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* ShoutOut: While in California, Strieber and Kunetka come across newsstands carrying two separatist journals named ''Film/{{Westworld}}'' and ''Literature/{{Ecotopia}}''.
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* FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has closed its borders, parts of New Mexico and southwestern Texas have become the separatist country of Aztlan, and much of the eastern seaboard is uninhabitable.
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* FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has and the other West Coast states have closed its their borders, parts of New Mexico and southwestern Texas have become the separatist country of Aztlan, and much of the eastern seaboard is uninhabitable.
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* GlobalIgnorance: Doctor Walter Tevis roasts Strieber and Kunetka on their ignorance of what terrible things have been happening elsewhere in the world after Warday.
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* UnexpectedSuccessor: The Under Secretary of the Treasury ends up being the self-described caretaker President, as he had been holidaying in Key Largo, Florida.
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* UnexpectedSuccessor: The Under Secretary of the Treasury ends up being the self-described caretaker President, as he had been holidaying in Key Largo, Florida. (Note that in real life, this office is not in the official chain of succession.)
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** The United Kingdom has a King by the winter of 1988, meaning Queen Elizabeth must have died or abdicated. The Labour Party has ceased to exist, having been replaced by the Social Democrats. Also, a [=MagLev=] train has been built between London and other major cities in Britain. There are also television sets that one can talk to when wanting to order goods and services. Finally, there exists a ''Concorde II'' supersonic passenger jet, capable of flying from London to San Francisco in seven hours.
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** The United Kingdom has a King by the winter of 1988, meaning Queen Elizabeth must have died or abdicated. The Labour Party has ceased to exist, having been replaced by the Social Democrats. Also, a [=MagLev=] maglev train has been built between London and other major cities in Britain. There are also television sets that one can talk to when wanting to order goods and services. Finally, there exists a ''Concorde II'' supersonic passenger jet, capable of flying from London to San Francisco in seven hours.
* TheAllegedCar: Quite a few characters comment on the sub-par quality of the (fictional) Chevy Consensus, which has plastic windows and doors, yet costs more than a quality Toyota 4xD Timbre, which most Americans nevertheless can not get ahold of.
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* TheCaptain: Among the people that Strieber and Kunetka interview is Captain Malcolm Hargreaves of the Royal Navy. His actions against the Soviet ''Typhoon''-class submarine ''Teplov'' saved the lives of approximately nine million people, as the submarine was minutes away from launching its arsenal against the western United States, still very much recovering from Warday.
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* TheCaptain: Among the people that Strieber and Kunetka interview is Captain Malcolm Hargreaves of the [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Royal Navy. Navy]]. His actions against the Soviet ''Typhoon''-class submarine ''Teplov'' saved the lives of approximately nine million people, as the submarine was minutes away from launching its arsenal against the western United States, still very much recovering from Warday.Warday.
* CoolTrain: A Japanese businessman by the name of H. Tanaka from the Nippon-America International Rail Corp. describes a relatively detailed plan to build an underground maglev train from Los Angeles to Bakersfield to Oakland to Seattle. He claims that the train would have a mind-numbingly fast maximum speed of ''five hundred miles'' per hour, and scoffs at the 60 m.p.h. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superliner_(railcar) Superliner]] he is riding on.
* CoolTrain: A Japanese businessman by the name of H. Tanaka from the Nippon-America International Rail Corp. describes a relatively detailed plan to build an underground maglev train from Los Angeles to Bakersfield to Oakland to Seattle. He claims that the train would have a mind-numbingly fast maximum speed of ''five hundred miles'' per hour, and scoffs at the 60 m.p.h. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superliner_(railcar) Superliner]] he is riding on.
* DecapitationStrike: So much of the presidential order of succession was wiped out on Warday that the ''Under'' Secretary of the Treasury becomes President in the aftermath. The edition of ''The New York Times'' that Striber reads after Warday in bombed-out New York also claims there is no Congress either. The Supreme Court is also wiped out, though at least the state of Illinois still abides by its pre-Warday rulings.
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* GhostCity: New York. It had about nine million inhabitants in 1988; by 1993, it has about ''seven thousand'', with another twenty thousand living there unauthorized.
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** NewYork. York City. It had about nine million inhabitants in 1988; by 1993, it has about ''seven thousand'', with another twenty thousand living there unauthorized.unauthorized.
