Not on Fire, but Burning: A Novel by Greg Hrbek

By Greg Hrbek

Twenty-year-old Skyler observed the incident out her window: a few kind of metalic item soaring over the Golden Gate Bridge ahead of it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above town. Like each person, she ran, yet she couldn't outrun the radiation, together with her final ideas being of her liked child brother, Dorian, secure in her far-off kinfolk home. 

Flash ahead to a post-incident the United States, the place the rustic has been damaged up into territories and Muslims were herded onto the previous Indian reservations within the west, even if nobody has made up our minds who trigger the explosion that destroyed San Francisco. Twelve-year outdated Dorian desires approximately killing Muslims and approximately his sister—even notwithstanding Dorian's mom and dad insist Skyler by no means existed. Are they nonetheless shell-shocked, attempting to positioned the earlier in the back of them . . . or is anything extra sinister going on?

Meanwhile, around the road, Dorian's neighbor adopts a Muslim orphan from the territories. it's going to trigger a sequence of more and more terrifying incidents that may bring about both tragedy or redemption for Dorian, as he struggles to turn out that his sister existed—and was once killed by way of a terrorist attack.

Not on hearth, yet Burning is in contrast to whatever you're learn before—not precisely a mystery, no longer precisely sci-fi, now not precisely speculative fiction, yet fairly a super and soaking up experience into the darkish center of an the USA that turns out ripped from the headlines. yet simply as powerfully, it offers an enthralling hero: a tender boy pushed by means of like to search the reality, whether it capability his private ideals are improper.

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But what about those situations, now of such frequent occurrence, in which good means have end results which turn out to be bad? For example, we go to a tropical island and with the aid of DDT we stamp out malaria and, in two or three years, save hundreds of thousands of lives. This is obviously good. But the hundreds of thousands of human beings thus saved, and the millions whom they beget and bring to birth, cannot be adequately clothed, housed, educated or even fed out of the island’s available resources.

Recent developments in Russia and recent advances in science and technology have robbed Orwell’s book of some of its gruesome verisimilitude. A nuclear war will, of course, make nonsense of everybody’s predictions. But, assuming for the moment that the Great Powers can somehow refrain from destroying us, we can say that it now looks as though the odds were more in favor of something like Brave New World than of something like 1984. In the light of what we have recently learned about animal behavior in general, and human behavior in particular, it has become clear that control through the punishment of undesirable behavior is less effective, in the long run, than control through the reinforcement of desirable behavior by rewards, and that government through terror works on the whole less well than government through the non-violent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of individual men, women and children.

Brave New World was written before the rise of Hitler to supreme power in Germany and when the Russian tyrant had not yet got into his stride. In 1931 systematic terrorism was not the obsessive contemporary fact which it had become in 1948, and the future dictatorship of my imaginary world was a good deal less brutal than the future dictatorship so brilliantly portrayed by Orwell. In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change.

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