Nathan
October 8th, 2001, 01:17 PM
Can you believe that as recently as ten or eleven years ago, Afghanistan and the Mejuhaddin were the good guys?
When I first read The House of Doors (published in 1990) I had no clue what "Mejuhaddin" meant or even where Afghanistan was! (So sue me! I'm no history or geography buff! smile.gif) And when I reread it earlier this year, I still had no clue. But they were the good guys, else why would Turnbull have anything to do with them?! I knew that much! This is what it says about them in the book...
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Afghanistan. Where Jack Turnbull had been caught with a Mujehaddin outfit dressed as one of them. A gun-runner ferrying near-sentient American stingers through to the guerrillas, Turnbull had been tipped off to the Russians and ended up being tortured in a mountain cave in Afghanistan.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
(If you wanna know how he gets away, read the book. :D No spoilers here.)...
Now, I've learned a lot on this subject in the last few weeks and this passage just keeps coming back to me every time they mention the Mejuhaddin on the news. I think it's the most meaningful change in our world in my life time.
There are lots of fictional books written throughout time (and consequently, history) that you can go back and read and compare how things have really ended up that might disprove or shed negative light on the conjectures therein (Orwell's 1984, for instance). But this one really hit home for me now that things have turned out the way they have with this particular group.
I always noticed how the Necroscope books move along politically with the world as far as Russia and the Cold War, etc. But it hasn't really meant much any time I've read them. As I said, don't much get in to the Nightly News. Hell, most of my knowledge of such things comes from BL!! lol (Well...I did try The Sum of all Fears by Clancy, but...
But this (Turnbull and his association with the Mejuhaddin) really hits home...stange...
Any thoughts? Other examples of history in fiction gone wrong? BL or otherwise?
When I first read The House of Doors (published in 1990) I had no clue what "Mejuhaddin" meant or even where Afghanistan was! (So sue me! I'm no history or geography buff! smile.gif) And when I reread it earlier this year, I still had no clue. But they were the good guys, else why would Turnbull have anything to do with them?! I knew that much! This is what it says about them in the book...
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Afghanistan. Where Jack Turnbull had been caught with a Mujehaddin outfit dressed as one of them. A gun-runner ferrying near-sentient American stingers through to the guerrillas, Turnbull had been tipped off to the Russians and ended up being tortured in a mountain cave in Afghanistan.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
(If you wanna know how he gets away, read the book. :D No spoilers here.)...
Now, I've learned a lot on this subject in the last few weeks and this passage just keeps coming back to me every time they mention the Mejuhaddin on the news. I think it's the most meaningful change in our world in my life time.
There are lots of fictional books written throughout time (and consequently, history) that you can go back and read and compare how things have really ended up that might disprove or shed negative light on the conjectures therein (Orwell's 1984, for instance). But this one really hit home for me now that things have turned out the way they have with this particular group.
I always noticed how the Necroscope books move along politically with the world as far as Russia and the Cold War, etc. But it hasn't really meant much any time I've read them. As I said, don't much get in to the Nightly News. Hell, most of my knowledge of such things comes from BL!! lol (Well...I did try The Sum of all Fears by Clancy, but...
But this (Turnbull and his association with the Mejuhaddin) really hits home...stange...
Any thoughts? Other examples of history in fiction gone wrong? BL or otherwise?