** Litchfield County, Connecticut historically had about 150,000 inhabitants in 1980. Strieber and Kunetka hear that in 1993 it has only about a thousand, of whom a further twenty percent are barred from receiving medical care.
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** Litchfield County, Connecticut historically had about 150,000 inhabitants in 1980. Strieber and Kunetka hear that in 1993 it has only about a thousand, of whom a further twenty percent are barred from receiving medical care.
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* SecretPolice: The California Immigration Police may arrest any person who is in the state illegally, as Strieber and Kunetka personally find out when sneaking into San Francisco International Airport. A sham court sentences them to two years of hard labor to be deported afterwards, but they successfully escape from the prison transport bus.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Quinn_Yarbro Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]] appears as a San Francisco detective, offering her assistance to Strieber and Kunetka due to their pre-Warday acquaintance.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Author Authors [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Quinn_Yarbro Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]] appears and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tevis Walter Tevis]][[note]]he actually died the year the book was published[[/note]] appear in ''Warday'' as minor characters; the former as a San Francisco detective, offering her assistance to Strieber and Kunetka due to their pre-Warday acquaintance.acquaintance, the latter as an economist at Berkeley in California.
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''Warday'' is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. It was first published in 1984 and deals with [[AuthorAvatar slightly fictionalized versions of the authors]] traveling across the United States after a nuclear war to conduct a series of studies and research. Written in the first person, the book is meant to give the impression of what a postwar future would be like.
Notable for its abundance of {{Author Tract}}s and containing numerous [[ScrapbookStory documents from the world it depicts]]. The book was supposed to be the start of [[{{Sequelitis}} a series]], but subsequent projects were abandoned so one of the two authors could write books about his personal encounters with aliens.
Notable for its abundance of {{Author Tract}}s and containing numerous [[ScrapbookStory documents from the world it depicts]]. The book was supposed to be the start of [[{{Sequelitis}} a series]], but subsequent projects were abandoned so one of the two authors could write books about his personal encounters with aliens.
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''Warday'' is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka. It was first published in 1984 and deals with [[AuthorAvatar slightly fictionalized versions of the authors]] traveling across the United States in 1993, five years after a limited nuclear war war, to conduct a series of interviews, studies and research. Written in the first person, the book is meant to give the impression of what a postwar future would be like.
Notablelike. It is notable for its abundance of {{Author Tract}}s and containing numerous [[ScrapbookStory documents from the world it depicts]]. The book depicts]].
''Warday'' was supposed to be the start of [[{{Sequelitis}} a series]], but subsequent projects wereabandoned so one of the two authors could write books abandoned, and Strieber instead turned to writing about his alleged personal encounters with aliens.aliens. He did later also collaborate with Kunetka on the lesser-known 1986 novel ''Nature's End'', but it is not related to ''Warday''.
Notable
''Warday'' was supposed to be the start of [[{{Sequelitis}} a series]], but subsequent projects were
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In reality, Under Secretaries of any department are not part of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession United States presidential line of succession]], meaning one could not have become President through legal means. A workaround would be one getting confirmed as a Secretary, which would then make them the President, but since ''Warday'' has the Congress get wiped out as well[[note]]Also, if there were a Congress, either chamber could elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives or a President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Both outrank all Secretaries in the line of succession, meaning either one would become President instead.[[/note]], one could not be confirmed, so this is also not possible.
* DeadlyDustStorm: A regular occurrence in the American Midwest by 1993, with crops and vegetation having been destroyed by Soviet warheads on Warday.
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: A couple of fictional pieces of media published after 1984 are mentioned, such as a 1986 film called ''Jury of One'' starring Creator/PaulNewman, an album named ''Dream Along'' by Music/DavidBowie, and another named ''Persistence of Vision'' by Music/BrianEno. Creator/MerylStreep has turned to theatre, and directs and stars in a banned-in-California play named ''Chained''.
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* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: A couple of fictional pieces of media published after 1984 are mentioned, such as a 1986 film called ''Jury of One'' starring Creator/PaulNewman, an album named ''Dream Along'' by Music/DavidBowie, and another named ''Persistence of Vision'' by Music/BrianEno. Creator/MerylStreep has turned to theatre, and directs and stars in a banned-in-California play named ''Chained''.''Chained'', which is banned in California.
