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by Rick Norwood
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I've read several comments about Revolution that miss the point. They say, in effect, that
they could make electricity. No. The premise of Revolution is that something inhibits
electricity. Solar panels don't work. Alternators don't work. Human brains don't work. Well, I
guess we have to give them a pass on that one. Natural electricity still works. Electric eels
still work. It is only man-made electricity that doesn't work. Didn't I see lightening in one episode?
Another comment about Revolution asks how bad could it be? After all, we got along
just fine without electricity up to around 1776. The answer is: bad. Really bad. In the
pre-electric world, the population of the entire world was about one billion. It is now more
than six billion. That means that five billion people have to get dead. Or, to put it another
way, the struggle for food will occupy everyone's attention, full time. Most of the human
race will have to take up farming. City folk will not find that easy. And even country
folk will have a serious problem, because the crops they grow are genetically engineered not
to sprout from their own seeds. And Monsanto isn't making seeds any more.
A new series, Defiance, begins this month and Warehouse 13 returns.
SF on TV in April 2013
Arrow and The Vampire Diaries have been renewed for another
season. Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been cancelled. True Blood will return in June.
Who killed Laura Palmer?
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. Visit his web site at comicsrevue.com. |
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Monday, April 1
 
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