Fiction
David Grieg's 2012 play The Letter of Last Resort deals with the consequences and paradoxes of the letters. It was dramatised for BBC Radio 4, directed by Nicolas Kent, and first broadcast on 1 June 2013.
A similar process was used in the book Down to a Sunless Sea, in which the planes of Air Britain, the country's only remaining civilian airline, were instructed on what to do in the event that the UK was struck by nuclear weapons. The instructions were in the form of a special letter in a sealed compartment in the cockpit. The special instructions were to be used if the company dispatcher issued an "Armada Signal" or if the plane was unable to return to the UK because its airports had been destroyed by nuclear strikes.
Read more about this topic: Letters Of Last Resort
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)