* EvilBrit: What Strieber and Kunetka's anonymous Destructuralist interviewee thinks of the British. According to her, the British (and other Europeans by extension) occupied {{UsefulNotes/Argentina}} after Warday, in order to steal their wheat for themselves and for the American survivors, which then caused hundreds of millions of gratuitous deaths in Latin America.
* FailedFutureForecast: No nuclear war actually occurred in 1988, obviously.
* EvilBrit: What Strieber and Kunetka's anonymous Destructuralist interviewee thinks of the British. According to her, the British (and other Europeans by extension) occupied {{UsefulNotes/Argentina}} after Warday, in order to steal their wheat for themselves and for the American survivors, which then caused hundreds of millions of gratuitous deaths in Latin America.
* FailedFutureForecast: No nuclear war actually occurred in 1988, obviously.
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* GlobalIgnorance: Doctor Walter Tevis roasts Strieber and Kunetka on their ignorance of what terrible things have been happening elsewhere in the world after Warday.
-->'''Tevis:''' [T]he USSR has lost close to half of its population. [...] Then there’s China. India. Bangladesh. Do you know about them? About the fate of the world, my friends? There has been a great reduction in the numbers of humanity on this planet.
* ItIsBeyondSaving: What the Destructuralist movement thinks of American society after Warday.
-->'''Anonymous Destructuralist''': We say that the whole social edifice, from the Boy Scouts right up to the Army, is essentially an addiction, that it is more than unnecessary, it is dangerous. Social structures are the breeding ground of ideology, greed, and territorialism.
-->'''Tevis:''' [T]he USSR has lost close to half of its population. [...] Then there’s China. India. Bangladesh. Do you know about them? About the fate of the world, my friends? There has been a great reduction in the numbers of humanity on this planet.
* ItIsBeyondSaving: What the Destructuralist movement thinks of American society after Warday.
-->'''Anonymous Destructuralist''': We say that the whole social edifice, from the Boy Scouts right up to the Army, is essentially an addiction, that it is more than unnecessary, it is dangerous. Social structures are the breeding ground of ideology, greed, and territorialism.
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* MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack: Some of the people Strieber and Kunetka interview ''think'' this is what is happening with the breakaway state of Aztlan, as it is run by Hispanics. However, Aztlan foreign minister Hector Espinoza later says in his interview that Aztlan is absolutely independent from Mexico, with immigration laws ''stricter'' than those of Texas.
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* RevolvingDoorRevolution: According to Governor of Texas Oliver Parker, {{UsefulNotes/Mexico}} has had ''eight'' revolutions in five years since Warday.
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* WesternTerrorists: The Destructuralist movement, which believes people should have in-groups no larger than their extended family.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The UK and Japan in this story's 1993 are examples of this. The story's 1993 UK has TV sets you can talk to purchase things, and a "Concorde II" airplane that is like its predecessor but more refined.
* AfterTheEnd: In the US (and the Soviet Union) people are trying to survive in the aftermath of a "limited" nuclear war.
* AlternateHistory: Even though the book was set nine years in the future of when it was published time has marched on.
* AfterTheEnd: In the US (and the Soviet Union) people are trying to survive in the aftermath of a "limited" nuclear war.
* AlternateHistory: Even though the book was set nine years in the future of when it was published time has marched on.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: While the book is set only nine years into the future, there are quite a few technological and societal differences between 1984 and 1993:
** Obviously the whole nuclear war thing. It actually starts because the Soviet Union had been backed into a corner by the Americans' new antimissile system ''Spiderweb'', which appears to be Strieber and Kunetka's interpretation of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative Strategic Defense Initiative]] program, announced in 1983 but ultimately never implemented.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromotherapy Chromotherapy]] has apparently been proven to be a viable medical treatment, as an expert of the new ''nonspecific sclerosing disease'' claims that "color therapy utilizing so-called pink light" has been used in slowing down the disease in individuals.
** TheUK United Kingdom has a King by the winter of 1988, meaning Queen Elizabeth must have died or abdicated. The Labour Party has ceased to exist, having been replaced by the Social Democrats. Also, a [=MagLev=] train has been built between London and Japan other major cities in this story's 1993 Britain. There are examples of this. The story's 1993 UK has TV also television sets you that one can talk to purchase things, when wanting to order goods and services. Finally, there exists a "Concorde II" airplane ''Concorde II'' supersonic passenger jet, capable of flying from London to San Francisco in seven hours.
