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The unthinkable happened five years ago and now two writers have set out to find what's left of America.
New York, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and parts of the Central and Western states are gone, and famine, epidemics, border wars and radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between.
It was a "limited" nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers' communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization.
Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, old friends and writers, take a dangerous odyssey across the former United States, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses and embittered people they meet.
In an eerie blend of fact and imagination, Strieber (author of "The Wolfen" and "The Hunger") and Kunetka (author of "City of Fire: Los Alamos and The Atomic Age", "1943-1945" and "Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk") cut through the doublespeak of military bureaucracy and the rhetoric of the 1980's peace movement to portray America after Warday.
New York, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and parts of the Central and Western states are gone, and famine, epidemics, border wars and radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between.
It was a "limited" nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers' communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization.
Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, old friends and writers, take a dangerous odyssey across the former United States, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses and embittered people they meet.
In an eerie blend of fact and imagination, Strieber (author of "The Wolfen" and "The Hunger") and Kunetka (author of "City of Fire: Los Alamos and The Atomic Age", "1943-1945" and "Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk") cut through the doublespeak of military bureaucracy and the rhetoric of the 1980's peace movement to portray America after Warday.
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Except for the Towers still being in New York City this book is relevant today: especially in light of the growing nuclear community. Where do we want to be as human beings and our relationships with others? The book makes you really think about the barriers we erect between peoples, countries & cultures. Barriers that could kill us. A really good read.
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I have read and re-read this book many times throughout the years. I still find it a very scary look at what our future could hold for us. One of the best apocolyptic books ever written!
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As postapocalyptic novels go, this one is a little bit dated, especially in light of 9/11. The approach is broad, less focused on character and more on the mechanics of life "after."
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This book is awesome! One of the best post-apocalyptic books I've come across. It is a well-researched, well-thought out look into the future following a "limited" nuclear exchange with Russia.
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Five years after a limited nuclear war, two survivors journey across America. They-and you-will discover what is left of our way of life: the depth of the devestation-and the hopes for a new society desperately struggling to be born.
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Oldies, do you remember \"You are There\" the television series? This is like that. This is a journey across America after a \"limited\" nuclear war. It is so very real that it is scary.
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Brian E. (Two men trek across the US 5 years after a limited nuclear exchange has ravaged the nation's major cities and many areas struggle to survive with continued fallout and high radiation making life exist on near a barbarian plane.
An excellent read--with great character development and PA detail. If you're looking for details of life after the bomb drops (and a nice long book 515 pages)... this is for you.
My bookshelf is full of PA books and this is near the top of the heap... Five stars...
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