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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 2339124" data-attributes="member: 4682">Along this theme, there is a novel that came out recently called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0756401968/qid=1119064750/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-6321982-3893452?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick's War</a>. It takes place many years after the collapse of modern civilization. And there is a man-inflicted apocalypse in the book's history that goes something like this:[spoiler]In the near history, there is a movement among certain people in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and other anglo nations to return to the "yeoman farmer" ideal. They begin relocating out to rural areas that have been depopulated due to most people moving to mega urban centers. They aren't one to give up on technology entirely and some scientists who sympathize with the "Yukons" (called such because people felt that the "Yukons" were so far from civilization they might as well have moved to the Yukon) developed some impressive new inventions to defend themselves from the predations of outsiders because "Yukon" society is pretty self-sufficient and intact while the rest of the world is falling apart.Strife breaks out around the world, a tyrant rises in the U.S. government who wants to take from the "Yukons" what they have. Doing so provokes war all over, especially in the U.S. as Yukons are left to defend themselves. However, the Yukons weren't unprepared, in fact were preparing for something like this eventually. The Yukon scientists had launched a network of satellites which were for "communication". The satellites had an new invention of theirs that could, when turned on, cause electricity to go haywire.With war upon the Yukons, and the survival at stake, they turn on their satellite network, shutting down electricity use around the planet. The Yukons keep the satellites on for months and months.Nothing with electricity could work. No AC, no refrigeration, no transportation. Industrial agriculture is dead. Modern hospitals are useless. Industry is dead. People die by the hundreds of millions as humanity fights to survive and feed itself.The Yukons eventually turn it off (bringing electricity back to normality), and they survived the whole storm prepared as they were living in electricity-free settlements. They just had an ace-in-the-hole to take it away from everyone else if they needed to.Needless to say, the world doesn't return to electricity, instead adopts steam.[/spoiler]It's an interesting book, and the above spoiler is in the history of the novel that is reveals over the course of time. The victors hide the true history of things and gloss over much of the vileness that had to happen for them to win. It is the revealing of it over the course of the book where you realize that a man-induced apocalypse happened, and the people who did it were still around watching to make sure the planet doesn't get out of hand again, else they need to do it all over again.</blockquote>

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