** The Japanese fly fighter planes with forward-swept wings and "drumming"-like engine noises; it's possible thatis like its predecessor Strieber and Kunetka got their inspiration from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_X-29 Grumman X-29]], which first flew in 1984 but more refined.
had only two examples built. The Japanese also employ at least one completely automated whaling ship on the Gulf of Alaska.
** Something called "purple bombs" have rendered Ukraine incapable of supporting vegetation.
* AfterTheEnd: In theUS United States (and the Soviet Union) people are trying to survive in the aftermath of a "limited" nuclear war.
*AlternateHistory: Even though TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the book was set nine war he felt a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing as it would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is better than it was before it as everybody was in the future of when it was published time has marched on.same boat more or less, trying to survive.
** Obviously the whole nuclear war thing. It actually starts because the Soviet Union had been backed into a corner by the Americans' new antimissile system ''Spiderweb'', which appears to be Strieber and Kunetka's interpretation of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative Strategic Defense Initiative]] program, announced in 1983 but ultimately never implemented.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromotherapy Chromotherapy]] has apparently been proven to be a viable medical treatment, as an expert of the new ''nonspecific sclerosing disease'' claims that "color therapy utilizing so-called pink light" has been used in slowing down the disease in individuals.
** The
** The Japanese fly fighter planes with forward-swept wings and "drumming"-like engine noises; it's possible that
** Something called "purple bombs" have rendered Ukraine incapable of supporting vegetation.
* AfterTheEnd: In the
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* ApocalypseWow: Whitley Streiber's AuthorAvatar relates his first hand experience of the war in New York at the beginning of the story.
* CrapsackWorld: About a third of the US (and possibly more of Soviet) people were killed in the war and the aftermath, if you are not from California you are an illegal alien, one of the main characters is triaged (barred from medical treatment) due to the level of radiation he has received, etc.
* CrapsackWorld: About a third of the US (and possibly more of Soviet) people were killed in the war and the aftermath, if you are not from California you are an illegal alien, one of the main characters is triaged (barred from medical treatment) due to the level of radiation he has received, etc.
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* ApocalypseWow: Whitley Streiber's Strieber's AuthorAvatar relates his first hand experience of the war in New York at the beginning of the story.
* BalkanizeMe: The Soviet Union is described as having broken apart completely, with numerous successor states in its former territory. Of these successor states, at least {{UsefulNotes/Azerbaijan}} enjoys diplomatic recognition from the the United Kingdom.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Strieber has bought a 1975 Dodge, as it is old enough to not have electronics advanced enough to have been destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse on Warday. It cost him two years to raise the money for it.
* TheCaptain: Among the people that Strieber and Kunetka interview is Captain Malcolm Hargreaves of the Royal Navy. His actions against the Soviet ''Typhoon''-class submarine ''Teplov'' saved the lives of approximately nine million people, as the submarine was minutes away from launching its arsenal against the western United States, still very much recovering from Warday.
* CrapsackWorld: About a third of theUS American (and possibly more of Soviet) people were population was killed in the war and the aftermath, if you are not from California you are an illegal alien, one of the main characters is triaged (barred from medical treatment) due to the level of radiation he has received, etc.
* BalkanizeMe: The Soviet Union is described as having broken apart completely, with numerous successor states in its former territory. Of these successor states, at least {{UsefulNotes/Azerbaijan}} enjoys diplomatic recognition from the the United Kingdom.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Strieber has bought a 1975 Dodge, as it is old enough to not have electronics advanced enough to have been destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse on Warday. It cost him two years to raise the money for it.
* TheCaptain: Among the people that Strieber and Kunetka interview is Captain Malcolm Hargreaves of the Royal Navy. His actions against the Soviet ''Typhoon''-class submarine ''Teplov'' saved the lives of approximately nine million people, as the submarine was minutes away from launching its arsenal against the western United States, still very much recovering from Warday.
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** Questions about the probability of San Antonio being nuked are hand-waved by implying that the Soviets nuked it because of the air force base there.
* FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has closed its borders, the Southwest has become Aztlan and much of the Eastern US is uninhabitable.
** Other parts of the US are implied to be slowly breaking away - Texas has its own currency (backed by oil), and Washington and Oregon have a joint legislature.
* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: Played straight, unsurprisingly since it is a 1980s book. Also some UK Takes over the World thrown in too for good measure. The UK in this story's 1993 (5 years after the war) is rich and high-tech; essentially what the U.S. could have been had the nuclear war of 1988 not happened.
