Cuban Missiles Crisis didn’t end peacefully and the 'swinging sixties' didn't happen.
Love is Strange picks up the story a year and a month after the terrifying events in Operation Anadyr.
In a part-devastated world the hard-pressed government in England is beginning to discover what actually happened in October 1962 and who their friends really are. Chaos and disintegration threaten and old allies drift like sleepwalkers towards new wars.
In the aftermath of World War III, the USA has assumed a new global hegemony and is threatening to write off its old European allies. Therein lie the seeds of a new generational conflict but nobody in Washington wants to hear that kind of news, or recognise that the laurels of victory might in time come to crush the seemingly invincible American eagle.
Meanwhile in a Britain struggling to come to terms with the cataclysm, it is by no means clear how what remains of the nation will survive in the new world.
However, out of the catastrophe new leaders are beginning to emerge and there is a growing consensus that one day there will be a reckoning.
This is not a world in which the swinging sixties will happen.
Author’s note to readers: since the publication of ‘Operation Anadyr’ in October 2014, the Timeline 10/27/62 series has branched into and explored a number of additional narrative arcs and themes, and in several standalone stories.
For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc LOVE IS STRANGE = 6.
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