World War III Themes In Contemporary Pop Culture Part III

Over the last decade, Hollywood has shown an increasing reluctance to make any films that might portray the People’s Republic of China in a bad light. The reasons for this are simple. The international market is of great importance for the major studios. China makes up a large chunk of that market, so appeasing the …

World War III Themes In Contemporary Pop Culture Part II

In the later half of the 00s, at a time when WWIII-themes in fiction, television and cinema were scarce, a handful of notable books and television shows were released. Together, they managed to keep the WWIII genre afloat through some difficult times. The 2006 TV series Jericho was one of those life rafts. The show …

World War III Themes In Contemporary Pop Culture Part I

The portrayal of World War III in contemporary works of fiction and movies is notably different from those works produced in the last decade of the Cold War. The fall of the Soviet Union 1991 ushered in a quiet period on the WWIII front that lasted through the next fifteen years with a handful of …

March Madness WWIII Style: Final Four Part II

Two more blockbuster books squaring off. Winner goes to the championship bracket and the loser goes…..well, back to the bookcase. 😊 Alas Babylon (Blue Region Champion) vs Team Yankee (Gold Region Champion) Two World War III-themed novels with little in common between them, unlike yesterday’s competitors. The time periods in which these two works were …

March Madness WWIII Style: Round 1 Results Part I

March Madness: World War III Novel Tournament Round 1 Results Author’s Note: Today’s a travel day so I’m dividing Round 1 up. Red and White Regions today. Blue and Gold tomorrow. Red Region Fairly straightforward first round in this region. No major upsets and the favorites performed as expected for the most part. #1 Red …

March Madness World War III Style: The Field

So, here we are. Thirty-two works of WWIII fiction, five rounds, four regions, and when all is said and done there will be one champion crowned. The tournament is set up similar to how the NCAA tournament is, but with thirty-two competitors instead of sixty-four. Each region is made up of eight novels, seeded and …

Researching World War III: Fiction

The decision to include alternative history (speculative fiction back in the ‘80s) novels as research material was essentially a no-brainer. This project is a fictional account of a NATO-Warsaw Pact war fought in 1987. It is not a novel in the traditional sense. However, a number of parallels do exist. Through twenty-eight months of writing, …