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Warday

Whitley Strieber

Why we're reading this: The unthinkable happened five years ago. Now two writers have set out to find what's left of the USA. New…more
[close] The unthinkable happened five years ago. Now two writers have set out to find what's left of the USA. New York, Washington, San Antonio & parts of the Central & Western states are gone. Famine, epidemics, border wars & radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between. It was a limited nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers' communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization. Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka, old friends & writers, take a dangerous odyssey across the former USA, sometimes hopeful that a new, peaceful world can be built over the old, sometimes despairing over the immense losses & embittered people they meet.

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Sep 25, 2010 Schnaucl rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, august, library, post-apocalyptic, read_2010

This was a very interesting book. It was originally published in the mid 1980's during the Cold War.

The premise is that when the US decide to implement what is now known as the Star Wars program (not the name in the book) the Russians were so spooked they launched a preemptive nuclear war. They also detonated EMPs that were far more powerful than any shielding the US had in place.

This is the story of two men who decide to traverse America five years after the bombs fell to record the war's impa ...more

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Jun 30, 2009 Jak rated it liked it

Shelves: post-apocalypse

An interesting take on the post-nuclear theme in that the devastation by the nukes is only partial. Due to systemic failure in the USSR weapons program only New York, Washington and San Antonio, Texas get obliterated while the rest of the country avoid direct strikes but suffer problems due to fall out etc and EMPs.

The book takes place some five years after Warday as a pair if friends, who are respectively a journalist and author, decide they must write a book about Warday and how America has c ...more

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Jul 27, 2018 Joanie Calder rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I loved this book! I originally read Warday years ago and it became my entree book into the Armageddon/End-of the World genre!

Audible.com added it and I could not resist listening! Warday and A Prayer for Owen Meany are tied for my favorite all time books!

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