I really liked the post-apocalyptic feel of the first book, A World by Hand, because it explored an idea of what the life we are living now could lead to. But the geography and sociology underlying the first book were entirely absent here. The characters were unbelievable, and most importantly ...
I love the writings of James Howard Kunstler, especially his Monday morning blog update - Clusterfuck Nation. I have read all his non-fiction. In fact, "Home From Nowhere" and then "The Geography of Nowhere" led me down the path to a career change by returning to graduate school for a Master's ...
For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, ...
warrior comrades into just the right mood for some mayhem. They had been sleeping rough for more than a fortnight since leaving Massachusetts, bathing in the cold, spring-fed brooks that flowed into the Battenkill, and eating irregularly. They had received their instructions and found their way e...
By the converse, there are few occupations so tedious as poling such a craft against the current. We departed the dolorous site of pillage and murder and made upstream on the Dismal. The[O4] turgid progress, but in those stretches where the river narrowed between brooding, tree-topped clay bluffs...