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===''Next Great War'' (2022)=== | ===''Next Great War'' (2022)=== | ||
==Themes== | ==Themes== | ||
===Coping with loss=== | |||
===Value divergence=== | |||
===Subjectivity of history=== | |||
===The continuity of time=== | ===The continuity of time=== | ||
A major focus of the latter ''Final Great War'' novels is the continuance of human history. Beginning with ''Into Ploughshares'' and culminating in ''Next Great War'', the characters and world of the series begin to lose the general importance of the cybernetic plague and third great war. The characters begin to focus more on contemporary issues with other survivors and the future, with the organizations and states they create entirely moving past it by the end of ''Next Great War''. Geronato explains that his intention was to explicitly reject the notion of a man-made apocalypse as being possible entirely, instead stating that "So long as man persists, history continues...there are no chapters or books of history, only a continued thread of those still living". Geronato also stated that "The {{wp|eschaton}} will be a divine event, not a human one, and humans will continue as we always have and always will until that day." Scholars have noted that Geronato's novels reject both {{wp|presentism}} and some of the implications of {{wp|Whig historiography}} by demonstrating a consistent human nature. | A major focus of the latter ''Final Great War'' novels is the continuance of human history. Beginning with ''Into Ploughshares'' and culminating in ''Next Great War'', the characters and world of the series begin to lose the general importance of the cybernetic plague and third great war. The characters begin to focus more on contemporary issues with other survivors and the future, with the organizations and states they create entirely moving past it by the end of ''Next Great War''. Geronato explains that his intention was to explicitly reject the notion of a man-made apocalypse as being possible entirely, instead stating that "So long as man persists, history continues...there are no chapters or books of history, only a continued thread of those still living". Geronato also stated that "The {{wp|eschaton}} will be a divine event, not a human one, and humans will continue as we always have and always will until that day." Scholars have noted that Geronato's novels reject both {{wp|presentism}} and some of the implications of {{wp|Whig historiography}} by demonstrating a consistent human nature. | ||