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On 12/10/2025 11:46 AM, a425couple wrote:

On 12/7/25 13:52, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Exploring Home: Book 12 of the Survivalist Series" by Angery American
-a-a-a https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Home-Book-12-Survivalist/
dp/0996696075/
Book number twelve of a twelve book apocalyptic EMP series.-a ----
It has been a year since the giant nuke was exploded above Kansas.
The resulting EMP destroyed the electrical systems and computers
inside the USA without a sound or flash.-a The nuke was so strong that
even England was affected.-a Since then, half of the USA population has
died due to starvation and violence.
The series starts off with a technician on the road walking home from
Tallahassee to Orlando in Florida after a USA wide EMP event.-a ---
He uses his SweetWater filter to get drinkable water for him and ---
--- Basically, the author feels that a lot of people will lose their
inhibitions when all the conveniences of modern society go away as the
technician has to kill three people in the first 50 miles.

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Note that the first book in the series is one of my six star books.

I will note that you recommend
The Survivalist #1
Going Home
A. American
4.10

Along with the same line as that, (a limited nuclear exchange):

#1 - Have you ever read The Third World War rCo January 1, 1979
-aby General Sir John Hackett https://www.amazon.com/THIRD-WORLD-John-Illustrated-Hackett/dp/B00HKIAK9G
I resist calling it sci-fi, for it, was more a political,
economic, and military piece of propaganda.
"Hackett had consulted with many military and political experts, Lehmann-Haupt said that the book represented a "very high order of
strategic thinking" and "a signal to the Soviets, or even a warning, of
the way some Western military leaders are thinking."[2]
It laid out the importance of investing is several game changing
weapons systems that could stop a soviet invasion, thus prevent
Armageddon.

#2 - Have you ever read "Warday is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, first published in 1984.[1] It is a fictional account of the authors travelling across the U.S. five years after a limited nuclear
attack in order to assess how the nation has changed after the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warday

"Five years later, Strieber and Kunetka decide to document the effects
of Warday on the United States;[6] they travel first through devastated southeast and southwest Texas. They then visit the new nation-state of Aztlan in the former American Southwest, and conduct interviews with its foreign minister and citizens. They then conduct interviews while trying
to evade the omnipresent police in Los Angeles, California. California, physically untouched by the attack, has become a self-governing, authoritarian police state which treats outsiders as "illegal immigrants."

#3 - Have you ever read "The Folk of the Fringe" by Orson Scott Card ?

I recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/Folk-Fringe-Orson-Scott-Card/dp/0312876637

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Folk_of_the_Fringe

Yes, Yes, No.

Lynn

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a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> schrieb:

#1 - Have you ever read The Third World War rCo January 1, 1979
by General Sir John Hackett

I read it in the year the war was supposed to have taken place,
while I was doing national service in the Army. I'm glad things
didn't turn out that way.

Among other things, Hacket gave the Bundeswehr fourteen divisions
it only had eleven in reality (due to his envisioned increase in
military pending).

What he got wrong was an assumed reluctance of Soviets to use
nuclear and chemical weapoins from the outset, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine

So, the rather limited nuclear exchange would have been anything
but (including the nuclear destruction of Vienna, capital of a
neutral country).
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