* JustInTime: Years after the war, the UK's navy patrols the seas, destroying rogue submarines. When it detects a ''Typhoon''-class SSBN, it attacks it and damages it, causing it to surface and surrender. They discover that it was just moments away from launching a nuclear strike on North America, one that would've been worse than the 1988 one.
* FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has closed its borders, the Southwest has become Aztlan and much of the Eastern US is uninhabitable.
** Other parts of the US are implied to be slowly breaking away - Texas has its own currency (backed by oil), and Washington and Oregon have a joint legislature.
* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: Played straight, unsurprisingly since it is a 1980s book. Also some UK Takes over the World thrown in too for good measure. The UK in this story's 1993 (5 years after the war) is rich and high-tech; essentially what the U.S. could have been had the nuclear war of 1988 not happened.
* JustInTime: Years after the war, the UK's navy patrols the seas, destroying rogue submarines. When it detects a ''Typhoon''-class SSBN, it attacks it and damages it, causing it to surface and surrender. They discover that it was just moments away from launching a nuclear strike on North America, one that would've been worse than the 1988 one.
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** Questions about the probability of San Antonio being nuked are hand-waved by implying that the Soviets nuked it because of the air force base there.
there, and because they bet that the Americans would not expect it.
* DecapitationStrike: So much of the presidential order of succession was wiped out on Warday that the ''Under'' Secretary of the Treasury becomes President in the aftermath. The edition of ''The New York Times'' that Striber reads after Warday in bombed-out New York also claims there is no Congress either.
* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: A couple of fictional pieces of media published after 1984 are mentioned, such as a 1986 film called ''Jury of One'' starring Creator/PaulNewman, an album named ''Dream Along'' by Music/DavidBowie, and another named ''Persistence of Vision'' by Music/BrianEno. Creator/MerylStreep has turned to theatre, and directs and stars in a banned-in-California play named ''Chained''.
* FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has closed its borders,the Southwest has parts of New Mexico and southwestern Texas have become Aztlan the separatist country of Aztlan, and much of the Eastern US eastern seaboard is uninhabitable.
** Other parts of the US are implied to be slowly breaking away - Texashas is planning its own currency (backed by oil), currency, and Washington and Oregon have a joint legislature.
* GhostCity: New York. It had about nine million inhabitants in 1988; by 1993, it has about ''seven thousand'', with another twenty thousand living there unauthorized.
* JapanTakesOverTheWorld:Played Unsurprisingly played straight, unsurprisingly since it is a 1980s 1980's book. Also There is also some UK ''Britain'' Takes over Over the World thrown in there too for good measure. The UK in this story's 1993 (5 years after the war) United Kingdom is rich and high-tech; essentially what the U.S. United States could have been been, had the nuclear war of 1988 not happened.
* JustInTime: Years after the war, theUK's navy Royal Navy patrols the seas, destroying rogue submarines. When it detects a ''Typhoon''-class SSBN, it attacks it and damages it, causing it to surface and surrender. They discover that it was just moments away from launching a nuclear strike on North America, one that would've been worse than the 1988 one.
* DecapitationStrike: So much of the presidential order of succession was wiped out on Warday that the ''Under'' Secretary of the Treasury becomes President in the aftermath. The edition of ''The New York Times'' that Striber reads after Warday in bombed-out New York also claims there is no Congress either.
* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: A couple of fictional pieces of media published after 1984 are mentioned, such as a 1986 film called ''Jury of One'' starring Creator/PaulNewman, an album named ''Dream Along'' by Music/DavidBowie, and another named ''Persistence of Vision'' by Music/BrianEno. Creator/MerylStreep has turned to theatre, and directs and stars in a banned-in-California play named ''Chained''.
* FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has closed its borders,
** Other parts of the US are implied to be slowly breaking away - Texas
* GhostCity: New York. It had about nine million inhabitants in 1988; by 1993, it has about ''seven thousand'', with another twenty thousand living there unauthorized.
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* NextSundayAD: Written in 1984, set in 1988 and 1993. Some aspects stray into TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture territory, particularly in regards to military hardware. The Soviets have satellites in orbit disguised as communications satellites; they're actually military ones and are armed with nuclear missiles (all the while the U.S. is completely unaware of their existence). On the other side, the U.S. has ground-based missiles that can shoot down satellites in orbit, and was in the process of deploying "Spiderweb", a military satellite system that can shoot down nuclear missiles with lasers fired from outer space.
* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing as it would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is better than it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less, trying to survive.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: The Under Secretary of the Treasury ends up being the self-described caretaker President.
* WorldWarIII: The Soviets start it. Inverted in that actually the Soviets respond to the US starting to deploy Spiderweb, a space based ABM system.
** Someone notes that FromACertainPointOfView, the US actually ''won'' the war - the Soviet Union is stated to be in even worse shape.
* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing as it would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is better than it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less, trying to survive.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: The Under Secretary of the Treasury ends up being the self-described caretaker President.
* WorldWarIII: The Soviets start it. Inverted in that actually the Soviets respond to the US starting to deploy Spiderweb, a space based ABM system.
** Someone notes that FromACertainPointOfView, the US actually ''won'' the war - the Soviet Union is stated to be in even worse shape.
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* NextSundayAD: Written in 1984, set in 1988 MyCountryRightOrWrong: Strieber and 1993. Some aspects stray into TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture territory, particularly Kunetka interview Dr. Walter Tevis, an economist who works at Berkeley in regards to military hardware. The Soviets have satellites in orbit disguised as communications satellites; they're actually military ones and are armed California. He was offered a position at the [[UsefulNotes/BritishUnis London School of Economics]], with nuclear missiles (all triple the while the U.S. salary and free medical care. His refusal is completely unaware pretty much this trope encapsulated.
%% The point oftheir existence). On the other side, the U.S. has ground-based missiles Next Sunday AD is that can shoot down satellites in orbit, there is no difference between the setting and was in the process of deploying "Spiderweb", a military satellite system that can shoot down nuclear missiles with lasers fired from outer space.
* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that beforepublication date, which is obviously not the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing as it would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. case here.
* NoPartyGiven: Played straight with the 1988 President and several othercharacters. One character mentions that prejudice characters, but averted with Governor Oliver Parker of Texas, who is explicitly stated to be a Democrat (or at least having been one in 1988).
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as there are three individuals named ''White''; former Under Secretary of the Treasury andbigotry current Acting President White, Governor of California Mark Campbell's assistant Harold White, and former Governor of Texas Mark White. There are also Strieber's son Andrew and [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Andrew]], who came for a charity visit to the town of Baldwin, Pennsylvania after Warday.
* OrbitalBombardment: Both sides utilize spaceborne weapons on Warday, with thenuclear holocaust is better than it was before it as everybody was in Soviets ''nearly'' taking out the same boat more or less, trying American missile silos with their space nukes.
* ThePlague: The Nonspecific Sclerosing Disease, which has a fatality rate of one hundred percent. Adults who catch it are given advice on how tosurvive.
take their lives, while children under twelve years of age who catch it are forcibly euthanized. One of Strieber and Kunetka's interviewees speculates that it might be the result of a bioweapon, as it spreads in a manner that appears to stem from the environment and not from peer-to-peer interaction.
* RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack: A bunch of Russian military vessels docked in Anchorage, and Russian submarine crews regularly steal food and other supplies from coastal settlements in Alaska. Subverted, however, in that all that this causes is ''Canada'' taking over Alaska in 1992, citing security concerns; they do pay the United States thirty-five million gold dollars for the state.
*{{Tuckerization}}: Author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Quinn_Yarbro Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]] appears as a San Francisco detective, offering her assistance to Strieber and Kunetka due to their pre-Warday acquaintance.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: The Under Secretary of the Treasury ends up being the self-described caretakerPresident.
President, as he had been holidaying in Key Largo, Florida.
* WingedHumanoid: An urban legend Strieber and Kunetka encounter in California describes a seven-foot-tall bat-like monster with sharp talons and huge glowing red eyes. It is reportedly often seen on the roofs in populated areas at night. This evokes TheMothman somewhat, but instead of just being a harbinger of doom, this creature attacks people and steals children off to the sky.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: After Warday, there have been a couple of children suffering from something called the hyperintelligence syndrome. These children are often fully aware of their surroundings ''at birth'' and can vocalize and move their limbs in a coordinated manner at the age of just a few hours. Some of them [[EntertainmentAboveTheirAge read Shakespeare at three]]. The oldest is proficient in four languages, has a deep understanding of mathematics and physics, and is looking forward to being accepted to [[UsefulNotes/BritishUnis Oxford University]] at the age of seven.
