The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun

The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun is a novel by Christopher Anvil published in 1980.

Plot summary

The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun is a novel that takes place in a 21st Century world in which both America and the Soviet Union have been destroyed by a World War.[1]

Reception

Greg Costikyan reviewed The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun in Ares Magazine #5 and commented that "The novel is readable and a suitable way to kill a few hours, but the premise is not terribly original, the writing not terribly interesting, the plot not terribly gripping... One wonders why Anvil tries."[1]

Reviews

Review by Brian Stableford (1981) in Foundation, #21 February 1981[2]

gollark: The API should probably be designed so that it provides individual cryptographic primitives for more advanced use but has simpler functions with sensible defaults for the really common things.
gollark: Eh, maybe. But if it's a convenient single-module minified library you can include it easily.
gollark: That's probably enough for most usecases.
gollark: I'm thinking:- SHA256- some somewhat sensible password hashing function- ChaCha20/AES256- ECC stuff
gollark: Yes. People often ask "how do I do [some crypto operation]" so just point them to it.

References
  1. Costikyan, Greg (November 1980). "Books". Ares Magazine. Simulations Publications, Inc. (5): 10.
  2. "Title: The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun". www.isfdb.org.
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