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I vaguely remember some reader I had to read (mid-twentieth century vintage, if not quite a bit later) in which the town was celebrating its very elderly Revolutionary war veteran, when they realised that he was a Hessian soldier. But everybody was happy in the end, anyway.
And does "The Space Child's Mother Goose" have any InfernoKrusher sentiments?
The Hydrogen Dog and the Cobalt Cat
Side by side in the Armoury sat.
Nobody thought about fusion or fission,
Everyone spoke of their peacetime mission,
Till somebody came and opened the door,
There they were, in a neutron fog,
The Codrogen Cat and the Hybalt Dog;
They mushroomed up with a terrible roar-
And Nobody Never was there-No more.
Frederick Winsor in The Space Child's Mother Goose (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1958).
Hrm. Nary a vehicle, and this direction would tend to imply that all nuclear-apocalypse fiction is includable. Nevertheless, magnificent explosions in children's lit is an interesting side-line.
Greg Bear's collected-novells "Strength of Stones" features a theocratic planet of mobile cities. While the mobility relies on the organic cities breaking down into modular parts and waddling about, the original (?) paperback cover featured much-much cooler spiky monster-truck cities. Newer covers are just so much boringness.
If anything should be used as a justification of building Monster Trucks "religion" is certainly an interesting excuse.
The Tzar Battle Tank (click on "The Tzar Tank" -- it won't direct-link) was an early not-really-successfull-nor-put-into-production weaponic version of the Monster Truck that was 10m high.
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