* WorldWarIII: TheSoviets start it. Inverted in that actually overall theme of the Soviets respond to book, though the US starting to deploy Spiderweb, exact terms "World War III" or "Third World War" do not appear a space based ABM system.
** Someone notes that FromACertainPointOfView, the US actually ''won'' the war - the Soviet Union is stated to be in even worse shape.single time.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before
* NoPartyGiven: Played straight with the 1988 President and several other
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as there are three individuals named ''White''; former Under Secretary of the Treasury and
* OrbitalBombardment: Both sides utilize spaceborne weapons on Warday, with the
* ThePlague: The Nonspecific Sclerosing Disease, which has a fatality rate of one hundred percent. Adults who catch it are given advice on how to
* RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack: A bunch of Russian military vessels docked in Anchorage, and Russian submarine crews regularly steal food and other supplies from coastal settlements in Alaska. Subverted, however, in that all that this causes is ''Canada'' taking over Alaska in 1992, citing security concerns; they do pay the United States thirty-five million gold dollars for the state.
*{{Tuckerization}}: Author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Quinn_Yarbro Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]] appears as a San Francisco detective, offering her assistance to Strieber and Kunetka due to their pre-Warday acquaintance.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: The Under Secretary of the Treasury ends up being the self-described caretaker
* WingedHumanoid: An urban legend Strieber and Kunetka encounter in California describes a seven-foot-tall bat-like monster with sharp talons and huge glowing red eyes. It is reportedly often seen on the roofs in populated areas at night. This evokes TheMothman somewhat, but instead of just being a harbinger of doom, this creature attacks people and steals children off to the sky.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: After Warday, there have been a couple of children suffering from something called the hyperintelligence syndrome. These children are often fully aware of their surroundings ''at birth'' and can vocalize and move their limbs in a coordinated manner at the age of just a few hours. Some of them [[EntertainmentAboveTheirAge read Shakespeare at three]]. The oldest is proficient in four languages, has a deep understanding of mathematics and physics, and is looking forward to being accepted to [[UsefulNotes/BritishUnis Oxford University]] at the age of seven.
* WorldWarIII: The
** Someone notes that FromACertainPointOfView, the US actually ''won'' the war - the Soviet Union is stated to be in even worse shape.
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** In addition, children with major birth defects from radiation are routinely subject euthanasia.
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* DeusAngstMachina: Due to the "limited" aspect of the war, only three US cities are directly nuked: Washington DC, New York, and [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers San Antonio, TX]]. The only real reason why is that James Kunetka is from San Antonio. However, the EMP detonations cause huge damage to infrastructure all over the place.
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* DeusAngstMachina: Due to the "limited" aspect of the war, only three US cities are directly nuked: Washington DC, New York, and [[OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers San Antonio, TX]]. The only real reason why is that TX (as James Kunetka is from San Antonio.Antonio). However, the EMP detonations cause huge damage to infrastructure all over the place.
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* DividedStatesOfAmerica / FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has closed its borders, the Southwest has become Aztlan and much of the Eastern US is uninhabitable.
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* DividedStatesOfAmerica / FallenStatesOfAmerica: California has closed its borders, the Southwest has become Aztlan and much of the Eastern US is uninhabitable.
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** San Antonio being nuked is hand-waved by implying that the Soviets nuked it because of the air force base there.
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* YouAreTooLate: The Soviets prepare to hit the U.S. with a nuke from outer space using a military satellite disguised as a communications satellite. As soon as the U.S. finds out the satellite's true purpose, they destroy it. However, it is too late, as the satellite fired its weapon just moments before it got destroyed. The Soviet nuke detonates above the U.S., causing an EMP effect that wipes out the electrical grids of much of it and Canada.
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* YouAreTooLate: The Soviets prepare to hit the U.S. with a nuke from outer space using a military satellite disguised as a communications satellite. As soon as the U.S. finds out the satellite's true purpose, they destroy it. However, it is too late, as the satellite fired its weapon just moments before it got destroyed. The Soviet nuke detonates miles above North America, causing an EMP effect that wipes out the electrical grids of much of the U.S., causing an EMP effect that wipes out the electrical grids of much of it and Canada.
