Who dropped all those atomic bombs on America at the same time?
(from The Worlds of A.E. Van Vogt)
Van Vogt wrote this in 1951, pretty much his heyday. It’s set way in the future (1979) and got that free-thinking paranoia and nearly-reasonable technology I have come to love about this cult favorite author. Unfortunately, this one was a little too much poli-sci and not enough sci-fi. Really dragged for a while. But, it did have that classic man-is-the-real-monster they-tampered-in-God’s-domain conclusion. (Or as MST3K would say, “They peppered in God’s lo mein.”)
The Mountain Goats, “Tulsa Imperative”