One Second After

[David LaPell]

I finished reading the book One Second After today, it took me two days to read the 500 pages or so, one of those books you can't put down. I won't give away any details of the good stuff, but the basis is that it deals with America after an EMP knocks out everything electronic, and people have to survive. It is definitely something to think about and gives you some insight into people as things go south.

 

[beach elvis]

A buddy of mine's been reading it and says the same thing about it being a page-turner. I'll definately have to check it out.
If you're not burned out on the genre after that, I highly recommend, "Lucifer's Hammer". It'll make you want to make sure that no cartridge case in your house isn't loaded.

 

[Doublebit]

+1 on both books, especially One Second After. It sure makes you think about things.

I read Lucifer's Hammer in college in the '70's. I'd like to read it again if I could find a copy.

Have you read Rawles' book, Patriots? It's a page turner too.

LT

 

[brucev]

One Second After... Lucifer's Hammer... Patriot..., hum. Have to look these up.

 

[Rule3]

You might like the old classic "Alas Babylon", I read it many years ago as it takes place in my "back yard"

Being in Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis was a scary thing. On a a clear day you can almost see Cuba from Key West. Training for the Bay of Pigs was done right here close to where I live

 

[Gaffer]

Read "One Second After" and it does make you think about what will happen when the SHTF. Most are not prepared for anything like this and the social chaos will be mind boggling. Those who have long prepared will last the longest and our ghettos will be death zones early on.

 

[Gunslinger808]

If you guys like that, try a book called "Lights Out" by David Crawford, it used to be a downloadable book, but now it's out in hard print.

Lucifer's Hammer

Hot Fudge Sundae that falls on Tuesday.

 

[Rule3]

If any of the Doomsday scenarios happen. No one is going to survive. If any do it will be a very short time and nothing to survive for.

Most probable scenario, Biological Pandemic.

 

[John Frederick Bell]

I read it.

My impression was that it was a pretty good story in search of a decent author. More realistic in some sense than other, similar apocalyptic works, but badly mishandled in other respects.

I've never read any of the author's other works, but One Second After didn't really inspire me to try them.

 

[Dennis The B]

A buddy of mine's been reading it and says the same thing about it being a page-turner. I'll definately have to check it out.
If you're not burned out on the genre after that, I highly recommend, "Lucifer's Hammer". It'll make you want to make sure that no cartridge case in your house isn't loaded.

I read Lucifer's Hammer years ago. It was a real page turner. And there were enough twists in the story, to keep you "turning pages".

 

[mjr]

..., I highly recommend, "Lucifer's Hammer".

I also read that back in the 70s. Authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle really made me think about what skills I had to offer a community, and what being told to "hit the road" really implied in times of crisis.

 

[Knightrider03m]

I'm reading it now. I'm about half way through it, pretty good so far.

 

[Evil Dog]

Have never been much of a reader myself... will have to check this one out though. Worst that can happen is I get through the first few pages and loose interest.

 

[doublesharp]

One thing that made an impression on me in One Second After is always wear serviceable footwear. I don't want to be wearing flip flops when the shtf.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I'm reading "Fifty Shades of Gray".........another page turner

 

[COL Jagdog]

I'm reading "Fifty Shades of Gray".........another page turner

Did your wife make you read 50 Shades after the "whale tail"
gambit?????

 

[walnutred]

Unless there was an EMP accident I’d have to think an EMP attack would be a preliminary strike before an invasion. In which case the survival scenarios everyone talks about become pretty moot. Of course with all the ‘stan countries that haven’t mastered flush toilets playing with nuclear reactors an accident affecting part of the globe is a real possibility.

 

[Nico Testosteros]

I tell you whut, after reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, I'm never getting low on ammo.

 

[opaul]

I really like 'One Second After'. As with any book you have to take it for what its worth, but I definately recommend it. Also, How to Survive the Coming Collasp of America. Who knows, maybe some of the farfetched stuff could become a reality. Who would have tought we would be reading about a naked man eating another man's face off and it not being fiction.

 

[Knightrider03m]

One thing that made an impression on me in One Second After is always wear serviceable footwear. I don't want to be wearing flip flops when the shtf.

That is a big fear to me. I wear flip flops outside of my house all the time, but I always keep a real pair of shoes in the back of my truck just in case I have to start hiking.