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Expert: Sue Kayton - 11/1/2009
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I read a SF book in the late 80's that took place in the future. Technology gave humans a device which renders all electronics useless within a certain range. So warfare is back to guns and hand to hand combat. However, we also have the technology to regenerate a fallen human being, so long as enough of he/she is left. Just stick the remains in a special vat and brand new soldier pops out in a week or so. Earth is wracked with war and almost uninhabitable.
One side finds or creates (i don't remember) a stable wormhole just outside of an inhabitable planet thousands/millions of light years away. Problem is the hole is moderately unstable and about the size of a pin head as i remember. Basically they build a space station on the other side of the worm hole (ship in a bottle style) and now pick our protagonist soldier to be liquified and push through to be regenerated on the other side.
That's as far as i got in the book. I think about it all the time, but I've been very unsucessful at finding the name.
Please help
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Sorry - never read that one.
But I can recommend a different book and an excellent short story 0where technology gives humans a device which renders all electronics useless. The book is Copernick's Rebellion by Leo Frankowski. And a must-read, one of the best SF short stories ever, rendering electronics useless, Report On The Barnshouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut. It appears in several anthologies including Welcome to the Monkey House, which also contains the terrific story Harrison Bergeron
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