And the authors build up to this implausible scene by stages that are individually hardly less remarkable. Perhaps most bizarre and incredible of all, geopolitically, are the projections of massive unilateral Soviet troop withdrawals from Eastern Europe, and of multiparty democracy taking hold in the Soviet Union.
Science fiction is supposed to be plausible.
Glasnost and Perestroika , for all the gripping drama of its narrative, certainly isn't. But those of you willing to suspend disbelief in a wonderfully optimistic wish-fulfillment scenario will have a great time with it.