One Second After
by William R. Forstchen
Book Summary Information
Author: William R. ForstchenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-17
ISBN: 0765317583
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Forge Books
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- ISBN13: 9780765317582
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of One Second After
Book Review: enjoyable page turner
Summary: 4 Stars
After skimming the reviews, it really looks like Forstchen has tapped a new audience for himself. I have read a couple of his earlier works and enjoy the simple yet concise style of this writer. His ideas stretch across a gambit of styles and from what I have thus far read, are all sci-fi. The average reader here at amazon seems to be approaching this story from the 'survivalist', 'apocalyptic' slant. While it does deliver on this front, its also sci-fi in that the author is looking at a scenario of a possible future.
'One Second After' is the authors study of just how at risk we are as a nation to the effects of a nuclear strike not on a city, but in the atmosphere. It follows a professor in a small town. The community rallies together and in essence is used as a device for the author to show just how fragile our societies are and how interdependent we are on each other. (in one passage, the author shows how on the east coast everyone is starving, while in the midwest their must be a glut of food that is going bad because the crops cant be picked and livestock fed. and how tools for sustaining the livestock comes from other places, and materials for the tools from others still...).
The entire book has a very right leaning political slant and the characters are all very moralistic and upstanding citizens. Forstchen took such pains to show his political views here that they started to really pile up and become annoying. However, even though I 100% disagree with his political outlook, Forstchen is still an author that can tell a decent entertaining tale. I would recommend this to any fan of his.
Summary of One Second After
New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which?one?man struggles?to?save?his family and his small North Carolina town?after America loses a war, in one second, a war?that will send America back to the?Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP).? A weapon that may?already be in the hands of our enemies.
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Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could?shatter America.?In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.
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