop, or directly take part in fictional conflict between the united states and the soviet union. End of the world literature postapocalyptic fiction on. While a great deal has been written about cold war culture, very little has been written. Pages in category cold war fiction the following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. Some focus on dictatorships in latin america, which may seem to have little to do with the cold war.
The cold war for information technology is a captivating new book that uncovers a. Hendershot begins her book by considering how sf films rework the political. The backdrop of nuclear war and the space race fuelled the imagination on both sides of the newly formed iron curtain between us and sovietinfluenced states. It was incredibly influential in the military at the time.
Onto harold coyle and team yankee, a book that focuses on the fictional captain bannon, who leads a company of around 150 men singer. This is a list of technothriller novels, novel series, and collections of linked short stories. Sf books published during the cold war reflected that periods politics as well as its rapidlyadvancing technologies. Red phoenix a speculative military fiction novel about a second war in.
Ten cold war novels worth reading council on foreign. Many books served as great resources for the moonrise podcast. Investigations of how the global cold war shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science. Gaddis objectively analyses the events of the war as well as the reasons for such a turn of events. A collection of books about the cold war for young adult readers. Fascinating look at revolution and post cold war cuban culture. The day after midnight entered the market in a veritable glut of nuclear war books at least, according to a count by publishers weeklythat followed the success of schells work. The cold war period saw a dramatic expansion of statefunded science and technology research. This wonderful book ends with the three most anticlimactic words in literatureto be continuedbut those are the only ones that disappoint. The cold war is revisited twenty years after its ending, with the use of new archives and memories of its contemporaries. When it comes to reading non fiction works on the cold war, john gaddis is a recognised historian of the epoque. Fiction set during the cold war ear the fictional american destroyer uss bedford plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with an unseen russian submarine. Things can always be worse and you can rely on novelists to put that phrase into cold, hard words on the page.
The setting may be the most familiar one in cold war fiction, but the theme isnt. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. About the poverty of berlin in the 40s, about survival, about the exploitation of a writer as an agent of the cia. Guest postscience fiction and the postcold war sfwa. Top 10 books about the cold war the long, nucleararmed standoff that followed the second world war was a terrifying parody of peace which inspired some brilliant literature francesca kay. Fiction the most advanced nuclear sub in history, the uss cushing carries. One major element of the cold war was the threat of a nuclear war. Noahs ark and the flood that wiped earth clean of wicked mankind is an early example of postapocalyptic writing but the modern genre of end of the world literature can be traced back two centuries to mary shelleys the last man published in 1826. Coronavirus news politics sport business money opinion tech life style travel culture. When we think about contemporary war books, literary fiction is often not what comes to mind. Secrets of cold war technology by gerry vassilatos bit. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories. Dog soldiers won the 1975 national book award for fiction, the first vietnam war novel to do so.
Top 10 books about the cold war books the guardian. Science, technology, and the state in cold war america johns hopkins introductory studies in the history of science by audra j. Neoliberalism, globalization, information technology and the. The greatest espionage story of the cold war kindle edition. My story of che guevara, war in the congo, and the communist threat in africa.
Government and military patronage shaped cold war technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to national. The cold war was reflected in culture through music, movies, books, television and other media, as well as sports and social beliefs and behavior. The best books on forgotten cold war thrillers recommended by jeremy duns. Granted, several will lean towards latin america, given my prior study. Gulf war fiction mainly bears the names of exsas soldiers in big letters over a huge explosion on the.
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