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* JustInTime: Years after the war, the UK's navy patrols the seas, destroying rogue submarines. When it detects a Typhoon-class SSBN, it attacks it and damages it, causing it to surface and surrender. They discover that it was just moments away from launching a nuclear strike on North America, one possibly worse than the 1988 one.
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* JustInTime: Years after the war, the UK's navy patrols the seas, destroying rogue submarines. When it detects a Typhoon-class ''Typhoon''-class SSBN, it attacks it and damages it, causing it to surface and surrender. They discover that it was just moments away from launching a nuclear strike on North America, one possibly that would've been worse than the 1988 one.
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*JustInTime: Years after the war, the UK's navy patrols the seas, destroying rogue submarines. When it detects a Typhoon-class SSBN, it attacks it and damages it, causing it to surface and surrender. They discover that it was just moments away from launching a nuclear strike on North America, one possibly worse than the 1988 one.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing as it would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is not as bad as it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less, trying to survive.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing as it would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is not as bad as better than it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less, trying to survive.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The UK and Japan in this story's 1993 are examples of this. The story's 1993 UK has TV sets you can talk to purchase things, and a "Concorde II" airplane that is like its predecessor but more refined.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The UK and Japan in this story's 1993 are examples of this. The story's 1993 UK has TV sets you can talk to purchase things, and a "Concorde II" airplane that is like its predecessor but more refined.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The UK and Japan in this story's 1993 are examples of this. The story's 1993 UK has TV sets you can talk to purchase things.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The UK and Japan in this story's 1993 are examples of this. The story's 1993 UK has TV sets you can talk to purchase things. things, and a "Concorde II" airplane that is like its predecessor but more refined.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The UK and Japan in this story's 1993 are examples of this. The story's 1993 UK has TVs you can talk to purchase things.
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* YouAreTooLate: The Soviets prepare to hit the U.S. with a nuke from outer space using a military satellite disguised as a communications satellite. As soon as the U.S. finds out the satellite's true purpose, they destroy it. However, it is too late, as the satellite fired its missiles just moments before it got destroyed. The Soviet nuke detonates above the U.S., causing an EMP effect that wipes out the electrical grids of much of it and Canada.
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* YouAreTooLate: The Soviets prepare to hit the U.S. with a nuke from outer space using a military satellite disguised as a communications satellite. As soon as the U.S. finds out the satellite's true purpose, they destroy it. However, it is too late, as the satellite fired its missiles weapon just moments before it got destroyed. The Soviet nuke detonates above the U.S., causing an EMP effect that wipes out the electrical grids of much of it and Canada.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is not as bad as it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less, trying to survive.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing as it would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is not as bad as it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less, trying to survive.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters; an African American character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is not as bad as it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less and trying to survive.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters; an African American characters. One character mentions that prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust is not as bad as it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less and less, trying to survive.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters; an African American character mentions that racism after the nuclear holocaust was not as bad as it was before as everybody was in the same boat more or less.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters; an African American character mentions that racism prejudice and bigotry after the nuclear holocaust was is not as bad as it was before it as everybody was in the same boat more or less.less and trying to survive.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so.
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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in-universe. One character remarks that before the war he felt a nuclear holocaust would fix the things he disliked about society. 5 years after his wishes came true, he mentions that he was foolish for believing so. Played straight with other characters; an African American character mentions that racism after the nuclear holocaust was not as bad as it was before as everybody was in the same boat more or less.
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* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: Played straight, unsurprisingly since it is a 1980s book. Also some UK Takes over the World thrown in too for good measure. The UK in this story's 1993 (5 years after the war) is essentially what the U.S. could have been had the nuclear war of 1988 not happened.
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* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: Played straight, unsurprisingly since it is a 1980s book. Also some UK Takes over the World thrown in too for good measure. The UK in this story's 1993 (5 years after the war) is rich and high-tech; essentially what the U.S. could have been had the nuclear war of 1988 not happened.
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* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: Played straight, unsurprisingly since it is an '80s book. Also some UK Takes over the World thrown in too for good measure. The UK in this story's 1993 (5 years after the war) is what the U.S. could have been had the war not happened.
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* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: Played straight, unsurprisingly since it is an '80s a 1980s book. Also some UK Takes over the World thrown in too for good measure. The UK in this story's 1993 (5 years after the war) is essentially what the U.S. could have been had the nuclear war of 1988 not happened.
