After the Zap Author:Michael Armstrong The Zap gives... and the Zap takes away. Because of the very nature of the Zap -- the big thermonuclear bomb that had scrambled and rearranged the neurons of everyone's brains -- there was no way of telling what it had taken from them all. The past was a jumbled mass of tantalizing glimpses and agonizing blanks. But the Zap's gifts were many and... more » varied... The Readers got the rare and often dangerous ability to make sense of the writings of the past... The Memors got perfect recall -- of everything they'd heard since the Zap... The Bush Punks got a chance to live free and easy -- and die the same way... The God Weirders got religion -- if you could call it that... The Blimpers got a purpose -- a purpose that could save them, or destroy them all. Now Holmes, a Reader, was in the perfect position to tip the scales for or against survival -- if only he could figure out which side was which.« less