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[nancylebov]

I'm currently reading This Is the Way the World Ends (1986) by James Morrow.

What was the last WWIII novel?

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[avram]

You mean an old-skool, US-vs-USSR, Cold War heats up, nukes everywhere WW3 novel? Not some newfangled West-vs-Islam, fourth-generation decentralized kinda thing? Or alternate history things? You mean a novel that still has the war happening in the future as of the time of its writing?

I dunno, but I bet there was at least one already in the publication pipeline when the Berlin Wall came down.

Wikipedia has a list of apocalyptic fiction, and the novels section mentions Swan Song (1987), The Gate to Women's Country (1988), and The Last Ship (1988). There's also the 1991 Chinese novel Yellow Peril, in which a Chinese civil war triggers a global nuclear exchange.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Beats me, but I had half of a button idea:

WWIII
FFIII

(See what I mean? Half an idea.)

sigh

[wolfdancer.livejournal.com]

not sure about that .. but looking at the FC site. a button idea.
Good farie..
Bad faire.
Dark Farie
Shie or how ever it is spelled.
Dark wood Farie,
I am a SPRITE!
Cute Pic under.
Beleive!
Elfs. There not just for tolken any more. (token).
My outher car is a unicorn.
Magic makes my world go round.
Magic. a Sprinkel a day....

[captain-button.livejournal.com]

My first thought was of Fire Lance by David Mace, which Amazon says is from 1989. Takes place after the nuclear war in the early 21st century where the nuclear arms went on for much longer than in OTL.

Checking Amazon says he published Shadow Hunters in 1993, but the plot description there sounds like more like a Cold War novel than a WWIII novel.