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[sahgwa]

Monday I read "Five Years After", the latest book in the "One Second After" series by William R. Forstchen.

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For our readers, the above series is:
New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen brings us a terrifying story of an all-too-possible future. In one second, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sends America back to the Dark Ages. The nation struggles to rebuild itself after the EMP wipes out all electricity and plunges the country int...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North... set in an alternate America rebuilding after an electromagnetic pulse, this is William R. Forstchen's The Final Day. Since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States more than two years ago, the small town of...

Sounds exciting and fun! 

[Moon68]

Thanks for sharing!

For our readers, the above series is:
New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen brings us a terrifying story of an all-too-possible future. In one second, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sends America back to the Dark Ages. The nation struggles to rebuild itself after the EMP wipes out all electricity and plunges the country int...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North... set in an alternate America rebuilding after an electromagnetic pulse, this is William R. Forstchen's The Final Day. Since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States more than two years ago, the small town of...

Sounds exciting and fun! 

Book one is fantastic! Book two, "One Year After", is very good. Book three, "The Final Day" I found to be just meh, hurried and formulaic. The latest book is much better than three, maybe par with two.

Fun fact: In book one there reference to a big DoD study/paper on EMP. That paper is real and the study began at the War College at Ft. Leavenworth in 1990 when I was there. I met and spent some time around some of the scientists that did the research. It was scary shit then and William Forstchen was able to capture that dread in book one of the series.


Found it, 14 years from the beginning of the study to the final Congressional Report.

Congressional Report on EMPs

[Inspector44]

I just finished a campaign of reading the top 20 scifi books ever wrote. The dark forest theory from the Three World Problem series scared the shit out of me because it makes sense. My favorites are still Hyperion and the Man-Kzin wars books with a close second being the Berserkers series by Fred Saberhagen.

[sahgwa]

I just finished a campaign of reading the top 20 scifi books ever wrote. The dark forest theory from the Three World Problem series scared the shit out of me because it makes sense. My favorites are still Hyperion and the Man-Kzin wars books with a close second being the Berserkers series by Fred Saberhagen.

That sounds awesome; can you share the list? 
Main sci fi in my library is
I Asimov
R Bradbury
A Clarke
W Gibson
K Robinson
N Stephenson

I havent really dug into the Bradbury or Clarke yet.
It so happens the universe spelt those acrostics above as 
I RAWK
:D
N
nerb ?

[Inspector44]

That sounds awesome; can you share the list? 
Main sci fi in my library is
I Asimov
R Bradbury
A Clarke
W Gibson
K Robinson
N Stephenson

I havent really dug into the Bradbury or Clarke yet.

Ender's game and the 2 sequels
Hyperion
Rendezvous with Rama
The foundation trilogy
Do androids dream of Electric Sheep (blade runner)
2001 space odyssey
The Martian
I, Robot
Ready Player One
Childhood's End
The man in the High Castle
The mote in God's eye
The Three Body Problem
Red, green and blue Mars books
Most of all the Michael Crichton books
I hate to admit it but I enjoyed Battlefield Earth but i did read it as a kid.

[sahgwa]

Ender's game and the 2 sequels
Hyperion
Rendezvous with Rama
The foundation trilogy
Do androids dream of Electric Sheep (blade runner)
2001 space odyssey
The Martian
I, Robot
Ready Player One
Childhood's End
The man in the High Castle
The mote in God's eye
The Three Body Problem
Red, green and blue Mars books
Most of all the Michael Crichton books
I hate to admit it but I enjoyed Battlefield Earth but i did read it as a kid.

I am a dumb freak. I adore Philip K Dick but my brain didnt put him in sci fi. lol
Apparently it was thinking more metaphysics or something.

Yeah I have all his stuff .  I think my favourite is the Valis Trilogy in general but my favourite book standing alone for a strange kind of nostalgic gothicness in a way is Ubik.  Have you read that? Its very peculiar.

[sahgwa]

Very cool to see Robinsons Mars books on there! That trilogy gets way less recognition than it deserves. I am proud happy to have discovered it when it was new when I was in middle school and I am sure only understanding half of it.

Edit to say I read Battlefield Earth too, just the first book. It was good. 
Hubbard was a good writer, that was his profession. 
He just happened to stain his reputation with a very complex and confusing hodgepodge of a religion, but that's another thread.

[Inspector44]

I am a dumb freak. I adore Philip K Dick but my brain didnt put him in sci fi. lol
Apparently it was thinking more metaphysics or something.

Yeah I have all his stuff .  I think my favourite is the Valis Trilogy in general but my favourite book standing alone for a strange kind of nostalgic gothicness in a way is Ubik.  Have you read that? Its very peculiar.

No, I was actually trying to get through Stephen King's Tommy Knockers again and still couldn't do it. After the 30th time the drunk tries to escape and gets caught I had to put it down. His editors are too scared to tell him to quit trolling his readers.

[sahgwa]

No, I was actually trying to get through Stephen King's Tommy Knockers again and still couldn't do it. After the 30th time the drunk tries to escape and gets caught I had to put it down. His editors are too scared to tell him to quit trolling his readers.

Funny you should bring up ol Stephen. I have never really liked his work because it lacks a certain something.
His novels are too long in a bad way.

That said, I enjoy his short stories. There are 3 types of writers
Short story
Novel
Both
It's hard to pull off both.
Stephen is up his own butt , mostly. 

Who is Good, is his kid.
I really enjoy Joe Hill.
Much better writer than his dad.  In my humble open-onion.

[Inspector44]

Funny you should bring up ol Stephen. I have never really liked his work because it lacks a certain something.
His novels are too long in a bad way.

That said, I enjoy his short stories. There are 3 types of writers
Short story
Novel
Both
It's hard to pull off both.
Stephen is up his own butt , mostly. 

Who is Good, is his kid.
I really enjoy Joe Hill.
Much better writer than his dad.  In my humble open-onion.

For horror I've always been a Dean Koontz fan, you cant beat Watchers. I haven't picked up a King book except tommyknockers in years just because I can't stand his sky screaming TDS and his weird detailed child rape scenes in several stories of his.