One Second After

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Just finished William Fortshen's One Second After. Yes. took me a while to get around to it. I've read almost all the post apocolyptic books and series that have been written since the early 70's. From Jerry Ahern's Surivalist to Willam J. Johnstone's Ashes series, as well as a lot of individual books. Most were enjoyable, time passing diversions full of guns, babes, knives, guns, blood, etc. Some a little graphic, some funny, and even downfight crude.

But this book was really the first to give me shivers and make me tear up. A very chilling story. And even though I knew details of the book, knew just what EMP is, and have enough knowledge to understand empirically how very vunerable we as a people and a nation are; it is still absolutely one of the most frightenly chilling pieces of "fiction" I believe I've ever read.

The Road was depressing and frightful. One of the most so since On The Beach. But I believe this surpasses them both.