uptimers

As with the prior books, the author mixes action with intriguing historical speculation with solid characterisation and a fascinating contrast of the morales and attitudes of the two time periods: the 'uptimers' are far more inured to war and suffering after twenty years of warfare, whilst the 'downtimers' are prepared to accept far vaster civilian casualties to achieve victory.

Archive 2009-01-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

As with the prior books, the author mixes action with intriguing historical speculation with solid characterisation and a fascinating contrast of the morales and attitudes of the two time periods: the 'uptimers' are far more inured to war and suffering after twenty years of warfare, whilst the 'downtimers' are prepared to accept far vaster civilian casualties to achieve victory.

Final Impact by John Birmingham Adam Whitehead 2009

They are stopped on the Rhein by Kolhammer and a solection of uptimers.

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So, having just finished a war to liberate Europe, a bitterly divided (uptimers vs. oldtimers) electorate puts an isolationist, demobilization party in office, only to have a Soviet general offensive kick-off in 1951, slaughtering the residual US forces left on the continent and forcing a less than Dunkirk-like recovery of only a smidgen of US and British troops.

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Or, this may have been addressed by congress earlier, during the setting up of the zone - either they granted naturalization to the uptimers or they recognized their citizenship as fact.

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The idea of Kolhammer consenting to run for any kind of elective office, or to effectively submit all of the uptimers to oldtimer control by accepting a cabinet post, are misplaced.

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A ‘first principle’ for him is making sure his uptimers, particularly minorities, have equal rights and equal dignity.

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How many people will have had treatments, or know someone who has had treatments, which were only made possible by the uptimers?

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He conditions his willingness to served by requiring civil liberties be conformed to uptimer standards, full citizenship extended to all uptimers and a Permanent Zone over which the Federal Government exercises no authority, all of which is formalized in a series of constitutional amendments.

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Tens of thousands of US parents and family members are enraged/distraught/etc that their loved one is in a Soviet POW camp, and much of the rest of the country finally GETS what the uptimers have been saying all along.

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