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Book Review of On the Beach

On the Beach
On the Beach
Author: Nevil Shute
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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This is an early post-apocalypse novel (1957) of the penultimate war initiated, in of all places, Albania. North of Capricorn everything not blasted away is dead from radiation. Slowly, the wind is bringing the radiation further south. What does one do when the means and approximate time of the end is known? Disturbing at best: maybe even more so today than during the cold war.