the conflict comes when suddenly Civilization dies. The main character is a widower trying to raise two teenage daughters, including one with diabetes. I can’t say how much of the town and the characters are based on real life but this novel feels extremely honest.
There are plenty of nuclear war novels, climate change and pollution.įorstchen sets the novel in his North Carolina home town and based the main character thinly after himself. Like those novels One Second After is a warning novel, that is what I call this sub-genre, It helps to have strong characters and settings but the point of these novels is dramatize a possible coming crisis. I personally would add John Brunner’s classic “The Sheep Look Up” Or Norman Spinrad’s “Greenhouse Summer.” I love this sub-genre, the author wasn’t shy about telling us up front that he wanted to make this book a entry in a pantheon that includes classics like On the Beach and Alas Babylon. It is a fantastic end of the world novel. I get the feeling the that he publisher considered this novel to be a bit higher class than his past work, and I have to say it is a novel of very high quality. I still think Newt is a far right wing windbag, but we now have something to agree on – This is a must read book.įortschen is a military historian whose previous books include a series of historical military novels with the former speaker and a series of Wing Commander novels.
I admit I almost passed on this book, since being the far left dude that I am I am not in the habit of reading books with a forward by Newt Gingrich.
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