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Michael Bishop is an experienced writer, with a considerable science
fiction output. His novelette Vinegar Peace, or, the Wrong-way Used-adult
Orphanage is set in a near future when the United States are envolved in a
"War on Worldwide Wickedness", and widow(er)s who lost all relatives
and offspring to the war effort are held in special "orphanages".
This is a slightly unusual piece for the genre, with fuzzy setting, dense
metaphors, several levels of allegory, and equal doses of dry humour and
despair. It was published in Asimov's Science Fiction 32:7
(=390), of July 2008: p.64-80.
António Martins, 3 June 2008
![[a USA flag using only shades of red]](../images/f/fic_bold.gif)
image by António Martins and Joe McMillan, 3 June 2008
In the novelette, the United States went through a major vexillological change (p.66-67): It mentions
a flag of the nation's newly adopted colorsand then
ranks of scarlet draped casketsA military funeral detail sings
a half-footed variation of an old hymn's tunewhich ends with:
We all revere Bold Gory »…« its Red, its Wine, its Blood!The main character explains that
the Red, Wine, and Blood "Bold Gory" has recently replaced the Red, White, and Blue "Old Glory" »…« its stars and stripes are mutedly visible as different shades of red.She then refuses the honour of holding this flag:
I'm partial to the old version, even at its foulest.
António Martins, 3 June 2008
Having serched for «its red, its white, its blue», I can't find the
original this is fictionally based on.
António Martins, 4 June 2008
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