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Learn more- Based on a short story by author Christopher Howard Wolf, know by the pen name "Slimebeast", 60 Second War is an absurdist exploration of a short-lived battle between a government and a/the God. Set in a presumably dystopian future, the U.S. President is selected by a soda contest and finds himself unprepared to face America's greatest enemy. Said enemy is an unseen deity whose effects are felt in the form of shock waves that shake the foundation of human perception and physical permanence. Reality bends and contorts in inexplicable ways as science's ultimate weapon is aimed a what may or may not be the creator of the universe. A general and multiple advisers push and pull at the young President, urging him to do what must be done for the good of existence itself. As reality collapses around the characters, the urge to go further, move farther, and do more harm become more frantic. Characters find themselves ripped out of the universe, or ripped apart, as things continually make less and less conventional sense. In the end, the President rises to the occasion (turning a dial a few times) and humanity is saved from the wrath of its God... though humans as a species now number in the hundreds do to the effects of the super-weapon. Was the victory worth the extensive sacrifice? There's no true way to tell. 60 Second War is an example of "Keyhole Fiction", a term coined by the author to define a story that has no explanation, but instead provides a real-time glimpse into a world unlike our own.
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