One Year After (sequel to One Second After, great EMP novel)

Good Reads ^ | Sept. 15, 2015 | various

[lulu16]

The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second After

Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit.

The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging.

Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away.

[lulu16]

The book came out yesterday. This previous book One Second After is the one I loaned to my neighbors to get them to start prepping. One lady, originally from China, bought it for all her friends to read. I also direct houseguests for their free reading.

This one has good reviews. It is in my queue at Amazon, but I don't have enough for the $35. free shipping.

You can read the seven reviews here:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Year-After-A-Novel/dp/0765376709

[VanDeKoik]

I got an early peek at it, and found it very compelling, and highly sobering. Especially the part where one of the characters saw ******** for the first time since “the day”.

(didn’t want to give away a plot point)

[Resettozero]

Aw, give us a clue. Eight letters, right?

[LadyBuck]

Had this on my calendar to purchase...

$12.99 for Kindle version? Ouch.

Then again, it’s Forstchen. I’ll bite and share my thoughts.

Day of Wrath is a MUST read, especially with a new “migrant” population heading our way....

[lulu16]

Thank you for not giving anything away.

The first chapter was available on Amazon for free last week. Right now a wonderful BBC is reading from the book and that is available for free right now.

A few years ago, after I came back from Mass and after lunch, I would read to my husband One Second After.

[Resettozero]

Just placed it on hold at the local lending library. Fourth on the waiting list. Should get it by Christmas.

Pretty chintzy, eh?

[Truth29]

Kindle edition $12.99.

[zek157]

Agree, 1 Second After is a good book.

This should be too.

[Blueflag]

I ordered this book back in February. Then we moved and it shipped to the old address. Oopsie. Waiting for Amazon to tel me how to get it sent to me.

[lulu16]

It is in my queue too. I’m up to $15.98. Any more suggestions?

Here is a cap with led lights in it that I bought for my sister last week. Came in handy last week during a monsoon blackout when I had my husband check on a neighbor lady whose husband was away hunting.

http://www.amazon.com/Panther-Vision-CUB3-278077-Bright-Lighted/dp/B00359ZQ0M

[Psalm 73]

"Aw, give us a clue. Eight letters, right?"

Right, and the first letter appears to be: "*"

[bubman]

But an EMP attack will make your Kindle useless! Perhaps a paperback? Once your done you can burn it!

[VanDeKoik]

Oh that wouldn’t be fair now. ;^)

[Resettozero]

Not even the number of letters...?

[VanDeKoik]

13 letters.

Could be one word...could be two!

[KarlInOhio]

That’s why you need the new KindlePrep shipped with a Faraday cage storage locker and a built in crank generator.

[tbw2]

The biggest impact of an EMP attack will be the transformers used to connect parts of the grid and electronics in an immediate vicinity.
An EMP attack in a major city may kill the power grid connections from there to the countryside, but it won’t kill phones and Kindles and household appliances 100 miles away. If you have a generator or solar panels, you’ll be OK. If you’re lucky enough to live near the power generation source, they could keep the local grid up until fuel runs out (if the EMP wasn’t right on top of it) but people who need power switching and load balancing sit in the dark.

[SkyPilot]

Ping to preppers for kartographer.

I have not read this book but I might pick it up now.

This is interesting:

15 Things I learned from One Second After & My Survival Tips

1. Buy an Edsel (have viable transportation - classic car or bicycle)

2. Stock food

3. Distances that, today, are insignificant, would mean never again seeing loved ones or even your own home if you were stranded far enough away

4. Take care of health issues before the disaster (remember what happened to Tom Hanks in Castaway....)

5. Being a refugee places you in so much danger, that hunkering down, no matter where, is probably preferable (refugees historically fare very poorly)

6. Young men will be at a premium for hard physical labor and security

7. There will be a window of time, initially, in which very few people will realize what has happened

8. There’s probably no such thing as having too much stored food as long as you rotate it and keep it as safe as possible from the enemies of food storage

9. If I get injured anywhere on my body, no matter how minor it may seem, take it seriously! And stock up on a good first aid kit and plenty of hand sanitizer

10. Paranoia may keep me alive

11. Stock up on books (including survival guides)

12. Check out antique stores and estate sales for all sorts of low-tech, pre-computer age tools and appliances

14. An EMP event would be the absolute worst case scenario, hands down

13. Skills and supplies are equally important

15. It would be worth your time to research how to make a Faraday cage

[pa_dweller]

To that I'll just add When all Hell Breaks Loose

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

Hat tip to SkyPilot for the heads up!